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.

Scheffler is currently in a tie for 20th place at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am after two rounds. He currently sits at 7-under par, seven strokes back from the leader, Sepp Straka (-14).

Scheffler, 28, is coming off his best season to date on the PGA Tour. He won seven events, including capturing his second green jacket with a four-stroke victory over Ludvig Åberg in The Masters. He won the 2024 Tour Championship at East Lake, beating Collin Morikawa by four strokes.

Scheffler earned a record $29,228,357 on Tour, a $25,000,000 bonus for claiming the FedEx Cup and an $8 million bonus for topping the Comcast Business top 10. Scheffler became the first player since Tiger Woods (2005-07) to win PGA Tour Player of the Year in three consecutive years.

On3’s Nick Geddes also contributed to this article.