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The Top Ranked Golfers of the 1970s
Notes: Ranking Explanations
| Rnk | Athlete |
| 1 | Jack Nicklaus |
| 2 | Gary Player |
| 3 | Tom Watson |
| 4 | Lee Trevino |
| 5 | Johnny Miller |
| 6 | Dave Stockton |
| 7 | Hale Irwin |
| 8 | Tom Weiskopf |
| 9 | Raymond Floyd |
| 10 | Jerry Pate |
| 11 | Hubert Green |
| 12 | Lou Graham |
| 13 | Billy Casper |
| 14 | Tommy Aaron |
| 15 | John Mahaffey |
| 16 | Seve Ballesteros |
| 17 | Tony Jacklin |
| 18 | Lanny Wadkins |
| 19 | Charles Coody |
| 20 | David Graham |
| 21 | Fuzzy Zoeller |
| 22 | Andy North |
| 23 | Ben Crenshaw |
| 24 | Bruce Crampton |
| 25 | J.C. Snead |
| 26 | Gene Littler |
| 27 | Tom Kite |
| 28 | Jim Jamieson |
| 29 | Dave Hill |
| 30 | Arnold Palmer |
| 31 | Peter Oosterhuis |
| 32 | Bob Murphy |
| 33 | Don January |
| 34 | John Schlee |
| 35 | Doug Sanders |
| 36 | Rod Funseth |
| 37 | Ed Sneed |
| 38 | Liang-Huan Lu |
| 39 | Bobby Mitchell |
| 40 | Al Geiberger |
| 41 | Neil Coles |
| 42 | Jack Newton |
| 43 | Forrest Fezler |
| 44 | Simon Owen |
| 45 | Bobby Cole |
| 46 | Jim Colbert |
| 47 | Bert Yancey |
| 48 | Sam Snead |
| 49 | Larry Ziegler |
| 50 | Rik Massengale |
| 51 | Frank Beard |
| 52 | Bob Lunn |
| 53 | Bob Charles |
| 54 | Mason Rudolph |
| 55 | Bob Rosburg |
| 56 | Harold Henning |
| 57 | Rex Caldwell |
| 58 | Tommy Bolt |
| 59 | Homero Blancas |
| 60 | Bobby Nichols |
| 61 | Mark James |
| 62 | Miller Barber |
| 63 | Gil Morgan |
| 64 | Larry Hinson |
| 65 | Tom Purtzer |
| 66 | Larry Nelson |
| 67 | Bill Rogers |
| 68 | Butch Baird |
| 69 | Ron Streck |
| 70 | Craig Defoy |
| 71 | Bruce Devlin |
| 72 | Jerry Heard |
| 73 | Jerry McGee |
| 74 | Billy Kratzert |
| 75 | Wally Armstrong |
| 76 | George Burns |
| 77 | Tommy Horton |
| 78 | Ken Still |
| 79 | Brian Barnes |
| 80 | Gibby Gilbert |
| 81 | Jay Haas |
| 82 | George Archer |
| 83 | Jim Simons |
| 84 | Danny Edwards |
| 85 | Christy O'Connor Jr. |
| 86 | Rodger Davis |
| 87 | Gary Jacobsen |
| 88 | Gay Brewer |
| 89 | Chi Chi Rodriguez |
| 90 | Graham Marsh |
| 91 | Leonard Thompson |
| 92 | Craig Stadler |
| 93 | Kermit Zarley |
| 94 | Bud Allin |
| 95 | Andy Bean |
| 96 | Bruce Lietzke |
| 97 | Bob Goalby |
| 98 | Joe Inman |
| 99 | John Schroeder |
| 100 | Roger Maltbie |
| 101 | Peter Butler |
| 102 | Gardner Dickinson |
| 103 | Mark Hayes |
| 104 | Bob Byman |
| 105 | Dan Sikes |
| 106 | Dick Lotz |
| 107 | Don Bies |
| 108 | Howard Twitty |
| 109 | Mike McCullough |
| 110 | Gary Koch |
| 111 | Pat Fitzsimons |
| 112 | Cesar Sanudo |
| 113 | Don Iverson |
| 114 | Terry Diehl |
| 115 | Lee Elder |
| 116 | Grier Jones |
| 117 | Mike Hill |
| 118 | Dale Douglass |
| 119 | Mac McLendon |
| 120 | Dave Eichelberger |
| 121 | Bob Gilder |
| 122 | DeWitt Weaver |
| 123 | Deane Beman |
| 124 | Victor Regalado |
