On April 13, 2025, it was once again on the tour of the Association of Professional Golfists (PGA). The first winner of this prestigious tournament was Horton Smith in 1934 and the following year, Gene Sarazen became the champion. Last year, Scottie Scheffler won the game and won her green jacket.
Only three players have won consecutive mastery championships, and they are Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Nick Fald. Nicklaus won three titles in a period of four years from 1963 to 1966, missing only in 1964 when his main rival Arnold Palmer went with the title. Palmer also won it in 1962.
The Master Tournament held in Augusta, Georgia, is one of the tournaments that constitutes an exclusive club in the PGA Call the Grand Slam of the golf. To be in that club, a player would have to win the title in the Masters, the Open Championship (previously the British Open), the United States Open and the PGA championship during its runs.
As winner of the 2025 masters, Rory Mcilroy being and with his green jacket he became the sixth member of the small fraternity of those who won the four most important tournaments in professional golf. The other five are great names in the game and in no particular order are: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Tiger Woods, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus.
For Mcilroy, this is a rather rich group. The six men for all their careers won a total of 473 professional tournaments. Some consider that Tiger Woods or Jack Nicklaus are the best golfer based on this small group of Grand Slam winners, ahead, I classify the six in greatness of sixth to the best with some statistics in each.
6. Rory Mcilroy
With only 35 years of age, and given the story of the recent injuries of Tiger Woods, this Irish golfer could one day be the man who supplants Jack Nicklaus with the most important victories in history. I finally classify it because the race is at its best and is too early in your career to classify it higher. For the registration, so far, Mcilroy has 29 victories of PGA and 11 international victories. Of 263 tournaments played, the cut has been lost only 31 times. The second is over, the same for third place, and ended among the top five of a tournament 83 times. As for the 10 best finishes, he has done it 129 times.
On the tour since 2010, Rory Mcilroy has won $ 104,246,906 in profits. Born in Holywood, Northern Ireland, he still calls his home in his place of birth. Where Tiger Woods once was the dominant golfer on the tour, Rory Mcilroy is the golfer with the goal in his backs of his back.
5. Gene Sarazen
The next is an old one, since Sarazen joined for the first time at the exit at his first PGA event in 1920. While he was a great golfer, when he retired, he only had 38 waves of PGA Tour and only an international victory. But in 316 tournaments he made the cut every time the exception of time in 25 used cars that surprised that he missed finishing the tournament. Sarazen ended in third place 29 times and among the first five for 124 tournaments. In its 316 exits he completed the event in the Top 10 185 times.
With today’s best golfers winning millions of dollars, Gene Sarazen kept its clubs with profits of only $ 76,815. A smaller professional golfer, Gene Sarazen remained only 5’5. ”He had a long life that passed at the age of 97 on May 13, 1999. He was born in Harrison, New York, Sarazen is not in the same league as Tiger Woods or Jack Niclaus.
4. Gary Player
This next golfer has the perfect name for this sport or any other. Gary Player was undoubtedly a player. A great player. His best performances arrived at the international scene where he won 118 tournaments. On the PGA tour he was the winner 24 times. Gary Player was an active participant in professional tournaments, 449 all together, of which he failed to make the cut 65 times. On 33 occasions ended in second place. Finish third happened 22 times for Gary Player and in 177 tournaments he found in the Top 10 on the final score.
Now with 89 years, the player can call a millionaire golfer with profits a total of $ 1,834,482. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, Gary Player was born on November 1, 1935, and now he finds his home on Jupiter Island in Florida. With his wife Vivienne, players have six children and incredible, 21 granddaughters.
3. Ben Hogan
Certainly, one of the best golfers in history, Ben Hogan deserves to be close to the top. With 300 tournaments under his belt, he has compiled 64 victories of PGA and only an international victory. For his credit, he lost the cut in just seven or 300 games. 44 times a tournament ended just being the winner. It was third 27 times. When it comes to finishing among the top five of a tournament, Ben Hogan achieved that feat 169 times and in Top 10 on 229 occasions. Hogan joined the tour in 1931, but as a sign of his time, his total profits were only $ 33,516.
Hogan had its openings as a road in favor of 1919. A native of Dublin, Texas, Hogan died on July 25, 1997, at 84 and obviously it is a great all time.
2. Tiger Woods
Some golf fans will say that Tiger Woods is the best golfer in history. He was on his way to prove that with his number of victories and great victories. But then, with an eruption of injuries and problems outside the course, Woods began to decrease. Due to a broken Achilles tendon, Woods could not compete in the 2025 Masters, losing his first Augusto game in four years. The last time the tournament was lost was due to injuries as a result of a car accident in 2021.
