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The following is a list of golfers who have been top of the Official World Golf Ranking (originally known as the Sony Ranking), since the rankings started on April 6, 1986. As of December 22, 2024, Scottie Scheffler is the number one ranked golfer.
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).
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List of American Walker Cup golfers; List of Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup golfers; List of golfers with most Korn Ferry Tour wins; List of male golfers who have been in the world top 10; List of world number one male golfers
This is a list of golfers who have appeared in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR). The rankings started on 6 April 1986 and are updated each week. 120 golfers have reached the top 10. Tiger Woods holds the record for the most weeks in the world top 10, with 906.
Men's major championship winning golfers Rank Country Golfer Winning span Masters U.S. Open The Open PGA Total 1 United States: Jack Nicklaus * 1962–1986 6 4 3 5 18 2 United States: Tiger Woods * 1997–2019 5 3 3 4 15 3 United States: Walter Hagen: 1914–1929 0 2 4 5 11 4 United States: Ben Hogan * 1946–1953 2 4 1 2 9 4 South Africa: Gary ...
The initiative for the creation of the Official World Golf Ranking came from the Championship Committee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, which found in the 1980s that its system of issuing invitations to The Open Championship on a tour by tour basis was omitting an increasing number of top players because more of them were dividing their time between tours, and from preeminent ...
Since 1975, only four players have won PGA Tour events after their 50th birthday, the age at which golfers become eligible to compete on PGA Tour Champions: Craig Stadler won in 2003 at age 50, Fred Funk won in 2007 at age 50, Davis Love III won in 2015 at age 51, and Phil Mickelson won the PGA Championship in 2021 at age 50, becoming the ...