From Scottie Scheffler at TPC Sawgrass to Bryson DeChambeau subsequent event, the 2025 slate is loaded.
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With all of golf’s 2024 occasions now formally within the rear-view mirror, it’s rightly time to look ahead by way of the windshield at what awaits us in 2025. The lads go to possible the hardest main golf course on the planet. The ladies go to a rustic that hardly ever hosts the perfect on the planet. We’ve obtained a serious champion competing in India, a possible playing-captain on the Ryder Cup and perhaps the best course on the planet internet hosting the perfect gamers who can’t compete for cash.
Sure, all that’s coming for us in 2025, and I’ve executed you a stable. I’ve hand-picked the 9 occasions I’m most excited for this coming yr, with alternatives in January, February, March, Could, June, July, August and September.
9 Occasions I’m Most Hyped for in 2025 (chronological order)
Worldwide Collection India Jan. 30-Feb. 2
Sure, I’m speaking about an Asian Tour occasion. Bryson DeChambeau is making ready to be the primary reigning main champion to compete in an occasion in India, when he begins his 2025 on the Worldwide Collection India occasion. No, you received’t be capable to watch it on TV. And sure, it’ll largely happen in the midst of the evening in America. However that’s not the purpose. The purpose is that one of many recreation’s hottest stars is visiting Gurugram, India.
Whereas that won’t fill the cup of each golf fan, it ought to at the very least function a barometer for the sport’s appreciation in India. We have now spent lots of the earlier 30 months speaking about creating a world golf calendar, the place the largest names within the recreation go to new corners of the world. Effectively, right here’s a fantastic begin.
The 2024 Pebble Seashore Professional-Am was presupposed to be the perfect one but. It had the perfect discipline, a newly trimmed down quantity of amateurs, and nonetheless one of many best programs on the planet with a $20 million purse readily available. However then Mom Nature wreaked havoc, shortening the occasion to simply 54 holes, throughout which Wyndham Clark shot a preferred-lies 60 and didn’t must trouble enjoying a fourth spherical. It felt just like the traditional Professional-Am was taken from us final yr. Right here’s hoping for nice climate and a professional battle down the best assembly of land and sea subsequent yr.
TGL’s Triple Header February 21
When 24 of the perfect golfers on the planet get away and do one thing collectively, all of us have to concentrate. They’ve earned that quantity of respect, in an oddly comparable method to how we would have liked to concentrate to the launch of LIV Golf in 2022.
I simply need to perceive how stable of an entity the TGL will be. Will the golfers care sufficient to be entertaining? Will the golf be good, or much like what we noticed at The Showdown earlier this month? There appears to be no higher day to research the product than when it’s a month outdated and will likely be on TV for about 9 hours.
Scottie goes for Gamers three-peat March 13-16
It seems like a distant reminiscence now, however the spherical of the yr got here in March when Scottie Scheffler shot a remaining spherical 63 at TPC Sawgrass to win his second-consecutive Gamers Championship. Nobody had completed that feat earlier than, which suggests nobody has ever received three straight Gamers. Scheffler could have the prospect to say PGA Tour immortality if he can win in Ponte Vedra for the third straight yr. Shade me intrigued.
U.S. Ladies’s Open at Erin Hills Could 29-June 1
It’s partly shameful to not checklist a girls’s occasion previous to this one, however the starting a part of the LPGA schedule is typically troublesome to trace, given quite a few occasions in Asia through the spring. However the greatest occasion within the girls’s recreation is touchdown at a improbable venue for 2025.
The U.S. Ladies’s Open will likely be performed at Erin Hills, the place Brooks Koepka received the 2017 U.S. Open, launching his superstardom at a time when most individuals didn’t know who Brooks Koepka was. Search for Erin to play lots lengthy for the women, and for the scoring to be a lot nearer to even par that week. (It’s main championship venue, and I’m glad it’s getting the prospect to show itself once more.)
The Open at Royal Portrush July 17-20
With all due respect to Oakmont, which can host the U.S. Open in June, I’m locked on Royal Portrush —an equally nice (and sure even higher) golf course — as it should host The Open in July. The final time The Open visited Northern Eire, we had Rory McIlroy’s teary serenade from followers. We had Shane Lowry’s triumph for the Emerald Isle. (We even had Shane’s grandmother up on stage on the ceremony that adopted in his house city.) We had Tommy Fleetwood’s greatest effort and Brooks Koepka lurking. All of that in a tiny seaside city on the Atlantic Ocean, when the solar units at 9:30 p.m. We’ll take half of that in 2025 and be blissful.
U.S. Ladies’s Newbie at Bandon Dunes Aug. 4-10
It’s a obvious gap in my very own resume that I haven’t visited Bandon Dunes, however that’s between me, Bandon and the peaks of a provide and demand curve. Fortunately for me — and hopefully many others — we at the very least get a glimpse of how among the best public programs on the planet seems by way of the U.S. Ladies’s Newbie. There’s one thing particular — even when it’s not fairly the true factor — about your TV planting you into the foggy dunescape for some late-afternoon golf performed by the perfect girls’s ams on the planet.
Walker Cup at Cypress Level Sept. 6-7
Should you think about all of the elite golf occasions — which is to contemplate the newbie occasions as nicely — then 2025 is admittedly going to be a banner yr, partly as a result of the Walker Cup is visiting Cypress, extensively thought to be the second-best course on the planet.
Pebble Seashore’s personal neighbor will open its doorways to some the perfect amateurs on the planet for a really uncommon expertise. Add it to St. Andrews (Dunhill), Oakmont (U.S. Open), and Augusta Nationwide (the Masters) and also you’ve obtained 4 of the highest 10 in our world rating internet hosting occasions subsequent yr.
Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black Sept. 26-28
This checklist can be inadequate with out together with the largest occasion of the yr, which arrives in late September on Lengthy Island. Workforce Europe will convey its successful crew from 2023, in addition to its morals — taking the excessive floor greatest they’ll on the subject of pay-for-play.
