The boys’s main season is over for 2024, with consideration now turning to a busy finish of {the golfing} 12 months and loads of thrilling occasions nonetheless to sit up for on Sky Sports activities Golf.
Xander Schauffle claimed victory at The Open after an exciting week at Royal Troon, following on from his main breakthrough earlier this 12 months on the PGA Championship, whereas Scottie Scheffler gained The Masters in April and Bryson DeChambeau secured the US Open for a second time.
We must wait one other 9 months for Rory McIlroy’s newest probability to finish a profession Grand Slam at The Masters, after taking his main drought into an eleventh 12 months, with the Northern Irishman now wanting a powerful finish to the season on each the PGA Tour and DP World Tour.
Consideration will flip subsequent to the Olympics in Paris, the place Scheffler and McIlroy are among the many favourites within the males’s version at Le Golf Nationwide and Nelly Korda chases gold for Workforce USA within the ladies’s event, earlier than tons extra golf to return over the remainder of the marketing campaign.
Listed here are among the occasions and storylines that can imply you possibly can’t swap off from golf over the approaching months…
Who can take pleasure in main glory at St Andrews?
The enduring Outdated Course at St Andrews will stage the celebrated Girls’s Open for a 3rd time subsequent month, stay on Sky Sports activities Golf from August 22-25, with Lilia Vu aiming to defend her title after a dominant win at Walton Heath final 12 months.
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Highlights from the ultimate spherical of the AIG Girls’s Open at Walton Heath as Lilia Vu claimed her second main title of the season
Korda will goal a second main victory of the season and Charley Hull can be seeking to turn out to be the primary British main champion within the ladies’s recreation since Georgia Corridor in 2018, whereas the occasion has added significance within the battle to qualify for the Solheim Cup.
The ultimate ladies’s main of the 12 months can also be the ultimate qualifying occasion to mechanically earn a spot in both group, with captains Suzann Pettersen and Stacy Lewis then saying their captain’s picks within the days main after the occasion.
Will Scheffler safe FedExCup glory?
Scheffler holds a commanding lead on the prime of the FedExCup standings as he seems to cap off a outstanding 2024 in fashion, with the world No 1’s closest problem prone to come from Schauffele and McIlroy – chasing a historic fourth title.
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Scottie Scheffler claimed his twelfth skilled win with victory on the 2024 Vacationers Championship – check out his greatest pictures from all his event wins
Solely the highest 70 within the FedExCup rating after the common season qualify for the FedEx St Jude Championship at TPC Southwind (August 15-18), with simply 50 gamers then progressing to the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields Nation Membership the next week.
The ultimate will get whittled all the way down to 30 for the season-ending Tour Championship, stay from August 29-September 1 on Sky Sports activities Golf, the place the format rewards the highest-ranked gamers within the standings with a strokes-based benefit. The winner of the Tour Championship wins the FedExCup, which comes with a whopping $25 million prize.
Can Europe make extra Solheim Cup historical past?
The USA holds a 10-8 document over Europe within the Solheim Cup however they have not gained since 2017, shedding back-to-back editions in 2019 and 2021 earlier than final 12 months’s contest in Spain led to a dramatic tie.
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The very best of the motion from day three of the Solheim Cup at Finca Cortesin in Spain
The Solheim Cup is being performed in successive years as a consequence of keep away from clashing with the Ryder Cup, with Pettersen retaining the European captaincy and seeking to information the holders to a second successive win on American soil.
Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership in Virginia hosts the occasion from September 13-15, stay on Sky Sports activities, the place Europe will probably have loads of final 12 months’s group at their disposal as they face a powerful American group. The final three contests have been extraordinarily shut and count on the 2024 version to be no completely different!
Might the Worldwide Workforce make a Presidents Cup shock?
The USA are aiming for a tenth consecutive Presidents Cup win, having dominated the biennial contest, however the Worldwide Workforce can be concentrating on a high-profile upset by claiming a shock victory in Montreal this September.
Workforce USA’s line-up might give us some clues on who might function for Keegan Bradley’s Ryder Cup group subsequent 12 months at Bethpage Black, whereas the Worldwide Workforce can take indicators of encouragement from among the current performances within the occasion.
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Highlights from day 4 of The Presidents Cup, held on the Quail Hole Membership in Charlotte, North Carolina
The 2015 occasion noticed the Worldwide Workforce overwhelmed by a single level in Korea and a final-day comeback was required in Australia in 2019 for Workforce USA to win, with Tiger Woods as captain, with loads of positives proven in a 17.5-12.5 loss at Quail Hole in 2022. Might a primary Worldwide Workforce win since 1998 be a chance?
Is McIlroy set for extra Race to Dubai success?
McIlroy is a five-time winner of the Race to Dubai and is in prime place to prime the DP World Tour order of benefit as soon as once more, having gained earlier within the 12 months on the Hero Dubai Desert Basic and in addition completed runner-up on the US Open.
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Rory McIlroy admits he bought over final month’s US Open disappointment ‘fairly rapidly’ and says he appreciates the assist he is been given since
He’ll function again in Europe on the Amgen Irish Open and the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth this September, each a part of the new-look “Back 9” schedule on the DP World Tour, with McIlroy additionally scheduled to tee it up on the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and DP World Tour Championship this November.
The brand new season-ending double header within the Center East will see 70 gamers function in Abu Dhabi and 50 in Dubai, whereas McIlroy being topped Race to Dubai champion would transfer him to inside two Order of Deserves of Colin Montgomerie’s all-time complete.
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