2024 Golf Calendar
It’s the begin of one other 12 months and all the things is forward of us. Golf isn’t any totally different as we attempt to think about how the season will take form. Right here at AMERICAN GOLF, now we have picked out among the highlights and key weeks to place in our diaries for 2024.
JANUARY:
4-7:
Not a lot time for among the main gamers on the PGA Tour to construct their approach into the brand new {golfing} 12 months. World primary Scottie Scheffler and Norway’s Ryder Cup hero, Viktor Hovland, headline the sector at The Sentry in Hawaii. It’s the first of eight ‘designated’ occasions on the PGA Tour this 12 months, tournaments with restricted fields and massive purses which were created to stave off the specter of LIV Golf.
18-21:
The primary full-field occasion of the DP World Tour 12 months is the ever-popular Dubai Desert Traditional. Gamers could have arrived within the Center East for some heat climate practise wanting to hit the bottom working. Rory McIlroy will probably be current to defend his title and intention for a file fourth title on the Emirates Golf Membership. One in all his closest challengers may very well be native resident, England’s Tommy Fleetwood.
FEBRUARY:
2-4:
There will probably be a lot anticipation forward of the primary occasion of the brand new LIV Golf season – LIV Mayakoba in Mexico. Jon Rahm will make his debut in certainly one of these 54-hole shotgun occasions in an as-yet unnamed workforce and with three unknown team-mates. The identification of that trio will certainly generate loads of hypothesis within the weeks forward.
8-11:
At all times one of many largest occasions outdoors of the Majors, the WM Phoenix Open, Arizona, is a {golfing} celebration like no different. Greater than 600,000 golf followers will flip up throughout the week to offer an unbelievable ambiance. It’s to not each skilled’s style, however watching gamers on the par-three 16th is an expertise in itself!
MARCH:
14-17:
The PGA Tour will undoubtedly make an enormous play of the largest match they run however whereas it doesn’t have fairly the identical lustre following the defection of so many main names to LIV Golf, the Gamers’ Championship stays an occasion to savour.
If nothing else, get pleasure from 4 days of watching the professionals face the jeopardy of hitting into the island inexperienced at Sawgrass’ iconic par-three 17th. Will their tee-shots find yourself dry or moist?
APRIL:
11-14:
The second Sunday in April means just one factor in golf – The Masters. Clear the diary, ensure you are sat in entrance of the couch from about 8pm and cool down to look at presumably the perfect annual day of golf on these well-known final 9 holes within the pristine surrounds of Augusta.
Jon Rahm will probably be defending his Inexperienced Jacket after his commanding efficiency in 2023, however as ever, consideration will fall on Rory McIlroy. Can the Northern Irishman full his Grand Slam and finish that ten-year wait since his final Main victory?
18-21:
The beginning of an unbelievable summer season for girls’s golf begins with the Chevron Championship in Texas. Throw in 5 Majors, the Olympics and the Solheim Cup between now and mid-September and it is going to be a particular time for any participant to search out their finest type.
MAY:
16-19:
Will anybody be capable to cease US PGA specialist Brooks Koepka at Valhalla? The American has received the Wanamaker Trophy 3 times within the final six years and was second on one of many different events. He now solely has three males above him within the record of winners – Walter Hagen, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods – in order that exhibits the illustrious firm he’s conserving.
A potential fortunate omen for Rory McIlroy’s military of followers, although, is that Valhalla is the scene of Rory’s final Main triumph, on this occasion ten years in the past.
JUNE:
13-16:
It’s the week when the perfect male gamers must be ready to scrap for expensive life as they collect for the US Open. The No.2 course at Pinehurst resort in North Carolina will probably be set as much as problem and bemuse and to ensure that a par rating ought to be cherished. For golf followers, it’s going to truly make a pleasant change from the birdie barrage we see at most tour occasions lately.
Of the final 15 US Open winners, it has been a primary Main for 12 of them, displaying how ‘Open’ the occasion is. If unsuccessful within the first two Majors of 2024, it may very well be the stage for Norway’s Viktor Hovland to make the bounce into the winner’s circle.
JULY:
18-21:
For the 152nd version of The Open, the occasion is heading again as much as Scotland and Royal Troon. The final time the match was performed on the Ayrshire venue, Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson produced one of many nice Open duels. Stenson ultimately received with a file 20-under par whole because the Swede and Mickelson produced golf from one other planet.
