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Every golfer in the database by last name. Each letter shows its biggest names first; click the letter for the full list. Bold = active (played in the last two seasons), + = major champion.

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Event finder

Find tournaments by what happened in them: the winning score, the margin, the size of the field, how many rounds were played. For example, set "Winning score to par" to a max of −25 to see every event won at 25 under or better, most recent first.

Winning score and margin use full-event totals; a tie for the lead is a playoff (margin 0). Match-play PGAs (1916–1957) have no stroke totals. Before 2004 the database holds the majors, The Players and some tournament histories, not every PGA Tour event.

Season finder

One row per player per season: everything he played that year in the events you pick. Before 2004 a season holds only the events loaded so far (majors, The Players from 1974 and some tournament histories).

World ranking finder

Every week of the Official World Golf Ranking since it began in April 1986. Pick a cutoff and a span of years to find the longest unbroken runs inside it, or the most weeks in it.

Source: Official World Golf Ranking weekly lists (the Sony Ranking until 1997). A run counts consecutive published lists; the 13-week freeze in 2020 counts as one week, as the ranking's own week totals do. Lists from 1986 to 1995 were read from scanned archive pages and about 6% of those rows could not be matched to a player. Where a player drops out for three lists or fewer and returns at the same level, those weeks are filled in as missed rows; No. 1 comes from the official list of No. 1s. Runs are cut at the years you pick.

Career finder

One row per player, adding up everything he played in the events, years and starts you pick. Add criteria to find a club (30 or more non-major wins and 8 or more majors, say), or sort to rank everyone. SG (strokes gained) measures each round against that day's field average, so a 70 on a brutal Friday counts for more than a 70 on a soft Sunday.

Prize money (Money columns) is official prize money in the tournaments loaded: before 2004 that is mostly the majors and The Players (from 1974), so early careers are far from complete. "Today's dollars" restates each year's money with the U.S. consumer price index. LIV team money is not counted.

Career records

Career leaders across everything in the database. Counting lists (wins, top 10s, rounds in the 60s) include every golfer; rate lists (win %, scoring average, SG per round) need a minimum number of starts or rounds, shown under each list. Pick a list to see the top 100.

Season

Every tournament, side by side

One row per tournament. Click any column to sort: by winning score, margin, the winner's SG, field size, scoring average, the low or high round of the week. Pick the events and years below.

Score and to par are the winner's 72-hole (or full-event) total. Margin compares the winner with the next best full total; a tie is shown as a playoff. Winner SG is the champion's SG on the field for the week. Field counts every starter; made cut counts players who finished. Field avg is the average 18-hole score across the rounds. Match-play PGAs (1916–1957) have no stroke totals.

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Ryder Cup leaderboards

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Daily golf games built from The Golf Record database.

Leaderboard Mystery

Here’s the top of a real major’s final leaderboard, with the names hidden. Name the major and the year in six guesses. Each miss unlocks a clue.

Where in the World

One of the great rounds in major championship history. Name the course in six guesses.

Six Degrees

Get from the start player to the target. Each link must be someone who finished in the top 5 of the same major as the last player in your chain.

More or Less

Ten head-to-heads from the career records. Pick who has more.

Rank Order

Put five players in order, most to least. You get three tries; ✓ marks the ones in the right spot.

Top 10

A real season leaderboard with the names hidden. Name everyone in the top 10. Five misses and you’re out.

Guess the Grid

World ranking

The Official World Golf Ranking: everyone who has reached No. 1 since the ranking began in 1986, then the most weeks in the top 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 from the weekly lists since 1986.

World No. 1s

No. 1 source: Wikipedia, List of world number one male golfers, which follows the Official World Golf Ranking's weekly releases. Rankings were frozen for 13 weeks in 2020 during the pandemic.

Weeks in the world top 10

Source: Official World Golf Ranking weekly archive (owgr.com): 451 lists from 1986 to 1995 (the Sony Ranking, read from scanned archive pages; usually the top 200) and 1,577 weekly lists from 1996 to the present (the top 200 through 2007, the top 300 after). Weeks between lists are counted, so a list published every other week counts two. "300+" means he fell outside the published list at some point in the last 10 years.

Continents

Wins, starts and top 10s count only the tournaments loaded so far. Continent comes from the country Data Golf lists for each player; England, Scotland, Wales and both Irelands count as Europe.

Countries

Wins, starts and top 10s count only the tournaments loaded in the database so far: every major, The Players and the PGA Tour events loaded to date. Country is the one Data Golf lists for the player. World ranking columns use the Official World Golf Ranking from 1986 on, so earlier careers are short-counted.

FedEx Cup

Every FedEx Cup since the playoffs began in 2007: the final top three each year, then the players with the most titles and top-10 finishes. Since 2019 the final standings are the TOUR Championship finish, so ties are possible.

Champions

Most FedEx Cup titles and top 10s

Source: Wikipedia's FedEx Cup Playoffs article for each year. Bonus money by finishing place isn't included yet.

THE GOLFRECRD 100The all-time
ranking

The 100 greatest players in golf history, ranked by a published formula instead of opinion. Every number comes from results we hold, and the table shows where each score comes from.

Presidents Cup

Tour schedule

Awards & money titles

Upcoming milestones

Active players (a start in the last two seasons) closing in on a round number or about to pass someone on an all-time list. Counts use every event in the database: the majors, The Players, the PGA Tour from 2004 and LIV Golf.

Rankings & honors

All-time lists that sit outside the career records: the Golf Record 100, the world ranking, SG seasons and the Ryder Cup. Click any heading for the full list.

States

Wins, starts and top 10s count only the tournaments loaded in the database so far. Birth state comes from each player's bio.

