Here is the list of golfers with the most PGA Tour wins. Graham DeLeat ($11.3m) has three runner-up finishes on his PGA Tour CV, all of which came in his purple patch from 2013 to 14. Also victorious on home soil was Jin Young Ko. It hasn't exactly worked out that way, but Colsaerts still shows flashes of potential. Eagle on 18 to win by FIVE.Hideki Matsuyama seals the victory with an emphatic finish @ZOZOChamp. Frys.com Open and the 2012 Wyndham Championship. A final-round 65 at The Barclays at Liberty National fell just shy of catching Adam Scott. Close calls: Noren led going into the final round of the 2018 Farmers Insurance Open, shot a closing 73 at Torrey Pines South and found his way into a three-man playoff with Jason Day and Ryan Palmer. The Canadian also had back-to-back T-2s in 2014 at the Farmers Insurance Open and Waste Management Phoenix Open, finishing a shot back of Scott Stallings in the former and the same margin to Kevin Stadler in the former. Bobby Wadkins at the 2006 Boeing Championships. In his role, he is responsible for editing, writing and developing stories across the golf space. While the major biological clocks of Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm are not yet ticking, Kuchars is deafening. It also got me thinking. It hasn't been a roaring success, as noted by his best finishes being a pair of seconds:the 2012 Puerto Rico Open and the 2014 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Two of his four runner-up finishes have been in majors. And with $13,743,938 in earnings, Triangles won in another way. Among his top 10s are five second-place finishes and a third-place finish. Colin Montgomerie may be the best example in the sport. Close calls: Shot 67 to come up one shot short of Michael Bradley at the 2009 Puerto Rico Open and fell by the same margin to Retief Goosen at the Transitions Championship a week later. How he got to $10 million: Varner became the 11th player to join this group with his T-48 finish at the PGA Championship at Southern Hills in May 2022, which tipped him over the $10 million mark. His first near miss came at the 2011 Open Championship, where he stayed in the picture until late and finished T5. In just four full seasons on the PGA Tour, Matsuyama already has four victories. Ouch. He gained great celebrity in the 2010 Ryder Cup when he holed out a shot from the fairway and then yelled "Boom Baby.". The clearest evidence at how skewed prize money has become in the modern era is this simple statistic: There are 14 golfers who have earned $10 million of more in their PGA Tour careers without ever winning a tour event. Close calls: Rodgers tied for second with Webb Simpson at the 2015 Wells Fargo Championship, losing to Rory McIlroy, and was the solo runner-up at the 2017 John Deere Classic, a stroke back of Bryson DeChambeau. 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The player who has competed in the second-highest number of PGA Tour events is Jay Haas, who played in 798 career PGA Tour events. Tringale was in contention at the first FedEx Cup playoff event, the Barclays, but he couldn't keep up with Hunter Mahan's final-round burst and finished in a T2. The closest he came was an epic six-hole play-off with Bryce Molder at the 2011 Frys Open. Cameron Tringale was a three-time All-American selection, won four times in college and was a member of the 2009 winning Walker Cup competition. His best chance to win a major came at The Masters in 1989, where he was tied with Nick Faldo atop the leaderboard after 72 holes. One by one players will win, and new players will replace them. Jeff Overton has always been known as a unique personality on the PGA Tour. Brett Quigley ($11m) had five runner-up finishes on the PGA Tour before joining the senior circuit and winning just four months after his 50th birthday. The incredible stats behind Jon Rahm's record-breaking form, Torn on the PGA Tour schedule debate? Briny Baird came oh-so-close to his first career PGA TOUR victory on Sunday at The McGladrey Classic. Hes also only missed 18 cuts in those 105 starts. How he got to $10 million: A five-time winner on the European Tour, Fleetwood has had success since also joining the PGA Tour in 2017. For five straight years, 2012-16, the Canadian banked more than $1M. How long will this incredible streak go on for? Meanwhile, in February, four months after turning 50, Quigley won on the PGA Tour Champions. He's teed it up 92 times and has eight top 10s and 18 top 25s. Tiger Woods, Bay Hill Invitational: 2000-2003. While it hasn't produced a win yet, he has had 50 top-25 finishes through the end of the 2022 fall season that slowly added to him topping the eight-figure earnings mark. Brian Davis ($13.4m) won twice on the European Tour before turning his attention to the US circuut, where he is now 372 starts into a career that has made him incredible wealthy. His record-setting did not end there. Career PGA Tour starts: 715. Alex has been the editor of National Club Golfer since 2017. His greatness in majors feels inevitable, and it will be a huge upset if he does not challenge Seve Ballesteros as the best Spainard in golf history. Akshay Bhatia lies second, slow start for Atwal Atwal is also simultaneously getting ready to have a go at the Champions Tour, as he turns 50 later this month.The winner in Puerto Rico gets a two-year exemption on the PGA TOUR, along with a spot in the PGA Championship.The Puerto Rico Open is held opposite the Arnold Palmer Invitational, where every PGA TOUR member from the top 50 