Golf’s Highs and Lows in 2024

The winning, illustrious and extravagant stripes, a professional golf defined for the best male and female players in 2024. They came in the midst of pressure on the business models of professional tours of men and women.

The PGA Tour continues to fight with how his tournament will be more attractive to sponsors (who request more in prizes) and fans who have been tune in the weekly tournaments. A bone of about two years ago since their first star players joined Liv Golf and a year since the PGA Tour and his commissioner, Jay Monahan, announced a tentative agreement with Liv to coexist, and the PGY Tour Tour has not yet worked.

For the LPGA Tour, the money from the awards has continued to increase, but the Tour Itelf continues to fight for attention for its list of first level players.

Nelly Korda, female golfer number 1, begged the year by winning five consecutive tournaments. She tied the LPGA record, Hero from Annika Sorestam and Nancy López.

“If I am honest, I have not thought about it at all,” Korda said at a press conference after the fifth consecutive victory.

His streak broke the next month when he lost to Rose Zhang, a young star. But Korda left the following week and added his sixth victory in eight openings. (He added a more tournament victory in Annika at the end of the season).

The highlight of the season was Lydia Ko extending a streak and breaking another that had been full of frustration. In the Paris Olympic Games, he added a gold medal to the silver and bronze medals he had won in the two previous Olympic Games. That victory gave him the 27 points he needed to enter the LPGA Hall of Fame, a necessary victory that had turned on his leg for a year.

On men’s side, the PGA tour launched a new structure at the beginning of the year, which created events with narrower field sizes. The eight tournament was called exclusive events and limited 70 to 80 players, or approximately half the size of a regular PGA Tour tournament.

Obtaining more of the best players to compete with each other outside the four main championships was part of a strategy to increase the emotion of fans, while providing the best players, who are independent contractors, reason all the same events more frequently.

The PGA Tour season came to a start less than exciting in January. The first event, the Sentry in Kapalua in Maui, Hawaii, was won by Chris Kirk, who has a return story to feel good, he thought he is not a family name. The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the second signature tournament, was short of three days by severe weather, and the winner was notified on Sunday when the final round was canceled.

But then, in March, the number 1 player in the world, Scottie Scheffler, achieved an impressive series of victories that shook the world of golf in relevance. Scheffler won four of the five exclusive events. He also won the Masters tournament and the players championship, each for the second time, and the tour championship of the season.

In the Paris Olympic Games, Scheffler came from behind in the final round to shoot a 62 bass torque to win the gold medal. After the medal ceremony, he said: “I am here competing and trying to remain present, and working as hard as possible and trying to make the most of myself.”

However, the most commented round of Scheffler’s year was the second round in the PGA championship in Valhalla in Louisville, Ky. He filmed a five under 66 to put himself in the first five in the weekend.

That round came after he was arrested on his way to the golf course. A security guard had been killed in an earlier traffic incident in the morning, and in the confusion of the traffic jam to the club, a police officer said that Scheffler disobeyed his orders. While the charges against Scheffler were fallen, he said he began to stretch for his round in his jail cell and only made his departure time because the beginning of the second round had been delayed in the leg.

“At that time, I couldn’t remember what my original Tee time is,” he said after the second round. “I was just trying to do everything possible to keep calm.”

Scheffler ended the season as the first player from Tiger Woods in 2007 to win more than seven times in a season at the PGA Tour.

Hello, the PGA championship. That title was for Xander Schauffele, who had won seven previous tournaments, but had not yet won a specialty until this year. He hit Bryson Deschambeau for a shot, with a clutch putt in the final hole.

Schauffele followed his first great special in Valhalla with a second important victory in the British Open in Royal Throne in Scotland. That sank it in the golf ranking A NO. 2, behind Scheffler.

“It’s a dream to win two elders in a year,” said Schauffele just after winning the open. “It took me an eternity just winning one, and having two now is something else.”

Inscurned between its two main victories was the United States Open, played in Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina. Terms of emotion may have classified the highest of the four.

The final round faced Rory Mcilroy against Dechambeau, who had moved Liv in 2022. Mcilroy is a four -time important champion, but he has not won one in a decade. Deshambeau had won the tournament in 2020.

The superposition of the battle in the course was the role that the two golfers had played in the rivalry of PGA Tour against Liv. Mcilroy had been one of the most vocal supporters of the PGA tour and the critics of the players who had gone to Liv, until he backed away this year for personal reasons. Deshambeau, on the other hand, stood out as one of the few players who continually play well in the specialties.

On the last day, the two players failed and recovered in the nine behind. Both lost crucial putts and hit wild shots under pressure. In the end, Dechambeau hit a bunker shot in Hole 18 to establish a putt to win the open. He rolled it, and then, with the trophy in his hand, he ran around hole 18 so that fans could touch it.

It was a little characteristic movement for an important champion, but one before Decchambeau, which this year became an eccentric and excessive golfist of a showman and a social networks star.

Its YouTube content, which had two unlikely and extravagant series, has made it a sports star for young fans who would not otherwise see golf.

In his first series, he associated with the best golf athletes and other sports, as well as other celebrities, including the seven -time Super Bowl champion, Tom Brady and the then candidate, Donald J. Trump, to try to break 50 in a shot of 23 in a session.

Towards the end of the year, Dechambeau begged a second series in which he tried to make a hole in one hitting a ball on his house and placing Green in his backyard. It has a ball for every day. After 134 attempts, arrived on the 16th, at which time he had inspired legions of imitators.

The elevator that Deschambeau received from YouTube focused more attention on the Declive classifications of the PGA Tour. From 2023 to 2024, the Sunday transmission of the final round of the PGA tournaments fell almost 20 percent, 2.2 million spectators of 2.7 million.

The brilliant point of the year? The star players on the tours and the main tournaments, which they called and caught the attention of fans.