There is something wonderfully ridiculous about golf.
A guy can win six times, win two majors, dominate the statistical universe and still watch somebody else walk away with the trophy that supposedly says he was the best player of the year.
That was Scottie Scheffler’s 2025.
And Tommy Fleetwood’s.
Fleetwood won the tournament that mattered most at East Lake, shooting 18-under and beating Patrick Cantlay and Russell Henley by three shots. It was his first PGA Tour victory — in his 164th start — and it came with the FedEx Cup and a $10 million payday.
Good for Tommy. Great for Tommy, actually.
But let’s not pretend the 2025 PGA Tour season belonged to anybody other than Scheffler.
Scheffler won six times. Six. He won the PGA Championship. He won The Open Championship. He finished the year as the Tour’s money leader and Player of the Year.
Fleetwood, meanwhile, spent most of the season building one of the strangest résumés in professional golf: absurdly consistent, painfully close and somehow still winless on the PGA Tour.
Then East Lake finally gave him his moment.
The PGA Tour also changed the rules, eliminating the starting-strokes system and putting all 30 players at even par. That meant Fleetwood didn’t inherit a head start. Scheffler didn’t have to defend one, either. Everybody got the same tee box and the same scorecard.
Fleetwood simply played the best golf on the week.
And that’s the point.
The FedEx Cup says Fleetwood was the season’s champion. East Lake says he earned it.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. This was super fun. It also felt a bit like Joey Logano’s NASCAR Championship last year. Logano played the format to perfection and got hot at the right time, just as Fleetwood did Sunday.
But if you’re asking who owned 2025?
Come on.
Scottie Scheffler did.
Fleetwood won the finale. Scheffler won the year.
And somehow, both statements can be true.
A fun and eventful year in golf on the PGA Tour comes to a thrilling close.
Goodnight from East Lake.
