The Tour Championship (and Tommy Fleetwood’s victory drought) is officially behind us, so it’s good time to see again in season 2025.
Tomorrow, I will take a look at the PGA Tour players who came up with Breakout seasons.
Today? Not to be a Debbie Downer, but today it is for those on the war bus.
All the relative here. A bad year for an elite player can be a better career for someone else.
In spite of, these players did NO Live up to expectations – including their ones. None of them won a tour or pretended to a major. Some were rarely bursting the top 10 places.
If you were to ask each of them directly, they would be the first to admit that their 2025 campaign was a disappointment.
This list is only for PGA Tour players. If you are looking for Livi’s disappointing players that golf fans have slowly forgotten, you can find that story here.
For each player I give his Data The table shows its overall ranking (and official world golf ranking) in recent years. Golf Data includes all professionally played golf, including LIV, while OWGR excludes Liv’s events from winning points.
8. Xander Schauffle
Schauffle was injured year -round. He had a stellar season in 2024, so there is no panic at all.
However, Schauffle is kept to a high standard – and for a good reason. He opened the year as the second best player in the world and has been hyper-consistent for several years now.
End of season 2025 down to No.8 in Golf Data is a considerable step back and its worst sign since 2022. Schauffle did not have a single single high end, which is hard to believe.
I have no doubt that he will jump next year.
7. Jordan Spieth
The Spieth graph shows improvement from the depth of 2024. It climbed from outside the 100 money to no. 30.
This is the good news.
The bad news is that spieth is who is he now. He is a good player who can easily hold his tour card. It is slightly more than average in all strokes of the categories obtained.
That’s all it is.
Spieth is coming further four years Since his last victory. He has gone 11 consecutive degrees without a Top-10 conclusion. He had four Top-10s this season, two of them at low-level events.
I am including it here because going without victory and not even disputes in a major must be considered fighting for someone with his reputation.
Reality? Spieth is no longer a star.
6. DO ZALATORIS
It is sad to see what the damage to the Zalaatoris back did, a player who went to a tremendous run to Major in 2021-2022.
He has been clashing for the last two years, falling across the way to No 99 in Golf Data as he did not record a single conclusion-10 in 2025. This is declining by no. 66 to start the year.
It is an incomplete grade because Zalatoris got another back operation this spring to repair two hernia discs. We have not seen him since the PGA Championship. Well, besides When he played Mr. Gilmore Caddy in Happy Gilmore 2.
Zalaatoris has a high ceiling. Hopefully he can get healthy soon.
5. Wyndham Clark
The Open Open 2023 champion was the number 10 player in the world about 15 months ago.
He is now in number 49, who raises the question of whether his big victory was a blow to the pan more than a sign of things to come.
Clark made presidents’ Cup Ryder 2023 Ryder and 2024, but he did not approach to make the team Ryder Cup this time around.
A T4 in the open championship was pretty bright place for Clark, who made more titles to destroy the closet rooms than to be a rift on the driver’s tables.
4. Sahith Theegala
There is a stretch to call Theegala a star based on his game, but he made the US President’s Cup team in 2024 after having a productive season. He is also one of the most liked players in the tournament.
To say generously, this year did not go well.
Theegala fell from no. 37 at No 202 in Golf Data, completing only two tournaments in the first 20 places.
In the bold new world of professional golfThegala’s stay in the tournament will be in danger if it does not return quickly.
3. Collin Morikawa
Morikawa has begun to diligently reflect Jordan Spieth’s career. The two had a lot of success early and then settled in “very strong but without spectacular” in the coming years.
The 28-year-old Morikawa has no victory since October 2023. He started the year at no. 5 in Golf Data and now sits on no. 26, much outside his potential. On his last 14 beginnings, he has only one end of Top-10 (a T8 at Rocket Mortgage Classic).
As with spieth, the lack of Morikawa’s distance seems to put a ceiling on its star power. He is still a phenomenal iron player, and his floor is quite high because of this, but many golf fans hoped that Morikawa could be more.
2. Tony arguing
In complete transparency, I completely forgot Tony Finau.
After he won five times between 2021-2023, Finau was a five-best player in the world. In 2025, he came around him he was a Top-20 player of the world’s border line.
Now? Turn your eyes. Finau is no. 124 in the world.
Incredibly, Finau has a Top-10 conclusion in his last 26 starts. It has been a failure on all fronts as his normally reliable hitting of the ball has been as mediocre as his placement.
1. Max Homa
I wrote for Homa earlier during the week, so you can get a more detailed split here.
The short story is that Homa is going through many changes now. He changed the swing coaches last October, transferred from the title to Cobra in January and shared ways with Caddy Gray Long in April.
After winning six times between 2019 and 2023 and stained for Americans in the 2023 Ryder Cup, Homa began to lose his way last summer. The last 15 months or more have been a nightmare.
He started 2024 at No.8 in Golf Data. He is now no. 149.
Let’s hope Homa finds his way. Golf is better when it is in the mix.
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Main Photography Title: Collin Morikawa has not won since October 2023 (Getty Images/Jeff Robinson)
office These 8 stars shifts fought in a great deal of time in 2025 first appeared in MygolfSSS.
