Over the course ofhis career, he's recorded 88 top 25s, 31 top 10s and four second-place finishes:2001 John Deere Classic; 2011 Frys.com Open; 2003 Buick Open; 2004 FUNAI Classic at the WALT DISNEY WORLD Resort; 2009 Verizon Heritage and 2014 The McGladrey Classic. Close calls: Hearn has twice lost in a playoff when trying to get his first PGA Tour win: at the 2013 John Deere Classic, where Jordan Spieth shot a closing 65 and then took home his maiden victory; and at the 2015 Greenbrier Classic, where Danny Lee was the victor in a four-way showdown with Hearn, Robert Streb and Kevin Kisner. Still, Bairdwho at the time owned the distinction of being the player with the most money with no winskept things in perspective, telling CNN, I would rather be the guy who has won the most money without a victory than the guy who has won the least money! MORE: Best pro golfers at every age, by World Ranking. Eight of them will not have cuts and will have fields of no more . He can be reached at james.colgan@golf.com. His closest call so far was at the 2015 U.S. Open where he and Spieth were 36-hole co-leaders, but while Spieth went on to win his second career major, Reed shot a third round 76 and finished in a tie for 14th place. | October 24, 2021 | Tour. The reason? For some players, a decades-long career also comes with a tremendously packed schedule that includes lots of starts every year. Of those 84, 19 have won five or more, while only three have reached double digits, those being Jack Nicklaus (18), Tiger Woods (15), and Walter Hagen (11). While he has six career victories, including two in WGC events, he has never come out in front in a major. How he got to $10 million: The former college All-American at Stanford, where he matched Tiger Woods' career victory mark of 11 individual titles, has frequently made early round appearances on leader boards since playing his way on to the PGA Tour in 2014. Now in his eighth PGA Tour season, Fowler has consistently asserted himself as one of the best players on Tour. Dave Eichelberger. She didnt quite overtake Annika Sorenstam for most rounds in the 60s, but equalling the GOAT is some going. By almost every metric, Ancer was the best golfer in the field, but by the only metric that mattered, he was not. He just turned pro after the 2016 U.S. Open, and in only a year of professional play, he already has nine PGA Tour top 10s. Have Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay become the U.S.'s new dominant duo? Nicolas Colsaerts has played on the PGA Tour off and on for five years and brings with him a reputation of being a great power player. Home / / most pga tour starts without a win. Mark Calcavecchia However, a triple-bogey on the 12th hole ended his chances, and he finished in a tie for third place. The Englishman holds the dubious distinction of being the highest earner in PGA Tour history without an official PGA Tour win to his name. The winner of nine PGA Tour titles has won a World Golf Championships event, a Players Championship and the Memorial. Abraham Ancer found himself in rarified air Sunday for all the wrong reasons. Cauley has a pair of third-place finishes:Frys.com Open and the 2012 Wyndham Championship. 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. Abraham Ancer is still seeking his first PGA Tour win, despite several top-10 finishes. In 2010, a final-round 71 left him two in arrears to Jason Day. With his recent play. Throw in 28 career starts on the Korn Ferry Tour, and Brooks has played in more than 1,000 events under the PGA Tour umbrella. Nobody has come agonizingly close without winning more than Westwood. 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. 1, but a few other names inform us whos close to breaking through. And Tiger Woods is back! 1 in the world. Top 100 Courses in the U.S.: GOLFs all-new 2022-23 ranking is here! That's how much the 42-year-old has earned in his 14 years on Tour. Ryo Ishikawa burst onto the PGA Tour with a great deal of hype. He's made 193 career PGA Tour Champions starts, where there is no cut for almost every tournament on the schedule. Sometimes we post sponsored content from this account, and it is labeled as such. Like the SoCal version, the Pebble Beach pro-am has lost a little luster attracting excellent fields in recent years - for the pros and celebrities alike. Meanwhile, in February, four months after turning 50, Quigley won on the PGA Tour Champions. Amateur winner in history after taking the title at Southern Hills as a 17-year-old in 2009, joined this ignominious club at the first PGA Tour stop of the 2022-23 season. For most on this list, their inclusion is something of a backhand compliment. He came up two short of Brandt Snedeker. Heres a tip of the cap to these 14 men whove made a killing by being slightly above crushingly mediocre. Lost a playoff to Robert Streb at the 2015 McGladrey and lost by one to Ryan Moore at the 2012 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open despite shooting 23 under par for the week. Nicolas Colsaerts can hit the ball a long way. That was the first of two Ryder Cup appearances for Colsaerts. Article continues below this ad. 1 has 18 top 10s in majors without a win, and in nine of those 18, he finished either runner-up or third place. 