Steve Stricker performs his shot on the third gap through the second spherical of the 2023 Sanford Worldwide at Minnehaha Nation Membership in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (Photograph: David Berding/Getty Photos)
Steve Stricker has been the hands-down greatest participant on the circuit in 2023, profitable six occasions, most on the tour, with three of these wins coming within the senior majors. He has 5 runner-up finishes in 16 occasions and his tie for fifteenth two weeks in the past, on the heels of a coming back from the Ryder Cup in Rome the place he was a vice captain, was his lone end exterior the highest 10 all season.
Oh, and he’s banked $3,986,063, probably the most in a single season, a complete that’s almost double of the man who’s No. 2 on the cash checklist. One other $14,000 in earnings this season and he’ll be the Champions tour’s first $4 million man.
He’s been so good, he’s overtly talked about returning to the PGA Tour.
“If it takes a few tournaments and I play horribly, that could be it,” Stricker mentioned. “But when I play a few tournaments and play first rate, or play effectively in a single or two of them? I had an opportunity to win Phoenix two or three years in the past.”
He is aware of for certain he’ll enter the Gamers Championship and the PGA Championship in 2024, having earned a spot in these after profitable the senior variations of these majors.