Professional golfer Ricky Barnes currently plays on the PGA Tour. While playing at the University of Arizona, he was named the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, Pac-10 Player of the Year, second-team All-American twice, and first-team All-American. Barnes won the 102nd U.S. Amateur, defeating Hunter Mahan 2 & 1 in the final. Barnes and Mahan went on to share the... read full bio
In 1991, Rocco Mediate became the first player to win on the PGA Tour using a long putter when he won the Doral-Ryder Open. He went on to pick up wins on the Tour for three consecutive years, in 1999, 2000 and 2002. Mediate has been featured in the Top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings and considered to... read full bio
Rory McIlroy, a professional golfer who competes on both the European and PGA Tours, held the number one spot in the Official World Golf Rankings for an incredible 95 consecutive weeks. He has won the PGA Championship twice, the United States Open, and the Open Championship, making him a four-time winner of a major championship. He is one of only... read full bio
Russell Knok is a Scottish professional golfer who has played in the PGA Tour and the World Golf Championships. He played in the NGA Hooters Tour for the first three years of his professional career racking up two victories. He finished 12th on the Nationwide Tour and earned his PGA Tour card. After a disappointing 143rd in his first PGA... read full bio
Scott Hoch is an American golfer, who represented his country in the Ryder Cup in 1997 and 2002. He has won several prestigious tournaments, including the Western Open, the Ford Championship at Doral, the Heineken Dutch Open and the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. He also won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average in 1986. He has featured in the... read full bio
Scott McCarron professional in 1992, and joined the PGA Tour in 1994. He has had PGA Tour victories in 1996, 1997 and 2001. McCarron was injured in the summer of 2006 and missed the entire 2007 season. He served as an analyst for The Golf Channel for its 2007 Masters coverage. He returned to the PGA Tour in 2008 and... read full bio
Sergio Garcia soon established himself as one of the greatest. When he produced a spectacular shot from a terrible lie behind a tree on the 16th hole at the PGA Championship at Medinah Country Club that same year, he made headlines around the world and got the ball to the green. After just a few months of play that year,... read full bio
Shigeki Maruyama is a Japanese professional golfer who was born in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan. Maruyama is known for always smiling on the golf course and his nickname is The Smiling Assassin. Maruyama previously studied at Nihon University and went on to turn professional after graduating. Maruyama began his career on the Japan Golf Tour and became one of the leading... read full bio
Smylie Kaufman is an American professional golfer who has made a name for himself on the PGA Tour. Born on November 30, 1991, in Birmingham, Alabama, Smylie started playing golf at a young age and quickly showed a natural talent for the sport. After a successful collegiate career at Louisiana State University (LSU), where he won three events and was named... read full bio
Stacy, who was given a scoliosis diagnosis at age 11, spent more than six years wearing a rigid plastic back brace, taking it off only to play golf. She had a metal rod and five screws surgically fused into her spine when the bracing technique failed. She underwent nine months of rehabilitation before joining the Arkansas golf team, and only... read full bio
Stephen Ames is a professional golfer on the PGA Tour holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada. Ames was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago and is of English/Trinidadian Portuguese decent, and much of his family resides in the Caribbean nation. His grandmother was Trinidad and Tobago Champion 20 times. He grew up in Pointe--Pierre and learned... read full bio
Steve Pate has won six PGA Tour events. His first victory was at the 1987 Southwest Golf Classic; and his most recent win was at the 1998 CVS Charity Classic. His best years in professional golf were 1988 when he won twice and finished 12th on the money list; and1991, when he had five top-3 finishes including a win at... read full bio
Pro golfer Stewart Cink is known for spending over forty weeks in the Top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 2004 and 2009. He joined the PGA Tour in 1997 after turning pro in 1995 and winning the Mexican Open and three Nike Tour (now Web.com Tour) events in 1996. His first major title came in 2009 at... read full bio
Thomas Detry is a worlf famous professional golfer from Belgium who has been playing golf since the age of 5 (while also participating in other sports like tennis and hockey). He was just 13 years old when he started competing in international golf tournaments. After high school, he studied at the Topsportschool Vlaanderen in Hasselt. At the age of 16,... read full bio
Thomas Pieters is a well-known name on the European Tour, where he competes as a professional golfer from Belgium. He won the Jack Nicklaus Invitational and the individual NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship while he was a sophomore at the University of Illinois. The following year, he led his team to a second-place finish at the NCAA Division I... read full bio
Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Having spent the bulk of his career at No. 1 among professional golfers, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world, with a current net worth of around $600 million. Woods has won 14 professional major golf championships,... read full bio
Tom Lehman was named PGA Tour Player of the Year in 1996. From 1995 to 1997 Lehman held the 54-hole lead at the U.S. Open, but each time failed to win. Lehman claims the highlight of his career in golf was his victory in the 1996 Open Championship. In April 1997 he spent a week at Number 1 in the... read full bio
Tom Pernice, Jr. played college golf at UCLA with Jay Delsing, Corey Pavin, Steve Pate and Duffy Waldorf. He has won two PGA Tour tournaments. He is also a big advocate of the Jim Hardy one plane swing. Pernice turned 50 in September 2009 and played in his first Champions Tour event at the SAS Championship. He became the 15th... read full bio
Intangibles, or things that are impossible to measure, are the essence of Tom Watson's excellence. It is necessary to see and experience his style and grace in order to fully comprehend it. The chip-in at Pebble Beach, which many consider to be the most spectacular shot in golf history, is one example of his willpower and ability to pull off... read full bio
Tom Weiskopf is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. His most successful decade was the 1970s. Weiskopf got into golf course design working initially with Jay Morrish, but now has his own established practice. He has at least forty courses to his credit in many parts of the world, including the Monument... read full bio
