Jim Nantz wins Scottie Scheffler's childhood car at auction, proceeds go to charity

Jim Nantz will get to drive around Scottie Scheffler’s old car. He bid $50,000 for Scheffler’s 2012 GMC Yukon XL, and nobody else matched the offer. So, the car is now at Nantz’s house which overlooks Pebble Beach Golf Links, one of the most famous courses in the world.

“I figure just driving this SUV to the golf course should lower my handicap by at least five shots,” Nantz wrote in a text to Golfweek.

“He finally got it,” Scheffler said with a laugh on Friday when told after the round via an article written by Adam Schupak of Golfweek. “It was sitting at our golf course for a while. But, yeah, it’s fun. Both of us got together to help a great cause and he got an extra car out of it.”

Scheffler donated the car to Triumph Over Kid Cancer, a charity that is very important to him. And it was auctioned off by Heritage Auctions.

Scottie Scheffler said his father suggested they give the car to TOKC, which was started by James Ragan, a friend from junior golf that died from osteosarcoma, which is a rare form of bone cancer. His father made the suggestion so the family could auction it off and raise money for charity.