Men's major championship winning golfers
| Rank | Golfer | Winning span | Masters | The Open |
| 1 | Jack Nicklaus * | 1962–1986 | 6 | 3 |
| 2 | Tiger Woods * | 1997–2019 | 5 | 3 |
| 3 | Walter Hagen | 1914–1929 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Ben Hogan * | 1946–1953 | 2 | 1 |
How many golfers have won the Masters back-to-back?
And that short list of golfers who've won at Augusta National in consecutive years does not include Arnold Palmer , Gary Player , Sam Snead , or Ben Hogan . These are the only three back-to-back winners in Masters history:
Who has won all 4 majors in golf?
Five men: Nicklaus, Woods, Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen are the only golfers to have won all four of the majors during their career, thus achieving the career grand slam .
Who are the best golfers to finish third in the PGA Tour?
1 Gene Sarazen: Won in 1935, third in 1936 2 Sam Snead: Won in 1949, third in 1950 3 Sam Snead: Won in 1954, third in 1955 4 Cary Middlecoff: Won in 1955, third in 1956 5 Arnold Palmer: Won in 1958, third in 1959 6 Jack Nicklaus: Won in 1972, third in 1973 7 Jack Nicklaus: Won in 1975, third in 1976 8 Tiger Woods: Won in 2005, third in 2006
Who is back-to-back Masters winners Nick Faldo&Tiger Woods?
Brent Kelley is an award-winning sports journalist and golf expert with over 30 years in print and online journalism. Back-To-Back Masters Winners Nick Faldo (Right) & Tiger Woods (Left) Pictured Together. Winning The Masters in back-to-back years is a rarer feat than making double eagle during the major.
Who has won back-to-back golf majors?
Brooks Koepka, who won the event in back-to-back years (2017 and 2018) could tie Woods and Irwin with a win. Anderson also holds the record for the most consecutive wins with three in a row from 1903-05.
Has anyone won back-to-back PGA Tour events?
Gene Sarazen, Miami Open: The Miami Open was played from 1924 through 1955, and Sarazen's four wins happened consecutively. He won it in 1926, 1928, 1929 and 1930.
Has anyone won major three times in a row?
3 Consecutive Wins in the Same Major Jamie Anderson and the following golfer on our list, Bob Ferguson, each won the Open three times in a row — and they did it back-to-back. After Anderson's three-peat, he didn't enter in 1880. He died in a poorhouse in the early 1900s.
How many golfers have won 2 or more majors?
Only 20 golfers have won two (or more) of the men's majors in the same year. Several of those have done it more than once, however, so the feat has been accomplished a total of 32 times.
Who holds the record for most consecutive PGA Tour wins?
Byron NelsonCONSECUTIVE PGA TOUR WINSPlayerYear(s)No. Of WinsByron Nelson194511Tiger Woods2006-20077Ben Hogan19486Tiger Woods1999-20006
How many players have won back-to-back majors?
It's damn hard to win consecutive majors in the same year; only 13 golfers have done it, combining for 19 consecutive majors in 299 opportunities, a success rate of 6.4 percent.
Has anyone won all 4 majors in the same year?
Bobby Jones, who won the pre-Masters era Career Grand Slam in 1930, is the only golfer to win four majors in the same year.
Has anyone won all 4 Grand Slams a year?
Only five players in history have won all four Grand Slams in the same year, and the last to do it was Steffi Graf in 1988. The only men to achieve the feat are Don Budge (in 1938) and Rod Laver (in 1962 and 1969). The pressure on Djokovic at the US Open when he tries to complete the set for the year will be immense.
Has anyone won 2 Masters in a row?
Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, and Tiger Woods co-hold the record for most consecutive victories with two. Woods was the youngest winner of the Masters, 21 years 104 days old when he won in 1997.
How many golfers won 3 majors?
Second on the list is Tiger Woods, who has won 15 majors to date; his most recent major victory was at the 2019 Masters. Walter Hagen is third with 11 majors; he and Nicklaus have both won the most PGA Championships with five....By golfer.GolferGary Player*Winning span1959–1978Masters3U.S. Open1The Open350 more columns
How many times did Phil Mickelson finished second in a major?
This alone would have raised his career to another level. Mickelson has finished second place in the US Open a record five times. He has 13 finishes of second or third in majors. He won his first PGA Tour even as a 20-year-old amateur but could not capture his first major until he was 33.
Who has won U.S. Open and Masters in the same year?
Here are the other five golfers to win the Masters and US Open in the same year: Tiger Woods -- 2002 (US Open at Bethpage Black, N.Y.) Jack Nicklaus -- 1972 (Pebble Beach Golf Links, Calif.) Arnold Palmer -- 1960 (Cherry Hills Golf Club, Colo.)
