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This article summarizes the highlights of professional and amateur golf in the year 2012. ==Men's professional golf== Major championships *5–8 April: The Masters – American Bubba Watson defeated South African Louis Oosthuizen on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff to earn his first major championship. *14–17 June: U.S. Open – American Webb Simpson won by one stroke over Graeme McDowell and Michael Thompson. *19–22 July: The Open Championship – South African Ernie Els won his fourth major by one stroke over Australian Adam Scott. *9–12 August: PGA Championship – Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy won his second major, at the age of 23. His eight-shot win over England's David Lynn was the largest victory margin in the championship's stroke-play era. McIlroy also returned to number 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking. World Golf Championships *22–26 February: WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship – American Hunter Mahan won his second WGC tournament, beating Rory McIlroy 2&1. McIlroy would have risen to number 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking if he had won. *8–11 March WGC-Cadillac Championship – England's Justin Rose won his first WGC tournament by one stroke over American Bubba Watson. *2–5 August: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational – American Keegan Bradley won by one stroke over compatriots Jim Furyk and Steve Stricker. *1–4 November: WGC-HSBC Champions – England's Ian Poulter won his second career WGC by two strokes over four others. FedEx Cup playoff events - see 2012 FedEx Cup Playoffs *23–26 August: The Barclays – American Nick Watney won by three shots over countryman Brandt Snedeker. *31 August – 3 September: Deutsche Bank Championship – Rory McIlroy won by one shot over Louis Oosthuizen. *6–9 September: BMW Championship – McIlroy won by two shots over Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood. *20–23 September: Tour Championship – American Brandt Snedeker won the tournament (and the FedEx Cup) by three shots over Justin Rose. Other leading PGA Tour events *10–13 May: The Players Championship – American Matt Kuchar won by two strokes over four others. ''For a complete list of PGA Tour results see 2012 PGA Tour.'' Leading European Tour events *24–27 May: BMW PGA Championship – Englishman Luke Donald won for the second straight year and again became the World Ranking Number 1. *22–25 November: DP World Tour Championship, Dubai – World #1 Rory McIlroy won his 5th European Tour title by two strokes, tying the tournament record of –23 set by Lee Westwood in 2009. ''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 *PGA Tour – Rory McIlroy (US$8,047,952) * * This total does not include FedEx Cup bonuses. *European Tour – Rory McIlroy (€5,519,118)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=McIlroy wins the Race to Dubai )〕 * * This total includes the US$1.0 million (€781,091) bonus for winning the Race to Dubai. *Japan Golf Tour – Hiroyuki Fujita (¥175,159,972) *Asian Tour – Thaworn Wiratchant (US$738,047) *PGA Tour of Australasia – Peter Senior (A$268,292) *Sunshine Tour – Branden Grace (R2,760,319) *OneAsia Tour – Bi-o Kim (US$380,745) *Tour de las Américas – Marco Ruiz (26,884 points) *PGA Tour Latinoamérica – Ariel Cañete (US$91,396) Awards *PGA Tour * *FedEx Cup – Brandt Snedeker won the FedEx Cup after winning the Tour Championship. * *PGA Player of the Year – Rory McIlroy〔 * *Player of the Year (Jack Nicklaus Trophy) – Rory McIlroy * *Leading money winner (Arnold Palmer Award) – Rory McIlroy〔 (US$8,047,952) * *Vardon Trophy – Rory McIlroy * *Byron Nelson Award – Rory McIlroy * *Rookie of the Year – John Huh * *Comeback Player of the Year – None * *Payne Stewart Award – Steve Stricker *European Tour * *Golfer of the Year – Rory McIlroy * *Rookie of the Year – Ricardo Santos *Web.com Tour * *Player of the Year – Casey Wittenberg Other tour results * 2012 Asian Tour * 2012 PGA Tour of Australasia * 2012 Canadian Tour * 2012 Challenge Tour * 2012 Japan Golf Tour * 2012 Web.com Tour * 2012 OneAsia Tour * 2012 Sunshine Tour * 2012 Tour de las Américas * 2012 PGA Tour Latinoamérica 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 the 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 . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2012 in golf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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