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The Top Ranked Golfers of
the 1960s
Notes:
Ranking Explanations
|
Rnk |
Athlete |
|
1 |
Jack Nicklaus |
|
2 |
Arnold Palmer |
|
3 |
Gary Player |
|
4 |
Julius Boros |
|
5 |
Jay Hebert |
|
6 |
Bob Charles |
|
7 |
Billy Casper |
|
8 |
Kel Nagle |
|
9 |
Bob Goalby |
|
10 |
Roberto De Vicenzo |
|
11 |
Don January |
|
12 |
Bobby Nichols |
|
13 |
Tony Lema |
|
14 |
Al Geiberger |
|
15 |
Dave Marr |
|
16 |
Gay Brewer |
|
17 |
Gene Littler |
|
18 |
Peter Thomson |
|
19 |
George Archer |
|
20 |
Jerry Barber |
|
21 |
Ken Venturi |
|
22 |
Tony Jacklin |
|
23 |
Lee Trevino |
|
24 |
Raymond Floyd |
|
25 |
Orville Moody |
|
26 |
Doug Sanders |
|
27 |
Jim Ferrier |
|
28 |
Tommy Jacobs |
|
29 |
Phil Rodgers |
|
30 |
Brian Huggett |
|
31 |
George Knudson |
|
32 |
Charles Coe |
|
33 |
Tom Weiskopf |
|
34 |
Jacky Cupit |
|
35 |
Bob Rosburg |
|
36 |
Deane Beman |
|
37 |
Dave Ragan |
|
38 |
Dudley Wysong |
|
39 |
Dave Thomas |
|
40 |
Dai Rees |
|
41 |
Don Massengale |
|
42 |
Dow Finsterwald |
|
43 |
Sam Snead |
|
44 |
Bert Yancey |
|
45 |
Christy O'Connor Sr. |
|
46 |
Mike Souchak |
|
47 |
Frank Beard |
|
48 |
Dan Sikes |
|
49 |
Bruce Crampton |
|
50 |
Bernard Hunt |
|
51 |
Ted Kroll |
|
52 |
Harold Henning |
|
53 |
Jack Fleck |
|
54 |
Neil Coles |
|
55 |
Dutch Harrison |
|
56 |
Clive Clark |
|
57 |
Bert Greene |
|
58 |
George Bayer |
|
59 |
Bruce Devlin |
|
60 |
Paul Harney |
|
61 |
Mason Rudolph |
|
62 |
Tommy Bolt |
|
63 |
Bo Wininger |
|
64 |
Marty Fleckman |
|
65 |
Jimmy Wright |
|
66 |
Billy Maxwell |
|
67 |
Doug Ford |
|
68 |
Charles Coody |
|
69 |
Ed Furgol |
|
70 |
Jimmy Demaret |
|
71 |
Miller Barber |
|
72 |
Wes Ellis |
|
73 |
Gardner Dickinson |
|
74 |
Art Wall |
|
75 |
Johnny Pott |
|
76 |
Don Bies |
|
77 |
Eric Brown |
|
78 |
Tom Nieporte |
|
79 |
Bob Murphy |
|
80 |
Larry Ziegler |
|
81 |
Steve Spray |
|
82 |
Maurice Bembridge |
|
83 |
Lionel Hebert |
|
84 |
Sebastian Miguel |
|
85 |
Jack Burke Jr. |
|
86 |
Bill Collins |
|
87 |
Ramon Sota |
|
88 |
Harry Weetman |
|
89 |
Guy Wolstenholme |
|
90 |
Bob McCallister |
|
91 |
Dave Stockton |
|
92 |
Rod Funseth |
|
93 |
Kermit Zarley |
|
94 |
Davis Love Jr. |
|
95 |
Eric Monti |
|
96 |
Bill Johnston |
|
97 |
Bunky Henry |
|
98 |
Brian Barnes |
|
99 |
Dave Hill |
|
100 |
Chi Chi Rodriguez |
|
101 |
R.H. Sikes |
|
102 |
Charles Sifford |
|
103 |
Dick Hart |
|
104 |
Bob Lunn |
|
105 |
Joe Campbell |
|
106 |
Cary Middlecoff |
|
107 |
Ernie Vossler |
|
108 |
Dale Douglass |
|
109 |
Don Fairfield |
|
110 |
Bob Dickson |
|
111 |
Ken Still |
|
112 |
Dean Refram |
|
113 |
Tom Shaw |
|
114 |
Ron Cerrudo |
|
115 |
Rex Baxter |
|