| 125 | Art Wall |
| 126 | Lon Hinkle |
| 127 | Mike Morley |
| 128 | Bert Greene |
| 129 | Tom Shaw |
| 130 | John Lister |
| 131 | Paul Harney |
| 132 | Bob Wynn |
| 133 | George Knudson |
| 134 | Rod Curl |
| 135 | John Fought |
| 136 | Tom Jenkins |
| 137 | Wayne Levi |
| 138 | Barry Jaeckel |
| 139 | Bob Dickson |
| 140 | Babe Hiskey |
| 141 | Calvin Peete |
| 142 | Bill Garrett |
| 143 | Hugh Royer Jr. |
| 144 | Dean Refram |
| 145 | Labron Harris |
| 146 | Jack Renner |
| 147 | Gary Groh |
| 148 | Ron Cerrudo |
| 149 | Curtis Strange |
| 150 | Richie Karl |
| 151 | D.A. Weibring |
| 152 | Bob Shaw |
| 153 | Sam Adams |
| 154 | Mark McCumber |
| 155 | Bob Menne |
| 156 | Ed Fiori |
| 157 | Bob Mann |
| 158 | Pete Brown |
| 159 | Woody Blackburn |
| 160 | Phil Rodgers |
| 161 | Lyn Lott |
| 162 | Isao Aoki |
| 163 | Julius Boros |
| 164 | Bob Shearer |
| 165 | Guy Hunt |
| 166 | Nick Faldo |
| 167 | Christy O'Connor Sr. |
| 168 | David Vaughan |
| 169 | Donald Swaelens |
| 170 | Jumbo Ozaki |
| 171 | Hugh Jackson |
| 172 | Maurice Bembridge |
| 173 | Roberto De Vicenzo |
| 174 | Peter Thomson |
| 175 | Keith Fergus |
| 176 | Fred Marti |
| 177 | John Panton |
| 178 | Vicente Fernandez |
| 179 | Greg Norman |
| 180 | Norio Suzuki |
| 181 | Billy Maxwell |
| 182 | Bernard Gallacher |
| 183 | Hugh Baiocchi |
| 184 | Dale Hayes |
| 185 | Orville Moody |
| 186 | Brian Huggett |
| 187 | Simon Hobday |
| 188 | Kel Nagle |
| 189 | Peter Dawson |
| 190 | John O'Leary |
| 191 | Antonio Garrido |
| 192 | Doug McClelland |
| 193 | John Fourie |
| 194 | Dave Marr |
| 195 | Tienie Britz |
| 196 | Norman Wood |
| 197 | Brian Waites |
| 198 | Bobby Wadkins |
| 199 | Eddie Polland |
| 200 | Sandy Lyle |
| 201 | Manuel Pinero |
| 202 | Howard Clark |
| 203 | John Garner |
| 204 | Sam Torrance |
| 205 | Baldovino Dassu |
| 206 | Ken Brown |
| 207 | Stewart Ginn |
| 208 | Harry Bannerman |
| 209 | Eamonn Darcy |
| 210 | Angel Gallardo |
| 211 | Francisco Abreu |
| 212 | Michael King |
| 213 | Vince Baker |
| 214 | Ian Stanley |
| 215 | Tommy Aycock |
| 216 | Clive Clark |
| 217 | Michael Cahill |
| 218 | Paddy McGuirk |
| 219 | Jimmy Kinsella |
| 220 | Noel Ratcliffe |
| 221 | Philippe Toussaint |
| 222 | Vincent Tshabalala |
| 223 | Liam Higgins |
| 224 | Des Smyth |
| 225 | Gavin Levenson |
| 226 | German Garrido |
| 227 | Hal Underwood |
| 228 | Jaime Benito |
| 229 | Jose Maria Canizares |
| 230 | Manuel Ramos |
| 231 | Mark McNulty |
| 232 | Ramon Sota |
| 233 | Ross Whitehead |
| 234 | Salvador Balbuena |
| 235 | Steve Melnyk |
| 236 | Howie Johnson |
| 237 | Takaaki Kono |
| 238 | Denny Lyons |
| 239 | Andries Oosthuizen |
| 240 | Bob Brue |
| 241 | Joel Goldstrand |
| 242 | Paul Leonard |
| 243 | Ralph Johnston |
| 244 | Peter Townsend |
| 245 | Alan Tapie |
| 246 | John Morgan |
| 247 | Roberto Bernardini |
