ATLANTA — When the best player in golf pulls off one of the most terrifying shots in the game, it’s understandably shocking. And it prompts the curiosity that comes with every shank: How will he react?

Scottie Scheffler hit one of those infamously ugly hosel killers during the final round of the Tour Championship on Sunday, making bogey and cutting his lead in the final PGA Tour event of the season to two strokes over Collin Morikawa.

Given that Scheffler blew a six-stroke lead on the final day of this tournament two years ago and bogeyed three of his last four holes, it was fair to wonder if something was wrong with Scheffler. He has dominated the PGA Tour this year like no one since Tiger Woods.

Not a chance.

Scheffler, who shanked a fairway bunker on the eighth hole at East Lake on Sunday and saw his FedEx Cup title hopes falter, responded by driving hard into the par-3 9th hole and then birdied the 10th and 11th.

The lead was back to five and Scheffler was on his way to putting the finishing touches on a historic year on the PGA Tour.

Scheffler shot a final round of 67 to close out the “starting strokes” format for the Tour Championship at 30 under par (he was 20 under through the 72 holes) to beat Morikawa by four strokes and move six ahead of Sahith Theegala.

It was his seventh official victory on the PGA Tour this year, the most of any player since Woods in 2007. It capped a season in which he won a major championship, had his first child and made national headlines for what turned out to be a false arrest for a traffic incident at the PGA Championship.

“If you can put it into words, that’s a bonus, because I don’t think I can,” Scheffler said afterward. “It’s been a long year. It’s been a really fun year. I think emotionally, I’m pretty exhausted right now.

“I don’t really know how to put it into words. It was a really eventful year, but it was also really fun. You had this weird place there at Valhalla, which—I just don’t really know what to say about it, but everything else was pretty special.”

Scheffler earned a $25 million bonus from the $100 million FedEx Cup bonus payout, money that is not considered “official” in the PGA Tour’s record book.

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He earned a record $29,228,357 in official PGA Tour earnings, another $8 million for being the top player in the Tour’s Comcast Business bonus pool via the Wyndham Championship and then the $25 million on Sunday, taking his season earnings to $62,228,357.

Should Scheffler get injured, he would undoubtedly also receive a portion of the Player Impact Program bonus funds.

“I think it comes down to those great years that Tiger had,” said Adam Scott, who finished fourth. “I think it’s really hard for someone to make the kind of difference that Scottie did these days. I don’t think we’ve seen that in a long time. I think it’s harder to do these days.”

Scheffler won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and Players Championship in back-to-back weeks in March. He then won the Masters and RBC Heritage in back-to-back weeks. He added the Memorial Tournament and Travelers Championship before capturing the gold medal at the Olympics.

A year ago, Scheffler lamented his poor putter, which clearly prevented him from winning more despite his dominance in several statistical categories.

That changed when he switched to a mallet-style putter for the Arnold Palmer event, which improved his putting stats for most of the year.

Last year he was near the bottom of the strokes-gained putting stats at East Lake. This year he was third—and first in strokes-gained off the tee, third in tee to green, third in approach to green and tied for first in proximity to the hole.

“I think the one thing I’ve always admired about Scottie is the amount of bogey-free rounds he shoots,” said Rory McIlroy, who has won the FedEx Cup three times but finished tied for ninth this year. “If you just look back at the last two, three years and you look at the amount of rounds he’s shot, he’s shot 4-under, no bogeys, it doesn’t look spectacular at all, but it’s just so solid, he doesn’t really get himself out of position. When you don’t make a lot of bogeys, the field has to do something special to keep up.

“I think golf is such a game of momentum, and if the momentum is going with you and you’re making birdies and you’re shooting scores in the 60s, all you’re going to see is birdies and scores in the 60s. It’s kind of a self-fulfilling thing.

“And then when you’re going the wrong way in golf and you’re seeing bogeys, you’re seeing nothing but bogeys and you’re shooting 70s and you’re struggling – I think at the peak of his game he’s more confident than he’s ever been, and that’s a really nice feeling to have on the golf course.”

Viktor Hovland, who won the FedEx Cup a year ago, said: “He seems to be doing basically the same thing he did last year, probably putting a little bit more consistently, and when you do as well as he did every week and you start making some putts, you become very hard to beat. He seems to be putting it all together.”

Normally, the next shot after a shank is the toughest for any golfer, but Scheffler remained unfazed. He said he sometimes struggled with these types of bunker shots, but the next one, a chip, was no problem.

He eventually made bogey, got a pep talk from his caddie, Ted Scott, on the way to the 9th tee and took care of business.

“I was definitely frustrated,” Scheffler said. “I’ve been playing really solid golf the rest of the week. I’ve been playing really well and I just had two bad holes in a row, really. I hadn’t really had many bad holes all week and they just came back to back.

“Teddy did a great job of reminding me that we’re still in control of the tournament, that I’m still playing great, that I just need to get out there and get back to work. That’s basically what he told me: just get back to work, and that’s what we did.”