in the world . Their legacies hinge on whether it ever happens for them. Haas added a second this year at the U.S. Open, but a T5 was still six strokes behind the tournaments champion, Brooks Koepka. Davis was lauded for his classbut owns the dubious distinction of being the player with the most earnings without a PGA Tour win because of it. Quigley never really kicked one away as he shot no worse than 69 in his five runner-up finishes. Wed, 27 Oct 2021. Kurt Kitayama survives early scare to keep within touch of first PGA Raymond Floyd PGA Tour starts: 726 PGA Tour wins: 22 8. On Twitter, at least. After dropping an 18-foot putt for birdie on the final hole of regulation to tie Jim Furyk, the two returned to Harbour Towns famed 18th hole for the playoff. MORE: 13 cringeworthy stories of cheating on the golf course. Tringale became the all-time money leader without a PGA Tour win in May 2021. 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Dave Eichelberger tees off on the 16th hole of the Raven course during the second round of the Boeing Championships at Sandestin. Nick Piastowski is a Senior Editor at Golf.com and Golf Magazine. Watch more top videos, highlights, and B/R original content. He has undoubtedly been the best American player over the past two Ryder Cups. Came into the final round of 2021 Sanderson Farms Championship and the 2021 Zozo Championshp one stroke off the lead, only to shoot a closing one-under 71 and closing one-under 69 to finish T-11 and T-2, respectively. In 105 starts through the end of the 2021-22 season, the Englishman had 24 top-10 finishes, yielding an impressive 22.8 percent rate. While Ancer is still looking for the first victory of his PGA Tour career, Data Golfs expected wins stat tells us his performance puts him on the shortlist of best golfers without a win this year. 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Snedekers best chance to win was probably the 2008 Masters, where he was in second place after three rounds, but a final round 77 dropped him into third place, which remains his best major finish. 1, but a few other names inform us whos close to breaking through. While he has six career victories, including two in WGC events, he has never come out in front in a major. Wi even posted a 61 in the final round of the 2008 Valero Texas Open, but because Zach Johnson was a little better overall, it was another second-place finish. PGA Tour wins: Zero. Cameron Tringale has made the most starts without a win on the PGA Tour. How he got to $10 million: Ten top-10 finishes in 2006 landed him 20th in earnings that year. How he got to $10 million: Wi finished in the top 25 in more than 20 percent of his PGA Tour starts (58 out of 262), including five runner-up finishes. Choi has 20 career victories worldwide, with 8 of those coming on the PGA Tour, but his days of being a serious threat in big events appear to be behind him. Data Golf measures expected wins by comparing Strokes Gained performances against historical trends, factoring for the venue, year and field size, among other variables. Your IP: Quigley never really kicked one away as he shot no worse than 69 in his five runner-up finishes. Ouch. He entered the final round of play tied for the lead and shot six under in the final pairing. Sergio Garcia had held the dubious top position on this list for a long time, but with his breakthrough victory at the 2017 Masters, his position has been taken by the incredibly popular Rickie Fowler. However, a triple-bogey on the 12th hole ended his chances, and he finished in a tie for third place. T10. Away from golf, Alex follows Torquay United and spends too much time playing his PlayStation or his guitar and not enough time practising his short game. He has had many close calls, but his best squandered opportunity for the 10-time Ryder Cupper was probably the 2010 Masters. But McClaren has decided to take an indefinite mental health break from the game. His best chance was at the 2006 PGA Championship where he and Tiger Woods were 54-hole co-lead, but a Sunday 74 was six strokes worse than Tiger, and he ended up finishing in a share of 3rd place. Once ranked fourth-best in the world, he's also proved one of the highest earners in the sport too. Who's won the most PGA Tour money without a win? A new player - Golf 1 has 18 top 10s in majors without a win, and in nine of those 18, he finished either runner-up or third place. With six career PGA Tour victories, it is surprising that someone who has been consistently good on Tour for the past nine years did not record a top 10 in a major until the 2016 Open Championship, where Haas was T9 and finished 18 strokes behind winner Henrik Stenson. After that, the next step seemed to be PGA Tour stardom. The PGA Tour record for the most tournaments played in a career is 803, which belongs to Mark Brooks. Lee Trevino (29 wins, six majors) about $6.5 million. Coming in with the fourth-most major championship appearances without a victory is 31-time European Tour winner Colin Montgomerie, who teed it up at 75 majors from 1990 to 2016 without ever hoisting a trophy. Photo by Jason Parkhurst. Of course, Tringale would not have hit that mark without some success. Brooks, who won the 1996 PGA Championship at Valhalla, won seven times in his PGA Tour career. He won three times in the 1996 campaign, his best as a pro. Briny Baird with his signature straw hat. His best chance to win a major came at The Masters in 1989, where he was tied with Nick Faldo atop the leaderboard after 72 holes. Had two