Major champion season and the PGA Tour’s regular season are both in the rearview mirror with only the FedEx Cup Playoffs and the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black remaining on playing schedules for the remainder of the calendar year. While more than 30 weeks and 30 tournaments have transpired since the flip of the calendar back in January, the same man remains atop the golf world at No. 1 in the Power 18 golf rankings.
While there may have been some doubt across the first four months of the season, Scottie Scheffler ensured that the 2025 campaign belonged to him following his victory at The Open in Northern Ireland. Raising his second major trophy of the year and the fourth of his career, the world No. 1 grabbed his fourth victory of 2025 and put together one of his most well-rounded performances en route to becoming the Champion Golfer of the Year.
Scheffler surged past many of his counterparts in more ways than one including the local lad, Rory McIlroy, with whom he was tied for most wins on the season with three. McIlroy has slowly but surely marched out of the valley he was experiencing ever since capturing the career grand slam at the Masters. A couple of quality outings at the Scottish Open and The Open have the five-time major champion behind Scheffler in the penultimate rankings of the 2025 season as others jostle for positioning down the board.
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.