50 Greatest Golfers of All Time
Majors, tour wins and weeks at number one compared.
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Majors, tour wins and weeks at number one compared.
Jack Nicklaus
18 major championships — the all-time record in golf.
18 majors
Tiger Woods
15-time major champion who transformed golf globally.
15 majors
Ben Hogan
Golf demands extraordinary technical precision, strategic course management and the mental strength to perform under the pressure of major c
9 majors
Sam Snead
Slammin' Sam — 82 PGA Tour victories including the all-time wins record, yet he never won the US Open despite finishing second four times.
7 majors
Arnold Palmer
Arnie's Army — the man who made golf television, with seven majors and an impossible personal magnetism.
7 majors · 62 tour wins
Bobby Jones
American amateur legend who completed the Grand Slam in 1930 by winning all four major championships and then retired at just 28, considered
13 majors
Gary Player
The Black Knight — one of only five players to complete the career Grand Slam.
9 majors · 163 tour wins
Walter Hagen
Flamboyant American showman nicknamed 'The Haig' whose four consecutive PGA Championship victories and 11 major titles made him the dominant
11 majors · 45 tour wins
Tom Watson
Eight major titles including five British Opens — and nearly won a sixth at age 59.
8 majors
Gene Sarazen
American golfing pioneer who invented the sand wedge and was the first player to win all four modern major championships, a showman whose sk
7 majors · 38 tour wins
Seve Ballesteros
The most charismatic champion in golf history — five majors and a creativity with a golf club never matched.
5 majors · 90 tour wins
Nick Faldo
Six majors and the finest major championship record by a European golfer in history.
6 majors · 41 tour wins
Phil Mickelson
Lefty — six majors and the most popular US Tour player, then LIV Golf's most controversial supporter.
6 majors · 45 tour wins
Rory McIlroy
Four majors and the most complete player of the post-Tiger era — finally won the Masters at 35.
5 majors · 26 tour wins
Lee Trevino
The Merry Mex — six majors and one of golf's most entertaining personalities, who taught himself to play on a pitch-and-putt course.
US Open 2x
Greg Norman
The Great White Shark — two Open Championships and the greatest collection of near-misses in major history.
2 majors · 91 tour wins
Vijay Singh
Three majors and the most dedicated practitioner in golf — Vijay Singh ended Tiger Woods' world number one reign through sheer volume of vic
34 tour wins
Ernie Els
The Big Easy — four majors across two decades and one of the most elegant swings in golf history.
US Open 1994 1997
Padraig Harrington
Irish major champion who claimed successive Open titles in 2007 and 2008 and the 2008 PGA Championship, becoming only the sixth player to wi
3 majors
José María Olazábal
Spanish champion whose exquisite touch around the greens, emotional intensity and two Masters victories made him Seve Ballesteros's spiritua
2 majors
Nick Price
Three majors in two years — Nick Price's 1992-1994 peak was the most dominant stretch in golf outside of Nicklaus and Woods.
The Open 1994
Fred Couples
American Masters champion and crowd favourite whose languid swing, effortless rhythm and undeniable ball-striking talent made him one of the
1 majors · 15 tour wins
Scottie Scheffler
World number one and back-to-back Masters champion — the most dominant golfer of the 2020s.
2 majors · 12 tour wins
Lydia Ko
The most prodigious talent in women's golf history — became the world's youngest ranked No.1 at 17, Olympic silver medallist, and a player w
Olympic Gold 2024
Inbee Park
South Korea's greatest golfer and the finest putter in women's golf history — seven major championships, Olympic gold medallist and the play
7 majors
Nelly Korda
America's dominant force in modern women's golf — Olympic gold medallist at Tokyo 2020, world No.1 and a player of exceptional consistency a
2 majors
Xander Schauffele
Olympic champion and PGA champion — the most consistent non-major winner who finally broke through.
2 majors · 6 tour wins
Justin Rose
Britain's last male Major champion — 2013 US Open winner and Olympic gold medallist at Rio 2016, who turned pro at 17 and missed his first 2
US Open 2013
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
The greatest female athlete of the first half of the 20th century — Olympic gold medallist in athletics (1932), then the dominant women's go
10 majors
Mickey Wright
The most technically gifted women's golfer in history — 82 LPGA Tour victories including 13 majors, a swing so perfect that Ben Hogan called
13 majors
Annika Sörenstam
The greatest female golfer in history — 10 majors, 72 LPGA wins and the first woman to shoot 59 in LPGA competition.
10 majors
Juli Inkster
One of the five players to achieve the career Grand Slam — seven major championships across four decades, Hall of Fame inductee and the most
7 majors
Nancy Lopez
American Hall of Famer who transformed women's professional golf with her extraordinary charisma, dazzling smile and brilliant play, winning
9 majors
Kathy Whitworth
The winningest professional golfer of all time, male or female — 88 LPGA Tour victories, the most wins by any professional golfer in the his
6 majors
Se Ri Pak
The woman who launched South Korea's golf revolution — five major championships and a 1998 US Women's Open victory that inspired an entire n
5 majors
Karrie Webb
Australian LPGA Hall of Famer whose seven major championships, 41 tour victories and total dominance of her era established her as the fines
7 majors
Pat Bradley
American Hall of Famer whose 31 LPGA Tour victories included six major championships, a remarkable career built on technical excellence and
6 majors
Brooks Koepka
Five major championships including three US Opens — the most dominant major player of the late 2010s.
5 majors
Patty Sheehan
American Hall of Famer whose consistent excellence on the LPGA Tour produced four major championships and one of the most reliable and decor
4 majors
Ray Floyd
American Masters champion and PGA Championship winner whose determination and longevity produced victories in four major championships acros
4 majors · 22 tour wins
Billy Casper
American three-time major champion whose remarkable consistency across three decades produced 51 PGA Tour victories and placed him alongside
3 majors · 51 tour wins
Payne Stewart
American two-time US Open champion renowned for his plus-fours, theatrical personality and genuine class, whose tragic death in a plane cras
3 majors · 11 tour wins
Lorena Ochoa
Latin America's greatest golfer and the most dominant women's player of the late 2000s — world No.1 for 157 consecutive weeks, two major cha
2 majors
Hale Irwin
American three-time US Open champion and the only player to win the title after the age of 45, whose extraordinary longevity and enduring ex
3 majors · 20 tour wins
Dustin Johnson
Two major champions and world number one — and the LIV Golf defection that changed the sport's landscape.
2 majors · 24 tour wins
Collin Morikawa
Two majors before 25 — the most technically precise iron player of the new generation.
2 majors · 7 tour wins
Jon Rahm
US Open and Masters champion — Spain's finest golfer since Seve Ballesteros.
2 majors · 26 tour wins
Brooke Henderson
Canadian LPGA Tour record-breaker who became her country's greatest ever golfer, winning more than 20 tour titles and multiple major champio
2 majors
Jordan Spieth
American major champion who won three of golf's four majors before the age of 24, combining an elegant putting stroke with clutch play and a
3 majors · 16 tour wins
Justin Thomas
Two-time Players Champion and PGA Championship winner — Ryder Cup talisman and Tiger's protégé.
1 majors · 15 tour wins