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. In those 76 appearances, the 2021 Ryder Cup captain recorded 13 top-10s, his best finish being a runner-up at the 1998 PGA Championship at Sahalee Country Club, where he finished two strokes back of Vijay Singh. Ben Jared/PGA TOUR. We also occasionally include links to products and services from merchants of our choice. 'We exceeded expectations!' He was in the mix through Sunday, but a very ordinary even-par 72 in the final round left him at T5. Quigley never really kicked one away as he shot no worse than 69 in his five runner-up finishes. 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. Steve Stricker made his first major championship appearance at the 1983 U.S. Open at Oakmont, his most recent appearance at the 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, and 74. Quigley, 49, is ranked number 2,066 in the world, according to Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) and currently plays on the developmental Web.com Tour, formerly the Nationwide Tour. To put that in perspective, Ben Crenshaw (19 wins, two majors) earned a little more than $3 million in his career. 1 up for grabs and more: 3 things to watch for Arnold Palmer Invitational final round, Theyve opened themselves up: Pro says Tour changes could lead to LIV exodus, 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational: How to watch, TV schedule, streaming, tee times, Meet the new GOLF Top 100 Teachers of America, Gimme that: Arnold Palmer umbrella logo hats for every style, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. Copyright 2016-2022 Pro Golf Weekly. Seven years, nine months, two days. With hundreds of players on Tour each season and just four majors scheduled per year, there are many phenomenal players who have yet to win one. See more in GNN's affiliate disclosure. He's established some consistency, having finished in the top 90 on the money list the last four years. Neither is under intense pressure to capture major #1 in the immediate future, but both have already shown the game to contend at the highest levels. He also has one play-off defeat at the 2015 McGladrey Classic, where he was bested by Robert Streb. 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. 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. Welcome to this weeks edition of The Slam where Ill be discussing one of the more ridiculous stats in golf. Reeds five PGA Tour wins include a playoff victory over Jordan Spieth, a WGC event, a Hyundai Tournament of Champions, and a FedEx Cup playoff event. The 44-year-old, who won twice on the European. Davis only had one of his runner-up finishes be somewhat close, but it was a memorable one at the 2010 Verizon Heritage. Photo by Jason Parkhurst, Jack Nicklaus presents Masters Champion Raymond Floyd with his green jacket at the presentation ceremony during the 1976 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 11th, 1976 in Augusta, Georgia. He officially broke the $10 million mark with a T-27 finish at the 2022 World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba. 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. On his backswing, Davis hit one of the reedsa violation of the rules at the timeand called in an official for a ruling and readily agreed it was a two-shot penalty for moving a loose impediment in a hazard. How am I defining best? Winners Circle: Chris Kirk Claims Overtime Victory at The 2023 Honda Winners Circle: Charles Howell III Claims Maiden LIV Golf Victory at LIV Golf: Gooch, Uilhein Share Lead at Mayakoba, Kokrak, Casey Lead LIV Golf Mayakoba After Round 1, EasyPost Signs On As LIV Golfs First Corporate Sponsor. He also played a lot, averaging a remarkable 31 starts from 2010 through 2016. Davis went left of the green with his second shot and settled among the reeds. Sorry, Charlie. A few weeks later, An shared the lead entering the final round of the RBC Canadian Open, but a closing 69 wasn't good enough to hold off Dustin Johnson. Had two top-three finishes in 2020-21 and four top-10s. MORE: 13 cringeworthy stories of cheating on the golf course. 2 in the world rankings, finished in the top 10 of a major on 10 occasions and owns the most runner-up finishes without a victory. Start the Golf Season off right with InsideGOLF ($100 value - just $20). Cuts made: 464. The 30-year-old Californian recovered from an early . Here's a list of players who make up the current list, in my opinion. Bobby Wadkins PGA Tour starts: 715 PGA Tour wins: 0 9. Hideki Matsuyamas 2021 started with a victory he craved at the Masters, and it ended in a victory he craved in front of his compatriots as he took the Zozo Championship title in Tokyo. 