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Sam Snead is the oldest to win a PGA event, at age 52, in 1965. Others who have won PGA Tour events past age 50 include Jim Barnes, John Barnum, and Art Wall Jr. The list is complete as of February 2, 2025. [1] [4] (Players with the same number of wins are listed alphabetically. Players under 50 years of age are shown in bold.
This is a list of all the golfers who have won ten or more official events on the U.S.-based PGA Tour Champions (known as the Senior PGA Tour from 1980–2002 and Champions Tour from 2003–2015), the leading golf tour in the world for men aged 50 and above. The list is up to date as of February 8, 2025.
Second on the list is Tiger Woods, who has won 15 majors to date; his most recent major victory was at the 2019 Masters. [3] Walter Hagen is third with 11 majors; [4] he and Nicklaus have both won the most PGA Championships with five. [5] Nicklaus also holds the record for the most victories in the Masters, winning the tournament six times. [6]
The wins counted here include professional titles won before the tour was founded in 1950; and LPGA Tour events won as an amateur, or as an international invitee before joining the LPGA Tour. They do not include team events, unofficial events, or official wins on other professional tours, of which a few of the golfers listed, such as Laura ...
The following represents the golfers who have won at least three consecutive starts in PGA Tour events. The list relates to consecutive events that they played in; they generally missed some PGA Tour events during their streak. In some cases the players competed in and failed to win non-PGA Tour events in between these events.
Byron Nelson's record 18 victories came when most of his competitors were on military leave. [2] Ben Hogan missed half the PGA tour season while both Lloyd Mangrum and Jimmy Demaret missed virtually the entire season. [citation needed] Hogan and Demaret played in only 2 of Nelson's 11 straight tournament wins and Mangrum played in none.
From the PGA Tour to the US Open, some of the top players in the league can earn hundreds of thousands from these competitions -- and the most popular golfers can earn millions from endorsement deals.
Woods has won 82 official PGA Tour events, tied with Sam Snead also 82, and nine ahead of Jack Nicklaus's 73 wins. (See List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins.) Woods has won 15 majors, second all time behind Jack Nicklaus' 18. Woods is 14–1 when going into the final round of a major with at least a share of the lead.