How Scottie Scheffler’s PGA Tour win rate now compares to Tiger Woods’ and Rory McIlroy’s

Scottie Scheffler is on the most dominant run golf has seen since Tiger Woods. The world number one won six events last season, including two major championships, and he’s now a US Open away from completing the career grand slam.

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Scottie Scheffler is on the most dominant run golf has seen since Tiger Woods.
The world number one won six events last season, including two major championships, and he’s now a US Open away from completing the career grand slam.
His 2025 season saw him frequently compared to Woods, in a way no player ever has. It was his best year ever on the PGA Tour, and one that is comparable to the likes of Woods’ famed 2000 season.
But this has only drawn attention to just how good Woods was during his prime, and when you look at his PGA Tour win rate, he was lightyears ahead of Scheffler.
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Scottie Scheffler’s PGA Tour win rate compared to Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy
After Scheffler’s dominant 2025 season and his win at the start of the 2026 season, the American has won 13.94% of the PGA Tour events he’s played in his career.
In comparison, Tiger Woods won 20.72% of the PGA Tour events he played since 1997, despite his collapse in form between 2008 and 2016. This is greatly helped by his dominant 2000 season, in which Woods won 45% of the events he played, including three majors.
This means that Scheffler could win his next 14 events in a row, smashing Byron Nelson’s record of 11, and still be short of Woods’ career win rate. And Collin Morikawa, who just won the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, would need 32 straight wins to pass Woods.
Further down the list is McIlroy, who has won 9.17% of his PGA Tour events and ranks second, followed by Rahm, who won 7.19% before leaving for LIV Golf, and Phil Mickelson, who won 6.42%.
None of them, not even Scheffler, can dream of catching the GOAT any time soon.
Tiger Woods’ staggering PGA Tour win rate between 1997 and 2008
Before on-course injuries and off-course controversies derailed his career in 2008, Woods looked like he was going to smash every single record ever set on the PGA Tour.
From the year of his first major win, 1997, to his US Open injury in 2008, Woods maintained a PGA Tour win percentage of approximately 30.7%.
During this 12-season span, which many consider the most dominant stretch in the history of professional golf, he won 63 official PGA Tour events in just 205 starts. To put that in perspective, a modern “elite” win rate is typically around 5–10%.
In the final three years of this run, between 2006 and 2008, Woods was nearly untouchable. He won 19 times in 37 starts, a staggering win rate of 51.4%.
Of his 63 wins in this period, 14 were Major Championships. For context, most Hall of Fame golfers do not reach 30 wins in their entire careers. Woods more than doubled that in 12 years.
So while we all marvel at Scheffler’s dominance, Woods was simply on another level. And in fairness to the current number one, he’s the first to admit that.
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