116 |
Al Besselink |
|
117 |
Stan Leonard |
|
118 |
Earl Stewart |
|
119 |
Dick Mayer |
|
120 |
Butch Baird |
|
121 |
Steve Reid |
|
122 |
Chuck Courtney |
|
123 |
Homero Blancas |
|
124 |
Pete Brown |
|
125 |
Jack McGowan |
|
126 |
Jack Rule |
|
127 |
Ted Makalena |
|
128 |
Lou Graham |
|
129 |
Bert Weaver |
|
130 |
Larry Hinson |
|
131 |
Dick Lotz |
|
132 |
John Barnum |
|
133 |
Larry Mowry |
|
134 |
Monty Kaser |
|
135 |
Babe Hiskey |
|
136 |
Randy Glover |
|
137 |
Al Johnston |
|
138 |
Jim Colbert |
|
139 |
Tommy Aaron |
|
140 |
Jerry Pittman |
|
141 |
Terry Wilcox |
|
142 |
Peter Alliss |
|
143 |
Al Balding |
|
144 |
Walter Burkemo |
|
145 |
Frank Boynton |
|
146 |
Joe Carr |
|
147 |
Tommy Horton |
|
148 |
Hugh Boyle |
|
149 |
Ken Bousfield |
|
150 |
Angel Miguel |
|
151 |
Johnny Miller |
|
152 |
Lou Graham |
|
153 |
Ben Hogan |
|
154 |
Syd Scott |
|
155 |
Jean Garaialde |
|
156 |
Jon Gustin |
|
157 |
Don Cherry |
|
158 |
David Blair |
|
159 |
John Panton |
|
160 |
Fred Hawkins |
|
161 |
Chick Harbert |
|
162 |
Billy Farrell |
|
163 |
Ralph Moffitt |
|
164 |
Max Faulkner |
|
165 |
Cobie Legrange |
|
166 |
Robert Gardner |
|
167 |
Alex King |
|
168 |
Frank Phillips |
|
169 |
Ross Whitehead |
|
170 |
Peter Butler |
|
171 |
Bobby Cole |
|
172 |
Lionel Platts |
|
173 |
Tony Coop |
|
174 |
Howie Johnson |
|
175 |
Christy Greene |
|
176 |
Rives McBee |
|
177 |
Sewsunker Sewgolum |
|
178 |
Jack Sellman |
|
179 |
Mike Hoyle |
|
180 |
Stan Peach |
|
181 |
Takaaki Kono |
|
182 |
Terry Dill |
|
183 |
Mike Fetchick |
|
184 |
Dave Douglas |
|
185 |
Brian Allen |
|
186 |
Sam Carmichael |
|
187 |
Reg Knight |
|
188 |
Hugh Lewis |
|
189 |
Ian MacDonald |
|
190 |
Norman Johnson |
|
191 |
Ching-Po Chen |
|
192 |
Pete Cooper |
|
193 |
Don Whitt |
|
194 |
Bob Harris |
|
195 |
Steve Oppermann |
|
196 |
Byron Nelson |
|
197 |
Bill Martindale |
|
198 |
Dennis Hutchinson |
|
199 |
Jimmy Hitchcock |
|
200 |
Jimmy Martin |
|
201 |
Alex Caygill |
|
202 |
Peter Townsend |
|
203 |
Ronnie Shade |
|
204 |
Fidel De Luca |
|
205 |
Ian Smith |
|
206 |
Robert Reid Jack |
|
207 |
Roger Foreman |
|
208 |
Bob Verwey |
|
209 |
Manuel De La Torre |
|
210 |
Frank Stranahan |
|
211 |
Charles Huckaby |
|
212 |
Hedley Muscroft |
|
213 |
Paul Runyan |
|
214 |
Barry Coxon |
|
215 |
Paddy Skerritt |
|
216 |
Malcolm Gregson |
|
217 |
John MacDonald |
|
218 |
Jackson Bradley |
|
219 |
Alan Murray |
|
220 |
Al Mengert |
|
221 |
Brian Wilkes |
|
222 |
Doug Sewell |
|
223 |
Bill Bisdorf |
|
224 |
Dick Crawford |
|
225 |
Peter Mills |
|
226 |
Malcolm Leeder |
|
227 |
Dick Rhyan |
|
228 |
Harry Bradshaw |
|
229 |
Gordon Jones |
|
230 |
John Jacobs |
|
231 |
