2012 in golf

Years in golf

2012 in sports

This article summarizes the highlights of professional and amateur golf in the year 2012.

Men's professional golf

Major championships

World Golf Championships

FedEx Cup playoff events - see 2012 FedEx Cup Playoffs

Other leading PGA Tour events

For a complete list of PGA Tour results see 2012 PGA Tour.

Leading European Tour events

For a complete list of European Tour results see 2012 European Tour.

Team events

  • 28–30 September: Ryder Cup – Team Europe retained the Cup, 14½–13½, after having been down 10–6 to Team USA after Saturday play. This equaled the previous record for the largest final-day comeback in Ryder Cup history, when Team USA came back from the same deficit in 1999.
  • 14–16 December: Royal Trophy – Asia won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff after match with Europe ended in an 8–8 tie.

Tour leaders

Awards

Other tour results

Other happenings

  • 4 March – Rory McIlroy became number one in the Official World Golf Ranking after winning The Honda Classic.
  • 18 March – Luke Donald re-took the number one spot after winning the Transitions Championship.
  • 20 March – The PGA Tour announced changes to its season structure and qualifying to take effect in 2013. Among the changes, as announced at that time:
    • The 2013 season will be the last to be conducted completely within a calendar year. The 2014 season will begin in October 2013, shortly after The Tour Championship, and all future seasons will begin in October of the previous calendar year.
    • The 2012 PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, also known as "Q-School", will be the last to award playing privileges on the PGA Tour. Beginning in 2013, Q-School will only grant privileges on the Web.com Tour (known at the time as the Nationwide Tour).
    • Starting in 2013, PGA Tour cards for the following season will be awarded at the end of a three-tournament series featuring the top 75 money winners on the Web.com Tour and the golfers finishing between 126 and 200 on the PGA Tour money list.
  • 15 April – McIlroy returns to the number one spot in the world rankings.
  • 29 April – Donald returns to the number one spot in the world rankings.
  • 6 May – McIlroy returns to the number one spot in the world rankings.
  • 27 May – Donald returns to the number one spot in the world rankings.
  • 26 June – The PGA Tour announces further details regarding its recently announced major schedule changes. Starting in fall 2013, the tournaments in the Fall Series, which will become the season-opening events at that time, will become FedEx Cup events, with full Cup points, for the first time.
  • 28 June – The PGA Tour's developmental tour, the Nationwide Tour, was renamed mid-season as the Web.com Tour, after a new sponsorship deal was announced.
  • 10 July – The PGA Tour announces final details of its major schedule changes.
    • In a change from the original announcement in March, the money list will no longer determine which PGA Tour members retain their cards. Starting with the 2013 season, the top 125 golfers in FedEx Cup points will retain their cards.
    • The three-tournament series that will award new PGA Tour cards will be called the Web.com Tour Finals. The top 75 players on the Web.com Tour regular-season money list, plus the golfers between 126 and 200 in FedEx Cup points, will be eligible to play.
    • The top 25 on the Web.com Tour regular-season money list will receive PGA Tour cards regardless of their performance in the Web.com Tour Finals. The total money earned in the Finals will determine the remaining 25 card earners. For all 50 new card earners, their positions on the PGA Tour's priority order for purposes of tournament entry will be based on money earned in the Finals.
  • 12 August – McIlroy returns to the number one spot in the world rankings by winning the PGA Championship.
  • 5 September – The first tournament of PGA Tour Latinoamérica is played, replacing the Tour de las Américas as the primary tour in Latin America.
  • 11 September – The PGA Tour announces that for the 2013 season only, due to the transition to a wraparound season, golfers who finish in the top 125 of either the FedEx Cup points list or the season money list will retain their tour cards for the 2014 season.
  • 18 October – The PGA Tour and the Canadian Professional Golf Tour jointly announce an agreement by which the PGA Tour would take over the Canadian circuit, effective 1 November. At that time, the Canadian Tour would be officially renamed as PGA Tour Canada.
  • 18 November – Miguel Ángel Jiménez becomes the oldest golfer ever to win a European Tour event, winning the UBS Hong Kong Open at age 48 years, 318 days.

Women's professional golf

LPGA majors

Ladies European Tour major (in addition to the Women's British Open)

For a complete list of Ladies European Tour results see 2012 Ladies European Tour.

Additional LPGA Tour events

For a complete list of LPGA Tour results, see 2012 LPGA Tour.

