Scottie Scheffler is auctioning off his iconic car.

The world’s No. 1 golfer has turned a lot of heads over the years as he continues to drive the 2012 GMC Yukon XL his father gifted him after college.

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This is despite earning more than $71 million throughout his career. PGA Tour career.

“It takes me from one place to another” Scheffler By 2022, it had revealed that the car had covered approximately 190,000 miles.

“I go to the golf course where I practice and usually to a restaurant five minutes from home.”

However, he was recently gifted a new car to drive from his sponsors.

With the birth of his son Bennett, Scheffler realized it was time to let go of his trusty set of wheels.

He decided to put the old car to good use by donating it to charity.

A recent live auction started at $10,000 and went as high as $15,000 before collapsing with a bid of $50,000.

You may ask who the highest bidder is. Legendary sports broadcaster Jim Nantz.

“I’d be more than happy to keep Scottie’s car in my garage,” he said after submitting the offer.

The money raised from Scheffler’s car will be donated to Triumph Over Kid Cancer (TOKC), a non-profit organization that raises money for childhood cancer research.

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TOKC was founded by Scheffler’s childhood friend, James Ragan.

Ragan was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare and often fatal form of bone cancer, when he was 13 and battled the disease for seven and a half years.

Nantz, reporting CBS news masters The tournament has been held since 1989, and it was previously mentioned that he met Ragan at one of the “Lunch with a Legend” events.

“”To many of us, he was a hero,” Nantz said.

“This kid was special. He could have been President of the United States.

“He was super smart and incredibly talented and calm and kind and thoughtful and had a great life to live that was taken from him and he never really felt sorry for himself.”

Nantz’s generous bid was enough to win the live auction, but he still might not be able to walk away with Scheffler’s old car.

The $50,000 figure represents the opening bid when the auction will restart online at a later date.