The table below lists all the players who have won three or more of golf's major championships for men, and is complete through the 2005 Masters. The four "majors" are the most prestigious events of the golf season, and the number of wins that a player accumulates in them has a very important influence on his stature in the game.
Before the professional game acquired its modern dominance, the British Amateur and the U.S. Amateur were regarded as majors. Many people consider this usage obsolete, while others make a distinction between professional majors and total majors. In any case, if wins in these tournaments are included there are four men with ten or more major titles: Jack Nicklaus 20; Bobby Jones 13; Tiger Woods 12; Walter Hagen 11.
