- Sam Snead
Samuel Jackson "Sam" Snead (May 27, 1912 - May 23, 2002) was an American golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of 4 decades. He and two others of the greatest golfers of all time, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, were born within 6 months of each other in 1912. He won a record 82 PGA Tour events and about 70 others worldwide. He won seven majors: three Masters, three PGA Championships and one British Open. - Walter Hagen
Walter Charles Hagen (December 21, 1892 - October 6, 1969) was a major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Rochester, New York, United States. His tally of eleven majors is 3rd behind Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus. He won the U.S. Open twice and in 1922 he became the first American to win the British Open, which he went on to win four times in total. He also won the PGA Championship five times (1921, 24-27), the Western Open five times, … - Jim Barnes
James Martin Barnes (April 8, 1886 - May 24, 1966) was a leading figure in the early years of professional golf in the United States. He was born in Lelant, Cornwall, England. Like many golfers of his era, Barnes worked as a caddie and a club-maker's apprentice while growing up. He moved to the United States in 1906 and became a U.S. citizen soon afterwards. From 1923-1926 Barnes was resident professional at the Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club, Temple Terrace, Fl., … - Tony Jacklin
Tony Jacklin (born July 7, 1944) is an English golfer, who was the most successful UK player of his generation. He was also the most successful European Ryder Cup captain ever. He was born in Scunthorpe, England. Jacklin won two majors. In 1969, he became the first British player to win The Open Championship for 18 years. The following season he won the U.S. Open. It was the first victory by a British player in that tournament since 1920, and as of 2007, … - Payne Stewart
William Payne Stewart (January 30, 1957 - October 25, 1999), was an American golfer who won three majors in his career, the last of which occurred only months before he died in an airplane accident at the age of 42. Stewart was born in Springfield, Missouri, and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He was always popular with fans, especially for his clothing, … - Hubert Green
Hubert Myatt Green (born December 28,1946) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous professional golf tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Green was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Florida State University in 1968 with a degree in marketing and turned pro in 1969. Green is among the top 33 all-time PGA Tour Winners with 19 victories during his 26 years on the PGA Tour. - Doug Ford
Douglas M. Ford, Sr. born Fortunato (born June 8, 1922) is a two-time major golf champion. He was born in West Haven, Connecticut. He turned professional in 1949 and won for the first time in 1952. His first major was the 1955 PGA Championship. The tournament was still match play at that time, and Ford defeated Cary Middlecoff in the final. Ford was that season's PGA Player of the Year. - Corey Pavin
Corey Allen Pavin (born November 16, 1959) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour. Pavin was born in Oxnard, California. He attended UCLA and turned professional in 1982. He quickly established himself in the sport, with three international victories in 1983, and his first PGA Tour victory at the 1984 Houston Coca-Cola Open. He won at least one event on either the PGA Tour or the international tour nearly every year for the next decade, … - Justin Leonard
Justin Leonard (born June 15, 1972) is an American professional golfer. Leonard was born in Dallas, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and was the individual NCAA champion in 1994. He won the Haskins Award in 1994 as the most outstanding collegiate golfer. As a professional he made his name by winning the 1997 British Open, one of golf's four majors. He has ten career wins on the PGA Tour. - Geoff Ogilvy
Geoff Ogilvy (born June 11 1977) is an Australian golfer who now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, in the United States. Ogilvy was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He turned professional in May of 1998 and he won a European Tour card at that year's Qualifying school. He played on the European Tour in 1999 and 2000, finishing 65th in his first season and improving to 48th in his second. He joined the U.S. based PGA Tour in 2001, … - Peter Thomson
Peter William Thomson (born August 23, 1929) is an Australian golfer. He is best remembered for his five wins in The Open Championship. He was born in Melbourne. Thomson's Open Championship wins came in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1965. He was the only man to win the tournament for three consecutive years in the 20th century. Thomson was a prolific tournament champion around the world, winning the national championships of ten countries, … - Pádraig Harrington
Pádraig Harrington is an Irish professional golfer and former No. 6 in the world rankings who has won eleven tournaments on the European Tour and two on the PGA Tour. Harrington was born in Ballyroan, Dublin, Ireland. After a successful amateur career, including winning the Walker Cup with the Great Britain & Ireland team in 1995, Harrington turned professional later that year, joining the European Tour in 1996. His first victory came quickly, in the 1996 Spanish Open, … - Paul Azinger
Paul William Azinger (born January 6, 1960) is an American golfer who was at his peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Azinger was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He attended Florida State University and turned professional in 1981. He finished one shot behind the winner Nick Faldo in the 1987 Open Championship. He won eleven tournaments on the PGA Tour in seven seasons from 1987 to 1993, climaxing in his one major title, the 1993 PGA Championship. - Dave Stockton
