The first three months of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf seasons were filled with stars returning from injuries, emerging from the pack and establishing some semblance of dominance. While trophies were raised and losses were digested, none of that matters much with the first major championship of the season right around the corner.
The 2025 Masters will mark the first time this year that players from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf travel to the same confines as Augusta National Golf Club once again serves as the backdrop for a meeting of players from leagues still negotiating to potentially merge operations.
It will also serve — for the 11th straight year — as the place where Rory McIlroy will chase golf immortality. The four-time major champion finds himself with among his best opportunities to complete the career grand slam. While no one has accomplished the feat this late into his career, McIlroy has made the most of his early season schedule picking up two wins along the way and closing the gap between himself and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler.
While McIlroy may not top this latest update to the Power 18, a win at Augusta National would surely do the trick. Until that happens, it is Scheffler who continues to wear the crown (and the green jacket, for that matter) atop an evolving table that has seen major champions swap spots and new names enter the fold.
Masters champion Trevor Immelman discusses prospects of Scottie Scheffler repeat, Rory McIlroy breakthrough
Patrick McDonald
The Power 18 provides insight as to how golfers are currently performing with benefit given to their play over recent events. It is a wider lens than simply what happened at the last tournament to be played but more narrow than the Official World Golf Rankings, which take into account how more than 2,000 golfers perform across an entire season.
The Power 18
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