Collin Morikawa captured his first major title Sunday at the PGA Championship. Hovland won twice in 2020, displaying an ability to thrive in stressful situations at tropical locales where people traditionally go to relax. Winning the Super Bowl in the, The history of golf in America is often muddied by various golf clubs claiming that they are the oldest. Several other young golfers made a name for themselves while still in their teens. The organization's board on Tuesday ratified tweaks to the 2024 schedule that will see certain designated events have a reduced field as well as . Where Morikawa sets himself apart from his peers is that his weaknesses are better and his strengths are positively elite. 19 years, 2 months, 3 days: Ralph Guldahl, 1931 Santa Monica Open. Long considered to be the youngest winner in PGA Tour history, that record was supplanted when a PGA Tour researcher recently discovered the No. The Chilean continues to fulfill the promise he showed as the Worlds No. Local Kenny Leseur made his PGA Tour debut in the Bermuda Championship at his home course, Port Royal, after securing his place via a 36-hole qualifier. Tournament:1923 Galveston Open Matteos professional career blossomed for the next four years. He finished 12th in Strokes Gained: Approach-the-Green last season. And Matthew Wolff, whos still just 21, was a contender in two of this years majors. World No. He's almost certainly next in line to jump from leading the Korn Ferry Tour (where he started 2020) to becoming PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2021. At this time, Jordan accepted an exemption to play at the 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship. There may have been some hangover effect when he missed his next four cuts, but the W was no fluke; since then, hes reeled off four top-6 finishes in his last five starts. Junior, then finished in T22 in his hometown TOUR event, the AT&T Byron Nelson, while still in high school. Greatest strength: Laser-like irons (8th on the European Tour last year), Room to improve: Driving accuracy (hitting just half his fairways this year). When Matthew Wolff is on, hes all the way on. Despite being the first player at Augusta National to get hit . He struggled in 2019 and 2020, finishing 114th and 150th in the FedExCup, but the phrase sophomore slump exists for a reason. 862 in the world to No. He lets his clubs do the talking. He finished second in Strokes Gained: Approach last season, behind only Justin Thomas. Then he made a 25-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to answer Thomas 50-foot bomb. 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And there have been plenty of instances where the younger players have performed well on the PGA Tour. Only Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Tiger Woods, Bobby Jones, Gary Player, and Jack Nicklaus can boast of this achievement. Taylor Pendrith probably would have arrived at the PGA TOUR a lot sooner had it not been for injuries. If theres one round most remembered from this year, its probably Morikawas dazzling closing effort at the PGA Championship, when he drove Harding Parks 16th green to take command and win his first major title with a 64. Theyve permanently altered our perception of whats possible for the crop of prospects coming out of college each year. Every other year, the best male, professional golfers from Europe and the United States face off in this match play tournament, each team led by its captain. Two months later, the season was paused by the coronavirus pandemic. Aye, there were harsh words, MacIntyretold The Scotsman. But youve got to tell him its not right. GOLF DIGEST MAY EARN A PORTION OF SALES FROM PRODUCTS THAT ARE PURCHASED THROUGH OUR SITE AS PART OF OUR AFFILIATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH RETAILERS. A huge disappointment came when Scheffler had to miss the U.S. Open after testing positive for COVID-19, but there were so many signs of a bright future, including a T-4 in the PGA Championship and shooting 59 in the Northern Trust. Hence, this made sure that the 14-year-old Chinese amateur golfer went into the weekend. Tour editor covering men's golf, women's golf and anything else that involves the word golf, really. 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(Photo: Associated Press), Harry Cooper, aka Light Horse Harry, is shown during the opening play of the New York State Open Gold Championship tournament at the Westchester Biltmore Country Club in Rye, N.Y., March 21, 1929. Finish: T20 Jordan made the cut, and became the sixth-youngest PGA player. The Korn Ferry trademark is also a registered trademark, and is used in the Korn Ferry Tour logo with permission. Each of the three is significantly better than the average Tour player tee to green and notably worse around the green. 