top-three finishes in 2020-21 and four top-10s. Overton is probably kicking himself for a final-round 70 in the 2007 Wyndham Championship as only one other player in the top 20 shot in the 70s. There's nothing flashy about Briny Baird, actually Baird rarely shows anything that might resemble a personality. You won't believe how many golfers have earned $10 million on the PGA The clearest evidence at how skewed prize money has become in the modern era is this simple statistic: There are 14 golfers who have earned $10 million of more in their PGA Tour careers. But his real near miss came in 2018 when he lost on the second playoff hole to Charles Howell III at the RSM Classic. After Palmer was bounced on the first extra hole, Day and Noren went four more before darkness forced them to return on Monday to settle things. Cameron Tringale ($15.6m) overtook Davis earlier this year thanks to a 2021 season that saw him bank almost two and a half million big ones. He's been able to post 57 top 25s and 21 top 10s and has been in contention on a number of occasions. Made close to 50 percent of his career earnings in 2013 and 2014 when he had all three of his runner-up finishes and had 14 top-10s finishes. Fortunately, Fowler has somewhat been able to reverse that trend in 2017, and at the U.S. Open, had his closest call in years when he took the 18-hole lead with a first round 65. Below, we look at the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational odds and make our PGA Tour picks and predictions. Wi had a three-shot lead after three rounds but finished two behind Phil Mickelson, shooting 72 in the final round to Leftys 64. From 1975 to 2004, 11-time PGA Tour winner Scott Hoch made 70 appearances in a major championship without securing a victory, recording 15 top-10 finishes. A final-round 65 wasnt enough to reach Justin Rose at the 2015 Zurich Classic of New Orleans but the killer was the 2016 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open where Smylie Kaufmans final-round 61 nipped Tringale (and five others) by a stroke. Take Brandt Jobe, for example. And some are in-between, such as Nicolas Colsaerts. He won three tournaments by the end of January, and in one of those, the Sony Open, he became the 7th player in Tour history to shoot a round of 59. Donald qualifies for fewer majors these days, but at 39-years-old still has time to get on the board. He ended the 2018-19 season with mouthwatering career earnings of more than $50m. Fowler came onto Tour with a great deal of hype, and while he has largely played up to it, if he does not find a way to break through in a major soon, there will be whispers that he is more hype than substance. Quigley finished with five career runners-up, including three in 2009. In his 12 years on the PGA Tour, he averaged 25.9 starts a season, making 338 career starts before deciding to join LIV Golf in August 2022 and give up the chance to finally grab career win No. Who Was the Lowest-Ranked Golfer to Win a Major Championship? And if youre an aspiring caddie, these are the bags you want to get on. There arent many people in caddie circles more popular than John McLaren. Raymond Floyd . He also captured two college national championships at Augusta State. Wi finished in the top 25 in more than 20 percent of his PGA Tour starts (58 out of 262), including five runner-up finishes. Prior to joining GOLF, James was a caddie scholarship recipient (and astute looper) on Long Island, where he is from. In 2011, Donald even somehow finished first on the money list of BOTH tours. Twice he was out front entering the final round, most recently at Harbour Town in April 2022, but he wound up tied for third, one of two career third-place finishes. That's more than 7,600 appearances for 179 wins - including Bobby Wadkins, who holds the unfortunate record for most PGA Tour starts without a win. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Quigley finished with five career runners-up, including three in 2009. All told, Brooks made 803 total PGA Tour starts, but he doesn't hold the PGA Tour record for the most cuts made in a career. Baird's closest brush with victory came in 2011 at the Frys.com Open when he chipped in for an eagle on the next-to-last hole to get into a playoff with Bryce Molder. Tringale has made 137 starts on the PGA Tour, and in that time he has posted 34 top-25 finishes and 12 top 10s. And even better, how many of those resulted in playing over the weekend? Now in his eighth PGA Tour season, Fowler has consistently asserted himself as one of the best players on Tour. Mark Calcavecchia How he got to $10 million: From 2006 through 2015, Davis averaged 30 starts, including an impressive 34 in 2008. Stricker has earned the most of any player. Briny Baird ($13.3m) started a whopping 379 PGA Tour events from 1999 to 2014 and made a lot of money in the process. Westwood now sits at 78 career major starts without a victory, the second-longest current streak, trailing only 63-year-old Jay Haas, who is at 87. Seven years, nine months, two days. MORE: Best pro golfers at every age, by World Ranking. If youre interested, you can check out Data Golfs full gamut of number-nerdness here, or read more about what goes into cultivating expected wins here. GOLF.com and GOLF Magazine are published by EB GOLF MEDIA LLC, a division of 8AM GOLF, This chart reveals the best golfer on the PGA Tour without a win in 2020, 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational tee times: Round 4 groupings for Sunday, A major-like test, World No.