Who has won 7 majors?
Bobby Jones, who won four U.S. Opens and three Open Championships, won a total of 7 majors. Arnold Palmer, who won 7 majors during his career. Gene Sarazen, who won 7 majors during his career. Sam Snead, who won 7 majors during his career.
How many major golf championships has Jack Nicklaus won?
Jack Nicklaus has won 18 men's major golf championships, more than any other man.
What are the majors in golf?
The men's major golf championships, also known simply as the majors, are the four most prestigious events in professional golf. The competitions are the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship, contested annually.
Is the Amateur Championship a major?
Although the U.S. Amateur and The Amateur Championship were once considered to be majors, they are no longer recognized as such, and victories in these competitions are not included in the list.
Is the Masters a grand slam?
Should the same golfer win all four majors in a single calendar year, this would be recognized as a grand slam. No one has ever achieved this.
How many back to back Masters winners are there?
These are the only three back-to-back winners in Masters history:
Who was the second golfer to win a Masters title?
Nick Faldo. The second golfer to win consecutive Masters titles was Nick Faldo. 1989 Masters: Faldo first earned the Green Jacket with a sudden-death playoff win over Scott Hoch. Hoch should have won it, but missed a 2-foot putt. 1990 Masters: Faldo made back-to-back wins with back-to-back playoffs.
When did Faldo win the Masters?
Faldo won a third Masters crown in 1996.
When was the first Masters?
The Masters was first played in 1934 , but it took until 1965-66 before Jack Nicklaus became the tournament's first back-to-back winner. 1965 Masters: Nicklaus set a 72-hole tournament scoring record of 271 and beat runners-up Arnold Palmer and Gary Player by a whopping nine shots.
When did Palmer get Player back?
Palmer got Player back in 1962, though, beating the South African in a playoff to deny Player a second consecutive Masters win. Finished 3rd Year After Winning. Gene Sarazen: Won in 1935, third in 1936. Sam Snead: Won in 1949, third in 1950. Sam Snead: Won in 1954, third in 1955.
Who helped Faldo and Woods win the Masters?
But the chairman of Augusta National helped Faldo and Woods into their jackets when they won their second in a row. No golfer has ever won The Masters three years in a row, so we'll also tell you what happened when these three back-to-back champs tried for consecutive win No. 3. 02. of 05.
Who did Faldo beat in the 1990 Masters?
1990 Masters: Faldo made back-to-back wins with back-to-back playoffs. This time, Faldo beat Raymond Floyd in the playoff.
Who said golfers had to be judged by the major tournaments they won?
I think it was Herbert Warren Wind who starting using the term. He said golfers had to be judged by the major tournaments they won, but it's not like there was any set number of major tournaments."
What is the name of the golf tournament that is played at the same course every year?
The Masters Tournament (sometimes referred to as the U.S. Masters), the season's first major championship, is the only major that is played at the same course every year ( Augusta National Golf Club ), being the invitational tournament of that club.
What channel is the PGA Championship on?
Beginning in 1966, ABC obtained the broadcast rights for the other three majors and held them for a quarter century. The PGA Championship moved to CBS in 1991 and the U.S. Open returned to NBC in 1995. ABC retained The Open Championship as its sole major, but moved its live coverage on the weekend to sister cable network ESPN in 2010. In June 2015, it was announced that NBC and Golf Channel would acquire rights to the Open Championship under a 12-year deal. While the NBC deal was originally to take effect in 2017, ESPN chose to opt out of its final year of Open rights, so the NBC contract took effect beginning in 2016 instead.
What are the majors in golf?
The majors originally consisted of two British tournaments, The Open Championship and The Amateur Championship, and two American tournaments, the U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur. With the introduction of the Masters Tournament in 1934, and the rise of professional golf in the late 1940s and 1950s, the term "major championships" eventually came to describe the Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship, and the PGA Championship. It is difficult to determine when the definition changed to include the current four tournaments, although many trace it to Arnold Palmer's 1960 season. After winning the Masters and the U.S. Open to start the season, he remarked that if he could win the Open Championship and PGA Championship to finish the season, he would complete "a grand slam of his own" to rival Bobby Jones 's 1930 feat. Until that time, many U.S. players such as Byron Nelson also considered the Western Open and the North and South Open as two of golf's "majors," and the British PGA Matchplay Championship was as important to British and Commonwealth professionals as the PGA Championship was to Americans.
How long is the PGA Tour exemption?