David Knapp Stockton (born November 2, 1941) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. Stockton was born in San Bernardino, California. He attended University of Southern California and turned professional in 1964. His first PGA Tour win came at the 1967 Colonial National Invitation. His career year was 1974, when he won three times, but his two majors, both of which were PGA Championships, … - Tony Lema
Anthony David "Tony" Lema (February 25, 1934 - July 24, 1966) was an American professional golfer. Lema was born in Oakland, California to parents of Portuguese ancestry. His father died when Tony was three years old, and his widowed mother struggled to raise the family of four children on welfare. He began playing golf as a boy, but at age 17 enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in Korea. After his discharge from the military in 1955, … - Steve Jones
Steve Jones (born December 27, 1958) is an American professional golfer who is best known for winning the U.S. Open in 1996. Jones was born in Artesia, New Mexico. He was a semi-finalist at the U.S. Junior Amateur in 1976. He attended the University of Colorado and turned professional in 1981. In the early years of his professional career he did not have much success. He played the PGA Tour in 1982, but only made three cuts. - Bob Tway
Bob Tway (born May 4, 1959) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments including 8 PGA Tour victories. Tway was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was introduced to golf at the age of 5 by his father and grandfather. He participated in his first tournament at age 7. Prior to moving to Oklahoma Tway won the Redding Country Club Championship as a junior. Tway attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma and turned pro in 1981. - Scott Simpson
Scott William Simpson (born September 17, 1955) is an American golfer. Simpson was born in San Diego, California. He attended the University of Southern California, where he was two-time medalist at the NCAA Championship (1976, 1977). He turned professional in 1977 and graduated in 1978. He played on the PGA Tour from 1979, and won seven PGA Tour events between 1980 and 1998. The highlight of Simpson's career was his victory at the 1987 U.S. Open Championship, … - Steve Elkington
Steve John Elkington (born December 8, 1962) is an Australian golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He was born in Inverell, Australia and grew up in Wagga Wagga. Elkington has won 10 events on the PGA Tour, most prestigiously the 1995 PGA Championship at the Riviera Country Club, which is his only major and the 1991 and 1997 Players Championships. - Larry Mize
Larry Mize (born September 23, 1958) is an American golfer. Despite a creditable career on the PGA Tour he is mainly known for just one shot - the chip from off the green at #11 - which secured his only major title, the 1987 Masters. - Bob Rosburg
Bob "Rossie" Rosburg (born October 21, 1926) is an American professional golfer who later became a sports commentator for ABC television. Rosburg was born in San Francisco, California. He was an outstanding baseball player at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California during the 1940s, and almost chose baseball as a career over golf. He graduated from Stanford in 1949, and turned pro in 1953. - Rich Beem
Rich Beem (born August 24, 1970) is an American golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Beem was born in Phoenix, Arizona, grew up in El Paso, Texas, and played golf at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He turned professional in 1994. His early career was largely unassuming, and even broken up by a spell in Seattle selling car stereos and cell phones to make ends meet. This changed in 1999 when Beem won the Kemper Open as an unheralded rookie. - John Mahaffey
John Drayton Mahaffey Jr. (born May 9, 1948) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments including 10 PGA Tour events. Mahaffey was born in Kerrville, Texas. He attended the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. He turned pro in 1971 after graduating in 1970 with a degree in psychology. Mahaffey came close to winning his first major in 1975. He lost the U.S. Open to Lou Graham in a playoff at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois. - Mark Brooks
Mark Brooks (born March 25, 1961) is an American golfer. Brooks was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and turned professional in 1984. He has seven wins on the PGA Tour, including one major, the 1996 PGA Championship. He was a member of the U.S. Presidents Cup team in 1996. - George Archer
George William Archer was an American golfer who won twelve events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship. Archer was born in San Francisco, California. He grew to 6 feet 5½ inches (1.97 m) tall, and as a boy he dreamed of a basketball career, but he took up golf at high school after working as a caddy at his local club. He turned professional in 1964 and claimed the first of 12 victories on the PGA Tour at the Lucky International Open the following year. - Bobby Nichols
Robert "Bobby" Nichols (born April 14, 1936) is an American professional golfer, best known for winning the 1964 PGA Championship. Nichols was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended St. Xavier High School in Louisville and later Texas A&M University. While in high school, Nichols and several other youths were involved in an automobile accident resulting from a 100 mile-per-hour joy ride. He suffered serious injuries including a broken pelvis, concussion, … - Wayne Grady
Wayne Grady (born 26 July 1957) is an Australian golfer. Grady was born in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1978. He is best known for winning the PGA Championship, one of golf's four majors, in 1990. He was also runner up at The Open Championship in 1989, losing in a playoff against Greg Norman and Mark Calchaveccia. Grady first gained membership of U.S. based PGA Tour at the 1984 Qualifying School, and he spent most of his career playing predominantly in America. - Colin Montgomerie
