This past Apil 13, 2025, it was time again on the Professional Golfers Assocition (PGA) Tour. The various 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 competition and earned his green jacket.
Only three players have won back-to-back Masters Championships, and they are Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo. Nicklaus won three titles in a wingspan from four years from 1963 to 1966, only in 1964 was missing when his Prime Rival Arnold Palmer ran away with the title. Palmer also won it in 1962.
The main tournament in Augusta, Georgia, is one of the tournaments that forms an exclusive club on the PGA call De Grand Slam van Golf. To be in that club, a player has to win the title in the Masters, the Open Championship (formerly the British Open), the US Open and the PGA championship in the course of their career.
As the winner of the Masters of 2025, Rory was McCilroy and with his green jacket he became the Jus the sixth amling of the small brotherhood of those who won the four most important tournaments in professional wave. The Oher Five are Hage names in the game and in non -particular order are: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Tiger Woods, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus.
For McIlroy this is a pretty rich group to be in. The six men for their entire career won a total of 473 professional tournaments. Suble consider Eithher Tiger Woods or Jack Nicklaus as the biggest golfer ever, but based on this small group of Grand Slam winners, I arrange the six in greatness from sixth to the best golfer ever with subset statistics with every initiates.
6. Rory McILROY
On only 35 years old, and in view of the history of Tiger Woods of recent injuries, this Irish golfer could one day be the man who will promote Jack Nicklaus the most important victories in history. I Last Scholaus His career is in his prime and it is too early in his career to rank him higher. For the record, so far, McIlroy has 29 PGA overlines and 11 international victories. From 263 played tournaments you have only missed the cut 31 times. He finished in second place 11 times, the same for third place and ended up 83 times in the top five of a tournament. As for the top 10 finishes, he did it 129 times.
During the Tour since 2010, Rory Mcilroy that you have earned to cool $ 104,246,906 in winning. Born in Holywood, Noord -Ireland, he still calls his birthplace at home. Where Tiger Woods was once the dominant golfer on the Tour, Rory McIlroy is the golfer with the target on his backse Desys.
5. Gene Sarazen
The next step is an old-timer when Sarazen first stepped to the T-off in his first PGA event in 1920. While he was a great golfer, he only had 38 PGA Tour victories and only one international victory. But in 316 tournaments he made the cut every time, except 25 times where he missed the tournament. Sarazen finished 29 times in third place and in the top five for 124 tournaments. In his 316 onions I completed the event in the top 10 185 times.
With the best golfers of today who earn millions of dollars, Gene Sarazen stabbed his clubs with a win of just $ 76,815. A pro -golfer from smaller steering wheel, Gene Sarazen was only 5’5 ”. I had a long life at the age of 97 on May 13, 1999. Born in Harrison, New York, Sarazen is not in the same competition as Tiger Woods or Jack Nicklaus, but he has reached the Grand Slam club club.
4. Gary Player
This next golfer has the perfect name for this sport or every oher. Gary Player was definitely for player. To great player. His best performances came to the international stage where he won 118 tournaments. On the PGA Tour he was the victor 24 times. Gary Player was an active participant in pro -tournaments, 449 all together of which he was not cut 65 times. He finished second on 33 occasions. Ending third happened 22 times for Gary Player and in 177 tournaments he was in the top 10 on the final scoreboard.
Now 89, the player can call himself to Millionaire Golfer with a win in total $ 1,834,482. To resident of Johannesburg, South Africa, Gary Player was born on November 1, 1935 and now finds his house on Jupiter Island in Florida. With his wife Vivienne, the players have six children and incredible, 21 grandchildren.
3. Ben Hogan
Cetainly, one of the largest golfers ever, Ben Hogan deserts to be nearby. With 300 tournaments under his belt, he has compiled 64 PGA victories and only one international victory. To his honor, he missed the cut at only seven of his 300 games. 44 times I finished a tournament just behind the winner. He was 27 times third. When it comes to finishing in the top five of a tournament, Ben Hogan has completed that performance 169 times and in the top 10 at 229 times. Hogan joined the tour in 1931, but as a sign of his era, his total profit were only $ 33,516.
Hogan started as a professional in 1919 in 1919. Indigenous in Dublin, Texas, Hogan died on July 25, 1997, at the age of 84 and is clearly a great great one.
2. Tiger Woods
Subgolffans will say that Tiger Woods is the biggest golfer ever. He was on his way to offer that with his number of victories and big victories. But then with the result of injuries and off-the-course problems, Woods began to take. Due to a torn Achilles -Tees, Woods could not compete in the Masters 2025, and missed his first Augusta match in four years. The last time he missed the tournament was in 2021 due to impressive as a result of a car.