Team events

Money list leaders

Awards

Other tour results

Other happenings

  • 29 January – Lydia Ko, a 14-year-old New Zealand amateur, won the Bing Lee Samsung Women's NSW Open on the ALPG Tour, becoming the youngest player of either ***to win a professional tour event.
  • 13 June – Brooke Henderson, a 14-year-old Canadian amateur, won the second stop on the Canadian Women's Tour, breaking Ko's previous record as the youngest person ever to win a professional tour event.
  • 26 August – Ko, now 15, won the CN Canadian Women's Open, becoming the youngest player ever to win an LPGA Tour event and the first amateur to win on that tour since JoAnne Carner in 1969.
  • 10 September – Jiyai Shin defeated Paula Creamer on the ninth hole of a sudden-death playoff, the longest between two players in LPGA history, to win the Kingsmill Championship. The playoff was suspended due to darkness after eight holes on Sunday evening, and resumed the following day.

Senior men's professional golf

Senior majors

Full results

Money list leaders

Awards

Amateur golf

Other happenings

World Golf Hall of Fame inductees

The 2012 class was inducted on 7 May:

The 2013 class was announced starting in September 2012 with induction set for May 2013:

Deaths

Table of results

This table summarizes all the results referred to above in date order.

Dates Tournament Status or tour Winner
22–26 Feb WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship World Golf Championships United States Hunter Mahan
8–11 Mar WGC-Cadillac Championship World Golf Championships England Justin Rose
29 Mar–1 Apr Kraft Nabisco Championship LPGA major South Korea Sun-Young Yoo
5–8 Apr The Masters Men's major United States Bubba Watson
10–13 May The Players Championship PGA Tour United States Matt Kuchar
22–25 May NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships U.S. college championship Alabama / Chirapat Jao-Javanil
24–27 May BMW PGA Championship European Tour England Luke Donald
24–27 May Senior PGA Championship Senior major England Roger Chapman
29 May–3 Jun NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships U.S. college championship Texas / Thomas Pieters
7–10 Jun Wegmans LPGA Championship LPGA major China Shanshan Feng
7–10 Jun Regions Tradition Senior major United States Tom Lehman
8–10 Jun Curtis Cup Amateur women's team tournament United Kingdom Great Britain & Republic of Ireland Ireland
14–17 Jun U.S. Open Men's major United States Webb Simpson
18–23 Jun The Amateur Championship Amateur men's individual tournament Northern Ireland Alan Dunbar
28 Jun–1 Jul Constellation Senior Players Championship Senior major United States Joe Daley
5–8 Jul U.S. Women's Open LPGA major South Korea Na Yeon Choi
12–15 Jul U.S. Senior Open Senior major England Roger Chapman
19–22 Jul The Open Championship Men's major South Africa Ernie Els
26–29 Jul Evian Masters Ladies European Tour major and
LPGA Tour regular event
South Korea Inbee Park
26–29 Jul The Senior Open Championship Senior major United States Fred Couples
2–5 Aug WGC-Bridgestone Invitational World Golf Championships United States Keegan Bradley
6–12 Aug U.S. Women's Amateur Amateur women's individual tournament New Zealand Lydia Ko
9–12 Aug PGA Championship Men's major Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy
13–19 Aug U.S. Amateur Amateur men's individual tournament United States Steven Fox
23–26 Aug The Barclays PGA Tour FedEx Cup playoff United States Nick Watney
31 Aug–3 Sep Deutsche Bank Championship PGA Tour FedEx Cup playoff Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy
6–9 Sep BMW Championship PGA Tour FedEx Cup playoff Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy
13–16 Sep Ricoh Women's British Open LPGA and Ladies European Tour major South Korea Jiyai Shin
20–23 Sep The Tour Championship PGA Tour FedEx Cup playoff United States Brandt Snedeker
28–30 Sep Ryder Cup Europe v United States
men's professional team event
Europe Team Europe
27–30 Sep Espirito Santo Trophy Women's amateur team event  South Korea
4–7 Oct Eisenhower Trophy Men's amateur team event  United States
1–4 Nov WGC-HSBC Champions World Golf Championships England Ian Poulter
1–4 Nov Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship Amateur men's individual tournament China Guan Tianlang
15–18 Nov CME Group Titleholders LPGA Tour South Korea Na Yeon Choi
22–25 Nov DP World Tour Championship, Dubai European Tour Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy
14–16 Dec Royal Trophy Europe v Asia
men's professional team event
Asia

The following biennial events will next be played in 2013: Solheim Cup, Walker Cup, Presidents Cup, Seve Trophy, World Cup.


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