The Most Famous
GOLFERS from Australia
This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Golfers. The pantheon dataset contains 61 Golfers, 4 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 5th most number of Golfers behind South Africa and Spain.
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Golfers of all time. This list of famous Australian Golfers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Greg Norman (1955 - )
With an HPI of 40.98, Greg Norman is the most famous Australian Golfer. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Gregory John Norman AO (born 10 February 1955) is an Australian entrepreneur and retired professional golfer who spent 331 weeks as world number one in the 1980s and 1990s. He won 88 professional tournaments, including 20 PGA Tour tournaments and two majors: The Open Championship in 1986 and 1993. Norman also earned thirty top-10 finishes and was the runner-up eight times in majors throughout his career. In a reference to his blond hair, size, aggressive golf style and his birthplace's native coastal animal, Norman's nickname is "the Great White Shark" (often shortened to just "the Shark"), which he earned after his play at the 1981 Masters. Norman's business interests began during his playing career. He is the chairman and CEO of the Greg Norman Company, a global corporation with a portfolio of companies in fields including apparel, interior design, real estate, wine production, private equity and golf course design. In 2021, he was named CEO of LIV Golf Investments, a start-up company financed by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund; the LIV Golf Invitational Series of golf tournaments began in 2022. Norman has donated to and established numerous charities and charity events, like the QBE Shootout which benefits the CureSearch for Children's Cancer fund. He became a Trustee of the Environmental Institute for Golf in 2004 and received the Golf Writers Association of America's Bartlett Award in 2008 for his charitable work.
2. Peter Thomson (1929 - 2018)
With an HPI of 34.88, Peter Thomson is the 2nd most famous Australian Golfer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Peter William Thomson (23 August 1929 – 20 June 2018) was an Australian professional golfer. He won the Open Championship five times between 1954 and 1965.
3. Adam Scott (1980 - )
With an HPI of 26.85, Adam Scott is the 3rd most famous Australian Golfer. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.
Adam Derek Scott (born 16 July 1980) is an Australian professional golfer who plays mainly on the PGA Tour. He was the World No. 1 ranked golfer, from mid-May to August 2014. He has won 31 professional tournaments around the world (3 being unofficial money events), on many of golf's major tours. Scott's biggest win to date was the 2013 Masters Tournament, his only major championship and the only Masters won by an Australian. Other significant wins include the 2004 Players Championship, the 2011 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the 2016 WGC-Cadillac Championship. He was the runner-up in the 2012 Open Championship, leading by four strokes with four holes to play before bogeying all of them to lose the title by a stroke to Ernie Els.
4. Jason Day (1987 - )
With an HPI of 20.41, Jason Day is the 4th most famous Australian Golfer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Jason Anthony Day (born 12 November 1987) is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and most notably won the 2015 PGA Championship. He is a former world number one in the World Golf Ranking, having first achieved the ranking in September 2015. Day first broke into the world's top ten in June 2011, rising to world number nine after his runner-up finish at the U.S. Open. In February 2014, Day won his first WGC title, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and would win it for a second time in 2016. With his 2016 win, he joined Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy as the only multiple winners of the WGC Match Play. He went on to win his first major tournament at the 2015 PGA Championship, scoring a record 20 strokes under par and rising to number three in the world rankings.
Pantheon has 4 people classified as golfers born between 1929 and 1987. Of these 4, 3 (75.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living golfers include Greg Norman, Adam Scott, and Jason Day. The most famous deceased golfers include Peter Thomson. As of April 2022, 1 new golfers have been added to Pantheon including Peter Thomson.
Living Golfers
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Greg Norman
1955 - Present
HPI: 40.98
Adam Scott
1980 - Present
HPI: 26.85
Jason Day
1987 - Present
HPI: 20.41
