Gene Sarazen

Gene Sarazen

    Majors won: 7 (1935 Masters; 1922 & 1932 U.S. Open; 1932 Open Championship; 1922, 1923 & 1933 PGA Championship)

PGA Tour victories: 39 (tied for 11th all time)

Notes: A career grand slam winner, Sarazen enjoyed the best years of his career in the 1920s and 1930s. He was only 20 in 1922 when he won both the U.S. Open and PGA Championship. At age 71, Sarazen made a hole-in-one at The Open Championship in 1973, at the "Postage Stamp" at Troon in Scotland. Sarazen is also known as the man who invented the modern sand wedge, a staple in the golf bags of all serious golfers even today.