
The Masters Tournament is one of the toughest major championships to win in professional golf. One golfer that’s trying to add a third Masters win to his career, is Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler took home a green jacket in 2022 and 2024.
There have been just a handful of golfers that have won multiple Masters, including Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo, Sam Snead and Gary Player.
Winning multiple Masters would put Scheffler in elite company. Let’s take a look back at Scheffler’s Masters history, including some of his best moments, finishes and more.
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How many Masters has Scottie Scheffler won?
Scottie Scheffler has won two Masters in his career, winning for the first time in 2022, and then again two years later in 2024. In 2022, he defeated Rory McIlroy by three strokes in the final round. The win gave him his first major championship of his career.
His 2024 win came by four strokes over Ludvig Aberg, who was making his career Masters debut. With his victory, he became just the fifth player to win two Masters titles before turning 28, joining a group featuring Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Seve Ballesteros and Horton Smith.
Scottie Scheffler’s best finishes at The Masters
Scheffler has played in five tournaments at Augusta. Obviously his best finishes came with his 2022 and 2024 wins.
But aside from those, he’s finished with Top-20 finishes in each of his other three Masters. He finished tied for 10th in 2023, tied for 18th in 2021 and tied for 19th during 2020’s Masters.
Key moments from Scottie Scheffler’s Masters Career
Scheffler’s first win in 2022 was just as dominant as it was impressive. He entered Sunday’s final with a three-shot lead. Cameron Smith opened his final round with two straight birdies to pull within one stroke of Sheffler.
It looked like some nerves may have reached Scheffler, as he had to hit his third shot from the pine needles to the left of the fairway. Although his first approach on the third green rolled off the slope, he finished with a birdie off a beautiful chip-in:
Smith finished with a bogey on the same hole, and Scheffler pulled away the rest of the way. He won by three strokes at 10-under, ahead of Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry and Smith.
During his 2024 win, he entered with a one-shot lead over Collin Morikawa and Max Homa, as well as Ludvig Aberg by two shots. Although he bogeyed holes No. 4 and No. 7, which put him in a four-way tie, he turned it on in the final nine:
That’s when he exerted himself, turning a tight race into a rout rather quickly. He made three consecutive birdies to take a two-shot lead into Amen Corner. Scheffler holed a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-5 eighth, nearly holed his 90-yard approach on the next hole and made a 9-footer for birdie at the 10th.
He finished shooting a -4 and winning by four shots.
Comparing Scottie Scheffler’s Masters results to other top players
Scheffler is currently just one of two Masters Champions to get two wins in five or less starts. The other is Horton Smith, who won two green jackets in 1934 and 1936.
And if that wasn’t impressive enough, he has some of the best stats at Augusta in history. Via The Athletic:
He’s best in birdies or better, and in bogey avoidance. Strokes gained off the tee, approach and tee-to-green? First, first, first. And those aren’t even Scheffler’s true statistical secret sauce here: Since 2022, he’s picked up more than 15 strokes on the field on shots around the green, about five more than any other player in that span.
The beginning of Scheffler’s Masters career is historic. Among players with at least 20 career rounds, he is the all-time tournament leader in scoring average (70.40) and strokes gained total per round (2.69). His [..] Scheffler’s 53.7 strokes gained total are the fifth-most accrued in the first five starts of any Masters career all-time.
Scottie Scheffler Masters stats
Here’s a look at Scheffler’s all-time results at Augusta National:
Year | Finish | To Par | Total Score |
2021 (2020) | T19 | -6 | 282 |
2021 | T18 | -1 | 287 |
2022 | 1 | -10 | 278 |
2023 | T10 | -4 | 284 |
2024 | 1 | -11 | 277 |
