The major championship slate is wiped clean as the calendar flips to the new year and players eye four opportunities to claim golf immortality in 2025. The 2024 major championship results were rather predictable with Scottie Scheffler securing his second green jacket in the last three years and Bryson DeChambeau raising another U.

For the second time in two weeks, The American Express golf tournament in La Quinta has lost one of the top players in the world from its field. Xander Schauffele, the No. 2 player in the world and a winner of two major championships last year,

Xander Schauffele, the world's number two ranked player, surprisingly withdrew from The American Express on Monday.

Xander Schauffele has withdrawn from the 2025 American Express, the PGA Tour announced Monday. The world No. 2 joins world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler in removing his name from the field list, though unlike with Scheffler, no reason was given for Schauffele's departure from the event held annually in Palm Springs, California.