Wrapping up the wildest, most tumultuous year in PGA Tour history
The most tumultuous season in PGA Tour history is finally in the rearview mirror.
A season that started in September with Max Homa winning the Fortinet Championship in Napa, California, a week before Team USA put a beatdown on Team Europe in the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits (doesn’t that seem like years ago?) ended on Sunday with Rory McIlroy coming from behind in the final round to win the Tour Championship and an $18 million winner’s purse.
In between, 15-time major champion Tiger Woods made his return, six-time major champion Phil Mickelson went into exile, Scottie Scheffler became the best player in the world and the Greg Norman-led LIV Golf Invitational Series made its debut.
“Everyone on tour has had to deal with a lot,” McIlroy said Sunday. “Even the guys that have [gone] to LIV have had to deal with a lot. It’s just been a very tumultuous sort of era in our game.”
While Scheffler, McIlroy, Cameron Smith and Woods dominated the on-course headlines, the PGA Tour’s ongoing battle with LIV Golf for the best players in the world consumed the sport since February.
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Player of the Year favorite
Scottie Scheffler’s breakthrough season ended on a sour note, as he squandered a 6-shot lead in the final round of the Tour Championship and finished tied for second behind McIlroy.
Still, after failing to win in his first two seasons on tour, Scheffler won four times in six starts in 2022, including his first major at the Masters in April. He also won the WM Phoenix Open, Arnold Palmer Invitational and WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play.
“It’s got to be some of the best golf that has been played over the last 15 or 20 years,” Brian Harman told ESPN.
“Cam Smith had a great year, but he set the record for birdie conversion and had a hot putter all year. Scheffler has done it with his putter, his…
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