Michael Bonallack |
|
232 |
Labron Harris |
|
233 |
George Low III |
|
234 |
Bill Ogden |
|
235 |
Gary Cowan |
|
236 |
Bill Campbell |
|
237 |
Michael Lunt |
|
238 |
Brian Bamford |
|
239 |
Bruce Fleisher |
|
240 |
Richard Davies |
|
241 |
A.M. Deboys |
|
242 |
David Webster |
|
243 |
Gordon Clark |
|
244 |
Jack Burke Sr. |
|
245 |
Steve Melnyk |
|
246 |
Shelley Mayfield |
|
247 |
Bill Hyndman |
|
248 |
Downing Gray |
|
249 |
Vinny Giles |
|
250 |
Ed Tutwiler |
|
251 |
Lew Worsham |
|
252 |
Mac McLendon |
|
253 |
Bob Stanton |
|
254 |
Bob Brue |
|
255 |
Bob Cochran |
|
256 |
Hugh Royer Jr. |
|
257 |
James Walker |
|
258 |
John Blackwell |
|
259 |
John Povall |
|
260 |
Fred Haas |
|
261 |
George Will |
|
262 |
Donald Swaelens |
|
263 |
Ed Kroll |
|
264 |
Lloyd Mangrum |
|
265 |
Al Feminelli |
|
266 |
Pat Schwab |
|
267 |
Liang-Huan Lu |
|
268 |
Keith MacDonald |
|
269 |
Antonio Cerda |
|
270 |
Bob Erickson |
|
271 |
Fred Boobyer |
|
272 |
Bobby Mitchell |
|
273 |
Barry Franklin |
|
274 |
Eric Lester |
|
275 |
Edward Meister III |
|
276 |
Fred Marti |
|
277 |
Robin Davenport |
|
278 |
Yung-Yo Hsieh |
|
279 |
Tomoo Ishii |
|
280 |
Bob Shave |
|
281 |
Kenji Hosoishi |
|
282 |
Ben Arda |
|
283 |
Randall Vines |
|
284 |
Hideyo Sugimoto |
|
285 |
Bill Johnson |
|
286 |
Ross Newdick |
|
287 |
Chandler Harper |
|
288 |
Luis Silverio |
|
289 |
Alan Brookes |
|
290 |
Billy Dunk |
|
291 |
Celestino Tugot |
|
292 |
Chi-San Hsu |
|
293 |
Dick Metz |
|
294 |
Haruo Yasuda |
|
295 |
Herman Barron |
|
296 |
Ireneo Legaspi |
|
297 |
Len Woodward |
|
298 |
Mitsutaka Kono |
|
299 |
Sheng-San Hsu |
|
300 |
Tadashi Kitta |
|
301 |
Ted Ball |
|
302 |
Teruo Sugihara |
|
303 |
Tomio Kamata |
|
304 |
J.C. Goosie |
|
305 |
Claude Harmon |
|
306 |
Dick Stranahan |
|
307 |
Sandy Wilson |
|
308 |
Bob Shaw |
|
309 |
Otto Greiner |
|
310 |
Jim Ferree |
|
311 |
Geoffrey Hunt |
|
312 |
Paul Kelly |
|
313 |
Ron Howell |
|
314 |
Alvie Thompson |
|
315 |
Jimmy Grant |
|
316 |
John Farquhar |
|
317 |
Laurie Ayton Jr. |
|
318 |
Peter Tupling |
|
319 |
David Miller |
|
320 |
Roberto Bernardini |
|
321 |
Bob Keller |
|
322 |
Milon Marusic |
|
323 |
Jerry Steelsmith |
|
324 |
Charles Bassler |
|
325 |
Edward Brantly |
|
326 |
Jimmy Hume |
|
327 |
Robert Harrison |
|
328 |
Tom Haliburton |
|
329 |
Buster Cupit |
|
330 |
Vince Sullivan |
|
331 |
Bob Goetz |
|
332 |
Allan Henning |
|
333 |
Michael Burgess |
|
334 |
Mike Ingham |
|
335 |
Gordon Cunningham |
|
336 |
David Snell |
|
337 |
Harry Bannerman |
|
338 |
Rich Bassett |
|
339 |
Bill Large |
|
340 |
Bob E. Smith |
|
341 |
David Huish |
|
342 |
Harold Kneece |
|
343 |
Jaime Gallardo |
|
344 |
Jim Turnesa |
