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We’ve seen some great golf in the form of a new golf league starting in 2025, but the game is set for some exciting innovations. The major events of the year are still somewhat closed, not the first major until the Masters in April.

In 2025 Hideki Matsuyama claimed the first event on the PGA Tour, winning at Sentry, with a record score of 35. Yes, under 35! In the warm and beautiful surroundings of Hawaii, Nick Taylor won the next event, the Sony Open, and golf just kept coming, both in America and around the world.

2024 belongs to Scheffler: That he would have won just one major disappointed Scheffler but, as before, he also won an unofficial fifth major, the Players Championship.

He became the first player to defend his crown at the event and also won the Arnold Palmer for the second time in his career. After the Masters he landed on an RBC legacy that gave him four victories in five starts, while he almost forced a playoff in another event.

His fifth win of the campaign came at the Memorial as he added his sixth at the Travelers Championship.

In August he stormed to gold at the Olympics, with nine coming from six back thanks to six birdies in his final nine holes. He then went on to win the FedEx Cup and the Hero World Challenge, and with nine tournament victories, he landed more than $60 million in prize money. Surprisingly, he was also named PGA Tour Player of the Year.

Other golfing highlights: Rory Europe’s best again: Rory couldn’t end his wait for another major but won the Race to Dubai and was named Player of the Year on the European (DP World) Tour. .

He won the Dubai Desert Classic and the season-ending World Tour Championship. He had a good year by most standards, but perhaps only the heartbreak will remember him.

It was happy times for Robert McIntyre, who landed at his home championship, the Scottish Open. He also won his first PGA event at the Canadian Open, another special achievement because his father caddied for him! It was also a great season for Sweden’s Jasper Svensson, who finished 10th at the Race to Dubai, won the Singapore Classic and was named Rookie of the Year. Tommy Fleetwood took silver at the Olympics and won the Dubai Invitational.

It was a solid year for him and, going into the Ryder Cup year, he is ranked 10th in the world, meaning that Europe has four players in the top 10 in the world rankings.

Plus with 2024 now firmly in the record books, it still seems like a good time to take a look back at what happened last year in the world of golf. Who won the biggest events, who topped the money lists and who had a year to forget? Let’s start with the majors.

US Masters: Scheffler Claims Second Major:

Scotty Scheffler was the game’s dominant player coming into the season and his play is even stronger at the top of the game.

Returning to the 2024 Masters though, Scheffler shot a 277, 11 under, and beat young Swede Ludwig Eberg for second, comfortably by four shots. The rest of the field were four or worse, with Scheffler cementing his place as world number one and Abergel similarly cementing his position as the game’s hottest young player.

Scheiffel backed that up with rounds of 68, 68 and 65, with Victor Hovland, who tied for third, another player in the top two to shoot four rounds in the 60s. Scheffler was once again the heavy favorite to win but despite a strong start (67-66), he ran away to finish in a tie for eighth. Five Europeans made the top eight but once again it was an American name for the trophy.

US Open: Decambio breaks more heart on Rory: Less than a month after the US’s third PGA major of the year and despite Decambio starting the final round two ad-hit, it looked as though Rory McIlroy might finally Carr is going to end his big drought. Three birdies in four holes put him in the lead after a 66-hole 72 and then a second meant he had a one-shot advantage with just three holes to play. He bogeyed 15 but so did his opponent, so Rory remained in charge.

With speed and brilliant golf on his side, he will surely eventually claim his fifth career major. But no, it wasn’t meant to be. The Northern Irishman dropped another shot on 16 and then 18, to hand Decambio a one-shot victory and his second major (both in this tournament).

On both 16 and 18, he missed putts from within four feet to cover the previous 496 from within that distance, meaning he had the most difficult near misses to sustain.

Open Championship: Big as buses for Schaffel: Xander Schaffel wasted little time in claiming his second major victory, claiming the Claret Jug to claim the job in Troon in July. A superb closing round of 65 saw him home, as he finished second out of six players, one shot behind Billy Horsell entering the final round.

It was a clean sweep of the majors for the U.S., with Horsell and Justin Rose tied for second, two behind Schaeffel’s nine-under 275. There will be many more victories to come for the best player in the game. ages agency