Scottie Scheffler's caddie Ted Scott's incredible earnings revealed after world No 1's third win in a MONTH
The incredible month of golf that Scottie Scheffler has had is leading to a big pay day - not only for the World No. 1 player, but his caddie as well.
Scheffler has really gotten into the swing of things in May - winning the Byron Nelson, the PGA Championship, and the Memorial Tournament which just wrapped up on Sunday.
Add to that a T4 finish last week in the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial and Scheffler has raked in $9.629million in tournaments this month.
That means not only a huge pay day for Scheffler, but also for his caddie - Ted Scott.
Assuming that Scheffler pays Scott the industry standard ten percent of his winnings, that means the caddie has made himself $963,000 in the month of May.
It's a huge haul that not only puts Scott ahead of plenty of golfers for the month, it would put him in the top 90 highest earners for the PGA Tour season.
Scott earned more money in May than five of the top-10 golfers on the PGA Tour's money list.
That includes Rory McIlroy (who played in two events), Russell Henley, Colin Morikawa, Andrew Novak, and Ludvig Aberg.
Outside of the top-10, other notable names Scott out-earned include Hideki Matsuyama and Justin Rose.
But it goes even further. Just on the May earnings alone, if Scott was a golfer, he'd be 90th on the money list.
That would put him just behind the likes of Will Zalatoris and Tom Kim, but ahead of golfers like Sam Ryder, Joel Dahmen, Max Homa, and Sahith Theegala.
Those May earnings from Scheffler make up the bulk of the $13.9million he's earned in tour events this year - netting Scott roughly $1.397m.
Scott's $1.397m would move him up to 71st on the PGA Tour money list - sandwiching him between Wyndham Clark ($1.436m) and Matt Fitzpatrick ($1.387m).
Interestingly, Scheffler earned more money by winning the Memorial than he did winning his third career major at the PGA Championship over two weeks ago.
The chances for him to earn more money lie ahead in June with a series of key events.
Scheffler is not in the field this coming weekend for the RBC Canadian Open at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley.
However, he will be using that time off to prepare for the upcoming US Open at Oakmont Country Club in western Pennsylvania.
Following that is the final 'signature event' on the PGA Tour calendar - the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in Connecticut, which carries a purse of $20million. Scheffler won this event the year prior, outlasting Tom Kim in a playoff.
Rounding out the month is the Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club in Michigan.
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