38 player in the world, despite the fact that hes never made a PGA Tour cut. Of the three emerging superstars, Casey has his money on Morikawa. However,, The Super Bowl is one of the most watched sporting events in America each year. Tiger Woods is no longer the youngest PGA player on record. So, as we look ahead to the new year, we ranked the Top 10 TOUR members under 25. Later in 2017, Justin was named the PGA Player of the Year for 2017, after becoming the fourth golfer aged less than 25 years to win the PGA Championship. An amateur for his entire golf career, Evans won the Western Open at Beverly Country Club in Chicago as a 20-year-old. In 2013, he qualified for the 2013 Masters Tournament. Theres also no shame in being behind these next four players. PGA Championships: 2001 Honda Classic Age: 16 years, 9 months, 24 days. Golf is one sport that draws talented players from an early age. Week two in Florida and the PGA Tour has arrived in Orlando to stage the fourth 'Elite' event of 2023. Age: 24 2020 FedExCup finish: N/A PGA TOUR wins: 0. Age: 11 years, 11 months, 10 days He contended at the Vivint Houston Open, then concluded the year with a runner-up at the Mayakoba Golf Classic presented by UNIFIN. As the page showed a number of current PGA Tour players' names being used as a discount code for the fourth LIV Golf event in Boston at the beginning of September. Theyre 27 each practically ancient. And none of that fazes him. We can make that happen. Opens as well as the 1939 Masters. 1:52. The 201920 rookie of the year has yet to win, but no one in golf thinks thats going to be the case much longer. This latest achievement came after the golfer had represented his country three times at the World Cup. Most Wins In a Single Season on the PGA Tour, Golfer Willie Turnesa: Winner of Amateur Majors, PGA Tour Record: Most Strokes Under Par, 72 Holes. Gene Sarazen hits the first ball to open the 1985 Masters Golf Championship at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., on April 11, 1985. North Carolina has a 10-16 record against the spread and an 18-8 record overall when putting up more than 64.0 points. The result obviously speak for themselves, too: Morikawa has three PGA Tour wins and just one PGA Tour missed cut. The most exciting thing about the precocious teenager, besides his 328.3-yard average drives? Amateur champion made an impressive early splash on the PGA Tour by winning the 2020 Puerto Rico Open in February by draining a 30-foot birdie on the 72nd hole. Almost exactly a year later, Ko successfully . Status: Professional. Age: 20 years, 4 months, 12 days Status: Professional. Harry Cooper. From tee to green, Viktor Hovland is already one of the best golfers on the planet. His ball-striking has become the stuff of legend and social media fodder, and for good reason. He did it at the 2013 Zurich Classic of New Orleans a month after the 2013 Masters. The 48-man field has 37 players who were PGA . At 15, Bermuda native Kenny Leseur is the first player since @cole_hammer6765 (2015 @usopengolf ) to make their @PGATOUR debut at the age of 15 years or younger. As for the last time the two paired up on the same team? Im, 22, has already played in the TOUR Championship twice. He created history by making the cut at the 2013 Masters at the age of 14. A match play major for men and women makes perfect sense for the good of the game, on so many levels. In the last 12 years, 10 players in their 20s have captured the Major Championship. Thomas is also only 1 of 6 players in PGA Tour history with 15 victories and 2 Majors before his 30th . He would defeat fellow 20-year-old Collin Morikawa and Bryson DeChambeau by one shot. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: golf | pageType: stories | Required fields are marked *. Some of Justin Thomass notable achievements include 66 Top 10 Finishes, five Best Year wins, 153 cuts made, six 2nd place finishes, 11 3rd place finishes, and cash winnings totaling $46,323,825. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images). Sure, there are always exceptions, but they come along once every few years. He has won five events on the Japan Golf Tour, finished T-10 in the 2013 U.S . They continually sent us scouring the record books to put their accomplishments in context. 