World number one Scottie Scheffler has been named the PGA Tour player of the year for a fourth successive time.
Scheffler won the Open and US PGA Championship among six victories during the year, beating nominees Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Ben Griffin to retain the Jack Nicklaus Award.
"I think overall the thing that I'm most proud of when I look at the last couple years is just consistency," Scheffler said on Monday.
"It's not very easy to just show up and finish in the top 10 each week. I think that's something that's very difficult to do, and something I'm very proud of, bringing the intensity that I need to in these tournaments and being prepared as I need to in order to perform well week in and week out."
Tiger Woods is the only other player to win at least four consecutive awards, winning five on the trot between 1999 and 2003.
McIlroy, who won the Masters in his crowning achievement of 2025, is a three-time winner, having won the award in 2012, 2014 and 2019. He was the second Irishman to win the award after Padraig Harrington, who took the prize in 2008, after winning both the Open Championship and the PGA Championship.
South Africa's Aldrich Potgieter, 21, won the Arnold Palmer Award as the tour’s rookie of the year after claiming his maiden victory and becoming the only rookie to reach the FedEx Cup play-offs.
McIlroy, meanwhile, is looking forward to trying "something different" at the inaugural Golf Channel Games, which will see his team go up against Scheffler's squad over a series of challenges – including a relay and timed drive competition.
Masters champion McIlroy, who enjoyed a stellar 2025, will be joined by European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald, close friend Shane Lowry and China’s Haotong Li at Trump National Golf Club Jupiter in Florida on 17 December.
World number one Scheffler has Keegan Bradley, who captained the United States team at Bethpage Black, Sam Burns and upcoming PGA Tour talent Luke Clanton as his picks.
The tournament, which is set to be played through in around four hours, consists of five different challenges, with points available for each.
There will be a solo head-to-head timed drive competition at a scoring grid, as well as a short game of chipping and putting against the clock.
The team relay will be a four-man alternate shot on three holes with players staged throughout each, with the 14-club challenge seeing one discarded after it has been used and a player from each side will then be picked out to hit the 15th and 16th shots left-handed.
The captains’ challenge will feature McIlroy and Scheffler hitting from predetermined locations in a closest-to-the-hole format.
McIlroy was also involved in the Tomorrow’s Golf League with Tiger Woods and is relishing another opportunity to take the game to new audiences.
"Scottie and I have been a part of some of these (made-for-TV) matches before and they are great. Hopefully they have provided some entertainment, but I just think this is an opportunity to do something different," McIlroy said in quotes on GolfChannel.com.
"(To) sort of lean into other sports in a way, like the NFL Combine, or the Three-Point Contest in basketball, or the Home Run Derby in baseball. It is just a chance to try something new, try something different.
"I think we have put together a collection of pretty good players, different personalities, different skill-sets.
"I think it is going to be really cool to see us go up against each other in some of these different challenges."
Back home, McIlroy was named as the Men's Professional of the Year at the Irish Golf Writers' Association Awards, a prize he's claimed for the seventh time, while his lifelong coach Michael Bannon was honoured with the Distinguished Services to Golf award.
In addition to his coaching achievements, Bannon has won 20 Irish PGA region events as a player.
Lauren Walsh was named as the Women's Professional of the Year after a season which included seven top-10 finishes in the Ladies European Tour, which saw her secure a full tour card for 2026.
