The list of all-time winners on the PGA Tour is topped by two names: Tiger Woods and Sam Snead. Without getting into a debate about some of Snead’s victories — there’s certainly a time and a place for that, but not here — those two remain paired at the top of the list with 82.
With Rory McIlroy’s latest victory, the team event at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans — and yes, there’s also a time and a place to debate whwther team wins should count towards an individual’s win total, but not here — he became the 26th golfer to win at least 25 times on the PGA Tour.
McIlroy is tied at 25 with Johnny Miller, Tommy Armour and Macdonald Smith but among that group, McIlroy has the most majors (four). A 26th win would put him alongside Henry Picard. Should McIlroy get to 30, he’d be the 18th golfer to reach that plateau and the first since Vijay Singh to get there.
Here now is the list of all the golfers who reached the 25-win plateau on the PGA Tour.
We’re listing Snead first because he was the first to get to 82.
Tiger Woods 82nd win was 4 ½ years ago at the Zozo Championship.
Jack Nicklaus won 73 times, with his final victory coming at the 1986 Masters, his 18th major.
Ben Hogan won 64 times on the PGA Tour. He made exactly 300 starts and made the cut 293 times. His final victory was the 1959 Colonial National Invitation and he needed to survive an 18-hole playoff at Colonial Country Club against Fred Hawkins to earn it.
Only five golfers reached the 60-win mark and Arnold Palmer was one of them, having nabbed 62 PGA Tour victories during his career.
Nelson won 52 times, with 18 of…
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