- Tiger Woods
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, Woods was the highest paid professional athlete in 2006, having earned an estimated $100 million from winnings and endorsements. - Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh (born 22 February, 1963) is a professional golfer who was number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. A Indo - Fijian of Hindu ancestry, he was born in Lautoka, Fiji and grew up in Nadi. His name means "Victorious Lion". He has won three major championships (The Masters in 2000 and the PGA Championship in 1998 and 2004) and was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003 and 2004. - Davis Love III
Davis Milton Love III (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer. Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. He quickly established himself on the PGA Tour, winning his first tour event in 1987. He was later to be in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for several years and reaching a high of third. - John Daly
John Patrick Daly (born April 28, 1966) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour. Daly is known primarily for his "zero to hero" victory in the 1991 PGA Championship, his driving distance off the tee (earning him the nickname "Long John"), his non-country club appearance and attitude, and his rough-and-tumble personal life. - 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, … - 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. - Chris Dimarco
Christian Dean DiMarco (born August 23, 1968) is an American golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, and has been in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings. DiMarco was born in Huntington, New York. He attended University of Florida and turned professional in 1990. He won the Canadian Tour's order of merit in 1992 and finished ninth on the second tier Nike Tour in 1993 to earn his PGA Tour card. However he was not always able to maintain his place on the PGA Tour, … - 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. - Nick Price
Nicholas Raymond Leige Price (born January 28, 1957) is a professional golfer and inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-nineties, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Rankings. - 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. - 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. - Shaun Micheel
Shaun Carl Micheel (born January 5, 1969) is an American golfer who is best known for his surprise victory in 2003 in one of golf's major championships, the PGA Championship. Stuart Scott described Micheel's approach shot on the 18th hole as "one of the illest shots in the history of golf." Micheel was born in Orlando, Florida. He attended Christian Brothers High School in Memphis and Indiana University and turned professional in 1992. - Shingo Katayama
Shingo Katayama is a Japanese golfer. Katayama was born in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture. He turned professional in 1995 and has played full time on the Japan Golf Tour since 1997. He topped the Japan Golf Tour money list four times: 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2006. As of the end of the 2006 season, he had won 22 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, ranking seventh on the career wins list and ranked fourth on the career money list with over 1 billion ¥. - 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. - Tim Clark
Timothy Henry Clark (born 17 December 1975) is a South African golfer. Clark was born in Durban, South Africa. He took up golf at the age of three and was taught to play by his father. He attended North Carolina State University in the United States, where he had a successful college golf career. During this time he won the 1997 Public Links Championship to qualify for his first PGA Tour event, which was the 1998 Masters Tournament. - Jeff Sluman
Jeffrey George "Jeff" Sluman (born September 11, 1957) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous professional golf tournaments including 6 PGA Tour victories. Sluman was born in Rochester, New York. He attended Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He turned pro in 1980, and has had career earnings in excess of 16 million dollars. Sluman has had an unusual career in terms of winning golf tournaments. - 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. - Sean O'Hair
Sean O'Hair (born July 11, 1982) is an American professional golfer. O'Hair was born in Lubbock, Texas. Unlike the vast majority of contemporary American professional golfers, O'Hair did not go to college. He turned professional in 1999 after his junior year at high school under the controversial control and direction of his father, Marc O'Hair, who sold his share of the family shutter business in Lubbock for $2.75 million to develop Sean into a touring pro. - Tommy Armour
Thomas Dickson Armour (September 24, 1894 - September 12, 1968) was a Scottish-American professional golfer. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot. (Birth year sometimes listed as 1895.) He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. During his service in the World War I he rose from a private to Staff Major in the Tank Corps. His conduct earned him an audience with George V. However, … - 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. - 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, … - Julius Boros
Julius Nicholas Boros (March 3, 1920 - May 28, 1994) was an American professional golfer. Boros was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He won 18 PGA Tour events, including three major championships: the 1952 and 1963 U.S. Opens and the 1968 PGA Championship. He was the oldest player ever to win a major championship with his 1968 PGA Championship win at the age of 48. He was a member of the Ryder Cup team in 1959, 1963, 1965 and 1967. - Heath Slocum
