The
Professional Game Of Golf
As the amateur game of golf has developed
so has the professional game. The current
leading professional and one of the greatest
golfers of all time is Tiger Woods. The
professional game is, however, split into
two with the
vast majority working as club or teaching
professionals. The elite group which includes
such famous names as Jack Nicklaus, Nick
Faldo and Sam Snead are "tournament
pros" who compete (or have competed)
full time on international "tours".
You can see the current top 20 Tour professionals
towards the end of this page.
The
most famous of all the golf tours is the
PGA Tour which attracts the best golfers
from the other twenty plus tours, who compete
for the first prize of $800,000. The second
ranked tour is the European Tour.
In
addition to the tours, there are the four
major championships, which include: The
Masters, The U.S. Open, The British Open
and The PGA Championship. These are the
most prestigious events in men's golf and
a golfers playing record in these tournaments
largely determines his place in golfing
history. For example, Jack Nicklaus, is
widely recognised as the
greatest
golfer of all time with his record 18
professional major victories.
The
Official World Golf Rankings as of
February 2007 for current tour players are:
|
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1 |
Tiger
Woods, USA |
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2 |
Jim
Furyk, USA |
|
3 |
Adam
Scott, Aus |
|
4 |
Ernie
Els, SAf |
|
5 |
Retief
Goosen, SAf |
|
6 |
Phil
Mickelson, USA |
|
7 |
Vijay
Singh, Fij |
|
8 |
Luke
Donald, Eng |
|
9 |
Padraig
Harrington, Ire |
|
10 |
Henrik
Stenson, Swe |
|
11 |
Geoff
Ogilvy, Aus |
|
12 |
Sergio
Garcia, Spn |
|
13 |
Trevor
Immelman, SAf |
|
14 |
Paul
Casey, Eng |
|
15 |
David
Howell, Eng |
|
16 |
Nick
O'Hern, Aus |
|
17 |
Davis
Love-III, USA |
|
18 |
David
Toms, USA |
|
19 |
Colin
Montgomerie, Sco |
|
20 |
Chris
DiMarco, USA |
|
21 |
Stuart
Appleby, Aus |
|
22 |
Jose
M Olazabal, Spn |
|
23 |
Choi
Kyung-Ju, Kor |
|
24 |
Shingo
Katayama, Jpn |
|
25 |
Stewart
Cink, USA |
|
26 |
Robert
Karlsson, Swe |
|
27 |
Joe
Durant, USA |
|
28 |
Ian
Poulter, Eng |
|
29 |
Michael
Campbell, NZl |
|
30 |
Yang
Yong-Eun, Kor |
|
31 |
Angel
Cabrera, Arg |
|
32 |
Tim
Clark, SAf |
|
33 |
Rod
Pampling, Aus |
|
34 |
Robert
Allenby, Aus |
|
35 |
Chad
Campbell, USA |
|
36 |
Justin
Rose, Eng |
|
37 |
Jeev
Milkha Singh, Ind |
|
38 |
Bart
Bryant, USA |
|
39 |
Niclas
Fasth, Swe |
|
40 |
Stephen
Ames, Can |
|
41 |
Brett
Wetterich, USA |
|
42 |
Paul
Goydos, USA |
|
43 |
Carl
Pettersson, Swe |
|
44 |
Aaron
Baddeley, Aus |
|
45 |
Johan
Edfors, Swe |
|
46 |
Ben
Crane, USA |
|
47 |
Charles
Howell-III, USA |
|
48 |
Rory
Sabbatini, SAf |
|
49 |
Lucas
Glover, USA |
|
50 |
Arron
Oberholser, USA |
Source
of information:
Official World
Golf Ranking
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