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Mr. 1,000: Cameron Young's unique achievement, plus a deep dive into long list of PGA Tour winners
Say hello to Mr. 1,000, Cameron Young.
Young became the 1,000th unique winner in PGA Tour history on Sunday when he captured the Wyndham Championship.
Young's win came 165 years after Willie Park won the 1860 Open Championship, a victory that is considered the first on the PGA Tour. Though the Tour wasn't officially founded until late 1968, it retroactively recognizes 414 unique winners prior to its split with the PGA of America. When Dick Lotz won the Alameda County Open on Jan. 12, 1969 – the same day that Charlie Sifford took the Los Angeles Open – he became the first first-time winner under an independent PGA Tour.
Here is a deeper dive into Nos. 1-1,000:
NOTABLE WINNERS
1. Willie Park, 1860 Open Championship
10. Willie Fernie, 1883 Open Championship
25. Willie Smith, 1899 BMW Championship
42. Walter Hagen, 1914 U.S. Open
50. Cyril Walker, 1917, International/Miami Four-Ball
75. James West, 1921 Long Island Professional Championship
78. Gene Sarazen, 1922 Southern Spring Open
97. Bobby Jones, 1923 U.S. Open
100. John Cowan, 1923 New England PGA
150. Guy Paulsen, 1928 Indiana Open
200. Stanley Turner, 1932 Santa Monica Bay event
244. Sam Snead, 1936 West Virginia Closed Pro
250. Phil Perkins, 1937 Ohio Open
256. Ben Hogan, 1938 Hershey Four-Ball
300. Henry Williams Jr., 1952 Tucson Open
326. Arnold Palmer, 1955 RBC Canadian Open
346. Gary Player, 1958 Kentucky Derby Open
350. Tommy Jacobs, 1958 Denver Open
371. Jack Nicklaus, 1962 U.S. Open
400. Ted Makalena, 1966 Sony Open
411. Lee Trevino, 1968 U.S. Open
449 and 450. Bert Greene and John Schroeder, 1973 Liggett and Myers
500. Jack Newton, 1978 Buick Open
550. Bob Eastwood, 1984 Zurich Classic
600. Ian Baker-Finch, 1989 Charles Schwab Challenge
650. Dicky Pride, 1994 FedEx St. Jude Classic
671. Tiger Woods, 1996 Shriners Children's Open
700. Tom Scherrer, 2000 Kemper Open
750. Geoff Ogilvy, 2005 Tucson Open
800. Y.E. Yang, 2009 Cognizant Classic
809. Rory McIlroy, 2010 Truist Championship
850. Derek Ernst, 2013 Truist Championship
900. Cameron Smith, 2017 Zurich Classic
950. Luke List, 2022 Farmers Insurance Open
952. Scottie Scheffler, 2022 WM Phoenix Open
999. Ryan Gerard, 2025 Barracuda Championship
1,000. Cameron Young, 2025 Wyndham Championship
FIRST-TIME WINNERS AT MAJORS
Open Championship (40)
Willie Park (1860)
Tom Morris Sr. (1861)
Andrew Strath (1865)
Tom Morris Jr. (1868)
Tom Kidd (1873)
Mungo Park (1874)
Bob Martin (1876)
Jamie Anderson (1877)
Robert Ferguson (1880)
Willie Fernie (1883)
Jack Simpson (1884)
David Brown (1886)
Willie Park Jr (1887)
Jack Burns (1888)
John Ball (1890)
Hugh Kirkaldy (1891)
Harold Hilton (1892)
William Auchterlonie (1893)
J. Taylor (1894)
Harry Vardon (1896)
James Braid (1901)
Alex Herd (1902)
Jack White (1904)
Arnaud Massy (1907)
Ted Ray (1912)
George Duncan (1920)
Arthur Havers (1923)
Henry Cotton (1934)
Alfred Perry (1935)
Alfred Padgham (1936)
RA Whitcombe (1938)
Dick Burton (1939)
Fred Daly (1947)
Max Faulkner (1951)
Peter Thomson (1954)
Kel Nagle (1960)
Sandy Lyle (1985)
Paul Lawrie (1999)
Ben Curtis (2003)
Louis Oosthuizen (2010)
U.S. Open (28)
Horace Rawlins (1895)
James Foulis (1896)
Joe Lloyd (1897)
Fred Herd (1898)
Willie Anderson (1901)
Alex Ross (1907)
Fred McLeod (1908)
George Sargent (1909)
John McDermott (1911)
Francis Ouimet (1913)
Walter Hagen (1914)
Jerry Travers (1915)
Charles Evans (1916)
Bobby Jones (1923)
John Goodman (1933)
Sam Parks (1935)
Julius Boros (1952)
Jack Fleck (1955)
Jack Nicklaus (1962)
Lee Trevino (1968)
Orville Moody (1969)
Jerry Pate (1976)
Ernie Els (1994)
Retief Goosen (2001)
Michael Campbell (2005)
Ángel Cabrera (2007)
Graeme McDowell (2010)
Matt Fitzpatrick (2022)
PGA Championship (7)
Bob Hamilton (1944)
Walter Burkemo (1953)
Lionel Hebert (1957)
Jeff Sluman (1988)
John Daly (1991)
Shaun Micheel (2003)
Martin Kaymer (2010)
Masters (4)
Claude Harmon (1948)
Bernhard Langer (1985)
Charl Schwartzel (2011)
Danny Willett (2016)
NON-MAJOR TOURNAMENTS WITH MOST FIRST-TIME WINNERS
Zurich Classic (25)
John Deere Classic (24)
Wyndham Championship (22)
BMW Championship (21)
Valero Texas Open (20)
Texas Children's Houston Open (20)
Walt Disney World (19)
MOST COMMON LAST NAMES OF WINNERS
Smith (10)
Brown (5)
Campbell (5)
Mitchell (5)
Simpson (5)
Turnesa (5)
Burns (4)
Clark (4)
Johnson (4)
Jones (4)
Kim (4)
Nelson (4)
Taylor (4)
Thompson (4)
Watson (4)
MOST COMMON AGE OF FIRST-TIME WINNERS
(Note: Age not available for 266 first-time winners.)
72 – 26 years old
70 – 28 years old
64 – 27 years old
61 – 24 years old
59 – 29 years old
57 – 25 years old
48 – 31 years old
46 – 30 years old
37 – 23 years old
35 – 33 years old
29 – 34 years old
25 – 32 years old
SEASONS WITH MOST FIRST-TIME WINNERS
18 – 2002
17 – 1928
16 – 2016, 1923
15 – 2024, 2010
14 – 2019, 2011, 1991, 1931
13 – 2023, 2022, 2006, 1996, 1929, 1924