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. Only one of those wins, the 2010 Greenbrier Classic, has come within the last 10 seasons, and he makes so few leaderboards these days that it is easy to forget how consistently great he was from 1997-2006. He entered the final round of play tied for the lead and shot six under in the final pairing. The 50-year-old Stricker is the oldest player on this list, and at least for now, is the biggest threat to break Julius Boros record of being the oldest player to win a major. As 54-hole leader, Westwood shot a final round 71, and was passed by Phil Mickelson on the ninth hole, and settled for a runner-up. Still, banking $10 million without winning means youve had some longevity and some skill. Howell was the sentimental winner, being a Georgia native claiming the title at Sea Island and winning for the first time in more than 11 years. He gained great celebrity in the 2010 Ryder Cup when he holed out a shot from the fairway and then yelled "Boom Baby.". The 55-year-old, perhaps best known for his on-course style thats earned him the nickname Johnny Long Socks, was Luke Donalds bagman as the Englishman ascended to World No 1, and has spent the last six years on the bag of Paul Casey. Winther is also the third Danish player to win this season, after the Hojgaard twins, Rasmus and Nicolai, went back to back in August. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. So without further ado, with a little help from the ever-excellent PGA Tour website, here are the 10 players who have topped $10 million without etching their name into a trophy. The 34-year-old has five career PGA Tour victories including one apiece in 2014, 2015, and 2016, but the man who made the clinching point for the victorious American team at the 2017 Ryder Cup has yet to finish better than T9 in a major, which he posted at the 2006 PGA Championship and the 2017 Masters. Would you rather have a PGA Tour career that spanned 15 years and made you very, very rich, or would you rather have one hot season, win a couple of million and a major, then disappear into oblivion? 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. Shortly after Simpson closed out the victory, Ancer resurfaced on one of golfs most unenviable shortlists: the best player without a PGA Tour win. And is Jin Young Ko the best golfer on the planet? PGA Tour wins: Zero. From a UK perspective, there were top 10s for Matt Wallace and Tommy Fleetwood. Its some list, Im sure youll agree. Tom Kite won his first and only major in start number 73, finally breaking through with a two-stroke victory at the 1992 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. As first reported by Golfweek, Tringale, behind his Valspar cash, has now won the most money on Tour without winning a tournament, surpassing Brian Davis, who's played just the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship this season. 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. Here is the list of 3-tournament win streaks: Walter Hagen, 1923. It's hard to imagineRyo Ishikawa is entering his seventh year on the PGA Tour. 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. Arnold Palmer PGA Tour starts: 734 PGA Tour wins: 62 7. My first thought is to reward longevity. Some are young, guys such as Bud Cauley and Cameron Tringale. After that, the next step seemed to be PGA Tour stardom. All we by a single shot, too. Over the past few years, Casey has been a regular on major leaderboards, and in his last 7 major starts, he has finished T11 or better four times. In his role, he is responsible for editing, writing and developing stories across the golf space. https://golfweek.usatoday.com/lists/10-players-most-starts-pga-tour-history/, Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic islands, Central America, Top 50 Classic Courses in Great Britain & Ireland, Top 50 Modern Courses in Great Britain & Ireland, Arnold Palmer owns one of the most decorated resumes in the history of golf, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. 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. 