1 on the list. To be exact, Guan was 14 years, 5 months, and 18 days when he achieved this feat in 2013 as an amateur. Cooper had the clubhouse lead at the 1936 Open after a then-record 72-hole score of 284. Golfers getting naked on camera. He led the 1936 Masters after 54 holes. Finish: 58 He covered all levels of competitive golf at Golfweek Magazine for seven years, including tournaments on four continents, before coming to the PGA TOUR in 2013. That earned him a spot in the U.S. Open, where he confirmed that he belonged at golfs highest tier. (Photo: Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports), Ralph Guldahl won the 1937 and 1938 U.S. The 19-year-old has already won twice on the European Tour and is into the top 100 in the OWGR. His nine career professional major championships tie him with Gary Player for fourth all-time, trailing only Jack Nicklaus (18), Tiger Woods (15) and Walter Hagen (11). The biggest shocker, to me, was realizing that one of those PGA contenders, Cameron Champ, is also too old for this list. Here's a look at the 10 youngest players who have been victorious on the PGA Tour: Francis Ouimet. The two big shocks would be Niemann and Young, who were reportedly in the PGA Tour's player meeting at the BMW Championship. About: Evans is perhaps best known for being the founder of the Evans Scholarship Foundation. The fourth member of the Hovland-Wolff-Morikawa press conference at the Travelers Championship in 2019 has taken a bit longer to develop as a pro, but he came on strong at the end of the year with a pair of top-15 finishes on the PGA Tour that bumped him to inside the top 500 in the OWGR. Not all of them will become stars, but they are names that only the most hardcore golf fans will know that you should become familiar with before they hit the mainstream. The Masters Tournament was first played in 1934, co-founded by Bobby Jones in Augusta, Georgia. That would be Nicolai Hjgaard, Rasmus brother, who was actually heralded as the better player for a while. Zalatoris finished T6 at Winged Foot and the world was introduced to his accurate iron play. South Korea's Kim "Tom" Joo-Hyung became the second-youngest winner on the PGA Tour since the Second World War with a convincing win at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday. Greatest strength: His golf swing (15th on Tour off the tee, 10th approaching the green), Room to improve: His short game (179th around the green, 135th putting). Now a senior, Yu is the No. Joaquin Niemann (23): At such a young age, an incredible talent who dusted the . The WGCs were successful but never wildly so. It can be a tough transition when so much success comes at a young age. He obviously has a long way to go to fulfill some of the hype around him, but making cuts and grabbing top 10s at the age of 18 on the PGA Tour is a massive (and underrated) deal. The teenage pro-golfer only made a cut in one out of the seven events at the PGA Tour that year, after which time he produced a medical exemption. Tianlang also played in three other events in 2013, as a result of sponsors invites - the Zurich Classic (14 years, 6 months), Byron Nelson Championship (14 years, 6 months 20 days), and the Memorial (14 years, 7 months, 5 days). The next year he knocked off Armour in the Michigan Open. Justin Thomas comes from a family of pro golfers most notably his father, Mike Thomas. McNealy actually has a lower world ranking than a couple golfers who didnt quite crack this list, but theres good reason to get him into the 10 spot, as hes already shown an ability to contend in his rookie year on the big Tour. Theres two of him. Born: 19 April 1993, Negrar, Italy The only reason hes slipped all the way to No. As it turns out, that player is one who owns many career records -- including most Tour wins (82) -- the legendary Sam Snead. Matthew Wolff led the U.S. Open going into the final round, bidding to be the youngest champion since Francis Ouimet. Hes currently the top Scot in the world rankings at No. Something always happened that I had no control over, he once said. Zalatoris. And he won the Michigan Open two more times later on, but those later two victories are not counted as official tour wins. Tournament: 2019 3M Open Jerry . From Sept. 1 to the end of 2020, Zalatoris was better than Scheffler, Wolff and Morikawa, not to mention also Daniel Berger, Sungjae Im, Tommy Fleetwood, Adam Scott and Lee Westwood. Another name you probably got to know this fall as Bhatia turned pro in late 2019 at the tender age of 17 and rose 1,000 spots in the Official World Golf Rankings in 2020 after a top 10 at the Safeway Open. If you predicted two years ago that Collin Morikawa, Matthew Wolff and Viktor Hovland would currently have six combined PGA Tour wins . His ball-striking may be second to none on tour, and his 22-event cuts-made streak he put together is second-best only to Tiger Woods. All the way on top 100 in the world rankings at No for the last years. And Jack Nicklaus can boast of this years majors superstars, Casey has money... Viktor Hovland is already one of the best golfers on the Japan golf Tour, T-10. Players who were PGA logo with permission look at the 2013 U.S his first major Sunday. 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