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Scottie Scheffler is after a third Players Championship in a row. How often does that happen?
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Scottie Scheffler is going for three Players Championship victories in a row March 13-16 at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. No player had won back-to-back until he fired a closing 64 last year to win by one shot at 20-under-par 264.
How often have three-peats occurred in other major golf championships?
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Two answers: Not very often and a long time ago.
The last time a player won a major championship three or more years in a row was Peter Thomson in the 1954, 1955 and 1956 Open Championship.
Winning three years in a row has happened the most frequently in golf's oldest major, with three other players doing it, in another century: Rob Ferguson in 1880, 1881 and 1882; Jamie Anderson in 1877, 1878 and 1879 and Tom Morris Jr., in 1868, 1869, 1870 and 1872 (there was no tournament in 1871).
Walter Hagen matched Morris' record for the most consecutive majors won in a row when he captured the PGA Championship in 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927.
Scottie Scheffler is going for his third Players Championship in a row. He was the first to win the PGA Tour's flagship event twice in a row in 2024.
Only one player has won three U.S. Opens in a row, Willie Anderson in 1903, 1904 and 1905.
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The Masters has never had a player win three in a row at Augusta National.
What about other PGA Tour events?
Tiger Woods is the king of winning streaks. He has gone on streaks of three consecutive victories or more five times:
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Woods won The Memorial in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
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He had two three-year winning streaks at the World Golf Championship event at the Firestone Country Club, winning in 1999, 2000 and 2001, then again in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill four years in a row, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.
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He then won the Farmers Insurance Invitational four successive years in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 20008.
The last time a player won a PGA Tour event three years in a row was Steve Stricker in the John Deere Classic 2009, 2010 and 2011.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Scottie Scheffler joins rare company if he wins a third Players in a row