|
345 |
Henry Picard |
|
346 |
Henry Cotton |
|
347 |
Leopoldo Ruiz |
|
348 |
Sam Reynolds |
|
349 |
Mac Hunter |
|
350 |
Huston LeClair |
|
351 |
Doug Beattie |
|
352 |
Gene Coghill |
|
353 |
Stuart Davies |
|
354 |
Eddie Large |
|
355 |
Paul Haviland |
|
356 |
Mike Krak |
|
357 |
Michael Murphy |
|
358 |
Herman Scharlau |
|
359 |
Eddie Merrins |
|
360 |
Brian Waites |
|
361 |
John Garner |
|
362 |
Monte Bradley |
|
363 |
Paul Scodeller |
|
364 |
Tom Veech |
|
365 |
Vince Hood |
|
366 |
William Campbell |
|
367 |
Jim Henderson |
|
368 |
Sam King |
|
369 |
William McHardy |
|
370 |
Cyril Pennington |
|
371 |
Gene Bone |
|
372 |
Bert Williamson |
|
373 |
Bob Wolfe |
|
374 |
Charles Harrison |
|
375 |
D.L. Melville |
|
376 |
Duff Lawrence |
|
377 |
Johnny Johnson |
|
378 |
Peter Shanks |
|
379 |
Walter Godfrey |
|
380 |
Stan Thirsk |
|
381 |
Gene Borek |
|
382 |
Babe Lichardus |
|
383 |
Billy Joe Patton |
|
384 |
Don Essig |
|
385 |
Bill Hector |
|
386 |
Bill Sporre |
|
387 |
Charles Evans |
|
388 |
Charles Green |
|
389 |
Clarence Doser |
|
390 |
John Lively |
|
391 |
Fred Wampler |
|
392 |
Marty Furgol |
|
393 |
Bob Zimmerman |
|
394 |
Stan Dudas |
|
395 |
Hubby Habjan |
|
396 |
Joe Moore |
|
397 |
Miguel Sala |
|
398 |
Ronald White |
|
399 |
Jimmy Clark |
|
400 |
Bud Holscher |
|
401 |
Don Allen |
|
402 |
Tony Holguin |
|
403 |
Tony Grubb |
|
404 |
Dick Lundahl |
|
405 |
Stan Mosel |
|
406 |
Larry Beck |
|
407 |
Al Nelson |
|
408 |
Gibby Gilbert |
|
409 |
Mohamed Said Moussa |
|
410 |
Doug Higgins |
|
411 |
Dick Hendrickson |
|
412 |
Jerry Pisano |
|
413 |
Joe Taylor |
|
414 |
Jose Maria Gonzales |
|
415 |
Len Thomas |
|
416 |
Norman Drew |
|
417 |
Stuart Murray |
|
418 |
W.D. Smith |
|
419 |
Antonio Gallardo |
|
420 |
Earl Jacobson |
|
421 |
Tim Debaufre |
|
422 |
A. Moore |
|
423 |
Angel Gallardo |
|
424 |
Bob Panasiuk |
|
425 |
David Talbot |
|
426 |
Jack Montgomery |
|
427 |
Peter Wilcock |
|
428 |
Bobby Walker |
|
429 |
Dave Eichelberger |
|
430 |
David Bonthron |
|
431 |
Henry Ransom |
|
432 |
Jock Burns |
|
433 |
Ronnie Mandeville |
|
434 |
Robert Stone |
|
435 |
John Cook (1936) |
|
436 |
Jack Lumpkin |
|
437 |
Joe Conrad |
|
438 |
Bob Kay |
|
439 |
D.M. McBeath |
|
440 |
David Boies |
|
441 |
Ed Updegraff |
|
442 |
John Berry |
|
443 |
Jose Gonzalez |
|
444 |
Larry Mancour |
|
445 |
Mario Gonzales |
|
446 |
Walker Inman |
|
447 |
Jack Lewis |
|
448 |
Herman Keiser |
|
449 |
Jimmy McAllister |
|
450 |
John Guenther |
|
451 |
Larry Wise |
|
452 |
Marcelino Sota |
|
453 |
Martin Christmas |
|
454 |
Bob Gajda |
|
455 |
Dick Siderowf |
|
456 |
Bruce Cudd |
|
457 |
Dick Knight |
|
458 |
Frank Deighton |
|
