- 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.
- Greg Norman
Gregory John Norman AM (born February 10, 1955) is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's number one ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He is nicknamed "The Great White Shark", or simply, "The Shark", a reference to a shark inhabiting Australian waters as well as Norman's size and blond locks.
- Jack Nicklaus
As the administrative assistant for professional golfer and golf course designer Jack Nicklaus , Stevens had a perfect way to help. She collected and donated autographed memorabilia to the Hero Flight project from Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player .
- Phil Mickelson
Yo! I am the illest motherfucker you have ever seen! Word! I am a straight up motherfucking gangster so you had better motherfucking recognize. I also have a motherfucking interest in shooting motherfucking individuals with my rathe
- Michelle Wie
Michelle Wie (Michelle Sung Wie) was born on Wednesday, October 11, 1989 in Honolulu and is a famous golf player. She studied at Stanford University where she was not eligible for the golf team. The only award she won is the Laureaus World Newcomer of the Year from 2004.
- Ben Hogan
William Ben Hogan (August 13, 1912 - July 25, 1997) was an American golfer, and is generally considered one of the greatest golfers in the history of the game. Born within six months of two of the other acknowledged golf greats of the twentieth century, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson, Hogan is notable for his profound influence on golf swing theory and his legendary ball-striking ability, for which he remains renowned among players and aficionados.
- Ernie Els
Theodore Ernest "Ernie" Els (born October 17, 1969) is a South African golfer who has been one of the top professional players in the world since the mid-1990s. A former World No. 1, he is known as "The Big Easy", for his imposing physical stature (he stands 1.90 metres) along with his fluid, seemingly effortless golf swing.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bobby Jones
Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 - December 18, 1971), born in Atlanta, Georgia, was one of the greatest golfers to compete on a national and international level. He participated only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from competition at age 28. Jones was a child prodigy who won his first children's tournament at the age of six and made the third round of the U.S. Amateur Championship at 14.
- Jim Furyk
James Michael Furyk (born May 12, 1970) is an American professional golfer, known for consistently playing at the top level and for a visibly unconventional, looping golf swing. In September 2006 he reached a career high of second in the Official World Golf Rankings.
- Gary Player
Gary Player is a legend in his own time. The most successful international golfer of all time, Player has achieved the kind of worldwide acclaim reserved for only a handful of sporting greats. He is, quite simply, world class. Gary Player is renowned as much for his dedication to the principles of excellence as he is for his golfing accomplishments. He is recognized worldwide as an uncompromising perfectionist who settles for nothing but the best.
- Kenny Perry
James Kenneth Perry (born August 10, 1960) is an American professional golfer. Perry was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, but lived most of his formative years in Franklin, Kentucky, in Simpson County. He started high school at Franklin-Simpson High School, but transferred to Lone Oak High School in McCracken County, Kentucky, when his father's job took him to work in Paducah, Kentucky. Kenny graduated from Lone Oak High School and attended Western Kentucky University.
- Tom Watson
Thomas Sturges "Tom" Watson (born September 4, 1949) is an American golfer on the Champions Tour, who still occasionally competes in PGA Tour events. In the 1970s and 1980s he was one of the leading players in the world, winning eight major championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times. He was the number one player in the world, according to McCormack's World Golf Rankings, from 1978 through 1982, …
- Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo , winner of six Majors including three Masters Tournaments and three British Open titles, and more than 40 tournaments worldwide, is named CBS Sports' lead analyst for golf. The announcement was made today by Tony Petitti , Executive Vice President and Executive Producer, CBS Sports.
- Rocco Mediate
Rocco Mediate (born December 17 1962) is an American golfer. Mediate was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He attended Florida Southern College and turned professional in 1985. Mediate's career has been dogged by back trouble and he started using a long putter early on because of this. In 1991 he became the first player to win on the PGA Tour using a long putter when he won the Doral-Ryder Open.
- Anthony Kim
Anthony Kim (born June 19, 1985) is an American professional golfer. Kim was born in Los Angeles. He was part of the winning USA team in the 2005 Walker Cup.
- Adam Scott
Adam Derek Scott is a professional golfer and one of a crop of young Australians plying their trade on the major golf tours. To date he is one of only two golfers born in the 1980s who have made the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings, the other being Sergio García, and thus has one of the most promising careers in men's golf. On January 7 2007 he reached a career high ranking of third. Scott was born in Adelaide, Australia.
