Golf is a game that has been played since the Middle Ages. It has developed a lot in the last few years. The game became internationally popular in the late 19th century. There have been many talented golfers in the history of golf. Below is a list of some of the greatest golfers of all time in the world.
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods is considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time. He has won 15 major titles and has many other achievements. His dominance of the sport in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as well as his extraordinary comebacks after a series of personal and professional setbacks in the middle of the decade, earned him worldwide recognition.
Arnold Palmer
American professional golfer Arnold Daniel Palmer, who played from 10 September 1929 to 25 September 2016, is widely regarded as one of the best and most charismatic players in the history of the game. He has won multiple championships since 1955 on both the PGA Tour and the current PGA Tour Champions Circuit. Palmer, nicknamed “The King”, was one of golf’s best-known personalities and is considered the first sports personality, a pioneer of the television era of the 1950s.
Among his peers, Palmer had the greatest social influence on the game of golf. His humble beginnings and simple appeal helped change the perception of golf from an exclusive, upper-class activity played in private clubs to a more accessible, middle-class sport played on public courses. “The Big Three” of golf in the 1960s were Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player; He is credited with making the sport globally famous and attractive.
Jack Nicklaus
Known as the Golden Bear, Nicklaus won 73 career victories, including 18 major golf championships. Nicklaus is the first player to win prize money of up to $2 million, and at age 46, he is the oldest player to win the Masters. He has five US Open titles, which he won from 1963 to 1980. At the end of his career, he wrote several books, created a company for the manufacture of golf equipment. He was one of the first players to enter the Hall of Fame in 1974. And he is considered the greatest golfer of all time.
Gary Player
Gary Player won “only” 24 times on the PGA Tour, but that was because he played tours around the world in addition to the PGA Tour. He was actually the first golf superstar to tour the world. And nine of those 24 wins were big. (However, Player’s record in PGA Tour playoffs was a surprisingly poor 3–10.) He won over 100 tournaments in other parts of the world.
Ben Hogan
Even a near-death car accident doesn’t stop the “hardest working” golfer. Mr. Hogan spent a lot of time practicing and developing a golf swing that can be seen in golf lessons to this day. In 1953, one of his best achievements was the “Hogan Slam” where he won all 3 major championships in a single calendar year. The only other golfer to achieve this feat is Tiger Woods. This goes to show that golf does not require any natural talent to be good at the game. All it takes is dedication and a consistent effort of proper golf practice for the results to show up.
Bobby Jones
No one shone brighter than Bobby Jones in the golden age of the sport. Not Babe Ruth, not Red Grange, not Jack Dempsey. From 1923–30, a nation accepting the Games on a truly epic scale watched in amazement as Jones won it all. Then, with no worlds to win, he retired from competitive golf at age 28. No sporting legend has achieved more in less time, and no sporting legend has retired from golf so young.
A golf prodigy at age 14, Jones really didn’t find his game until the ripe old age of 20, when he began his remarkable run. He took the 1923 U.S. Open in an 18-hole playoff, then ripped off another 12 majors before calling it a career. His record of 13 major championships would stand for 40 years, before a youngster named Nicklaus came along.
Sam Snead
Sam Snead still leads the PGA Tour in wins with 82. One of his biggest professional regrets is that the U.S. Had to finish second in the Open four times, not first. However, he won six majors, 14 Champions Tour events, and 165 worldwide titles overall.
Walter Hagen
One of the greatest players of the first half of the 20th century, Hagen won 11 major championships in his career. A native of New York, Hagen became a national hero when he won the British Open title for the first time in American history and went on to win four more Open titles. At the end of his career, only one Masters title was missing from his CV.
Tom Watson
With five wins at the British Open, Tom Watson is arguably the greatest links golfer of all time. But he was great in every way, surpassing Nicklaus in the late 1970s and winning several one-on-one battles with Bier, most famously at the 1977 British Open. Watson has 39 PGA Tour victories, including eight major tournaments.
Byron Nelson
For a few months in 1945, Byron Nelson played better than anyone. That year, Lord Byron won 11 consecutive tournaments, including the PGA Championship. When you consider that Payne Stewart has won 11 tournaments in his career and is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, you get a sense of the magnitude of that achievement.
More than a fifth of Nelson’s 52 career victories came courtesy of the streak. And lest we dismiss the achievement on the grounds of low competitiveness, remember that Sam Snead was nearing his peak and a young Ben Hogan was making a name for himself. For an incredible spring and summer, Lord Byron invented and patented The Zone. During the year, Nelson won an astonishing 18 events and was named AP Athlete of the Year. During his career, he was the leading gentleman of the game.
