Can You Name All of These Famous Golfers?

By: Jonnathan Chadwick
Estimated Completion Time
5 min
Can You Name All of These Famous Golfers?
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About This Quiz

The game of golf can be traced all the way back to Ancient Roman times when players used a feather-stuffed ball and club-shaped tree branches. The Song Dynasty of Ancient China picked up the game around 900 AD, and by the 15th century, golf, as we know it today, was starting to take form in Scotland. Today's game of golf is credited to the Scots. The game was first mentioned in Scottish text in 1457 when the government banned the game so it wouldn't distract soldiers from training. Mary, Queen of Scots was accused of playing golf instead of mourning her husband's death, and it is commonly accepted that The Old Course at Musselburgh Links is the oldest golf course in the world.

The Professional Golfers Association of America was formed in 1916; the PGA Tour was formed in 1929, and that's when all the fun began. The game of golf is truly international. No one country dominates the field more than any other country, and the game is played on six continents. Its stars come from every corner of the world and don't mold into any stereotype. Michelle Wie, Tiger Woods and John Daly are three of the most famous golfers to ever play and they are nothing alike. No sport has a more diversified playing field than golf, and it just keeps getting more diverse. How well do you know the best golfers in the world? Put your skills to the test and try to name all of these golfers.

Michelle Wie Do you know this golfer who took the world by storm when she turned pro just before her 16th birthday?
Amy Alcott
Patty Berg
Lorena Ochoa
Michelle Wie
Michelle Wie qualified for the USGA amateur championship at age 10 and turned pro in 2005 at the age of 15. Tiger Woods comparisons were only natural, but unlike Tiger, she didn't win her first major until 2014 when she won the 2014 U.S. Women's Open.

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How Much Do You Know About Tiger Woods Name the phenom who went pro in '96, won the Masters in '97, and achieved a career grand slam by 2001.
Jordan Spieth
Tiger Woods
At the age of 3, Tiger Woods was able to break 50 through nine holes. He broke 80 at age 8 and broke 70 on a regulation golf course at age 12. Through all his ups and downs, he's considered the second greatest golfer of all time.
Vijay Singh
Jason Day

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Jack Nicklaus This legend, who has won 18 PGA Major Championships, is considered the greatest golfer of all time.
Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus holds the record for most major championships and holds the title of greatest golfer of all time. He has just three more Major wins than Tiger Woods, who has been dead-set on breaking Jack's record since he turned pro.
Arnold Palmer
Ben Hogan
Sam Snead

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Phil Mickelson What Tiger rival didn't win his first Major until 2004?
Jack Nicklaus
Davis Love III
Phil Mickelson
Phil is one of the most popular players on the tour and turned pro in 1992, four years before Tiger Woods. He didn't win his first major until 2004, however, when he won the Masters. Tiger had won eight majors by then.
Brooks Koepka

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Arnold Palmer One of the greatest golfers of all time is also famous for a summertime drink named in his honor.
Jack Nicklaus
Tiger Woods
Ben Hogan
Arnold Palmer
If you don't know who Arnold Palmer the golfer is, you might know about the drink of iced tea and lemonade he created, promoted and named, which is named for him. The golfer has 62 PGA wins, seven majors and is one of the greatest to ever play the game.

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Rory McIlroy What Irishman went pro in 2007 and has won two dozen tournaments since?
Jordan Spieth
Rickie Fowler
Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy burst onto the PGA scene in 2007 and has won 15 tournaments since, but still hasn't been able to complete the career grand slam. His best finish in the Masters, which he is yet to win, was fourth place in 2015.
Jason Day

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Dustin Johnson Did you know this famous golfer is engaged to hockey legend Wayne Gretzky's daughter?
Jordan Spieth
Rickie Fowler
Dustin Johnson
Dustin Johnson has been through plenty of ups and downs on tour. He tested positive for marijuana in 2009, tested positive for cocaine in 2012 and 2014, got suspended, mysteriously fell down and withdrew from the 2017 Masters, and has been engaged to Wayne Gretzky's daughter since 2013.
Jason Day

