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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.
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).
Author or co-authored several books, including Tom Watson's Strategic Golf. His latest, The Timeless Swing, was released by Atria books in March 2011. Has written a golf instruction column in Golf Digest magazine since the mid-1970s. Was ranked as the 10th greatest golfer of all time in the 2000 Golf Digest magazine list. [48]
During this time, he won 13 of golf's major championships. The next decade of Woods's career was marked by comebacks from personal problems and injuries. He took a self-imposed hiatus from professional golf from December 2009 to early April 2010 in an attempt to resolve marital issues with his wife at the time, Elin.
Note 1: In the first column, each number signifies the first time that golfer was ranked number one. Note 2: In the "Cumulative total" column, each boldface number signifies total weeks as of the most recent time that golfer was ranked number one. Bernhard Langer was the first golfer to be ranked world No. 1.
Gary James Player DMS OIG (born 1 November 1935) is a South African retired professional golfer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time. [1] During his career, Player won nine major championships on the regular tour and nine major championships on the Champions Tour .
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 ...
James William Walker (born January 16, 1979) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. After playing in 187 events without a win on the PGA Tour, Walker won three times in the first eight events of the 2014 season. He is a six-time winner on the PGA Tour and in 2016 won his first major title at the PGA Championship.