- Mike Weir
Michael Richard Weir O.Ont. (born May 12, 1970) is a professional golfer on the PGA Tour. Weir was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University (majoring in Recreation Management), and he turned pro in 1992. His first PGA Tour win came at the 1999 Air Canada Championship in Surrey, British Columbia. The victory made him the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event in Canada in 45 years.
- David Duval
David Robert Duval (born November 9, 1971) is an American professional golfer and former World No. 1 who competes on the PGA Tour.
- Justin Rose
Justin Peter Rose (born 30 July 1980) is an English professional golfer. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and moved to the United Kingdom at the age of five. Rose burst to prominence at The Open Championship in 1998. As a seventeen year old amateur he holed a dramatic shot from the fairway for birdie on the 18th to finish tied for fourth. He turned professional the following week, but initially struggled badly, missing 21 cuts in a row.
- 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.
- Byron Nelson
John Byron Nelson, Jr. was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946. He and two other well known golfers of the time, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, were born within 6 months of each other in 1912. Although he won many tournaments in the course of his relatively brief career, he is mostly remembered today for having won 11 consecutive tournaments and 18 total tournaments in 1945. He retired officially at the age of 34 to be a rancher, …
- Lorena Ochoa
Lorena Ochoa (born in Guadalajara on 15 November 1981) is a Mexican golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and is currently the number one ranked woman golfer in the world. She is regarded as the best Mexican golfer of all time. She was only the second Mexican to become a member of the world's leading women's golf tour, where she quickly became one of the the tour's top players, becoming the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world.
- Ben Curtis
Ben Curtis (born May 26, 1977) is an American golfer who was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in Ostrander, Ohio. His family runs the Mill Creek Golf Club, also in Ostrander. Curtis is a graduate of Buckeye Valley High School and Kent State University, where he was a star on the golf team.
- Retief Goosen
Retief Goosen (born February 3, 1969) is a South African professional golfer who has been in the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings for several years.
- Ian Poulter
Ian James Poulter is an English golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S. based PGA Tour and the European Tour. Born in Hitchin, Poulter's first professional win was the Open de Côte d'Ivoire on the European Tour's second tier Challenge Tour in 1999, and he won promotion to the European Tour itself via the Qualifying School later that year.
- Fred Couples
Frederick Stephen Couples (born October 3, 1959) is an American professional golfer and former World No. 1 who competes on the PGA Tour. He has won numerous events, and is most famous for winning the 1992 Masters Tournament. Because of his long drives, he has been given the nickname "Boom Boom."
- 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.
- 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, …
- Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer (born August 27, 1957) is a German professional golfer.
- 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, …
- Paula Creamer
Paula Creamer (born August 5, 1986) is an American professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour. She was named LPGA Rookie of the Year in 2005 and currently has three wins on the LPGA Tour and five total professional wins. Creamer has been ranked in the top 10 of the Women's World Golf Rankings since the rankings were introduced in February 2006.
- Lee Westwood
Lee Westwood (born 24 April 1973) is an English professional golfer.
- Natalie Gulbis
Natalie Anne Gulbis (born January 7, 1983) is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S. based LPGA Tour.
- Zach Johnson
Zach Johnson (born February 24, 1976) is an American golfer and winner of the 2007 Masters Tournament. Johnson was born in Iowa City, Iowa. He was raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and developed his golf skills at Elmcrest Country Club, and also as a member of the now defunct Catholic Regis High School golf team, both in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He played #2 on his high school team and led them to an Iowa 3A State Golf Championship in 1992.
- Dean Wilson
Dean Wilson (born December 17, 1969) is an American golfer. Wilson was born in Kaneohe, Hawaii. He turned pro in 1992 after graduating from Brigham Young University and has won six times on the Japan Golf Tour and once on the PGA Tour.
- 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.
- Nancy Lopez
Nancy Lopez (born January 6, 1957 in Torrance, California) is one of the most accomplished women in the history of professional women's golf. She won the United States Girls Junior Amateur Golf Championship in 1972 and again in 1974. In her rookie year on the LPGA Tour, she won nine tournaments, and was named Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year in the same season. This feat has not been repeated to date. Lopez was inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1987.
- Lee Trevino
Lee Buck Trevino (born December 1, 1939) is an American professional golfer. He is an icon for Mexican Americans, and is often referred to as "The Merry Mex" and "Supermex".