2025 Results - Barracuda & The Open

Ryan Gerard, playing in his sixth tournament in a row, broke through for his first victory on the PGA Tour at the Barracuda. The win will get him into next year’s PGA but, because it’s an alternate event to the The Open and not a full points-earning event, not the Masters. Still, he’s definitely trending the right direction.

Gerard was picked on 7 teams. Of those, 3 had only him either entered or making the cut, so his was the only money those teams earned. Three more teams paired him with Max McGreevy, and tied for the second place finish in our competition. So close. But 2 Dozen Win paired Gerard with McGreevy and two others to comfortably win the week and the $150 prize.

Across the pond, Scottie Scheffler absolutely suffocated the field at The Open. He’s playing golf like Tiger used to, where everyone else seems to be playing for 2nd place. It truly is some really good golf. That said, I personally really hope one of these other guys can elevate to challenge him at that level more consistently - don’t want Scottie to play worse, but it’s hard for me to stay interested in watching it when the answer is already known before anyone tees off. That’s probably just me though.

Obviously, Scottie was a popular pick this year, on 189 of the 252 teams, so the winners came down to the others picked. Vandy II paired Scottie with Fitzpatrick, Rory and the Hojgaard twins (and Thriston Lawrence) to come close, but was just beaten out by Lugnuts, who had Scottie, Wyndham Clark (hopefully he didn’t smash any lockers at Portrush!), Rory, Xander and Bryson to take the victory. Lugnuts will take home the last $300 pot of the 2025 Major season and moves up from 41st to 34th place in the overall standings, while Vandy II will take home $100 and stays at 3rd place in the overall rankings.

On the overall leaderboard, there has been a switch at the top, as Honsie Gilmore finally overtook Purdue Pete, and now leads by ~$164k.

The Tour doesn’t stop yet, and marches into Minnesota for the 3M Open this week. Just FOUR more events remain in the 2025 FGT season.