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  • how in the hell is ben crenshaw better than tiger, jack, arnold, seve,and sam snead?!

  • well, it is interesting and after all it is one persons opinion, I have never seen Shute I had heard of him. You could be here forever if we all put in our two bobs worth. Apparently there are a few modern players who cannot play with the old clubs Woods amongst them. The modern swing is too fast? the sweet spot too small for them.

  • Actually, you have included most of the very best golfer's in history regardless of some of the negative comments made here. The problem with stating your opinion is that the guy around the corner has a loaded shotgun filled with buckshot ready for you! I have met Chi Chi - a wonderful man - but, would not put him on the top twenty along with a couple of others. Otherwise, you have done well here - as long as your list doesn't have the twenty in order of greatness. It's all subjective fun!

  • Even I know this so called "top 20 golfers of all time" is out of wack... and I just started playing a year ago. wtf?

    also... the "Merry Mex" should be higher than 15. chi chi... really???

  • Okay, first off, let me say that you have a lot of these golfers in the correct order. However, I must disagree with Tiger being so lowly ranked. He has clearly earned number 2 at least. Tiger probably could not have shot the same scores Nicklaus did with the clubs back then, so Tiger's #2. But Palmer #1? No. He revolutionized golf; he wasn't the best. I'd give him top 10, maybe. (Btw, he's my favorite player.)

  • Chi Chi?? I can't wait for your list of top 20 singers of all time, you will probably start with William Hung and Justin Bieber!!!

  • Peter Thompson won the British Open 5 times including 3 years in a row - probably deserves a spot in the top 20

  • Couples????? Greg Norman ?????? king chokers. 3 majors between them. Ben Crenshaw is not in the top 20 all time player. Give me a break

  • Why is Couples in this list? Phil should be. The order is not correct. Chi Chi over Trevino & Watson? Obviously the poster does not know anything about golfers.

  • i cant figure out if this list is meant to be a joke or if the uploader has a room temp iq.

  • #1 Jack Nicklaus, #2 Tiger Woods.......

  • The person who did this list is clearly about 80 years-old. Seve the greatest, just for presence, charisma, style, and class alone.

  • You should have stuck to top 10, cuz you got some outliers my friend. No Nick Faldo and you have chi chi rodriquez. How bout johnny miller or ....and if that's the order well you must just be asking for a lot of comments

  • old tom morris, chi chi, freddy, crenshaw and norman in the top 20 of all time? thank god this is a free country and one cannot be killed for what they say.

  • wheres payne stewart, phil mickelson

  • The list is good, the slide show is bad! Why not action clips?

  • Thed list is good the slide show is bad!

  • The majors count is a pretty good indicator of the "all time greatest" ranking but with one exception - Greg Norman - who should have won a load more. Agree that this is a bizarre list.

  • fred couples and ben crenshaw? ... really?

  • I don't think he had em in any particular order, but WTF is Chi Chi doin' on there?!!!

  • @straws188 where's his major?!

  • @nasher1921 just wait dude. He have at least five by the end of his career.

  • list sucks

  • where's sergio?!

    

  • @straws188 in the list of the top 20 greatest golfers of all time? please tell me that's a fucking joke. i realise you may be a fan but dude, he'd be lucky to see the top 200

  • @silowhore haha yeah man i was just joking around. I do like him though.

  • @straws188 Sergio Garcia is a pathetic spolit little shit, who sulks if things don't go his way. Shouldn't be in the top 500 golfers.

  • So i take it you've never heard of golf then.

  • arnold palmer number one?? what the hell is going on?

  • James Braid?

  • what idiot put this list together!!!!!!!

  • hahahaha!

  • Chi Chi? Are you serious?

  • Why is Tiger no 17? Are you using moral rectitute as part of the criteria? Where's Faldo, Kite, Els, Even, O' Connor and Sorenson? You have too many Americans. In the interests of our sponsers I would like to include a young Qatari golfer, anyone will do.

    otherwise I enjoyed your video

  • um where am I in the list?

  • And you can change my choices around a bit, there is not even that much difference between Greg Norman and Tom Watson, these guys could all play on their day, Jack Nicklaus Tiger Woods, Walter Hagen and Ben Hogan could play when it wasn't their day.

  • Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods tied for #1, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen tied 3rd, Ben Hogan, Harry Vardon, Tom Watson, Gary Player, Gene Sarazen, Lee Trevino, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Peter Thomson, Nick Faldo, Byron Nelson, Sevriano Ballesteros, Bobby Locke, Raymond Floyd, Phil Mickelson, and ahead of people who have won more majors, Greg Norman. Usually when you come runner up it's because you were outplayed on the day, but seriously, he converts just 3 of his past 2nd places...

  • wtf man where is phil!!!

  • whats the logo on gary players hat? i c his company now is black knight.

  • @ssssssspps The logo is the international "Woolmark" wool quality assurance symbol.

  • This is just a terrible list

  • Some people simply shouldn't be allowed on youtube. This list is terrible

  • @pughni  i know he is retarded

  • Ben Hogan #1, Sam Snead #2. Everyone else is chasing.

  • so chi chi rodriguez is better than walter hagen, greg norman, harry vardon, tom watson, AND tiger

  • dear god this list is awful

  • I like your list

  • Chi Chi Rodriques ahead of Ben Hogan, are you hgh? If so I wish that I was smoking whatever you are smoking.

  • If you only count the part of Tom Watson's career starting ten years after he won his eight major championship, he still had better results in the majors than Chi Chi Rodriguez.

  • peter thompson has 5,count 'em,5 british opens but he never gets any respect.

  • There are 100's of players better than tom Morris. Cotton? please.

  • this is the worst list i've ever seen......

  • chi chi are you on drugs ?

  • hahaha what a NOOB , where is BEN HOGAN , you clearly have no clue what you are talking about , yuo dont know GOLF

  • they might not be in order

  • Your list is in the wrong order. Couples before Trevino?

  • arny ahead of nicklaus??????

  • seve at 11th u r mad he was top 5

  • Stunning in its inaccuracy, I nevertheless enjoyed the pictures. Maybe lose the 'in order' business, and you have it nailed.

  • Where is Moe Norman?

  • Nick Faldo?

  • take off shute and crenshaw and replace with byron nelson and mickey wright

  • Bobby Locke???

  • that's a pretty sad list.... bobby jones, study the dude a little more and you'll be blown away!!! retired at 28 to be with his family... opposite of tiger woods... leaving his family for the "good life". Bob is the ONLY one of these dudes to win the GRAND SLAM. Research baby, research and then you'll know... even though he didn't golf for the longest time... HE WAS THE BEST IN HIS PRIME!!!!

  • @dougheffernenrules damn right, the best of all time, I agree he was and always will be the man!

  • @dougheffernenrules

    The Grand slam is questionable to say the least. He won 2 Majors but the other 2 were amateur tourneys. Plus golf wasn't nearly as big back then. The athletes that were talented went to other sports. Golf was also a rich sport so a lot of people couldn't afford to play it. Jack and Tiger hands down.

  • chi chi? terrible list

  • There is a difference between your favorites and the "top"...You apparently don't realize that.

  • lol wtf man so bad

  • No FIGJAM? Definitely not. Nice call with Henry Cotton.

  • Phil Mickelson? Nick Faldo? Billy Casper? Vijah Singh? Horton Smith?

    They should definitely be on the list and I think your order needs some readjusting.

  • ....You've got Jack as 19.. You clearly have something wrong with you.

  • you're an idiot man... what is tiger like number 17?? you can't honestly believe that

  • You've listed some great golfers but, your order needs alot of re-shuffling since you have several greats without - or few - major victories listed ahead of legends with many. You got off the tee, but hit it out of bounds. FORE!!!!!!

  • I am so happy to see that Phil did not make your cut. As far as a terrible list is concerned, my Golf Handbook The Third Edition written by Vivien Saunders (Author of The Golf Handbook For Women) tends to agree with you absolutely!

    Well done.

  • wait... fred couples before tiger woods? um.......

  • How is chi chi above tiger. Chi chi never won a major and tiger has 14? Tiger is #2, only because Jack had more majors

  • why don't we just all agree these guys could play and reserve our venom for congress?

  • not too bad - maybe two or three that might not belong with the rest.

  • This is the most retarded thing I have ever seen. This list could not be anymore out of order. You got one right. JACK. Did you have Chi Chi likke ten or something!!??