| 248 | Terry Gale |
| 249 | John Richardson |
| 250 | Eddie Pearce |
| 251 | Jim Wiechers |
| 252 | Don Massengale |
| 253 | George Cadle |
| 254 | Allen Miller |
| 255 | Jan Dorrestein |
| 256 | Mike Reasor |
| 257 | Phil Hancock |
| 258 | Lindy Miller |
| 259 | Artie McNickle |
| 260 | Vinny Giles |
| 261 | Guy Wolstenholme |
| 262 | Peter McEvoy |
| 263 | Tommy Nakajima |
| 264 | Terry Dill |
| 265 | Rocky Thompson |
| 266 | Peter Wilcock |
| 267 | David Good |
| 268 | Al Mengert |
| 269 | Al Balding |
| 270 | Herb Hooper |
| 271 | Hugh Boyle |
| 272 | Randy Wolff |
| 273 | Bobby Walzel |
| 274 | Randy Glover |
| 275 | Bob E. Smith |
| 276 | Bernard Hunt |
| 277 | Larry Wise |
| 278 | Chi-San Hsu |
| 279 | John Cook |
| 280 | Charles Sifford |
| 281 | Dick Siderowf |
| 282 | David Huish |
| 283 | Trevor Homer |
| 284 | Michael Bonallack |
| 285 | Bill Sander |
| 286 | Fred Ridley |
| 287 | Gary Cowan |
| 288 | Jay Sigel |
| 289 | Mark O'Meara |
| 290 | Terry Wilcox |
| 291 | Chuck Courtney |
| 292 | Scott Hoch |
| 293 | Walter Godfrey |
| 294 | Ronnie Shade |
| 295 | Bob Stanton |
| 296 | Dick Crawford |
| 297 | Bobby Clampett |
| 298 | Larry Wood |
| 299 | Bill Hyndman |
| 300 | Alan Thirlwell |
| 301 | Brad Anderson |
| 302 | Cary Parker Moore |
| 303 | David Strawn |
| 304 | Doug Fischesser |
| 305 | Ed Dougherty |
| 306 | Hugh Campbell |
| 307 | Jim Gabrielsen |
| 308 | John Davies |
| 309 | John Grace |
| 310 | Nick Job |
| 311 | Paul McKellar |
| 312 | Peter Moody |
| 313 | Stan Brion |
| 314 | Ted Hayes |
| 315 | Martin Foster |
| 316 | Frank Conner |
| 317 | Charles Coe |
| 318 | Peter Jacobsen |
| 319 | Carl Mason |
| 320 | Toru Nakamura |
| 321 | Malcolm Gregson |
| 322 | Doug Sewell |
| 323 | Mike Reid |
| 324 | Bill Large |
| 325 | Randall Vines |
| 326 | Ben Arda |
| 327 | Yung-Yo Hsieh |
| 328 | Chie-Hsiung Kuo |
| 329 | Min-Nan Hsieh |
| 330 | Brian Jones |
| 331 | Chang-Sang Han |
| 332 | Gaylord Burrows |
| 333 | Haruo Yasuda |
| 334 | Hsi-Chuen Lu |
| 335 | Seung-Hak Kim |
| 336 | Sheng-San Hsu |
| 337 | Bob Zender |
| 338 | Bill Brask |
| 339 | Chien-Chung Chen |
| 340 | Chung-Fa Chang |
| 341 | Eleuterio Nival |
| 342 | Hideyo Sugimoto |
| 343 | Ming-Chung Ho |
| 344 | Mya Aye |
| 345 | Takashi Murakami |
| 346 | Mike Krantz |
| 347 | Greg Powers |
| 348 | Joe Jimenez |
| 349 | Chung-Shyan Shen |
| 350 | David Ingram |
| 351 | Frank Phillips |
| 352 | Hiroshi Ishii |
| 353 | Isao Katsumata |
| 354 | Jack Fleck |
| 355 | Katsunari Takahashi |
| 356 | Kesahiko Uchida |
| 357 | Pete Cooper |
| 358 | Quintin Mancao |
| 359 | Shigeru Uchida |
| 360 | Tae-Woon Cho |
| 361 | Ted Ball |
| 362 | Teruo Sugihara |
| 363 | Toshiro Hitomi |
| 364 | Yurio Akitomi |
| 365 | Yutaka Suzuki |
| 366 | Don Padgett |
| 367 | Pat McGowan |
| 368 | David Jagger |
| 369 | Stuart Brown |
| 370 | Jimmy Wright |
