Scottie Scheffler is auctioning off his Yukon with 200,000 miles. You won't believe current bid, who the high bidder is (Hint: Hello, friends)

Scottie Scheffler has recovered a awesome usage for his celebrated 2012 GMC Yukon XL. He’s donating it to kindness and it is up for auction. Current precocious bidder: Jim Nantz.

Scheffler has driven nan aforesaid car his father, Scott, bought aft nan family’s car collapsed down much than a decade agone successful Augusta, Georgia, astatine nan 2012 Masters and they needed to get backmost location to Dallas. The Schefflers ended up buying a caller car astatine Masters Buick GMC connected Washington Road successful Augusta, conscionable down nan thoroughfare from Augusta National, wherever Scottie has since stamped his spot successful nan crippled pinch not 1 but 2 Green Jackets. (“It’s sewage a Masters GMC logo connected nan backmost of it,” Scottie said of nan car.)

Scott utilized nan conveyance to return his boy to inferior tournaments connected nan Legends Junior Tour successful Texas and to AJGA events. It was nicknamed GMC Airlines, and they drove it from seashore to coast. His begetter gave Scottie nan car erstwhile he graduated from nan University of Texas, and he drove it to Monday qualifiers and during his 1 play connected nan Korn Ferry Tour earlier graduating to nan large leagues. When Scheffler past talked astir nan car successful 2022, he estimated it had 190,000 miles connected it. Scott drove nan full family backmost to Augusta, including their canine Scout, for nan 2022 Masters, nan first clip Scottie won nan Masters.

“I thrust for illustration 3 places astatine home,” Scottie told reporters successful 2022. “I spell to nan play course, wherever I activity retired and a edifice that’s usually wrong 5 minutes of nan house.”

Despite topping nan PGA Tour money database nan past fewer years and being capable to spend immoderate wheels he’d like, Scottie kept driving his Yukon. “Why do I request to alteration it? It’s reliable,” he said.

But recently, he recovered a morganatic logic to alteration — he was fixed a caller car to thrust by a sponsor — and pinch nan commencement of boy Bennett it was astir apt clip for an upgrade. Safety first!

But what to do pinch his Yukon, a conveyance that could show a 1000 play stories? The world No. 1 and reigning Masters champ donated his celebrated wheels to Triumph Over Kid Cancer (TOKC), a non-profit that raises money for puerility crab research. TOKC was co-founded by James Ragan, a puerility friend of Scottie’s who he competed against connected nan Texas Legends Junior Tour and later erstwhile James played astatine Rice, and his older sister, Mecklin. James was 13 erstwhile he was diagnosed pinch osteosarcoma, a uncommon and often fatal shape of bony cancer, successful 2006 and battled nan illness for 7½ years. Scottie and James erstwhile won nan Corpus Christi Country Club member-guest, and Mecklin noted that nan members still joke astir really Scottie is only nan Masters champion to triumph nan Corpus Christi member-guest.

Nantz recalled gathering James astatine MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital during “Lunch pinch a Legend,” an arena he hosted pinch Jack Nicklaus.

“He was a leader to truthful galore of us,” said Nantz. “This kid was special. He could’ve been nan President of nan United States. He was super-smart, incredibly talented and composed, kind, thoughtful and he had a awesome life to beryllium lived that was taken distant from him and he genuinely ne'er felt sorry for himself.”

The Schefflers person been longtime supporters of TOKC, including serving arsenic nan honorary starter for TOKC’s yearly James A. Ragan Triumph Scramble play tourney successful grant of his friend. He besides formed his ain programme called “Scottie’s Heroes” to supply typical play clubs to young crab patients. On Oct. 25, Scheffler and Nantz shared nan shape for a fireside chat astatine nan Post Oak Hotel successful Houston as portion of the Teeing Off connected Childhood Cancer Gala to raise money for TOKC and money investigation and diligent initiatives astatine The University of Texas MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital.

When nan auction began for Scheffler’s Yukon astatine nan fundraising dinner, Nantz commented, “That’s rather a collector’s piece.” As nan bidding jumped from $10,000 to much than $15,000, Scheffler was baffled arsenic to why anyone would salary specified a princely value for his aged wheels. That’s astir erstwhile Nantz raised his manus to participate nan bidding war. The auctioneer assumed he was raising nan bid to $18,000, nan adjacent minimum requirement. Nantz bumped nan bid into different stratosphere.

“Fifty thousand,” he said. “I’ll beryllium much than happy to shop Scottie’s car successful my garage.”

And that’s really Nantz became nan precocious bidder for Scheffler’s wheels astatine nan extremity of nan unrecorded auction. But that fig simply represents nan opening bid erstwhile nan auction resumes online by Heritage Auction House. Check backmost for a link, so, you, too, tin get successful connected nan bidding.