The National Football League season started this week, which means the PGA Tour’s schedule worked out perfectly again. The meat of the PGA Tour ends before the NFL season, meaning the bigger events on the PGA Tour won’t get hammered in television ratings by football.
But as the golf season ends – there are still tournaments to be played for golfers fighting to make the top 125 players and secure an exemption for 2025 – it’s interesting to look back on 2024. It was a year that saw history on the PGA Tour in several areas, including a massive year by the game’s current dominant player and an amateur who turned into one of the game’s better players with four magical days in La Quinta.
Here are five things to remember about the 2024 PGA Tour season:
Scottie Scheffler’s year of history
Scottie Scheffler lines up his putt on the fifth green during the final round of the TOUR Championship. (John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports)
Some might argue that the most exciting thing Scottie Scheffler did all year was getting arrested trying to drive into the PGA Championship in Louisville in May. But the truth is Scheffler’s 2024 season goes down as one of the best in the last 50 years, and if you take away all the years by Tiger Woods, Scheffler’s season is at or near the top of any season this century. Seven PGA Tour wins including the Masters, the Players Championship and the Tour Championship has the feel of some of Woods’ better years. Scheffler has 13 wins in three years now including two majors. What will 2025 have in store for him?
The stars came out to play
Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele shake hands at the end of the final round of the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship. (Photo: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports)
If the PGA Tour thrives on star power, then the 2024 season was exactly what the PGA Tour would have wanted. Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world, won seven times and added an Olympic gold medal for good measure. Xander Schauffele broke through with two major championships to cement the status people had been expecting from him. Rory McIlroy, still one of the most popular players in the world, won twice on the PGA Tour and suffered a difficult loss at the U.S. Open. Even Bryson DeChambeau, not on the PGA Tour but on the LIV Tour, had a big year with the one-shot win at the U.S. Open and a runner-up to Schauffele at the PGA Championship.
Nick Dunlap’s surprise
Nick Dunlap hugs his girlfriend Izzy Ellis after winning the 2024 American…
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