LEFTHANDERS IN SPORTS

The Best Lefthanded Golfers of All Time

Bubba Watson turned pro in 2003 and earned his first PGA Tour Victory in 2010. He has a total of twelve career wins, (including the Masters Tournament in 2012 and 2014). He also has fourteen 2nd place finishes and five 3rd place finishes among his fifty-eight times in the top ten, and he earned more than one-million per year from 2006-2021. In February 2015 he had earned the #2 ranking in the world, slumped a bit in 2016-2017, then came back with 3 tour wins in 2018. Those were his last wins on the tour, but he continued to play regularly until joining LIV Golf in 2021. Read more here.

Mike Weir

Phil Mickelson turned pro in 1992 after a successful collegiate career at Arizona State University. He had won his first PGA tour event as an amateur in 1991, the first of 45 tour victories through 2021. He has won the Masters 3 times, the PGA Championship twice, and the The Open Championship once, but has never won the US Open despite coming close several times. He is still the second leading money winner all-time on the PGA tour. Mickelson won four times on the PGA Champions tour soon after he turned 50, then chose to join LIV golf and no longer plays in any PGA Tour events except for the Majors. Read more here.

Bubba Watson

Phil Mickelson

Bob Charles

Mike Weir turned pro in 1992 and had some success on the Canadian Professional Tour and the Asian tour, but struggled on the PGA tour until he earned his first PGA Tour victory in 1999. He he has played in 463 tour events with eight tour victories, ten 2nd place finishes, and eight 3rd place finishes among sixty-nine times in the top 10. In 2003, he won the Masters tournament and finished 3rd in the US Open. Weir began playing on the PGA Champions Tour in 2020 and so far has played in 80 events with one victory and 7 second place finishes to his credit. Read more here.

Brian Harman turned pro in 2009 after a distinguished amatuer career and earned his first PGA win in 2014 and his second PGA win in 2017. Then it was not until 2023 that he earned his third win, this time a major, at the Open Championship. In between wins, Harman has played consistently good golf and has climbed to #43 on the on all-time leading money list and is 3rd among lefthanders with a good shot at passing Bubba Watson soon. Harman remains active on the 2024 PGA Tour and is a threat to win any time he plays.

Bob Charles turned pro in 1960, and played on tours all over Asia, South Africa, and Europe before making his way to the Unites States and the PGA. He earned his first PGA victory at the Houston Classic in April 1963, becoming the first lefthanded golfer ever to win a PGA tour event. Four months later he won The British Open. He finished his PGA career with six wins, then he won twenty-five times on the Senior Tour from 1987 to 1996. These are part of 80 professional wins he earned playing all over the world before, during, and after his time on the PGA Tours. Read more here.

LEFTHANDERS IN SPORTS​

LEFTHANDERS IN SPORTS