Colin Stuart Montgomerie, OBE (born June 23, 1963) is a Scottish professional golfer often referred to by his nickname 'Monty'. He has had one of the finest careers in European Tour history, having won a record eight Order of Merit titles including a streak of seven consecutively from 1993 to 1999. - Gil Morgan
Gilmer Bryan Morgan II, OD (born September 25 1946) is an American professional golfer. Morgan was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma. He graduated from East Central State College in Ada, Oklahoma in 1968. In 1972, Gil earned a Doctor of Optometry from the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee before turning professional later that year. He is a member of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity. - Dai Rees
Dai Rees (March 31, 1913 - September 10, 1983) was one of the Britain's leading golfers either side of World War II. Born in Fontygary, Wales, Rees is best remembered as the captain of the Great Britain team which defeated the United States to win the Ryder Cup at Lindrick Golf Club in Yorkshire, England in 1957. The score was a decisive 7.5-4.5. This was the only defeat which the U.S. suffered in the competition between 1933 and 1985, … - Doug Sanders
Doug Sanders (born July 24, 1933) is an American professional golfer, who won 20 PGA Tour tournaments during his career. He was born in Cedartown, Georgia and currently resides in Houston, Texas. He is remembered for an exceptionally short, flat golf swing - a consequence, it appears, of a painful neck condition that radically restricted his movements. He had 13 top-10 finishes in major championships, including four second place finishes: 1959 PGA Championship, … - Isao Aoki
is one of Japan's most successful golfers. He was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2004. Aoki was born in Abiko, Chiba, Japan. He was introduced to golf while caddying at the Abiko Golf Club as a schoolboy. He turn professional in 1964. He went on to win more than fifty events on the Japan Golf Tour between 1972 and 1990, trailing only Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki on the golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins list. He won the Japan Golf Tour money list five times in six years: 1976, 1978, … - Bruce Lietzke
Bruce Alan Lietzke (born July 18, 1951) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Lietzke was born in Kansas City. He moved to Beaumont, Texas with his parents in 1960 and lived there until 1977, graduating from Forest Park High School in 1969. He credits his older brother, Duane, for introducing him to the game of golf at age 5. He also credits Henry Homberg, a local Beaumont professional, … - Steve Stricker
Steven Charles Stricker (born February 13 1967) is an American professional golfer. Stricker was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin. A 1990 graduate of the University of Illinois, Stricker turned professional in 1990 and has won three times on the PGA Tour. His most successful season on tour came in 1996, when Stricker notched two victories (Kemper Open, Motorola Western Open) and seven top ten finishes on his way to finishing fourth on the 1996 PGA Tour money list. - Hank Kuehne
Henry August "Hank" Kuehne II (born September 11, 1975) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour. Kuehne was born in Dallas, Texas. His father started him playing golf at a young age. He has a sister (Kelli) who plays on the LPGA Tour, and a brother (Trip) who finished second to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur and remains an amateur. Kuehne began his college career at Oklahoma State University, … - Bobby Cruickshank
Robert Allan Cruickshank (November 16, 1894 - August 27, 1975) was a prominent Scottish golfer on the PGA circuit from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s. He was born in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland and first rose to prominence in reaching the semi-finals of the 1922 and 1923 PGA Championship, losing both times to eventual champion Gene Sarazen. Also was runner-up in the 1923 and 1932 U.S. Open, and won 17 tour events in his career. - Doug Tewell
Douglas Fred Tewell (born August 27, 1949) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level, including two senior major championships. Tewell was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He got started in the game by working as a caddie for his father in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He attended Oklahoma State University in his hometown on a basketball scholarship his freshman year, but later switched to golf. - Robert Gamez
Robert Gamez (born July 21, 1968) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. Gamez was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended and was a member of the golf team at the University of Arizona. He played on the 1989 Walker Cup Team and turned pro later that same year. Gamez has had what can be described as a hot and cold career as a professional golfer. He started out hot winning two tournaments in his rookie season on the Tour. - MacDonald Smith
Macdonald Smith (March 18, 1892 - August 31, 1949) (first name also given as MacDonald, birth year also given as 1890) was a member of a famous Scottish golfing family. He was born in Carnoustie, Scotland and died in Glendale, California. Two of his brothers won the U.S. Open; Willie in 1899 and Alex in both 1906 and 1910. Brothers George and Jim also played golf. He lost a playoff in the 1910 U.S. Open to brother Alex and John McDermott. - Nick Dougherty
Nick Dougherty is an English golfer. He is a protégé of Nick Faldo and had an exceptional amateur career with numerous tournament wins including the 1999 World Boys Championship and three in Faldo Junior Series events. He was a member of the victorious Great Britain and Ireland 2001 Walker Cup team. Dougherty turned professional in 2001 and gained membership of the European Tour via the 2001 Qualifying School. He won the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award for 2002.
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