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Jack Nicklaus, five-time PGA Championship champion (1963, 1971, 1973, 1975, and 1980). He holds the record for most wins in stroke play competition. Tiger Woods, four-time PGA Championship champion (1999, 2000, 2006, and 2007). He is one of two golfers to win the PGA Championship back-to-back in stroke play competition, accomplishing this twice.
The PGA Championship (often referred to as the US PGA Championship or USPGA outside the United States [1] [2] [3]) is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers' Association of America. The PGA is one of the four men's major golf championships, the others being The Open, the Masters and the U.S. Open.
Players are listed here in order of their first win. For much of the modern era the four major championships have been played chronologically in the order listed, but this has not always been the case, and starting in 2019 the PGA Championship was rescheduled as the second major of the year. In 2020, a year dramatica
Men's major championship winning golfers by country [11] Country Masters U.S. Open The Open PGA Total United States: 64 88 47 88 287 Scotland: 1 13 41 0 55 England: 4 8 22 2 36 South Africa: 5 5 10 2 22 Australia: 1 2 10 5 18 Spain: 6 1 3 0 10 Jersey: 0 2 7 0 9 Northern Ireland: 0 2 3 2 7 Germany: 2 1 0 1 4 Ireland: 0 0 3 1 4 Zimbabwe: 0 0 1 2 3
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.
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.
Sam Snead is the oldest to win a PGA event, at age 52, in 1965. 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.
The Women's PGA Championship is an annual golf competition held in June, and is conducted by the Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA). The event was established in 1955, and is one of the five women's major championships played each year; the others are the ANA Inspiration , the U.S. Women's Open , the Women's British Open , and ...