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PGA Championship. The PGA Championship (often referred to as the US PGA Championship or USPGA outside the United States [1][2][3]) is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers' Association of America. It is one of the four men's major golf championships. It was formerly played in mid-August on the third weekend before ...
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
The World Golf Championships (WGC) were a group of annual professional golf tournaments played from 1999 through 2023 created by the International Federation of PGA Tours as a means of gathering the best players in the world together more frequently than the pre-existing four major championships. All WGC tournaments are official money events on ...
Gallery. Jack Nicklaus won a record 18 majors. 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.
This is the record under par score in all major championships. [4] The PGA Championship has had three wire-to-wire champions: Bobby Nichols in 1964, Raymond Floyd in 1982, and Hal Sutton in 1983. [5] Four others have led wire-to-wire if ties after a round are counted: Floyd in 1969, Nick Price in 1994, Woods in 2000 and Mickelson in 2005.
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 July 16, 2023. [1] (Players with the same number of wins are listed alphabetically. Players under 50 years of age are shown in bold.
The PGA Grand Slam of Golf was the world's most exclusive golf tournament. It was an annual off-season golf tournament contested by the year's winners of the four major championships of regular men's golf, which are the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship (British Open), and the PGA Championship.
Frederick Funk (born June 14, 1956) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He previously played on the PGA Tour, where he was an eight-time winner. Funk's signature win came at The Players Championship in 2005 when he prevailed in a four-way playoff.