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Best Golf Players (Male)

Tiger Woods

Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975 in Cypress, California) is an American professional golfer who is the most successful golfers of all time uptill the date. In 2006, at the age of 30, he won his eleventh and twelfth professional major golf championships and has more wins on the PGA Tour than any other active golfer. He is the only active golfer currently in the top 10 in either career major wins or career PGA Tour wins.
He has been named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year four times, a record he shares with Lance Armstrong.

Jack Nicklaus

Jack William Nicklaus (born January 21, 1940), also known as "The Golden Bear" was a major force in professional golf, first on the PGA Tour from the 1960s to the mid-to-late 1980s, then on the Champions Tour from the early to mid 1990s. Nicklaus is generally regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time.

Adam Scott

Adam Derek Scott (born July 16, 1980) is a professional golfer from Australia. His proffessional playing career took off in 2001, when he won the European Tour's Alfred Dunhill Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has recorded two further European Tour victories, at the Qatar Masters and the Scottish PGA Championship.

Best Golf Players (Female)

Annika Sorenstam

Annika Sorenstam(born October 9, 1970) is a Swedish professional golfer. One of the most siccessful female golfers. She has won 69 official LPGA tournaments, including ten majors. Every year from 2000 to 2005 she won at least five tournaments and she tops the LPGA's career money list.
Sorenstam has won eight Rolex Player of the Year awards, and holds various all-time scoring records, including the lowest score in a single round (59 in the second round of the 2001 Standard Register PING tournament) and the lowest scoring average for one season (68.6969 in 2004. Sörenstam has also won the Vare Trophy, given to the LPGA player with the lowest scoring average for the year, six times.

Berg Patti

Patricia Jane Berg (February 13, 1918 – September 10, 2006) was a founding member and then leading player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
She took up golf in 1931 and began her amateur career in 1934, winning her first title that year - the Minneapolis City Championship. She came to national attention by reaching the final of the 1935 U.S.
In 1963, she was voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. The LPGA established the Patty Berg Award in 1978.
Berg told Chicagoland Golf magazine she taught over 16,000 clinics in her lifetime – many of which were sponsored by Chicago-based Wilson Sporting Goods Company and were called “The Patty Berg Hit Parade.”

Nancy Lopez

Nancy Lopez (born January 6, 1957 in Torrance, California) is one of the most accomplished women in the history of professional women's golf. She won the United States Girls Junior Amateur Golf Championship in 1972 and again in 1974. In her rookie year on the LPGA Tour, she won nine tournaments, and was named Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year in the same season. Lopez was inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1987.

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