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. After recording five runner-up finishes in 408 starts on the PGA Tour, Quigley won the Morocco Champion on the PGA Tour Champions in his second start on the 50-and-over circuit. The 31-year-old Overton has posted 62 top 25s and 30 top 10s. 2010 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the 2010 Greenbrier Classic, the 2007 Wyndham Championship and the 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship. Close calls: An has three runner-up finishes in 149 career starts prior to returning to tour in the fall of 2022. Xander Schauffele is already approaching 1.5 expected wins and Jon Rahm, in only nine starts, is third in expected wins. He has accomplished pretty much everything else: he has 8 victories on the PGA and won the 2013 FedEx Cup. He made $9.45 million in his PGA Tour career. That would be Best Player To Have Never Won A PGA Tour Event - the granddaddy of all golf acronyms. Two of his four runner-up spots on the PGA Tour came at majors the 2018 US Open and the following years Open and who can forget Paul Azingers comments about Fleetwoods inability to get over the line when the Englishman led the 2020 Honda Classic with 18 to play? The American had six runner-ups, two third-place finishes, and 31 top 10s. Westwood did not qualify for the 2022 U.S. Open. His best major has been The Masters, where he has finished in the top six in each of the past three years. @BernhardLanger6 with a history making putt @deccgolf. He's not done yet! The following is a list of the best active golfers who still have not captured Major #1. Fans watch Ray Romano tee off on Pebble Beach Golf Links during the 2019 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. GNN may earn a commission from sales generated by those links. As first reported by Golfweek, Tringale, behind his Valspar cash, has now won the most money on Tour without winning a tournament, surpassing Brian Davis, whos played just the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship this season. Hed been bestedagain. Dave Eichelberger tees off on the 16th hole of the Raven course during the second round of the Boeing Championships at Sandestin. How he got to $10 million: From 2010 through 2015, de Jonge topped $1 million in each season, passing $2 million twice. Davis had been $37,390 ahead of Tringale to start this week. Westwood has also played the most majors without a win, his 76 topping even Sergio's 73. 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. Sorry, Charlie. Since 1999, Stricker has just one top-five finish in a major, and that was a fourth place finish at the 2016 Open Championship where he still finished 15 strokes behind the winner. Overton finished second four times: the2010 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the 2010 Greenbrier Classic, the 2007 Wyndham Championship and the 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship. Charlie Wi ($10m) has 58 top 25 finishes in 262 PGA Tour starts, including five runner-ups. 2. For a long time, Choi was the odds-on favorite to become the first major winner from Asia, but was beaten to the punch by fellow South Korean Y.E. The former world No. Bud Cauley had a very good amateur and collegiate career and hasn't done too badly as a young professional. An does have a notable win on the DP World Tour, having claimed the title in the Old World circuit's flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship, in 2015. Haas added a second this year at the U.S. Open, but a T5 was still six strokes behind the tournaments champion, Brooks Koepka. pic.twitter.com/XObbaaSArU. Three single-shot runners-up? (Photo by Augusta National/Getty Images), British Open champion Arnold Palmer poses with his trophy at Troon in 1962. Both players were looking for their first win and Molder got it with a birdie on the sixth extra hole. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Brendon de Jonge ($11.6m) broke through the million mark for six straight seasons from 2010, and the Zimbabwean will consider himself unfortunate for missing out on the 2012 Shriners title after finishing on 23-under-par. 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. Bobby Wadkins at the 2006 Boeing Championships. Looking at the PGA Tours career money list to determine the relative success of a players career is mostly a futile endeavor. Kuchar was even closer at The Open Championship, playing in the final Sunday pairing with Jordan Spieth, and taking a lead after the 13th hole, but with one of the greatest four-hole stretches in major championship history, Spieth left Kuchar, and everyone else, in his dust down the stretch. 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. However, he was irrelevant in the major season of the next two years, starting with a T12 at The Masters before three missed cuts and nothing higher than a T30 in his next seven major starts. 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. Nico Echavarria has made only two cuts in 10 starts heading into the Puerto Rico Open. USE OF AND/OR REGISTRATION ON ANY PORTION OF THIS SITE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF OURVISITOR AGREEMENT(UPDATED 1/6/23),PRIVACY AND COOKIES NOTICE(UPDATED 1/4/23) ANDCALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE. You can reach out to him about any of these topics his stories, his game or his beers at nick.piastowski@golf.com. 