The 2024 golfing year was marked by both significant achievements and concerning trends. While American golfers dominated the men's majors, and Nelly Korda reigned supreme on the women's tour, the sport grappled with political instability and a growing influence of greed.
How should we gauge the golfing year in 2024? Politically, turbulence continued with little sign of resolution, while executives came and went with unusual regularity. Americans swept the men's majors, bringing more heartbreak for Rory McIlroy, while Nelly Korda dominated a women's tour that lost some of its biggest names. Great Britain and Ireland were brilliant winners of the Curtis Cup, but the US finally caved in to player pressure for Ryder Cup team members to receive payment.
In a sense, those two headlines summed up the game; there was still room for heartwarming romance despite much of the elite end being swept along a largely unchecked river of greed. There were some truly great performances yielding significant highs but there were also some worrying and tragic lows. Let's embark on a round to represent 2024 with, in no particular order, 18 of the key memories from the year.to set the tone for the year. So many of the greats have triumphed at Sawgrass, but no-one had won the title in consecutive years, until Wyndham Clark lipped out on the last to hand victory to Scheffler last March.with victory at the Masters. Scheffler eased home by four shots from Sweden's Ludvig Aberg, who was second on his major debut, with Eng;and's Tommy Fleetwood tied third. Scheffler, meanwhile, won the Heritage a week later in a period of stunning, dominant golf. In Tiger Woods fashion of yesteryear, no-one came close to challenging his position as top dog all year long.While Scheffler set the standards in the men's game, Nelly Korda did similar on the women's circuit. Korda beat Lydia Ko at the Drive On Championship in late January to signal a run of five consecutive wins, culminating in the 26-year-old'sKorda was the first to win five in a row since Annika Sorenstam in 2004/5. She would go on to be the first player since Yani Tseng in 2011 to win seven tournaments in an LPGA Tour season.at Lancaster Country Club in Pennsylvani
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