Maverick McNealy

30-Year-Old Golfer

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2025 Stats

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$8,322,575

Winnings/Entry

$332,903

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2026 Fantasy Outlook

After closing 2024 with his first PGA Tour win at the RSM Classic, McNealy used that as a springboard to a strong 2025 campaign. The Stanford product did pretty much everything but win last season, racking up five top-5 finishes. McNealy was one of the biggest Ryder Cup snubs, and his elite putting is something the U.S. Team certainly needed at Bethpage. He also had one of the best ball striking seasons of his career. The only hole you could really poke in McNealy was in the short game department, which is ironic considering he ranked 10th on Tour in SG: Around-the-Green in 2024. If McNealy can take his iron play from 2025 and get back to that kind of short game play, he could be in for an even better season in 2026. A big focus for McNealy has to be his play in the majors, as he has yet to finish better than T23 in 12 career starts. Read Past Outlooks

Handedness Right

Status Pro

Height 6'1"

Weight 165 lbs

DOB 11/7/1995

Birthplace Stanford, California

College Stanford

Country USA

Score trends down at THE PLAYERS

March 16, 2026

McNealy finished in a 10-way tie for 32nd at THE PLAYERS Championship after posting a two-under cumulative score.

ANALYSIS
McNealy was near the top of the leaderboard after a five-under 67 opening round, but he proceeded to score 71-73-75 over the next three days. He ranked T15 in the field in SG: Putting but was average or below across most other statistical categories, including T51 in bogeys made, 54th in SG: Approach and 68th in driving accuracy. McNealy has finished T29 or worse in three of his last four tournament outings, including a missed cut at The Genesis Invitational. He won't participate in the Valspar Championship next week.

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McNealy was slowly working his way up the PGA Tour ladder over his first three years on tour, going from 68th in the final standings to 32nd by the end of 2022, but 2023 was definitely a set back when he landed in spot 130 at year's end. He bounced back in 2024, however, racking up six top-10s and 12 top-25s, including his long-awaited first PGA Tour victory at the RSM Classic. The knock on McNealy was always that he was unable to land the high-end finishes, but after finally seeing that he can break through and win at the highest level, there is certainly optimism that the 29-year-old can build on that in 2025 and have a big season.

McNealy successfully returned from a shoulder injury sustained during the RBC Canadian Open and made one cut over the following two tournaments, but it's unclear if the shoulder will be an ongoing issue for the 28-year-old Tour veteran. McNealy has yet to card a win on Tour, although he's come excrutiatingly close, with a second-place finish at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am the best example. Historically, McNealy struggles from the tee but he ended his 2023 season ranking first in Putting and second in One-putt percentage. Both metrics are huge feathers in McNealy's cap, but continued work with the driver is needed. He ended the season ranked 188th in SG:Off-the-Tee.

McNealy entered the PGA Tour as a rookie during the 2019-2020 and played well right out of the gate. He didn't make the splash that other rookies around that time made however, which is why he's often overlooked when discussions of the best young players come up. While he's not in that conversation yet, the 26-year-old could get there soon if he continues to show improvements across the board. McNealy posted career highs in cuts made, top-10s and earnings this past season and there's reason to think he can improve on all of those categories this year as well.

McNealy was boom-or-bust early in the season, as he missed 10 of his first 18 cuts, but when he did make the weekend he finished top-25 in all but two of them. Once the summer arrived, however, McNealy started to play a lot more consistent and pile up top-25 results. Putting and short game are his biggest areas of strength. If he can be a more consistent iron player, he has the potential to really boom in 2021-22.

McNealy is only 24 and showed some real progress, making 17 of 23 cuts with six top-25s, three of which doubled as top-10s. He could see a jump this season.

McNealy made his PGA Tour debut as a bright-eyed 18-year-old back in 2014 when he qualified for the U.S. Open, and despite making 16 additional appearances since that point, he'll still be eligible for the Rookie of the Year award quest throughout the 2019-20 campaign after earning full status via the Korn Ferry Tour's Regular Season Points List. The former Stanford standout, who won the 2015 Haskins Award as the nation's top collegiate golfer, notched top-3 finishes at the LECOM Suncoast Classic and Ellie Mae Classic on the KFT in 2019. He also ranked sixth or better among his peers in both putting and birdie average. Well known for his family's fortune off the course, McNealy should be taking golf notes from girlfriend Danielle Kang of LPGA fame.

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Tied for 13th at API

March 8, 2026

McNealy carded a two-under 70 during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational to finish in a share of 13th.