From Scottie Scheffler at TPC Sawgrass to Bryson DeChambeau the next tournament, the 2025 slate is loaded.
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With all the golf events of 2024 now officially in the rearview mirror, it’s only fair time to look ahead through the windshield to what awaits us in 2025. The men visit perhaps the toughest golf course on the planet . The women visit a country that rarely welcomes the world’s best. We have a major champion competing in India, a potential Ryder Cup captain and possibly the greatest course on the planet that hosts the best players who can’t compete for money.
Yes, it’s all coming to us in 2025, and I’ve done you a favor. I’ve hand-picked the nine events I’m most excited about this coming year, with picks in January, February, March, May, June, July, August, and September.
9 Events I’m Most Excited About in 2025 (Chronological Order)
India International Series Jan. 30-Feb. 2
Yes, I mean an Asian tour. Bryson DeChambeau is preparing to be the first reigning major champion to compete in an event in India when he kicks off the 2025 India International Series event. No, you won’t be able to watch it on TV. And yes, it will mostly take place in the middle of the night in America. But that is not the point. The point is that one of the most popular stars of the game is visiting Gurugram, India.
While this may not fill every golf fan’s cup, it should at least serve as a barometer for the appreciation of the game in India. We’ve spent much of the previous 30 months talking about creating a global golf calendar where the game’s biggest names visit new corners of the world. Well, here’s a great start.
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am January 30-February 2
The 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am was supposed to be the best yet. It had the best field, a new, shortened amount of amateurs and still one of the biggest courses in the world with a $20 million purse in hand. But then Mother Nature wreaked havoc, shortening the event to just 54 holes, during which Wyndham Clark shot a favored 60 and didn’t have to worry about playing a fourth round. It felt like the Pro-Am Classic was taken from us last year. Here’s hoping for great weather and a legitimate battle at the biggest meeting of land and sea next year.
TGL’s Triple Header February 21
When 24 of the best players in the world break out and do something together, we should all pay attention. They’ve earned that amount of respect, in a way that’s eerily similar to how we had to pay attention to LIV Golf’s launch in 2022.
I just want to understand how strong of an entity TGL can be. Will players care enough to be entertained? Will the golf be good, or similar to what we saw Coping earlier this month? There seems to be no better day to analyze the product than when it is a month old and has been on TV for about nine hours.
Scottie goes for the three-peat players March 13-16
It feels like a distant memory now, but the round of the year came in March when Scottie Scheffler shot a final-round 63 at TPC Sawgrass to win his second consecutive Players Championship. No one had accomplished that feat before, meaning no one has won three straight. Scheffler will have a chance to claim PGA Tour immortality if he can win at Ponte Vedra for the third year in a row. Color me intrigued.
Women’s US Open at Erin Hills May 29 – June 1
It’s partly a shame not to list a women’s event before this, but the early part of the LPGA schedule is sometimes difficult to track, given the many events in Asia during the spring. But the biggest event in the women’s game is landing in a fantastic place for 2025.
The US Women’s Open will be played at Erin Hills, where Brooks Koepka won the 2017 US Open, launching his superstardom at a time when most people didn’t know who Brooks Koepka was. Look for Erin to play long for the ladies and for the score to be much closer to that week’s level. (It’s a nice big championship spot, and I’m glad he’s getting the chance to prove himself again.)
The Open at Royal Portrush July 17-20
With all due respect to Oakmont, which will host the US Open in June, I’m closed Royal Portrush – an equally excellent (and perhaps even better) golf course – as it hosts The Open in July. The last time The Open visited Northern Ireland, we were serenaded by Rory McIlroy in tears from the fans. We had Shane Lowry’s triumph for the Emerald Isle. (We even had Shane’s grandmother on stage at the ceremony that followed in his hometown.) We had the best efforts of Tommy Fleetwood and Brooks Koepka in slumber. All this in a small beach town on the Atlantic Ocean, when the sun sets at 9:30 p.m. We will take half of this in 2025 and be happy.
American Women’s Amateur at Bandon Dunes August 4-10
It’s a glaring hole in my resume that I haven’t visited Bandon Dunes, but that’s between me, Bandon, and the top of the supply and demand curve. Fortunately for me – and hopefully many others – we at least get a glimpse of what one of the best public courses in the world looks like through the US Women’s Amateur. There’s something special – even if it’s not quite the truth – about your TV planting you in the misty landscape for a late afternoon round of golf played by the best women in the world.
Walker Cup at Cypress Point September 6-7
If you factor in all of golf’s elite events – which will also include amateur events – then 2025 will indeed be a banner year, in part because the Walker Cup is visiting Cypress, widely regarded as the second best course in the world . .
Pebble Beach’s private neighborhood will open its doors to some of the best amateurs on the planet for a very rare experience. Add to St. Andrews (Dunhill), Oakmont (US Open) and Augusta National (Masters) and you’ll have four of the top 10 in our world ranking organizing events next year.
Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black September 26-28
This list would be incomplete without including the biggest event of the year, which arrives in late September on Long Island. Team Europe will bring its winning team from 2023, as well as its ethos – taking the pay-to-play theme to the highest possible level.