The last years have shown very few results in competing for a victory on the tour. In 2024 Woods competed in just five tournaments and the cut was lost three times. The previous year he saw him play in just two events, one of which he retired. Return another year and again, three tournaments, one retirement, a lost cut. This was the current issue between 2021 and early 2022, when he entered three tournaments again and the cut was lost in one. His last busy season came in the 2019-2020 season when with seven played tournament, Tiger had his last victory, he ended between the top 10 times and the top 25 also twice.
His last victory in October 2019 arrived in the Zozo Championship. Hello, also tied first in the memorial tournament. But he has won a game since then. During the duration of his career, Tiger Woods has won 15 major and paths to the legendary Jack Nicklaus for only three. He has already surpassed the golden bear in total victories 82-73. Nicklaus won 20 Waseas Woods international games has 12.
At 35, can Rory Mcilroy overcome Woods and Nicklaus? Since golf does not discriminate at age, it is not outside the scope of the possibility. Rory needs 53 more victories to catch Woods in victories, but there is only one behind Tiger in international victories. Mcilroy has only five important victories, so he needs 10 more to catch the tiger.
As for Woods, he has played in 378 games, far behind the 584 of Nicklaus. His playing style is fixed. Jack Nicklaus had the nickname of “Golden Bear”. And for a good reason. It was fierce -competitive book in the golf course and its style of an aggressive and determined approach to attack a hole intimidated some golfers.
Woods is and has been more a delicacy player with ice in his veins. It has been classified or as a magician with a golf club in his hand. He made unthinkable shots and when he approached the final green with an advantage or simply out of the advantage, you could have a victory of Tiger Woods. There is no narrow or drag lead by a small Woods tiger. In fact, he became safer in those situations, classified or how to know that he was about to ensure another victory.
Woods is undoubtedly the richest golfer in history with profits for a total of $ 120,999,166. A professional since 1996, Tiger Woods can also be remembered for his appearance at the Mike Douglas Show Golf Club in hand along with father when he was only three years old. For us, older people, it is difficult to believe that Woods is now 49. As Tiger is one of the most athletic golfers in history, trained his body as an athlete in football could. His training regimes were in his place to use athletics to master his game. But in the end, it could be a reason for its eruption or its continuous injuries. A 6’1 ”and 185 pounds, it is certainly one of the greatest golfers who have ever reached the links.
All those features of the Tiger Woods game seem to have decreased almost nothing. Now it does not seem possible that Tiger Woods catches the 18 main victories by Jack Nicklaus, even thought he had only three beings. Unless he returns from this last injury and is Tiger Woods of yesteryear, he will always be considered the best golf in history, apart from Jack Nicklaus.
1. Jack Nicklaus
The King of Golf has been and can be forever “the golden bear.” Jack Nicklaus may have seen Total Victories of PGA fall into Tiger Woods, but his 584 games are alone. It still has the registration of seniors and, as suggested above, the health of Tiger Woods is the only thing that is brought on the path of this record.
Jack Nicklaus played in his last tournament in 2005 and in The Masters, The Memorial and The US Open, the cut was lost in all three games. It was one more than nine in the Masters, +8 in the monument and one more three outdoors. Incredible, 39 years have passed since Golden Bear won a tournament for the last time, but it was great. Nicklaus won the Masters on April 13, 1986, giving him 18 major victories. Nicklaus was 46 years old when he won his last green jacket.
Now, 85, or the 584 Nicklaus tournaments, lost the cut 89 times, many of which arrived in the twilight of his career. That is equivalent to a successful cutting rate of 85%. Nicklaus would end second 58 times, 34 times in third place. It ended in the top five 109 times and in the Top 10 286 times. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Nicklaus only follows Tiger Woods in golf golf with a beautiful $ 9,106, 238 in profits. Rory Mcilroy is certainly destined to overcome that number.
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For registration, Jack Nicklaus has most teachers victories with six, one more than Tiger Woods. The Great Arnold Palmer claims four, and with three each of Gary’s players, Sam Snead, Nick Faldo, Phil Michelson and Jimmy Demaret. Four players are tied for most open victories in the United States, and they are Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and Willie Anderson. Following that group by one is Tiger Woods and Hale Irwin.
What was previously known as the “British Open” is now called “The Open.” Six times a Harry Vardon won that tournament, and you would have to return to 1890 when Vardon began his professional career. Vardon had 49 victories as a professional and includes in his curriculum a victory in the US Open in 1900. Tom Watson Re refs in second place with five victories and is tied with James Braid, John Henry Taylor and Peter Thomson for the second place.
Jack Nicklaus won the open three times, but the paths for one to Walter Hagen, Tom Morris Mr., Tom Morris Jr., Willie Park Mr. and Bobby Locke. When it comes to the PGA championship, Nicklaus and Hagen have won it five times. Tiger Woods is as follows with four. Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead and the current player of the Brooks Koepka tour have three. As for the World Golf Hall, all except Rory Mcilroy have been included in this prestigious honor.