Tyler Heath Slocum (born February 3, 1974) is an American professional golfer and current player on the PGA Tour. Slocum wasa born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He learned the game of golf from his dad, a former Mississippi club pro who participated in the Magnolia State Classic nine times. Slocum played on the same high school golf team in Milton, Florida as fellow PGA Tour player Boo Weekley, and later attended the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. - Hal Sutton
Hal Evan Sutton (born April 28, 1958) is an American golfer and captain of the 2004 American Ryder Cup team. Sutton was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was a promising golfer at the Centenary College of Louisiana, named <i>GOLF magazine</i>'s 1980 College Player of the Year. He established himself as one of the PGA Tour's top young stars in the early 1980s, winning the PGA Championship in 1983. However, he then entered into a long drought, … - Gene Sarazen
Gene Sarazen (born Eugenio Saraceni) (February 27, 1902 - May 13, 1999) is one of only five golfers (along with Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Tiger Woods) to win all the major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam: U.S. Open in 1922, 1932, PGA Championship in 1922, 1923, 1933, British Open in 1932, and The Masters in 1935. He was born in Harrison, New York and died on Marco Island, Florida. - Raymond Floyd
Raymond "Ray" Loran Floyd (born September 4, 1942) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Floyd was born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina. He turned professional in 1961, and quickly established himself on the PGA Tour, with his first victory coming at the St. Petersburg Open Invitational in 1963. He went on to win 22 times on tour, … - Bob May
Bob May (born October 6, 1968) is an American professional golfer. May was born in Lynwood, California. He attended Oklahoma State University and was a member of the 1991 U.S. Walker Cup team before turning professional later that year. May joined the PGA Tour in 1994. He has not won on the PGA Tour, but he has finished second three times, including his epic playoff duel with Tiger Woods at the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla, … - Larry Nelson
Larry Gene Nelson (born September 10, 1947) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Larry Nelson was born in Fort Payne, Alabama and grew up in Ackworth, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta. He didn't play the game as a child - atypical for a successful professional golfer - in high school he focused on basketball and baseball. - Joey Sindelar
Joseph Paul "Joey" Sindelar (born March 30, 1958) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. Sindelar was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky while his father was serving in the Army, but has lived in New York for most of his life. He was a childhood friend and high school golf rival of fellow PGA Tour player Mike Hulbert. He attended the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and while there was a distinguished member of the school's golf team. - Mark Wiebe
Mark Wiebe (born September 13, 1957) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. Wiebe was born is Seaside, Oregon. He attended Palomar College from 1976-1977, then San Jose State University from 1978-1979, and was a member of the golf team at both institutions. - Bobby Wadkins
Robert Edwin Wadkins (born July 26, 1951) is an American golfer. Wadkins was born in Richmond, Virginia. He turned pro in 1973. He never won on the PGA Tour despite six runner-up finishes, but he did win on the European Tour and the Japan Golf Tour. Since turning fifty he has played on the Champions Tour, where he has won four times, including one senior major, the 2006 Senior Players Championship. Bobby Wadkins elder brother Lanny won 21 times on the PGA Tour, … - Lanny Wadkins
Jerry Lanston "Lanny" Wadkins, Jr. (born December 5, 1949) is an American golfer. Wadkins was born in Richmond, Virginia. He attended Wake Forest University. He won the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1970 and turned professional in 1971. His first win on the PGA Tour arrived quickly at the 1972 Sahara Invitational in Las Vegas and he was later voted 1972 PGA Rookie of the Year. Two more wins followed in 1973 before his form dipped for three years. - 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, … - Keith Fergus
Keith Carlton Fergus (born March 3, 1954) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, the Nationwide Tour and the Champions Tour. Fergus was born in Temple, Texas. He started playing golf at age 8. In high school, he played football and basketball but enjoyed practicing golf more than the other sports. He attended and was a member of the golf team at the University of Houston, … - 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. - 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, … - Mike Reid
Michael Daniel Reid (born July 1, 1954) is a golfer. Reid was born in Bainbridge, Maryland. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1976 and turned professional the same year. During his collegiate golf career, Reid was selected for All-American honors from 1973-1976. He is close friends with PGA Tour player Pat McGowan, who also played for BYU. - 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. - Brent Geiberger
Brent Andrew Geiberger (born May 22, 1968) is an American professional golfer and current player on the PGA Tour. He is a son of the the legendary golfer Al Geiberger. Geiberger was born in Santa Barbara, California. He attended Pepperdine University in Malibu, California and was a member of the golf team. He turned pro in 1993, and initially played on the Nike Tour. Geiberger has won two PGA Tour events. His first win came in 1999 at the Canon Greater Hartford Open, … - David Graham
Anthony David Graham (born 22 May 1946) is an Australian golfer. Graham was born in Windsor, Australia. He turned professional in 1962 and spent much of his career in the United States playing on the PGA Tour. In 1996 he joined the Senior PGA Tour, later known as the Champions Tour. He came from behind to secure a memorable victory over the reigning champion Hale Irwin in the Piccadilly World Match Play Championship in 1976.
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