The PGA Tour and LIV Golf seasons have come to an end, through plenty more golf remains on the horizon through the end of 2025. The DP World Tour will go through a fun stretch in the spotlight with the Irish Open and its flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship, held the next two weeks before the Ryder Cup takes center stage at Bethpage Black to conclude September.
During this lead-up to the biennial international event, the PGA Tour will return from its two-week offseason hiatus with FedEx Cup Fall kicking off at the Procore Championship, which will welcoms a field that currently consists of 11 of the 12 U.S. Ryder Cup players. Xander Schauffele is the lone omission, but that could change in due time.
Despite college football kicking off and Week 1 of the NFL season getting underway, there is still plenty of golf to take in. And whenever golf is being played, the best player walking on the surface of this planet to swing those clubs is still Scottie Scheffler.
Although the world No. 1 did not win the FedEx Cup crown for the second straight season as he hoped, he did accomplish a number of other feats in his 2025 campaign. The season-long race ultimately went in favor of Tommy Fleetwood, who was a model of consistency; the equivalent title went to Jon Rahm for the second straight campaign on LIV Golf.
Were those three players indeed the most consistent in 2025? What about those who summited peaks few have ever climbed? This balance of even-keel steady play versus reaching the highest highs is what makes this balancing act of The Power 18 all the more intriguing.
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.