The 15 Best Golfers Who Have Never Won a Major

Here are the best players who have never won a major, as of July 2018.

Age: 45
Country: England
Major Appearances: 80
Top-10’s: 18

Lee Westwood has played in 79 majors, made 61 cuts, has 18 top-10 finishes, and 11 top-5 finishes.

It’s hard to single out Westy’s best year because between 2009 and 2013 he finished in the top 10 in at least two majors every year, but in 2010 he finished second in both the Masters and Open Championship.

With two PGA Tour wins and 23 European Tour wins tacked onto his ridiculous major results, Lee Westwood is one of the best golfers who has never won a major.

Age: 28
Country: USA
Major Appearances: 10
Top-10’s: 4

Tony Finau has come out of nowhere in 2018 and finished in the top 10 in the first three majors of the year. Finau’s only other top 10 finish was in 2015, his rookie year, when he finished tied for 10th at the PGA Championship.

Age: 23
Country: Spain
Major Appearances: 9
Top-10’s: 1

Jon Rahm is only 23 years old and has only competed in nine major championships, but he’s already been ranked as high as second in the world. With two PGA Tour wins and three European Tour wins, Rahm is easily the youngest player to make this list. His best major championship finish was in 2018 at the Masters when he finished fourth.

Age: 36
Country: USA
Major Appearances: 34
Top-10’s: 2

Bill Haas is another great golfer who hasn’t been able to do much in major championships. A six-time PGA Tour winner and the 2011 FedExCup champion, Haas’s best major finish came in 2017 at the U.S. Open when he finished tied for fifth.

Age: 40
Country: England
Major Appearances: 54
Top-10’s: 8

Luke Donald, once ranked number one in the world, is a five time PGA Tour winner and seven time European Tour winner. He was once regarded as the best player on the planet who couldn’t win the big one. He’s finished in the top 10 in majors eight times in his 54 appearances, but the now 40-year-old lost his passion for the game and in 2015 he managed only two top 10 finishes in 20 events. While he rebounded enough in 2016 to finish second in two events, the RBC Heritage and Wyndham Championship, he has struggled to find his game on any course that isn’t Harbour Town.

Donald has made only three cuts in the nine events he’s entered in 2018 and hasn’t played in more than one major in a single year since 2016.

Age: 36
Country: USA
Major Appearances: 41
Top-10’s: 8

Hunter Mahan has six PGA Tour wins to his name, two of which are WGC events. He’s also a FedExCup champion who has been ranked as high as fourth in the world, but Mahan lost his swing somewhere after the 2015 Deutsche Bank Championship when he finished tied for fourth. The next year, he managed only one top 25 performance (not including the Franklin Templeton Shootout, a T4), and made only nine cuts in 22 starts. His results in 2017 were much of the same. In 26 events he made 10 cuts and finished in the top 25 only twice and was forced to play in the Web.com Tour Finals to earn his status back.

After changing swing coaches, Mahan has done better in 2018. He’s played in 19 events, made 11 cuts, finished in the top 25 three times and in the top 10 once at the Barbasol Championship.

Age: 33
Country: USA
Major Appearances: 15
Top-10’s: 3

Anthony Kim seemed destined for greatness. After finishing tied for seventh in the 2008 Open Championship, Kim couldn’t get anything going in 2009, but in 2010 he turned in a third place finish at the Masters before missing the next two majors. Kim’s last two major appearances before he left the world of golf were a T5 at the Open Championship in 2011 and a missed cut at the PGA Championship.

In four years he finished in the top five twice and top 10 another time.

We miss you Anthony Kim!

Age: 29
Country: USA
Major Appearances: 35
Top-10’s: 9

Rickie Fowler is widely regarded as the best player in today’s game that has not won a major championship. Fowler has proven multiple times that he is good enough to compete on the biggest stages of the year, but has yet to pull it all together on a Sunday to walk away with a major title.

Fowler’s best year was in 2014 when he finished in the top five of all four major championships and joined only Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to do so.

Age: 40
Country: USA
Major Appearances: 50
Top-10’s: 11

Matt Kuchar began his major championship appearances in 1998 when he finished T21 as the low amateur in the Masters and T14 as the low amateur in the U.S. Open. After that, it wasn’t until 2010 when Kuchar found his groove.

In 2010, he finished in the top-10 twice in majors and has only had two years between 2010 and 2017 that he did not have a top 10 major finish.

Kuchar’s best year was 2017 when he finished T4 at the Masters, second at The Open Championship to Jordan Spieth, and T9 at the PGA Championship.

Age: 51
Country: USA
Major Appearances: 72
Top-10’s: 13

Steve Stricker has 12 PGA Tour wins to his name, he is a legend in his own right and has been a member of six winning Presidents Cup teams, and was captain of the 2016 team. He has been on three US Ryder Cup teams, including the winning 2008 team at Valhalla Golf Club.

Stricker, now 51, is still playing great golf. In 2016 he finished fourth at The Open Championship and followed that up with two top-20 performances at the 2017 Masters and U.S. Open.

While Stricker failed to make it into the Masters in 2018, he did qualify for the U.S. Open and manage to finish T20.

Age: 37
Country: USA
Major Appearances: 41
Top-10’s: 9

Brandt Snedeker always seems to be able to perform well in the first two majors of the year. He has three top-10’s at the Masters and five top-10’s at the U.S. Open since 2008.

While many may argue that Snedeker isn’t good enough to be on this list, he has only six more major appearances than Rickie Fowler and the same number of top-10’s. Snedeker also has eight PGA Tour wins to his name and was a member of the 2012 and 2016 Ryder Cup teams.

Age: 40
Country: England
Major Appearances: 58
Top-10’s: 9

Paul Casey has finished in the top-10 in three of the last four Masters tournaments and has nine top-10 finishes in majors in his career. While Casey only has two PGA Tour wins to his name, he does have 13 European Tour wins and was a part of the winning Ryder Cup teams in 2004 and 2006, as well as the losing team in 2008.

Age: 26
Country: Japan
Major Appearances: 24
Top-10’s: 7

Hideki Matsuyama is the youngest player to make this list, but since turning professional in 2013 he has had only one year (2014) where he did not finish in the top-10 in at least one major.

Matsuyama, who has 14 professional wins of which five came on the PGA Tour, ended 2017 ranked fifth in the world. He has since dropped to 16th in the world and has yet to card a top-10 in a major this season.

Age: 34
Country: Australia
Major Appearances: 28
Top-10’s: 5

Marc Leishman’s record at the Open Championship is pretty outstanding. Since 2014 he has finished in the top five twice and tied for sixth another time. The 34 year old Australian always seems to find an extra gear at The Open. He had two PGA Tour wins in 2017 (Arnold Palmer Invitational and BMW Championship) and has finished second twice thus far in 2018.

Age: 42
Country: England
Major Appearances: 58
Top-10’s: 8

Ian Poulter has finished in the top 10 in major championships eight times. He has three PGA Tour wins and 12 European Tour wins under his belt. Poulter didn’t play in five straight majors between the 2016 Masters and 2017 Open Championship, but has finished as high as second in the 2008 Open Championship. He seems to have found his game after nearly losing his PGA Tour card as he carded a win early in 2018 at the Houston Open.

A European Ryder Cup team legend, Poulter hasn’t seen that same success in major championships.