“LIV Golf” and “Tiger Woods” have been confirmed as the most Googled golfer and golf-related term of the year, according to data provided by the search engine to Australian Golf Digest.

For Australian Google users, 15-time major winner Woods was the most searched golfer despite playing just five official tournaments in 2024.

The most popular golfers (overall), golf-related term (overall) and golf courses for its Australian search engine were compiled. To get a ranking for each, Google Trends sports “fanalyst” Annanya Raghavan listed searches according to its trends data within the search engine. “Search interest” was then analysed for subjects using a sample of all searches and then indexing the topics in relation to the top item on each list. So the top player in each category tops the list at 100 percent, and the percentages decrease from there. Raw numbers for search volume were not available.

Below are the top 10 most Googled golfers by Australian users in 2024:

1. Tiger Woods (100.0)
2. Rory McIlroy (75.4)
3. Cameron Smith (60.8)
4. Scottie Scheffler (59.4)
5. Bryson DeChambeau (33.4)
6. Adam Scott (29.9)
7. Min Woo Lee (28.4)
8. Jason Day (28.2)
9. Grayson Murray (20.8)
10. John Daly (18.1)

In April, two weeks after the Masters, LIV Golf staged the second edition of its highly successful Adelaide event. On LIV Golf overall, Smith’s Ripper GC team (Smith, Marc Leishman, Lucas Herbert, Matt Jones) won the season-long teams championship in September. Adelaide and the Rippers no doubt contributed to “liv golf” being the top golf-related phrase searched by Australian users:

1. LIV Golf (100.0)
2. us open golf (60.0)
3. golf scores (52.6)
4. drummond golf (35.0)
5. golf australia (28.7)
6. australian open golf (26.2)
7. golf box (24.1)
8. liv golf adelaide (22.0)
9. olympic golf (21.2)
10. golf clubs (19.6)

In terms of the most-searched golf courses in Australia, Perth’s popular Wembley GC topped the list:

1. Wembley Golf Course

2. Morack Public Golf

3. Emerald Lakes Golf Club

4. Oaks Cypress Lakes Resort

5. Collier Park Golf

6. Peppers Moonah Links Resort

7. Whaleback Golf Course

8. Point Walter Golf Course

9. Long Reef Golf Club

10. Grange Golf Club

In the US, Google also provided date on the most popular golfers by American users. For the first time in the 20-year history of Google Trends, Woods was not the most searched-for golfer of the year. Scottie Scheffler’s whirlwind season of seven official wins, including the Masters—and his notable arrest during the PGA Championship at Valhalla—gave him a marginal victory over Woods as the most Googled golfer of 2024, according to data provided by the search engine.