| 371 | Nate Starks |
| 372 | Joe Porter |
| 373 | Mike Souchak |
| 374 | Gene Borek |
| 375 | Bill Longmuir |
| 376 | David Glenz |
| 377 | Armando Saavedra |
| 378 | Bob Verwey |
| 379 | Bunky Henry |
| 380 | Peter Alliss |
| 381 | Ewen Murray |
| 382 | Brian Thomson |
| 383 | David Chillas |
| 384 | Gordon Cunningham |
| 385 | Oscar Cerda |
| 386 | Lynn Janson |
| 387 | Florentino Molina |
| 388 | Eric Brown |
| 389 | Dave Thomas |
| 390 | Jimmy Powell |
| 391 | Jim Dent |
| 392 | Bob Erickson |
| 393 | Bill Collins |
| 394 | Garry Cullen |
| 395 | Mike Sullivan |
| 396 | Jim Masserio |
| 397 | Dick Hendrickson |
| 398 | Jerry Pittman |
| 399 | John Buczek |
| 400 | Ray Cragun |
| 401 | Peter Cowen |
| 402 | Sam Carmichael |
| 403 | Tony Evans |
| 404 | Martin West |
| 405 | John Gentile |
| 406 | Vince Hood |
| 407 | Morris Hatalsky |
| 408 | Ian Mosey |
| 409 | Mike Shea |
| 410 | Billy Ziobro |
| 411 | Paul Moran |
| 412 | Charles Volpone |
| 413 | Donald Gammon |
| 414 | Mac Hunter |
| 415 | Nick Price |
| 416 | Pip Elson |
| 417 | Chi-Hsiung Kuo |
| 418 | George Rives |
| 419 | Lionel Platts |
| 420 | Jacky Cupit |
| 421 | Dennis Clark |
| 422 | Alex Caygill |
| 423 | Dana Quigley |
| 424 | Denis Watson |
| 425 | Jim Nelford |
| 426 | Tony Grubb |
| 427 | Warren Humphreys |
| 428 | Derek Small |
| 429 | Barry Burgess |
| 430 | Jaime Gonzalez |
| 431 | Jim McLean |
| 432 | Tim Collins |
| 433 | Bruce Fleisher |
| 434 | Dick Smith |
| 435 | Manuel Ballesteros |
| 436 | Mike Miller |
| 437 | Noel Hunt |
| 438 | Tom Ulozas |
| 439 | Robert Stone |
| 440 | Jack Burke Jr. |
| 441 | Jimmy Hume |
| 442 | Joe Campbell |
| 443 | Dick Rhyan |
| 444 | George Will |
| 445 | Roger Ginsberg |
| 446 | Vance Heafner |
| 447 | Doug Ford |
| 448 | Peter Tupling |
| 449 | David Oakley |
| 450 | David Webster |
| 451 | Ernie Jones |
| 452 | Maurice Moir |
| 453 | Monty Kaser |
| 454 | Ron Letellier |
| 455 | R.H. Sikes |
| 456 | David Canipe |
| 457 | Gary Hallberg |
| 458 | Jerry Steelsmith |
| 459 | Allan Brodie |
| 460 | Carl Higgins |
| 461 | Fred Couples |
| 462 | Jimmy Martin |
| 463 | Peter Berry |
| 464 | Stewart Adwick |
| 465 | Bobby Greenwood |
| 466 | Arthur Silverstone |
| 467 | Beau Baugh |
| 468 | Bob Risch |
| 469 | Bobby Locke |
| 470 | Gary Robinson |
| 471 | Jack Sharkey |
| 472 | Jack Wilkshire |
| 473 | Lance Ten Broeck |
| 474 | Valentin Barrios |
| 475 | David Talbot |
| 476 | Carlton White |
| 477 | Andrew Brooks |
| 478 | Bryon Hutchinson |
| 479 | Fred Haas |
| 480 | Stuart Levermore |
| 481 | Tomas Lopez |
| 482 | Steve Spray |
| 483 | Bert Weaver |
| 484 | Dennis Tiziani |
| 485 | John McTear |
| 486 | Rives McBee |
| 487 | Jim Farmer |
| 488 | John Bland |
| 489 | Mike Butler |
| 490 | Vaughan Somers |
| 491 | Dwight Nevil |
| 492 | Bill Mallon |
| 493 | David Edwards |
| 494 | Fred Wampler |