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Brooks Koepka This athlete won back-to-back U.S. Opens in 2017 and 2018 and back-to-back PGA Championships in 2018 and 2019.
Jordan Spieth
Brooks Koepka
Brooks Koepka turned pro in 2012 and already has four major wins. He has yet to win the Masters or the Open Championship but has consistently competed in both tournaments. He became the No. 1 golfer in the world in 2018.
Dustin Johnson
Jason Day

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Sam Snead Do you know what golfing legend holds the record for most PGA Tour wins?
Jack Nicklaus
Arnold Palmer
Sam Snead
If you don't know what Sam Snead looks like, that's because he turned pro in 1931. He holds the record for most career PGA wins and has seven majors, but he never won the U.S. Open. He was known for having a smooth swing and is one of the PGA's greatest.
Ben Hogan

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Patrick Reed Nike asked this player to stop wearing red on tournament Sundays because it was Tiger's color.
Davis Love III
David Duval
Patrick Reed
Patrick Reed and Tiger Woods are both sponsored by Nike, and Tiger is well known to wear red on championship Sunday. In 2018, Patrick Reed picked up the tradition to honor the great, but Nike asked him not to do so at the Masters. He won the tournament but wore pink that Sunday.
Sam Snead

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Sergio Garcia This golfer famously hit five consecutive shots into the water on the 15th hole at the 2018 Masters.
Sergio Garcia
Sergio Garcia's meltdown at the 2018 Masters was reminiscent of Kevin Costner's character in the movie "Tin Cup." Garcia hit his ball into the water five times in a row and registered an octuple-bogey (13) on the hole.
Mark O'Meara
Bubba Watson
Stewart Cink

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Jordan Spieth He became the second youngest player to ever win the Masters when he shot -18 in 2015.
Jim Furyk
Stuart Appleby
Dustin Johnson
Jordan Spieth
Jordan Spieth turned pro in 2012 and already has three majors, but he has never won the PGA Championship. He was the second youngest to win the Masters and the youngest to win the U.S. Open Championship since Bobby Jones in 1923.

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David Duval This guy is known for wearing a visor and sunglasses and won 13 tournaments on the PGA Tour in just a few short years.
David Duval
David Duval turned pro in 1993 and was primed to be one of the game's best. He won his first and only major, The Open Championship, in 2001, but that was the last time he ever won on tour. Sudden struggles caused him to end his career early and he never made a successful comeback.
Fred Couples
Greg Norman
Hale Irwin

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Adam Scott This Australian golfer became the first Australian to win the Masters in 2013.
Adam Scott
Adam Scott attained the World No. 1 Ranking in August of 2014 and has won 13 PGA tournaments since turning pro in 2000. He only has one major victory on tour but finished second at the 2012 Open Championship.
Jason Day
Retief Goosen
Johnny Palmer

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Annika Sörenstam Can you name this Swedish golfer who holds the LPGA earnings record with more than $22 million?
Betsy King
Karrie Webb
Annika Sorenstam
Annika Sorenstam is one of the most successful golfers ever and has 72 LPGA Tour wins, with 10 of those being majors. She has earned more than $2 million more than her nearest rival and has played 149 fewer contests.
Michelle Wie

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JIM FURYK What former Player of the Year holds the PGA record for lowest round on tour?
Davis Love III
Jim Furyk
Jim Furyk has consistently competed on the PGA Tour since 1992 and has 17 wins, including a major victory at the 2003 U.S. Open. He spent 440 weeks ranked in the top 10 golfers and holds the record for lowest round on tour when he shot a 58 in 2016.
Stewart Cink
Stuart Appleby

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Rickie Fowler Do you know this popular golfer who regularly wears fitted baseball caps on tour?
Rickie Fowler
Rickie Fowler has been a fan favorite on tour since he turned pro in 2009 but still has yet to turn the corner to greatness. He has five wins and none of them are majors, but he has reached the No. 4 world ranking in 2016.
Dustin Johnson
Jordan Spieth
Justin Rose

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STEWART CINK This Alabama native's sole victory at a Major Championship came in dramatic fashion after a four-hole playoff.
Stuart Appleby
Stewart Cink
Stewart Cink has been on tour since 1997, and his sole victory in a major tournament came in 2009 at the Open Championship. He defeated Tom Watson in a four-hole playoff played at the Alisa Course of the Turnberry Resort in Scotland.
Davis Love III
Ernie Els

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KJ Choi What South Korean turned pro in 1994 and has won close to 30 professional tournaments since?
Sergio Garcia
Hideki Matsuyama
Brooks Koepka
K.J. Choi
South Korean K.J. Choi turned pro in 1994 and joined the PGA Tour in 2000. He was won 29 professional tournaments and is Asia's most successful golfer. He has never won a major but finished third at the 2004 Masters Tournament.

