GEN Z MEET THE MAJOR WINNERS OF THE NEXT DECADE
Generation Z are the children of the digital age, loosely defined as those kids born between 1997 and 2012.
The oldest members of this generation have grown up with a phone in their hand and social media at their fingertips. Their lives have been dominated to this point in time by big global matters from the war on terror, to climate change and, this year, a worldwide pandemic.
In the golf world, Generation Z-ers represent the next wave of professional golfers and the players destined to win most of the 40 majors to be played over the next decade.
By 2030, many of the players, men and women, we idolise today will be approaching, or will be well into, the twilight of their playing careers.
Of the current men’s World Top-10, Dustin Johnson will be 46, Rory McIlroy, 41, Webb Simpson, 45, Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed, 40, and Adam Scott will have reached 50. Then, of course, there is Tiger Woods, who will be 55 at the close of the decade and, perhaps, his playing days long behind him.
The average age of men’s major champions in the modern era is 32, so the likes of current 20-somethings including Bryson DeChambeau, 26, Xander Schauffele, 26, Jon Rahm, 25, Patrick Cantlay, 28, and Hideki Matsuyama, 28, all have plenty of
