section_path: Professional career/2025: Third major title
section_name: 2025: Third major title
paragraph_text: 2025: Third major title
  
  Scheffler missed the first few weeks of the 2025 season due to injuring his right hand while making Christmas dinner. He underwent surgery to remove shards of glass from his palm and was unable to practice golf during the recovery. As the two-time defending champion at the 2025 Players Championship in March, he finished in a tie for 20th. Two weeks later, Scheffler finished runner-up at the Texas Children's Houston Open, one stroke behind Min Woo Lee. In his title defense at the 2025 Masters Tournament in April, Scheffler placed solo-fourth.
  
  In May, Scheffler recorded his first victory of the season at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, winning by eight strokes over Erik van Rooyen. Scheffler's total of 31-under-par 253 tied the 72-hole PGA Tour scoring record. Two weeks later, at the 2025 PGA Championship held at Quail Hollow Club, Scheffler shot 11-under 273 to claim his third major championship title. He won by five strokes over runners-up Bryson DeChambeau, Harris English, and Davis Riley. This was the largest margin of victory at the PGA Championship since Rory McIlroy won by eight at the 2012 PGA Championship. The win also made him the first golfer since Seve Ballesteros to win his first three majors by three shots or more, and he joined Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only golfers since 1950 to win at least 15 PGA Tour tournaments before the age of 29.
  
  Scheffler successfully defended his title at the Memorial Tournament in June, scoring 10-under to beat Ben Griffin by four strokes. It was Scheffler's third win in the span of four starts. With the victory, Scheffler joined Tiger Woods as the only repeat winners of the Memorial.
  
  Scheffler missed the first few weeks of the 2025 season due to injuring his right hand while making Christmas dinner. He underwent surgery to remove shards of glass from his palm and was unable to practice golf during the recovery. As the two-time defending champion at the 2025 Players Championship in March, he finished in a tie for 20th. Two weeks later, Scheffler finished runner-up at the Texas Children's Houston Open, one stroke behind Min Woo Lee. In his title defense at the 2025 Masters Tournament in April, Scheffler placed solo-fourth.
  
  In May, Scheffler recorded his first victory of the season at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, winning by eight strokes over Erik van Rooyen. Scheffler's total of 31-under-par 253 tied the 72-hole PGA Tour scoring record. Two weeks later, at the 2025 PGA Championship held at Quail Hollow Club, Scheffler shot 11-under 273 to claim his third major championship title. He won by five strokes over runners-up Bryson DeChambeau, Harris English, and Davis Riley. This was the largest margin of victory at the PGA Championship since Rory McIlroy won by eight at the 2012 PGA Championship. The win also made him the first golfer since Seve Ballesteros to win his first three majors by three shots or more, and he joined Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only golfers since 1950 to win at least 15 PGA Tour tournaments before the age of 29.
  
  Scheffler successfully defended his title at the Memorial Tournament in June, scoring 10-under to beat Ben Griffin by four strokes. It was Scheffler's third win in the span of four starts. With the victory, Scheffler joined Tiger Woods as the only repeat winners of the Memorial.