In recent years, Vray have shown few results to compete for a victory. In 2024 Woods Competition in just five tournaments and missed the cut three times. The year before, he saw him playing in just two events, of which he withdrew. Go back another year, three tournaments, one withdrawal, one abused cut. This was the current them between 2021 and early 2022 when he again entered three Tourneys and missed the cut one. His last busy season came in the 2019-2020 season when seven tournaments played, Tiger had his last victory, ended in the top 10 twice and the top 25 also twice.
His last victory in October 2019 arrived in the Zozo championship. He also went for the first time in the Memorial Tournament. But since then he has not won a competition. For the duration of his career, Tiger Woods won 15 Majors and the legendary Jack Nicklaus with only three remained. He has already surpassed the Golden Bear in total victors 82-73. Nicklaus won 20 international competitions, while Woods has 12.
At the age of 35, can Rory McIlroy surpass both Woods and Nicklaus? Given that Golf has no discrimination of age, it is not outside the realm of the possibility. Rory needs 53 more victors to catch forest in victories, but he is already only one behind Tiger in international victories. McIlroy only has five major victories, so he needs 10 Bruan to catch the tiger.
As far as Woods is concerned, he played in 378 games, far behind the 584 of Nicklaus. Their playing style is very different. Jack Nicklaus was nicknamed “Golden Bear.” And for a good reason. He was fiercelly competitive on the golf course and his style of an aggressive, determined approach to attack a hole intended sub golfers.
Woods is and is more of Finalsse Player with ice in his veins. He has been a kind of magician with a golf club in his hand. He made unthinkable shots and when he approached the last green with Eithher a lead or close to the leadership, you could almost count on a victory of Tiger Woods. No narrow lead or lagging behind by little angleed Tiger Woods. I even have more faith in those situations, as knowing that he was about to win another victory.
Woods is certainly the Richast golfer in history with income of 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 his hand together with father when he was just three years old. For us older people it is hard to believe that Woods is now 49. Because Tiger is one of the most athletic golders in history, he trained his body as an athlete in football. His training regimes were present, so that he could use his athletics to control his game. But in the end it can be a reason for his result of continuous injuries. On 6’1 “and 185 pounds, he is certainly one of the larger golfers ever hit the left.
All those characteristics of the game of Tiger Woods seem to have decreased almost to nothing. Now it does not seem possible that Tiger Woods will catch the 18 big winners of Jack Nicklaus, although he is only three behind. Unless he returns from this low -length and Tiger Woods or old, he will forever Bengard as the best golfer in history confirmations by Jack Nicklaus.
1. Jack Nicklaus
The king of the Golf is and can be ‘the Golden Bear’ forever. Jack Nicklaus may have seen his total PGA winners fall in Tiger Woods, but his 584 games stand in themselves. He still owns the Majors record and like Suggesta, above, the health of Tiger Woods is the only thing that stands in the way of this record.
Jack Nicklaus played in his last tournament in 2005 and at the Masters, the Memorial and the US Open, he missed the cut in all three games. He would be nine plus nine in the Masters, +8 in the monument, and a plus three in the open air. Unbelievable, it is 39 years ago that the Golden Bear won a tournament, but it was a big one. Nicklaus won the Masters on April 13, 1986 and gave him 18 Majors overlines. Nicklaus was 46 years old when he won his last green jacket.
Now 85, of the 584 tournaments of Nicklaus, he missed the cut 89 times, many of which many came at the dusk of his career. This corresponds to 85% successful cut percentage. Nicklaus would finish secondly 58 times, 34 times in third place. I am 109 times in the top five and in the top 10 286 times. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Nicklaus only follows Tiger Woods in golf income with a nice $ 9,106, 238 in win. Rory McIlroy is certainly destined to exceed that number.
Jack Nicklaus Although not as athletic as Tiger Woods, he still weighed at 185 on his 5’110 “Frame. It is 64 years ago that Jack Nicklaus acted as a professional and he not only made him as a player, but as a consultant and CO -Cours designer. Niclaus has five children and 22 big children.
For the record, Jack Nicklaus has most Masters winners with six, one more than Tiger Woods. The Great Arnold Palmer claims four, and with three are each Gary Player, Sam Snead, Nick Faldo, Phil Michelson and Jimmy Demaret. Four players are TED for must US Open Wins, and they are Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and Willie Anderson. Tiger Woods and Hale Irwin is due to that group.
What was previously known as the “British Open” is now just street “The Open”. Six times a Harry Vardon won that tournament, and you should go all the way back until 1890 when Vardon started his professional career. Vardon had 49 victories as a professional and comprises about his summary of the US Open in 1900. Tom Watson is in second place in the opening with five wins and is connected to James Braid, John Henry Taylor and Peter Thomson for second place.
Jack Nicklaus won the open three times, but Trailt with 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 Hange Hav have won it five times each. Tiger Woods is the next with four. Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead and the current Tour player Brooks Koepka each have three. Regarding the World Golf Hall of Fame, all except Rory Mcilroy is included in this prestigious honor.