459 |
Fred Bullock |
|
460 |
Hugh Jackson |
|
461 |
William Branch |
|
462 |
William Gabal |
|
463 |
Ross Coon |
|
464 |
David Butler |
|
465 |
Jack Wilkshire |
|
466 |
R.A.G. Munro |
|
467 |
Skee Riegel |
|
468 |
Al Chandler |
|
469 |
Bob Gardner |
|
470 |
John Hopkins |
|
471 |
Robert Reith |
|
472 |
Ronnie Reif |
|
473 |
Tom Strange |
|
474 |
Sam Penecale |
|
475 |
Vic Ghezzi |
|
476 |
Joe Zakarian |
|
477 |
Gene Sarazen |
|
478 |
Juan Estrada |
|
479 |
Larry Laoretti |
|
480 |
Charles Malchaski |
|
481 |
Ed Rubis |
|
482 |
Charles Garlena |
|
483 |
Franklin Keller |
|
484 |
Jerry Greenbaum |
|
485 |
R.E. Barnes |
|
486 |
Bob Bruno |
|
487 |
Bob Toski |
|
488 |
Buddy Sullivan |
|
489 |
Joe Greer |
|
490 |
Richard Emery |
|
491 |
Tommy Aycock |
|
492 |
Bob Hill |
|
493 |
Bob Payne |
|
494 |
Craig Defoy |
|
495 |
Don Spears |
|
496 |
Frank Rennie |
|
497 |
John Schlee |
|
498 |
Hubby Hogan |
|
499 |
Johnny Bulla |
|
500 |
Bob Crowley |
|
501 |
Billy Capps |
|
502 |
Bob Hold |
|
503 |
Bobby Clark |
|
504 |
Carl Unis |
|
505 |
Cesar Sanudo |
|
506 |
Jim Mooney |
|
507 |
Robert Watson |
|
508 |
Rocky Thompson |
|
509 |
James Stamps |
|
510 |
Frank Harned |
|
511 |
Herb Marcussen |
|
512 |
John Cockin |
|
513 |
Sam Bernardi |
|
514 |
Furman Hayes |
|
515 |
William Ferguson |
|
516 |
Lee Elder |
|
517 |
Bob Ross |
|
518 |
Claude King |
|
519 |
Dale Morey |
|
520 |
David Jimenez |
|
521 |
Dick Shoemaker |
|
522 |
Laurie Hammer |
|
523 |
Ed Griffiths |
|
524 |
David Philo |
|
525 |
Jack Ewing |
|
526 |
Horace Moore |
|
527 |
Bob Hamilton |
|
528 |
Charles Congdon |
|
529 |
Howell Fraser |
|
530 |
John O'Donnell |
|
531 |
Bill Heinlein |
|
532 |
John Carter |
|
533 |
Sonny Rouse |
|
534 |
Hale Irwin |
|
535 |
Marshall Springer |
|
536 |
J.I. McReynolds |
|
537 |
Jim Browning |
|
538 |
Jimmy Johnson |
|
539 |
Lew Taylor |
|
540 |
Dick Marshall |
|
541 |
Herb Hooper |
|
542 |
Iain Clark |
|
543 |
Jim Simons |
|
544 |
T.R. Sleichter |
|
545 |
Bob Benning |
|
546 |
Chuck Scally |
|
547 |
Clare Emery |
|
548 |
Errie Ball |
|
549 |
Leon Butler |
|
550 |
Martin Bohen |
|
551 |
Pat Rea |
|
552 |
Joe Cardenas |
|
553 |
John Cleary |
|
554 |
Dick Turner |
|
555 |
Jim Picard |
|
556 |
Gene Mitchell |
|
557 |
Gene Webb |
|
558 |
Robert Schoener |
|
559 |
Wayne Yates |
|
560 |
Roland Stafford |
|
561 |
Edward Kuna |
|
562 |
Jim Lucius |
|
563 |
Glenn Teal |
|
564 |
Tom Watrous |
|
565 |
Bill Blanton |
|
566 |
Frank Beley |
|
567 |
Ira Gwin |
|
568 |
James Riggins |
|
569 |
Ron Bakich |
|
570 |
Larry Bartosek |
|
571 |
Bill Ezinicki |
|
572 |
Bernie Haas |
|
573 |
Lou Warobick |
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