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Justin Rose This Englishman turned pro in 1998 and won the U.S. Open in 2013.
Ryan Moore
Justin Rose
Justin Rose joined the PGA Tour in 2003 and has 24 professional wins in total, including a 2013 U.S. Open victory. He also won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, which were the first Olympics to hold a golf event in 112 years.
Bob Murphy
Billy Mayfair

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Retief Goosen He's one of the most popular golfers out of South Africa and spent close to five years ranked as one of the top 10 golfers in the world.
Retief Goosen
South Africa is home to some of the greatest golfers to ever play on the PGA Tour, and Retief Goosen is no exception. He turned pro in 1990 and amassed 36 professional wins, including two U.S. Open victories in 2001 and 2004.
Matt Kuchar
Justin Leonard
Zach Johnson

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Jason Day This Australian golfer was a former No.1 and shot -20 at the 2015 PGA Championship.
Nick Price
Rory McIlroy
Jason Day
Jason Day turned pro in 2006, cracked the top 10 in 2011 and attained a No.1 world ranking in 2015. He has 12 wins on tour, including one major victory at the 2015 PGA Championship. He hails from Australia but also has a residence in Ohio.
Greg Norman

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Bubba Watson What lefty Southerner won two Masters in three years?
Davis Love III
Stuart Appleby
Tom Kite
Bubba Watson
Bubba Watson's laid back Southern twang perfectly matches his smooth and easy playing style. The lefty has 12 PGA Tour wins and won the Masters Tournament in 2012 and 2014. He doesn't have any other major wins but finished second at the 2010 PGA Championship.

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Ernie Els This 6'3'' South African native is nicknamed the "Big Easy" and has won four PGA Majors.
Retief Goosen
Ernie Els
Ernie Els has been a fan favorite ever since he joined the PGA Tour in 1994. He has 19 PGA wins and 71 professional wins in total, including four major championships: the 1994 and '97 U.S. Open and the 2002 and '12 Open Championship.
Tom Kite
Mark O'Meara

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Vijay Singh Can you name this retired golfer, who was the only player other than Tiger Woods to attain a World No. 1 ranking in the 2000s?
Greg Norman
Ben Crenshaw
Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh is another fan favorite and has amassed 34 PGA wins, including three majors, during his career. He held the No.1 spot in the world for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005, and was the only person other than Tiger Woods to hold the spot in the 2000s.
Lanny Wadkins

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Lee Trevino What famous golfer made a cameo in the movie "Happy Gilmore" and then regretted it?
Lee Trevino
Lee Trevino makes an epic cameo in the 1996 Adam Sandler classic "Happy Gilmore." In his golf life, Trevino won 29 PGA tournaments, including six majors. He won two of every major except the Masters, which he never won.
Johnny Miller
Gary Player
Nick Faldo

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Ben Hogan This golf legend is one of just five players to have won all four PGA Major Championships.
Tom Watson
Ben Hogan
Ben Hogan isn't the most recognizable golfer being that he played from 1930 to 1971, but his 64 PGA wins gives him the fourth-most career wins of all time. He won nine majors, winning the U.S. Open four times.
Sam Snead
Arnold Palmer

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Byron Nelson Can you name this golfer who once won 11 PGA tournaments in a row?
Billy Casper
Byron Nelson
The Byron Nelson Golf Classic is a tournament that takes place in Texas and was the first PGA tournament to be named after a golfer. Nelson amassed 52 Tour wins and five of them were major victories, but he never won The Open Championship.
Nick Faldo
Walter Hagen

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Zach Johnson This American has been on the tour for 15 years and has won two Majors. Do you know who he is?
Zach Johnson
Zach Johnson has been solid on the PGA Tour since 2004, amassing 12 wins with two of them being majors victories at the 2007 Masters and 2015 Open Championship. His 2007 Masters victory was extra special because he just edged out Tiger Woods by two strokes.
Payne Stewart
Nick Price
Fred Couples

