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A golfer is a person who plays golf.Below is a list of male golfers, professional and amateurs, sorted alphabetically. Category:Lists of golfers contains lists of golfers sorted in several other ways: by nationality, by tour and by type of major championship won (men's, women's or senior).
Bernhard Langer was the first golfer to be ranked world No. 1. Greg Norman spent the most weeks atop of the world rankings in both the 1980s and 1990s. Nick Faldo is one of only three players to have held the world No. 1 ranking for an entire calendar year, doing so in 1993. Vijay Singh was the only golfer other than Woods to be ranked world No ...
Tiger Woods has won 15 majors. Walter Hagen won 11 majors. Ben Hogan won nine majors. Gary Player won nine majors. Tom Watson won eight majors. Bobby Jones won four U.S. Opens and three Open Championships, for a total of seven majors. Arnold Palmer won seven majors. Gene Sarazen won seven majors.
Greg Norman was in the top 10 for 646 consecutive weeks from the start of the rankings in 1986 until 16 August 1998. Sergio García is the youngest player to reach the top 10, a week after his 20th birthday. Before the start of the OWGR in 1986, world golf rankings were published in Mark McCormack's World of Professional Golf Annual from 1968 ...
List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins. This is a list of the fifty-three golfers who have won 17 or more official (or later deemed historically significant) money events on the PGA Tour. [ 1][ 2] It is led by Sam Snead and Tiger Woods with 82 each. Many players won important events early in the 20th century, prior to the formation of the tour ...
Players are listed here in order of their first win. For much of the modern era the four major championships have been played chronologically in the order listed, but this has not always been the case, and starting in 2019 the PGA Championship was rescheduled as the second major of the year. In 2020, a year dramatica
Golfers who have played in major team competitions. List of American Ryder Cup golfers. List of European Ryder Cup golfers. List of American Presidents Cup golfers. List of International Presidents Cup golfers. List of American Solheim Cup golfers. List of European Solheim Cup golfers. List of American Walker Cup golfers.
The top prizes are not actually the largest in golf, being surpassed by The Players Championship, three of the four World Golf Championships events (the HSBC Champions, promoted to WGC status in 2009, has a top prize comparable to that of the majors), and some other invitational events. However, winning a major boosts a player's career far more ...