Olympic golf

Ryder Cup

Tournaments

Pick an event for its champions, every edition and its names over the years. For a single leaderboard, use Leaderboards.

Big events

Team events

Amateur championships

Other PGA Tour events

LIV Golf

Round finder

Start-by-start comparison

Line players up by start number instead of by date (their first 25 Masters, say, or first 50 majors), then add up the scores. Every number below comes from the same switches, so two people running the same comparison get the same answer.

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Start-by-start log

Career splits

Split a player's major record at any start and compare the two sides, Baseball Reference style. Pick the first start of the second split, name both sides, and the table, chart, start log and share card update together.

Major championship splits

Bold marks the better split. Avg Fin and Med Fin use made cuts only. Scoring averages mix courses with different pars; To par/rd and SG/rd do not.

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Start log

Schools come from Wikidata and the 1971 PGA Tour guide, so this lists only golfers with a recorded school. Wins, starts and top 10s count only the tournaments loaded so far. Logos are each school's athletics logo from Wikipedia (the school's own logo where there isn't one); they're trademarks of their schools.

About the data

The Golf Record puts every round of pro golf history we can find in one place: who played, what they shot, and how that compared with the field that day. This page explains where the scores come from, how we check them, and what the numbers mean.

Where the scores come from

No single source covers 160 years of golf, so the database is stitched together from several, and each event keeps track of which one it came from. Where two sources cover the same event, we compare them start by start before choosing.

Still to come: the PGA Tour events Data Golf skips from 2004 on (12 of them in 2006 alone, including Tiger Woods's wins at Doral and the Buick Open), the rest of the PGA Tour before 2004, the DP World Tour and LIV. Every Open since 1860 is in, with no Open in 2020.

How we check them

• Every round adds up. Each player's rounds are checked against his posted total.
• Every champion is the right champion. Winners are checked against the published record and against PGA TOUR media guides from 1971, 1995, 1997 and 2006.
• Sources are compared start by start. Where Brenner's book and Data Golf overlap (1983–2008), every start was compared. The PGA media guide's 1983–2025 fields match Data Golf on 6,574 of 6,597 starts, and the guide named 37 golfers Data Golf lists without a name.
• Fields are counted. Each year's field is checked against the source's own count of entrants.
• Oddities get a human look. Impossible ages, a player in two places at once, long career gaps and near-duplicate names all go to a hand-check list, and a person decides each one against a second source.

What the numbers mean

SG (SG)

How many strokes a player beat that day's field average by. A 70 on a brutal Friday counts for more than a 70 on a soft Sunday. Positive is better.

Field average

The average of every complete 18-hole round posted that day, including players who went on to miss the cut. When a round is split across courses (Pebble Beach, the Hope), each player is measured against the field on his own course.

Total SG and SG/rd

Total SG adds SG across every round in a span; SG/rd is the same thing per round.

To par

Score relative to par. Par for each event comes from the scores themselves; for 1983–2004 majors it comes from each champion's published total and score to par. Brenner's book gives par from the 1925 Open on, so earlier rounds show no score to par.

Behind

Strokes behind the winner's 72-hole total. Playoffs are not recorded.

T, MC, WD, DQ

T marks a tie (players share a finishing number). MC is a missed cut, WD a withdrawal, DQ a disqualification.

(a)

Amateur.

‡

Brenner's book lists a known data discrepancy for that player in that event (its Appendix B).

Short rounds

Early Opens were played over 12 holes (Prestwick) or 9 (Musselburgh in 1877 and 1889), so SG there is scaled to 18 holes.

Prize money

Money is stored in the currency it was paid in, then converted at that year's average exchange rate. Every money figure can be shown three ways:

• As paid: what the player actually won. Opens before 1991 show in pounds.
• Today's dollars: adjusted for U.S. inflation.
• Purse-adjusted: scaled to today's purses, using the typical winner's check at the U.S. majors each year. This is the fairest way to compare eras, because purses have grown far faster than prices.

Exchange rates from 1971 come from the Federal Reserve; earlier pound rates and U.S. inflation before 1913 are approximate. Money is still missing for many starts, mainly PGA Tour events from 2004 on; a season total with an asterisk has gaps.

Players, flags and bios

• One person, one name. Spelling variants are merged into one player, for example "Alex Noren" and "Alexander Noren," or "Joohyung Kim" and "Tom Kim." Player pages list the other forms of a name a source may use.
• Nationality comes from Data Golf's player list where it has the player, otherwise from Wikidata (the country a player represents, else his citizenship). British players are assigned England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland by birthplace, which can miss a player who represented a different home nation. Players neither source knows show no flag.
• Flags are drawn from the open-source flag-icons set; Northern Ireland players carry the Ulster Banner.
• Bios (birthplace, height, weight, schools, turned pro, social links) come from Wikidata and the 1971 PGA Tour guide. Photos are coming.

Gaps and judgment calls

• Partial rounds from withdrawals are left out of all averages, as is Billy Casper's 106 in the first round of the 2005 Masters (he did not return his card).
• Filled-in rows. Three finishers missing from the majors sheet were added from Data Golf (including Rafael Cabrera Bello, T47 at the 2010 U.S. Open). Two missing final rounds were filled from the player's listed score to par: Seung-yul Noh, 73 at the 2011 Open, and Lucas Bjerregaard, 75 at the 2014 U.S. Open.
• Amateurs. Amateur status uses the sheet's (a) tag where it exists (mostly 2019 on). Earlier, a player who made the cut and took no prize money is treated as an amateur, and so are his starts before that. An amateur who only missed cuts before turning pro can't be spotted this way and counts as a pro.
• Compare counts every start with at least one completed round; a withdrawal counts the rounds finished before it.

Found a mistake?

Tell us. Every correction is checked against a second source before it changes the database, and the fix is logged so it can't come back.