American Brian Harman is the defending champion this 12 months, whereas his fellow countrymen will probably be assured of following in his footsteps. Of the 9 earlier Opens performed at Troon, six have been received by stars-and-stripes golfers.
AUGUST:
1-4 + 7-10:
For the third time since its readmission, golf will take its place within the sporting jamboree that’s the Olympic Video games. 60 gamers will don nationwide colors and compete for these three treasured colors of medal. The boys will compete first earlier than the ladies a couple of days later, on the well-known Le Golf Nationwide outdoors Paris, venue of the 2018 Ryder Cup.
The Individuals had a golden double in Tokyo final time with Xander Schauffele and Nelly Korda the singles winners, however who will emulate them in Paris? Whereas within the males’s competitors in Tokyo, there was a seven-man play-off simply to determine the bronze with not a single pound or greenback at stake. Competing for glory ought to be a refreshing change on this money-driven sport in the mean time.
22-25:
The main feminine gamers on the planet will all have one week circled of their diaries for 2024 greater than every other – the AIG Girls’s Open.
That’s as a result of for under the third time the match will probably be staged across the Outdated Course at St Andrews. After a ten-year hole for the reason that second staging, a lot of at this time’s main gamers is not going to have competed on the Dwelling of Golf. Count on large crowds and heightened competitors with gamers like English duo Charley Hull and Georgia Corridor and US stars like Nelly Korda and defending champion Lilia Vu realising what’s at stake.
SEPTEMBER:
13-15:
In any case the joy of the primary ever draw within the Solheim Cup at Finca Cortesin in Spain in 2023, we don’t have lengthy to attend for the following instalment.
With a purpose to keep away from a conflict with the Ryder Cup transferring ahead, the ladies’s match between Europe and the USA has been introduced ahead and can now be performed in even years, with the Ryder Cup performed in odd years.
The Individuals will look to win again the Solheim Cup on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership in Virginia. The captains, Stacy Lewis for the US and Suzann Pettersen for Europe, would be the identical and a lot of the identical gamers will most likely make the groups, so let’s hope for a similar quantity of drama and pleasure.
19-22:
Regardless of being pushed again later and later yearly, the BMW PGA Championship stays one of the vital common golf tournaments round. From the star-studded celeb pro-am to 4 days of elite competitors round Wentworth’s West Course, this occasion not often disappoints.
The 2023 version featured all 12 of Europe’s Ryder Cup workforce, whereas whoever wins this one (if European) can go a good distance in direction of securing qualification in Luke Donald’s aspect for the 2025 match in America.
26-29:
No Ryder Cup in 2024, however the Individuals will probably be on responsibility for the Presidents Cup, the biennial match between them and gamers from the remainder of the world (not together with Europe).
The USA have received the final 9 matches with the Internationals not victorious since their sole triumph in Australia again in 1998. Jim Furyk is the person tasked with sustaining American dominance, whereas Canadian Mike Weir will intention to encourage an enormous upset on house soil on the Royal Montreal Golf Membership.
OCTOBER:
31-3 November:
The week within the solar for the Problem Tour as their largest occasion of the season is staged in Mallorca. Promotion to the principle DP World Tour is assured for the top-20 gamers on the season-long cash record because the battle between younger weapons and gamers in search of a return to former glories reaches its climax.
NOVEMBER:
7-10 + 14-17:
It will likely be all eyes on the UAE because the DP World Tour season finishes in fashion with hopefully all the large names displaying as much as compete. Firstly, the Abu Dhabi Championship has been shifted from January again to November and the penultimate occasion of the season. Nevertheless it nonetheless retains its Rolex Sequence standing with a prize fund of $9 million.
From there, the main 50 gamers will make the brief journey to Dubai for the season-ending DP World Tour Championship the place the winner of the Race to Dubai will probably be topped. Will Rory McIlroy make it three-in-a-row, and 6 in whole, and edge ever nearer to Colin Montgomerie’s file of eight?
DECEMBER:
As skilled golf winds down in December, focus turns in direction of the brand new 12 months. With Tiger Woods’ match within the Bahamas after which the PNC Championship (the occasion for Main winners taking part in with a member of their household), golf followers tune in for an replace on how Tiger is wanting after which taking part in along with his son Charlie within the PNC, we get the newest glimpse of whether or not Charlie is about to observe in his father’s footsteps!