Currently, both the PGA Tour and European Tour give a five-year exemption to all major winners. Independent organizations, and not the PGA Tour, operate each of the majors; The Players Championship is the tour's most important event. Three of the four majors take place in the United States.
How many major championships did Jack Nicklaus win?
Men's major golf championships. Jack Nicklaus won a record 18 major championships. The men's major golf championships, commonly known as the major championships, and often referred to simply as the majors, are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in professional golf. In order of play date as of 2019, they are:
Why is each major different?
Because each major was developed and is run by a different organization, each has characteristics that sets it apart. These involve the character of the courses used, the composition of the field, and other idiosyncrasies.
Gene Sarazen, 1922
He wasn’t yet The Squire. Just an unsung Pennsylvania club pro. That changed at the ’22 U.S. Open, where Sarazen mounted a final-round charge to overtake a 20-year-old amateur named Bobby Jones. Later that same season, on familiar turf, Sarazen backed up his big win with another: the PGA Championship at Oakmont.
Bobby Jones, 1930
Four years later, in 1934, Jones would host the first annual invitational at a little club he co-founded in Augusta, Ga. But in 1930, he was busy making history of a different kind. It started when he captured the British Amateur, which he followed with a W at the British Open. Two up, two down, but Jones wasn’t done. Next came the U.S.
Arnold Palmer, 1960
In the years since Bobby Jones’s run of dominance, the term “Grand Slam” had been all but dead and buried. Palmer gave the golf world reason to dust it off. First, he won the Masters, with a birdie on 18 to best Ken Venturi, and then the U.S. Open, at Cherry Hills, coming back from seven down with a vintage Arnie charge.
Ben Hogan, 1951
The year that gets most mention is 1950, when Hogan returned from the wreckage of a car crash to claim the U.S. Open. But his showing in ’51 wasn’t shabby either. Entering the Masters with a history of close calls, the Ice Mon sealed the deal by chasing down Skee Riegel and Sam Snead. For good measure, he also nabbed the ’51 U.S.
Jack Nicklaus, 1980
To amass 18 career majors, it helps to capture them in bunches. Nicklaus did just that, notching two per season in ’63, ’66, ’72 and ’75. By 1979, though, it seemed the Golden Bear had slipped into hibernation; for the first time in his professional career, he slumbered through a year without a victory. Which made 1980 all the more inspiring.
Tiger Woods, 2000
At the peak of Tiger’s powers, the question wasn’t so much whether he would win—it was how large the margin of victory would be. At the U.S. Open, it was 15 shots; at the British Open, it was eight. An out-of-body Sunday from Bob May kept the PGA Championship from being a laugher, but Tiger still emerged with a win.
Overview
Distinctive characteristics of majors
Because each major was developed and is run by a different organization, each has characteristics that sets it apart. These involve the character of the courses used, the composition of the field, and other idiosyncrasies.
• The Masters Tournament (sometimes referred to as the U.S. Masters), the season's first major championship, is the only major that is played at the same course every year (Augusta National …
History
The majors originally consisted of two British tournaments, The Open Championship and The Amateur Championship, and two American tournaments, the U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur. With the introduction of the Masters Tournament in 1934, and the rise of professional golf in the late 1940s and 1950s, the term "major championships" eventually came to describe the Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship, and the PGA Championship. It is difficult to determine when …
Importance
Alongside the biennial Ryder Cup team competition, the majors are golf's most important events. Elite players from all over the world participate in them, and the reputations of the greatest players in golf history are largely based on the number and variety of major championship victories they accumulate. The top prizes are not actually the largest in golf, being surpassed by The Players Championship, three of the four World Golf Championships events (the HSBC Champions, promot…
Television coverage
In the United Kingdom, historically all four majors were broadcast on free to air TV. ITV has not broadcast live golf for many years. The BBC used to be the exclusive TV home of the Masters Tournament, U.S. Open and the Open Championship. By the early years of the first decade of the 21st century, only the Masters and Open Championship were broadcast live on the BBC. From 2011 onwards Sky Sports has exclusive live coverage of the first two days of the Masters, with th…
Records
The aggregate scoring records for each major are tabulated below, listed in order of when the majors are scheduled annually.
The scoring records to par for each major are tabulated below, listed in order of when the majors are scheduled annually.
Major championships have been won by a margin of nine strokes or greater on eight occasions. …
See also
• Chronological list of men's major golf champions
• List of men's major championships winning golfers
• Triple Crown of Golf
• Women's major golf championships
External links
• Coverage of the four majors by the PGA of America
• Listing of golf major championship courses, winners and countries