Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are the two most famous golfers in the world by the record that matters most in the sport: Nicklaus won 18 major championships and Woods 15, and Woods holds 82 PGA Tour wins to Nicklaus’s 73.
This list has 15 names, from Bobby Jones in the 1920s to Scottie Scheffler, the world No. 1 today. Each one is here for what he or she won, and every number below is from the PGA Tour’s official player records or, for Annika Sorenstam, the LPGA’s, read on October 26, 2026.
The 14 men by major championships
The four men’s majors are the Masters, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship. The PGA Tour wins column counts official PGA Tour titles; majors are part of that count.
| Golfer | Majors | Masters | U.S. Open | The Open | PGA Championship | PGA Tour wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Nicklaus | 18 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 73 |
| Tiger Woods | 15 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 82 |
| Ben Hogan | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 64 |
| Gary Player | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 24 |
| Arnold Palmer | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 62 |
| Bobby Jones | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | not listed |
| Phil Mickelson | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 45 |
| Rory McIlroy | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 30 |
| Nick Faldo | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| Scottie Scheffler | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 22 |
| Ernie Els | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 19 |
| Greg Norman | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 |
| Jon Rahm | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Sergio Garcia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Five of the 14 have won all four majors at least once: Nicklaus, Woods, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Rory McIlroy. Arnold Palmer never won the PGA Championship, and Phil Mickelson and Scheffler have not won the U.S. Open.
Jack Nicklaus
Nicklaus, born in Columbus, Ohio, and an Ohio State player, turned pro in 1961. His 18 majors are six Masters (1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1986), four U.S. Opens, three Open Championships and five PGA Championships.
His PGA Tour wins run from 1962 to the 1986 Masters, his sixth, and number 73 in all. He added 10 more on the PGA Tour Champions.
Tiger Woods
Woods, from Cypress, California, played at Stanford and turned pro in 1996. His 82 PGA Tour wins, the first in 1996 and the last at the 2019 ZOZO Championship, include 15 majors: five Masters, three U.S. Opens, three Open Championships and four PGA Championships.
In 2000 he won three of the four: the U.S. Open, The Open and the PGA Championship. His fifth Masters, in 2019, came 22 years after his first, in 1997.
Annika Sorenstam
Sorenstam, from Sweden, was an LPGA Tour rookie in 1994. The LPGA credits her with 72 career wins and 10 major championships.
Her majors: the U.S. Women’s Open in 1995, 1996 and 2006; the Women’s PGA Championship three years running, 2003 to 2005; the Women’s Open in 2003; and the Kraft Nabisco, now the Chevron Championship, in 2001, 2002 and 2005.
Ben Hogan
Hogan, born in Dublin, Texas, in 1912, won 64 times on the PGA Tour. Nine were majors: two Masters, four U.S. Opens, one Open Championship and two PGA Championships.
Three of the nine came in 1953, when he won the Masters, the U.S. Open and The Open Championship. His last PGA Tour win was the 1959 Colonial.
Gary Player
Player, from Johannesburg, South Africa, turned pro in 1953. He won 24 times on the PGA Tour and nine majors: three Masters, one U.S. Open, three Open Championships and two PGA Championships.
His majors span 1959, at The Open, to the 1978 Masters. On the PGA Tour Champions he won 22 more times, three of them the Senior Open Championship.
Arnold Palmer
Palmer, from Latrobe, Pennsylvania, played at Wake Forest and turned pro in 1954. He won 62 times on the PGA Tour, with seven majors: four Masters (1958, 1960, 1962 and 1964), the 1960 U.S. Open and The Open in 1961 and 1962.
The PGA Championship is the one major he never won. He added 10 wins on the PGA Tour Champions.
Bobby Jones
Jones won the U.S. Open four times (1923, 1926, 1929 and 1930) and The Open three times (1926, 1927 and 1930), as the PGA Tour lists his record.
Six of the 14 men on this list have seven majors or more, and Jones is the only one with none of them at the Masters or the PGA Championship. His last listed win is from 1930.
Rory McIlroy
McIlroy, from Holywood, Northern Ireland, is No. 2 in the world ranking on his PGA Tour profile. He has 30 PGA Tour wins and six majors: the 2011 U.S. Open, the PGA Championship in 2012 and 2014, The Open in 2014 and the Masters in 2025 and 2026.
The 2025 Masters completed his set of all four. He won it again in 2026, his only PGA Tour win this year.
Phil Mickelson
Mickelson, from San Diego and an Arizona State player, turned pro in 1992. He won 45 times on the PGA Tour, with six majors: the Masters in 2004, 2006 and 2010, the PGA Championship in 2005 and 2021, and The Open in 2013.
His 2021 PGA Championship is his last PGA Tour win. The U.S. Open is the major missing from his record.
Nick Faldo
Faldo, from Welwyn Garden City, England, turned pro in 1976. Six of his nine PGA Tour wins are majors: the Masters in 1989, 1990 and 1996, and The Open in 1987, 1990 and 1992.
Most of his wins came outside the PGA Tour, which lists more than 30 international titles for him. His last PGA Tour win was the 1997 Nissan Open.
Scottie Scheffler
Scheffler, from Ridgewood, New Jersey, played at the University of Texas and turned pro in 2018. He is No. 1 in the world ranking and has 22 PGA Tour wins, four of them majors: the Masters in 2022 and 2024, and the PGA Championship and The Open in 2025.
He has won three times on the PGA Tour in 2026: The American Express, the FedEx St. Jude Championship and the TOUR Championship.
Ernie Els
Els, from Johannesburg, turned pro in 1989. He won 19 times on the PGA Tour, with four majors: the U.S. Open in 1994 and 1997 and The Open in 2002 and 2012.
On the PGA Tour Champions he has seven more wins.
Greg Norman
Norman, from Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, turned pro in 1976. He won 20 times on the PGA Tour, and his two majors were The Open in 1986 and 1993.
He won more often elsewhere: the PGA Tour lists more than 50 international titles for him. His last PGA Tour wins came in 1997.
Jon Rahm
Rahm, from Barrika, Spain, played at Arizona State and turned pro in 2016. He has 11 PGA Tour wins, among them two majors: the 2021 U.S. Open and the 2023 Masters.
His last PGA Tour win was that 2023 Masters, one of four he won on the tour that season. He is No. 15 in the world ranking on his PGA Tour profile.
Sergio Garcia
Garcia, from Castellón, Spain, turned pro in 1999. He has 11 PGA Tour wins, the first in 2001 and the last at the 2020 Sanderson Farms Championship, and one major: the 2017 Masters.
The PGA Tour lists 20 international wins for him as well.
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Sources: PGA Tour player profiles (pgatour.com, career tab) for the 14 men, read October 26, 2026; LPGA player profile of Annika Sorenstam and LPGA major championship records (lpga.com), read October 26, 2026.