What I want to see on the PGA Tour in 2024

With the brand new yr upon us, time to dream up some enjoyable eventualities for the 2024 PGA Tour season. Some could also be wishful considering however I’ll fortunately accept a handful.

I need to see Patrick Cantlay get a brand new hat deal – how about a type of big hats – and for Will Zalatoris to determine his quick placing points in addition to Lucas Glover did this yr. I need to see Tiger play extra than simply hit-n-giggle golf in December and keep away from sending out a press launch about one other surgical procedure. I need to see Adam Scott, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas again within the winner’s circle.

I need to see high professionals help the smaller occasions – don’t simply play the $20 million signature tournaments fellas – as a result of as Sam Saunders put it, there are not any unhealthy tournaments. They’re all nice and the folks within the Quad Cities and San Antonio have been exhibiting up yr after yr for 50+, 100+ years and should see high quality fields.

I need to see somebody like Chesson Hadley make the most of the dome-like situations in Palm Desert, California, and shoot 57 on the American Specific. How cool would it not be to go as much as Al Geiberger and Jim Furyk and introduce your self as Mr. 57?

Justin Rose poses with the trophy on the 18th gap through the continuation of the ultimate spherical of the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am golf match at Pebble Seaside Golf Hyperlinks. (Photograph: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports activities)

I need to see the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am have some juice once more. It had grow to be Exhibit A for a match that was dropping its stars aside from Jordan Spieth, who’s paid by the title sponsor to be there. I’m excited to see a reinvigorated discipline at one of many cathedrals of golf. I’ll take a star-studded discipline at Pebble over Ray Romano and Invoice Murray on daily basis.

I need to see an ace at 16 on the WM Phoenix Open through the day and Duran Duran, who’s performing in February on the Chook’s Nest, at night time. “Hungry Just like the Wolf” and “Rio” and “Ladies on Movie?” Depend me in.

I need to see the winner of the Genesis Invitational shake Tiger’s hand on the trophy ceremony and be eligible to defend his title in 2025. The final two winners have been Joaquin Niemann and Jon Rahm, who each bolted to LIV earlier than the following tourney. Truly, the good too-good-to-be-true Hollywood would reject the script state of affairs can be Tiger profitable at Riviera, his kryptonite and the course and match he’s performed essentially the most with out profitable, to say his 83rd title and break a tie with Sam Snead for all-time profession wins on Tour. The Web would explode.

I need to see Rickie Fowler, who fortunately indicators autographs like Arnold Palmer as soon as did, slip into the King’s alpaca pink sweater awarded to the champion of Palmer’s match in Orlando.

On the event of the fiftieth Gamers, I need to see the winner dive into the lake at 18 at TPC Sawgrass like Jerry Pate did in 1982. That must be the boys’s model of Poppy’s Pond.

I need to see Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm within the closing group on Sunday on the Masters. It wouldn’t suck if Tiger and Scottie Scheffler have been within the subsequent group they usually have been all tied for the lead as they hit the again 9.

My colleague Beth Ann Nichols stated she’d wish to see extra co-ed groups on the Grant Thornton Invitational. I second that however I’m going to go one step additional: let’s make the Zurich Basic of New Orleans an official co-ed crew occasion. The crew format breathed new life into this occasion however let’s go subsequent stage and get the ladies concerned.

I don’t care whether it is an current match switching issues up or a model new one however the PGA Tour must carry again a match-play match ASAP. Not search for the Tour letting Austin fall off the calendar.

I need to see a first-time main winner on the PGA: Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay and Tony Finau are about due however I like Viktor Hovland to interrupt by subsequent.

I need to see Billy Horschel win the Memorial and go from first to worst again to first. That’s the way you stamp that you just’re again.

It doesn’t get a lot better than the U.S. Open being at Pinehurst No. 2. That’s the foremost I’m most trying ahead to attending in ‘24. It’s Disney for golf geeks there. Right here’s hoping Martin Kaymer earns a spot within the discipline and a few Cinderella story fills the Jason Gore function as the brand new Prince of Pinehurst.

I need to see Daniel Berger return from harm and win the Vacationers Championship. Nonetheless can’t consider Jordan Spieth holed that bunker shot to beat him in a playoff. Or that it occurred again in 2017.

Robert MacIntyre celebrates a par putt on the thirteenth inexperienced throughout Day 4 of the Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Membership on July 16, 2023 in United Kingdom. (Photograph by Octavio Passos/Getty Photos)

I need to see the wind blow once more on Sunday on the Genesis Scottish Open and this time native son Bobby Mac, who obtained pipped by Rory this yr, win his nationwide open.

I need to see Tommy Fleetwood win a PGA Tour title so I can cease writing that he hasn’t and he ought to go massive or go dwelling and win the British at Troon. Then we are able to begin asking him if he’s ever going to win within the U.S.

I need to see some drama with gold medals on the road in Paris. Ooh la la, are you able to think about how the Norwegian announcers will lose their minds if Viktor Hovland have been to sink a profitable putt at 18 at Le Golf Nationwide?

I need to see an newbie win on Tour for the primary time since Phil Mickelson in 1991. Rocket Mortgage Basic, 3M Open or Barracuda Championship really feel ripe for the taking by the likes of Gordon Sargent or Nick Dunlap.

I need to see a down-and-out professional, who barely broke 80 all season seize some last-minute magic and win the Wyndham Championship and qualify for the FedEx Cup like Jim Herman earlier than him and Lucas Glover did in August.

And for the final word rags to riches story, I need to see a “mule” win the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup for the everyman.

Royal Montreal must be the positioning of an Worldwide Group victory. I need to see Nick Taylor, one yr after turning into the primary Canuck to win the RBC Canadian Open in endlessly, win the clinching level of the Presidents Cup in Montreal…and for Adam Hadwin to get leveled once more by safety whereas making an attempt to have fun with him.

However most of all, I need to see the very best gamers compete towards one another extra typically. If that doesn’t work out, let’s hope that powers-that-be not less than can agree on a PGA Tour-LIV Ryder Cup-style competitors. Right here’s to a 2024 the place the one drama is on the course and never off it.