It’s March?! Already? What! The PGA Tour’s West Coast Swing has come and gone with historic venues and historic victories checked off the 2026 calendar. Action has moved to the East Coast, where the state of Florida takes center stage with a certain tournament at the beginning of April already on the periphery.
In February, however, some surprise winners finally emerged. Collin Morikawa broke his winless drought at perhaps the most iconic venue on the PGA Tour: Pebble Beach. Jacob Bridgeman followed him up at Riviera the very next week and became the first first-time winner on the PGA Tour this season.
Amidst all this, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy persisted. The top two players on the PGA Tour did everything but win as McIlroy fell one shy of Bridgeman at the Genesis Invitational and Scheffler continued his slow starts out of the blocks, only to surge his way back to the first pages of leaderboards.
Elsewhere, another league’s top two players also fell short as Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau were billed to have a two-man bout down in Australia, only to be upended by … checks notes … Anthony Kim?! You got that right, Anthony Kim. The two two-time major champions shared a five-stroke lead heading into the final round before getting topped by the firecracker that is Kim Down Under.
This shook the golf world given Kim’s story, and it certainly shook up this edition of the Power 18 golf rankings, where a new No. 2 has emerged to challenge Scheffler’s reign atop the standings.
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.