Although he averaged 290.2 yards off the tee – 6.4 yards longer than driving distance leader Davis Love III – in the 17 events and 51 rounds he played that year, Daly’s name is not included among the official stats leaders.
It’s been quite a year in golf. A dramatic one, if nothing else. And like any good drama, the stage was set with different characters, hitting their lines, playing their parts in moving the story along. So, now, with that analogy not tortured enough, let’s dive into to the key plot points of the year, and what they meant at the time.
Louis Oosthuizen has a little more waiting to do before he’ll know for certain if he ends the year in the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking—and likely secure a spot in the field at the Masters next April. And he has a bogey on the final hole of the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa to thank/blame for it.
When John Key stunned everyone by stepping down as New Zealand Prime Minister in 2016, we (kinda) jokingly speculated he was doing it to play more golf.
Over the nearly half-century that it went by the European Tour rather than the DP World Tour it has become, the Old World circuit’s relationship with the Ryder Cup has undergone a dramatic about-face.
These aren’t conventional “stats,” because 2022, while eventful, was also hardly conventional. To recap the madness of this year, we needed to go looking for our own data and uncover some numbers with nuance.
Stephenson’s wild career, full of controversies and victories, is one of golf’s forgotten stories – but one that shouldn’t be overlooked in the LPGA Tour’s history.
As part of Golf Digest’s“Every Hole At” series featuring the world’s best courses, we enlisted Bill Coore to narrate this special tour around one of golf’s most anticipated new course openings.
When the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour make welcome returns next week after being on hold since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so too will the Official World Golf Ranking.
Australian Golf Digest
