Winners and losers: PGA Tour, Hideki Matsuyama shine bright with West Coast swing in the books

A look back at the last seven tournaments and a wild start to the golf season

The PGA Tour's West Coast swing, which feels like it just started, is already over. Joaquin Niemann's two-stroke win over Collin Morikawa and Cameron Young at Riviera Country Club put a bow on the nearly-two month run for the Tour in Hawaii, California and Arizona.

We learned a lot from the seven-tournament stretch, and now it's time to declare some winners and some losers from this snapshot in time. This is not a commentary on anybody's career or even their 2022 season as a whole (much can change quickly in golf) but rather how things have kicked off to start the year and where they may go from here.