Vacation Watch: When Will The World’s Best Golfers Return To Action?

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Alex Noren

To paraphrase Chance the Rapper, as a golf writer does, “blessings keep falling in Alex Noren’s lap.” Less than two years ago, the Swede was on the periphery of the game ranked No. 654 in the world and with back issues, all at the age of 32, no less.

Something clicked since then and thanks to a scorching second half of 2016, he has a newfound freedom to fully select his schedule. For this, predicting where he will go next might be tougher than the more established players on this list.

He didn’t use a heavy schedule (22 events in 2016) to make his ascent and could keep it light. Last year the European Tour member started at the popular spot of Abu Dhabi. He didn’t come to the States until the US Open in 2016, but he’ll be eligible for all of the WGCs and shouldn’t have trouble getting exemptions if he wishes to play more on the PGA Tour.