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As of the 2024 season, 233 golfers have won one of men's professional golf's four major championships – the modern accepted definition of the majors has only existed since the 1960s but wins in these tournaments have been retrospectively recognized by all the major sanctioning organizations.
Jack Nicklaus has won the most majors, achieving 18 victories during his career. [2] Second on the list is Tiger Woods, who has won 15 majors to date; his most recent major victory was at the 2019 Masters. [3] Walter Hagen is third with 11 majors; [4] he and Nicklaus have both won the most PGA Championships with five. [5]
Major championship winners receive the maximum possible allocation of 100 points from the Official World Golf Ranking, which is endorsed by all of the main tours, and major championship prize money is official on the three richest regular (i.e. under-50) golf tours, the PGA Tour, European Tour and Japan Golf Tour.
The Grand Slam in professional golf is winning all of golf's major championships in the same calendar year. The only player who has accomplished a similar feat is Bobby Jones in 1930, winning the four major tournaments of that era open to amateurs: the British Amateur, the British Open, the United States Open, and the United States Amateur. [1]
Others who have won PGA Tour events past age 50 include Jim Barnes, John Barnum, and Art Wall Jr. The list is complete as of February 2, 2025. [1] [4] (Players with the same number of wins are listed alphabetically. Players under 50 years of age are shown in bold. Members of the World Golf Hall of Fame are indicated by H.)
Golfers who have won one of the four men's major golf championships, as designated in the modern era, which are the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship. Through the 2024 PGA Championship, there are 233 of them.
List of men's major championships winning golfers. Chronological list of men's major golf champions; List of LPGA major championship winning golfers. Chronological list of LPGA major golf champions; List of Champions Tour major championship winning golfers; List of Olympic medalists in golf
Jason Day holds the record for most strokes under par for 72 holes, 20, when he won the 2015 PGA Championship. This is the record under par score in all major championships. [4] The PGA Championship has had three wire-to-wire champions: Bobby Nichols in 1964, Raymond Floyd in 1982, and Hal Sutton in 1983. [5]