The PGA Tour may have lost some of its best players since the emergence of big-money rival LIV Golf, but the more established organisation is still awash with some of the greatest players in the game.
While LIV Golf has persuaded players including Open champion Cameron Smith, six-time Major winner Phil Mickelson and former World No.1s Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka to join, there is still plenty of talent on the PGA Tour, much of it emerging.
Towards the top of the list are two of the PGA Tour’s most prominent supporters, four-time Major winner Rory McIlroy and 2021 US Open champion Jon Rahm. Despite being on the PGA Tour since 2010, McIlroy’s career shows little sign of waning. While he hasn’t added to his four Majors since 2014, he reached the World No.1 position in October 2022 for the ninth time.
Spaniard Rahm, meanwhile, has been in some of the best form of his career. After relinquishing the World No.1 slot in March 2022, he won four of his next 16 tournaments on both the PGA Tour and DP World Tour – a run that would have given him a mind-blowing handicap were PGA Tour players to use the system.
The man who replaced Rahm at the top of the world rankings was Scottie Scheffler, whose 2022 Masters win was the crowning moment of a glorious year that also saw him named PGA Tour Player of the Year over a period where he won four tournaments.
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Justin Thomas is another player who, aged 29, has plenty of good years ahead of him. Another former World No.1, in 2022, Thomas reaffirmed his reputation as one of the world’s greatest players with his second Major victory, the PGA Championship at Southern Hills. Thomas needed a playoff to see off the challenge of Will Zalatoris in that tournament. The 26-year-old is another player firmly establishing himself as one of the best in the world, as evidenced by his highest career ranking of World No.7.
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Zalatoris came close again in the Major that followed the PGA Championship, the US Open at The Country Club of Brookline. Once again, he came up short, finishing runner-up to another top PGA Tour player, Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick, whose famously meticulous approach to the game paid huge dividends with his maiden Major win and an appearance in the world’s top 10 for the first time.
There are other recent Major winners on the PGA Tour, including Hideki Matsuyama, who won The Masters in 2021 and Jordan Spieth, who remains a PGA Championship win short of one of…
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