| 495 | George Johnson |
| 496 | Joey Rassett |
| 497 | Johnny Jacobs |
| 498 | Bob Duden |
| 499 | Rolf Deming |
| 500 | Al Kelley |
| 501 | Barney Thompson |
| 502 | Dave Barber |
| 503 | Geoff Parslow |
| 504 | Ian Richardson |
| 505 | Jack Rule |
| 506 | John Cook (1936) |
| 507 | John Melnick |
| 508 | Kosaku Shimada |
| 509 | Mike Slater |
| 510 | Ross Coon |
| 511 | Chris Blocker |
| 512 | Jim O'Hern |
| 513 | Davis Love Jr. |
| 514 | Arnold O'Connor |
| 515 | Danny Yates |
| 516 | Dick McClean |
| 517 | Harry Toscano |
| 518 | Jim Hardy |
| 519 | Joey Dills |
| 520 | John Hammond |
| 521 | Martin Bohen |
| 522 | Bill Bisdorf |
| 523 | Bill Murray |
| 524 | David Llewellyn |
| 525 | Richard Lambert |
| 526 | Richard Livingston |
| 527 | Dow Finsterwald |
| 528 | Jim Holtgrieve |
| 529 | Pat Schwab |
| 530 | Sandy Walker |
| 531 | Terry Lebrocq |
| 532 | Yoshitaka Yamamoto |
| 533 | Bob Panasiuk |
| 534 | Bobby Walker |
| 535 | David Jones |
| 536 | David Snell |
| 537 | John Jacobs |
| 538 | Vince Bizik |
| 539 | Bob Benson |
| 540 | David Dunk |
| 541 | Eric Batten |
| 542 | Gene Bone |
| 543 | Jerry Breaux |
| 544 | Maurie Ver Brugge |
| 545 | Roger Watson |
| 546 | Roy Pace |
| 547 | Geoff Godwin |
| 548 | Gunnar Mueller |
| 549 | Herluf Hansen |
| 550 | Jack Keifer |
| 551 | Marty Fleckman |
| 552 | Roger Manning |
| 553 | Tom Nieporte |
| 554 | Wayne Yates |
| 555 | Robin Fyfe |
| 556 | Tommy Jacobs |
| 557 | Walter Zembriski |
| 558 | Bob Payne |
| 559 | Bobby Stroble |
| 560 | Bruce Douglass |
| 561 | Gary Baleson |
| 562 | Jack Ewing |
| 563 | Ronnie Reif |
| 564 | Silvano Locatelli |
| 565 | Al Chandler |
| 566 | Bill Lockie |
| 567 | Bob Galloway |
| 568 | Jack Connelly |
| 569 | John Fowler |
| 570 | Laurie Hammer |
| 571 | Roddy Carr |
| 572 | Tom Joyce |
| 573 | Tony Peterson |
| 574 | Dick Bury |
| 575 | Austin Straub |
| 576 | Bob Bruno |
| 577 | Charles Evans |
| 578 | Corky Dahl |
| 579 | George Bayer |
| 580 | Gordon Jones |
| 581 | Rusty Guernsey |
| 582 | Scott Bess |
| 583 | Bruce Summerhays |
| 584 | Claude Harmon Jr. |
| 585 | Dennis Meyer |
| 586 | Jim Ferree |
| 587 | Jim Ferriell |
| 588 | Leon Crump |
| 589 | Phil Ferranti |
| 590 | Frank Mize |
| 591 | Gary Hopkins |
| 592 | Howell Fraser |
| 593 | Rex Baxter |
| 594 | Stanton Altgelt |
| 595 | Bob Hold |
| 596 | Clayton Cole |
| 597 | Bill Hall |
| 598 | Larry Mancour |
| 599 | Chuck Scally |
| 600 | Dan O'Neill |
| 601 | Stan Thirsk |
| 602 | Gene Torres |
| 603 | Larry Ringer |
| 604 | Babe Lichardus |
| 605 | Mike Joyce |
| 606 | Mal Galletta |
| 607 | Dennis Coscina |
| 608 | Larry Gilbert |
| 609 | Lionel Hebert |
| 610 | Ronald Smoak |
| 611 | Steve Friebert |
| 612 | Ken Towns |
| 613 | Manuel De La Torre |
| 614 | Clare Emery |
| 615 | John Molinda |
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