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. Close calls: The cat in the funky hat with the funkier putting stroke had six runner-up finishes, but none as dramatic as the 2011 Frys.com Open where he went six extra holes in a playoff with Bryce Molder before Molder ended it with a short birdie putt. At age 17, he came to the United States from his native Japan, where he was known as the Bashful Prince. 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. Hilton Head Island, coinidentally, was the scene for his best finish on tour, a T-2 in 2021. Mandatory Credit: Jason Parkhurst, Davis Love III hits his tee shot on the 11th hole during a practice round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at TPC Harding Park. Start the Golf Season off right with InsideGOLF ($100 value - just $20). Tringale turned pro in 2009 and has been an active competitor on the PGA Tour ever since 2010. He made 65 of 72 of greens in regulation (or more than 90 percent, the most-ever at Harbour Town). The. Grace, a 29-year-old South African, made international headlines in July when he shot a third-round 62 at the Open Championship, the single lowest round in major championship history, which catalyzed a T6 finish. Arnold Palmer owns one of the most decorated resumes in the history of golf, but his number of starts is one accolade that often goes unnoticed. He extended the streak to 91 with a tie for 34th at the 2022 Open Championship at St. Andrews. 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. Ancer shot four rounds in the 60s and three consecutive rounds of 65 or better to close out the weekend. That's a long time in anybody's book, but when you're trying to end a hoodoo without a PGA TOUR win, it must feel like a lifetime. On the first playoff hole, the tough par-4 10th, Hoch famously missed a two-foot par putt to win and lost on the second extra hole, the par-4 11th, when Faldo made a long birdie putt to win the first of his three green jackets. Baird picked up his sixth career runner-up finish and leads a list of all-time earners who. How he got to $10 million: Tringale became the all-time money leader without a PGA Tour win in May 2021. . And even better, how many of those resulted in playing over the weekend? Sign up here for our newsletter and you'll never slice a drive again. Xander Schauffele has the best percentage major record without a win - eight top-10s, including seven times in the top six, in just 16 appearances. In just four full seasons on the PGA Tour, Matsuyama already has four victories. There will always be players who are on the "best PGA Tour players without a career win.". Made cut percentage: 64.9. On top of his 62 wins and seven major championships, Palmer is eighth all-time in starts made on the PGA Tour. Some are older, such as Charlie Wi and Jeff Overton. pic.twitter.com/xvP2tQ9hJs. Right, thats enough from me. Promise. 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. He's been able to post 57 top 25s and 21 top 10s and has been in contention on a number of occasions. Over the course ofhis career, he's recorded 88 top 25s, 31 top 10s and four second-place finishes: Bud Cauley had a great college career at Alabama. Close calls: A final-round 65 at The Barclays at Liberty National fell just shy of catching Adam Scott. He also captured two college national championships at Augusta State. Choi eagled the 11th hole on Sunday to get within one of the lead, but despite playing the back nine in -5, Choi finished in third place, three strokes behind Mickelson. Briny Baird with his signature straw hat. the 2012 Puerto Rico Open and the 2014 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. There's nothing flashy about Briny Baird, actually Baird rarely shows anything that might resemble a personality. On his backswing, Davis hit one of the reedsa violation of the rules at the timeand called in an official for a ruling and readily agreed it was a two-shot penalty for moving a loose impediment in a hazard. In 2004, he was tied for the 54-hole lead at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee but lost by two to Carlos Franco. Quigley never really kicked one away as he shot no worse than 69 in his five runner-up finishes. Billy Mayfair opened the Quail Hollow Championship, which he Monday qualified into, with a 4-under 68. 1 with $120-plus million makes sense, but Jack Nicklaus with $5,734,031which ranks him a mere 326th all timedoes not. The moment Jeff Winther claimed his first Tour victory #MallorcaGolfOpen pic.twitter.com/y0QzXINJVM. Whats in Hideki Matsuyamas winning bag. But today's BPWM, no question, is Jon Rahm.. Yet as he tapped in his par putt to close out a final-round 65, he bore the frustration of someone whod shot in the 80s. It hasn't exactly worked out that way, but Colsaerts still shows flashes of potential. Close calls: Lost a playoff to Robert Streb at the 2015 McGladrey and lost by one to Ryan Moore at the 2012 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open despite shooting 23 under par for the week.