The 2021-22 PGA Tour season has come and gone within the blink of an eye fixed and with it many gamers have modified the trajectory of their careers. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler started the season and not using a win to his title and, after a torrid spring that included donning the inexperienced jacket on the 2022 Masters, has ascended into being one of many premier gamers within the recreation.
The identical goes for the person who instantly follows him within the Official World Golf Rankings as Cameron Smith captured not solely the Gamers Championship but additionally The a hundred and fiftieth Open at St. Andrews. Using a mix of pinpoint accuracy along with his irons and his unmatched placing stroke, the Australian has perpetually been etched into the historical past books.
Tony Finau, Xander Schauffele, Sam Burns, Max Homa, Hideki Matsuyama and Patrick Cantlay all test in as multiple-time winners in addition to every loved intervals of play the place they had been untouchable. Nonetheless, ultimately, the person who entered the FedEx Cup Playoffs because the No. 1 participant in The Energy 18 Rankings will finish the season in the identical place.
Rory McIlroy was capable of pull off the inconceivable on the 2022 Tour Championship and monitor down Scheffler after falling as many as 10 strokes behind. In a 12 months as hectic as this previous one was — each on and off the golf course — it was McIlroy who rose above the remainder.
The Energy 18 gives perception as to how golfers are at the moment performing with profit given to their play over latest occasions. It’s a wider lens than merely what occurred on the final event to be performed however extra slender than the Official World Golf Rankings, which have in mind how greater than 2,000 golfers carry out throughout a whole season.
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