2024 Golf Calendar
It’s the begin of one other 12 months and every part is forward of us. Golf is not any totally different as we attempt to think about how the season will take form. Right here at AMERICAN GOLF, we now have picked out a number of the highlights and key weeks to place in our diaries for 2024.
JANUARY:
4-7:
Not a lot time for a number of 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 sphere 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 large purses which have been 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 can have arrived within the Center East for some heat climate practise desperate to hit the bottom working. Rory McIlroy will probably be current to defend his title and goal for a file fourth title on the Emirates Golf Membership. One in all his closest challengers could possibly 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 group and with three unknown team-mates. The id of that trio will certainly generate loads of hypothesis within the weeks forward.
8-11:
All the time one of many greatest occasions exterior of the Majors, the WM Phoenix Open, Arizona, is a {golfing} occasion like no different. Greater than 600,000 golf followers will flip up throughout the week to supply an unimaginable environment. 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 most important 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, take pleasure in 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, be sure you are sat in entrance of the couch from about 8pm and calm down to observe probably the very best 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 unimaginable 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 will likely be a particular time for any participant to seek out their finest kind.
MAY:
16-19:
Will anybody be capable to cease US PGA specialist Brooks Koepka at Valhalla? The American has received the Wanamaker Trophy thrice within the final six years and was second on one of many different events. He now solely has three males above him within the listing of winners – Walter Hagen, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods – in order that exhibits the illustrious firm he’s maintaining.
A doable 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 very best male gamers should 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 make it possible for a par rating needs 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 could possibly be the stage for Norway’s Viktor Hovland to make the soar 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 valuable colors of medal. The boys will compete first earlier than the ladies a couple of days later, on the well-known Le Golf Nationwide exterior 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 needs to be a refreshing change on this money-driven sport for the time being.
22-25:
The main feminine gamers on this planet will all have one week circled of their diaries for 2024 greater than another – the AIG Ladies’s Open.
That’s as a result of for less than the third time the match will probably be staged across the Previous Course at St Andrews. After a ten-year hole because the second staging, a lot of at the moment’s main gamers is not going to have competed on the House of Golf. Count on huge 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 spite of everything the thrill of the primary ever draw within the Solheim Cup at Finca Cortesin in Spain in 2023, we wouldn’t have lengthy to attend for the subsequent instalment.
With a purpose to keep away from a conflict with the Ryder Cup shifting 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 similar and many of the similar gamers will in all probability 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 some of the widespread golf tournaments round. From the star-studded celeb pro-am to 4 days of elite competitors round Wentworth’s West Course, this occasion hardly ever disappoints.
The 2023 version featured all 12 of Europe’s Ryder Cup group, whereas whoever wins this one (if European) can go a good distance in the 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 goal to encourage an enormous upset on dwelling soil on the Royal Montreal Golf Membership.
OCTOBER:
31-3 November:
The week within the solar for the Problem Tour as their greatest 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 listing 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 is going to be all eyes on the UAE because the DP World Tour season finishes in model 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. But it surely 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 the direction of the brand new 12 months. With Tiger Woods’ match within the Bahamas after which the PNC Championship (the occasion for Main winners enjoying with a member of their household), golf followers tune in for an replace on how Tiger is trying after which enjoying together with his son Charlie within the PNC, we get the newest glimpse of whether or not Charlie is ready to observe in his father’s footsteps!