If you haven’t been paying attention to the PGA Tour this year, you’ve missed some great golf. The PGA Tour postseason officially wrapped up this past weekend, so allow me to get you caught up on some of the exciting stories of the season.
The season began with Scottie Scheffler missing the first tournament of the year, The Sentry in Hawaii. A few days before leaving for Hawaii, the world No. 1-ranked golfer sliced open his hand in a cooking accident, while making homemade ravioli. Thankfully, the damage to Scheffler’s hand was minimal, and he was back on tour a few weeks later.
Scheffler struggled a bit last weekend, finishing fourth in the TOUR Championship, but along the way, he had a spectacular season winning five tournaments including a pair of major championships. He won The CJ Cup Bryon Nelson championship by setting a PGA Tour scoring record, the PGA Championship, the Open Championship, the Memorial Tournament and the BMW Championship. It is likely he will win a fourth straight Player of the Year award, as voted on later this year by his fellow golfers.
Also, this season, Scheffler extended his lead over No. 2 Rory McIlroy in the Official World Golf Rankings.
To McIlroy’s credit, he remained in the hunt as one of the world’s top golfers by winning three tournaments in the span of three months. McIlroy won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February, the Players Championship in March, and he completed his career Grand Slam by winning the Masters Tournament in April.
One story that gripped the emotions of golf fans was that of Tiger Woods. He was set to make his return to the tour following back surgery that had kept him out of competition for almost a year. Then his mother passed away, forcing him to withdraw from the Genesis Invitational, due to the emotional strain. Then in March, Woods announced that he ruptured his left Achilles while training at home and underwent successful surgery to repair the tendon.
Probably the biggest story of the season occurred just this past weekend as Tommy Fleetwood won the TOUR Championship and became the FedEx Cup Champion. It was the eight-year veteran’s first tour victory in 164 PGA events. Fleetwood’s payday was a cool $10 million.
Other golfers took to X to congratulate the Brit on his long-awaited victory.
Tiger Woods posted; “Your journey is a reminder that hard work, resilience, and heart do pay off. No one deserves it more. Congrats @TommyFleetwood1!”
Fellow Englishman Justin Rose wrote, “This felt as good as winning myself! So happy for my man @TommyFleetwood1 for enduring the relentless pressure cooker his quality golf has put him in during these playoffs, and there is no more deserving champ.”
Fleetwood has won seven times on the European Tour and has come close many times on the PGA Tour. He has finished in second place six times and has come in third six times. Fleetwood has 45 Top 10 finishes and has earned $43,430,669 in his career.
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