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Hideki Matsuyama What Japanese golfer turned pro in 2013 and attained the No. 2 world ranking by 2017?
Johnny Farrell
Hideki Matsuyama
Hideki Matsuyama hails from Japan and attained a No. 2 world ranking in 2017. He has played golf, and most likely won, with President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and has a long career ahead of him.
Craig Wood
Lanny Wadkins

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Gary Player This South African golfer is nicknamed the "Black Knight" and is considered one of the greatest golfers of all time.
Johnny Miller
Gary Player
Gary Player has 165 professional wins, 24 of them being PGA wins, and nine majors. He's one of just a handful of players to have won all four majors. He hails from South Africa and in 1965 he became the first non-American to win all four majors in their career.
Zach Johnson
Patrick Reed

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Davis Love III Do you know this golfer who turned pro in 1985 and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017?
Jim Burns
Johnny Farrell
Henry Picard
Davis Love III
Davis Love III was at his peak in the 1990s and early 2000s and spent a total of 450 weeks in the top 10 rankings. He peaked at No. 2 in the world and won the 1997 PGA Championship. He amassed 37 professional wins overall, including 21 that came on the PGA Tour.

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Hale Irwin Can you name this golfing great who is one of only five players to have won official tournaments on six continents?
Bobby Jones
Greg Norman
Hale Irwin
Hale Irwin is a golfing legend and was consistently ranked atop the world between 1970 and 1985. He won three U.S. Opens and is the oldest ever U.S. Open winner, winning the tournament at age 45 in 1990.
Gary Player

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GREG NORMAN This golfing great hails from Australia and can frequently be seen wearing his Outback-inspired straw hats.
Greg Norman
Greg Norman is a popular fan favorite who has 20 PGA Tour wins and two major victories at the 1986 and '93 Open Championship. The Australian played rugby and cricket while growing up and had dreams of being a surfer. He is known for his Outback straw hats.
Hale Irwin
Jim Furyk
Stewart Cink

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Fred Couples Can you name this golfer who has consistently won on the PGA Tour for the past 40 years?
Fred Couples
Fred Couples has amassed more than 60 professional wins, with 15 of those coming on the PGA Tour, and he has one major victory coming at the 1992 Masters Tournament. He also won the Players Championship, which is considered a "little major," twice in 1984 and '96.
Henrik Stenson
Adam Scott
Justin Rose

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Hale Irwin
Nick Price
Nick Price holds two PGA Championship victories and a British Open victory. He peaked at No. 1 in the world in the mid-1990s and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2003. He was considered one of the best ball strikers in the game and was always a fan favorite.
Lee Westwood
Jason Dufner

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Mark O'Meara What golfing great spent almost 200 weeks from 1986 to 2000 ranked as one of the top 10 golfers in the world?
Tom Kite
Hale Irwin
Mark O'Meara
Before Tiger Woods burst onto the scene and destroyed everything in his sight, the PGA Tour was wide open and several players took a turn atop the leader board, and one of those people was Mark O'Meara. He won two majors and was consistently in the top 10 from 1986 to 2000.
Justin Rose

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Nick Faldo This legend won three Masters tournaments and three Open Championships.
Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo was ranked the No. 1 golfer in the world for a total of 97 weeks in his career and the legend has amassed 41 professional wins, including six PGA majors. He won three Masters Tournaments and three Open Championships.
Stewart Cink
Justin Thomas
Henrik Stenson

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MATT KUCHAR Do you know this golfer who came under fire in 2018 after he won $1.29 million and gave his caddie a 0.38% tip?
Justin Thomas
Jason Day
Matt Kuchar
When Matt Kuchar won more than $1 million in a tournament, people thought his caddie would get at least 10%. He instead got a $5,000 tip, and although that's a pretty nice tip, it's only 0.38% of Kuchar's winnings. Kuchar later apologized and upped his tip.
Gary Player

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John Daly This golfer has been one of the most popular golfers in the world since 1987 and has made several media appearances.
Tiger Woods
John Daly
John Daly is one of the biggest fan favorites on the PGA Tour and one of the biggest fan favorites in all of sports. He has five PGA Tour wins and two of those are majors. No matter whether he wins or loses, he will always be one of the game's most popular players.
Jack Nicklaus
Arnold Palmer

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