  • Not even worth commenting on... Oops

  • this is a shame to all golfers everywhere

  • Your list is way out of order. Player before Hogan. Your crazy

  • As a golf historian this is the most hodge-podge list I have ever seen. Clearly done by someone who has little knowledge of the game.

  • i'm assuming rkodavey does not have these in a top to bottom order, but does have some good choices. we all have our personal favorites which can conflict with another's, mine being watson, who must be in the top ten, for sure.

  • younger people dont have no clue about the game's history

  • thank goodness ya had watson in there and how in the world could old tom morris beat anyone with that grip id have to see it not sure he needs to be there couple of others maybe not either but get the best golf lessons on the tube at hitmanhawky and thanks

  • byron nelson, phil mickelson, nick faldo

  • tiger will never be the greatest he;s to busy shagging whores , jack the greatest whoever lived

  • estupido

  • Ok this guy doesn't know golf at all. Where is Billy Casper bud. Ask Arnold Palmer about Casper. You have people on this list that don't belong Fred Couples, Chi Chi, Crenshaw,

  • Interesting you should mention Casper. Few young players and fans, esp. those who first came to the game because of Tiger, even know who Casper is. (This is the crowd that can't believe anybody knew how to play golf before TW came along, and gives no respect at all to players like Trevino, Watson, etc., let alone guys like Mangrum, Lema, Demaret, Floyd, etc.)

  • When it comes to the Tiger Invented Golf crowd, it blows their minds when you tell them Casper's career far surpasses any of Tiger's challengers--and he built that career when Palmer, Nicklaus, Player, and Trevino were at their best. Who does Tiger have to beat that can compare with that list? Casper had 51 PGA wins, 68 in all, and won three majors. If Mickelson wins another 14 tournaments, or Vijay wins 17 more, we'll have a rough equivalence--not counting the huge difference in competition.

  • You obiously dont know much about golf, do ya

  • outrageous but well put together

    ben crenshaw amongst others,you must be joking

  • chi chi?

  • AND WHAT ABOUT CHARLES BARKLEY!!!!!

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  • what is this exactly based on? i agree with some of your picks, just not in that order. perhaps you play a game with which i am not familiar with

  • Crenshaw??? Huh? and Chi Chi, u wot?

    Faldo surely.

    Mickleson too.

    Payne Stewart above Crenshaw

  • I think this guy is just trying to be controversial. You would have to be doing some serious drugs to believe Palmer was better than Nicklaus.

  • Fred Couples, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Greg Norman and Ben Crenshaw. I would have to rank Harry Vardon, Bobby Locke, Peter Thompson and Gene Sarazen ahead of those 4.

  • You forgot the Mysterious Montague. How could you?

    You also forgot my cousin Fred.

  • haha

  • faldo was better then crenshaw, also Locke wouold be up there aswell as thompson

  • I agree w/ rkodavey. There is NO room for argument. This is the definitive list.

  • No Nick Faldo... Gene Sarazen... are you really gonna deny more of the current players on this list... such as oh I dunno Phil Mickelson like reallythis is just ugly... okay lets see you got some great players on the list... but lets see Chi Chi I can't agree with... great player but not top 20... to be honest I think you should scrap this list and re think it... Nick Price should also be given consideration

  • not too good of a list

  • what about tom morris jr.?

  • Mine would go Tiger, Jack, Ben,Sam, Byron, Arnie, Bobby, Tom,Gary, Roberto, Walter, Lee, Phil, etc.

  • Densmore Shute in, and Gene Sarazen out ????

  • May I ask you where the hell is Nick Faldo???

    No comments about Fred Couples...

  • #1 jack nicklaus

    #2 tiger woods

    #3 arnold palmer

  • everyone knows Chi Chi was better than Nick Faldo or Gene Sarazen. Now where's my crack pipe. Dave A

  • Seriously Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicholas, and Tiger woods should be the tops, thats a fact and tiger woods is the greatest of all time

  • Poor list mate, needs an awful lot more thought then that. The order's are all over the place and some of the guys on the list shouldn't be there. Also, it's difficult to compare golfers who played the game nearly a hundred years apart because the technology is different, the approach to the game, both mentally and physically, has changed and the course designs are all longer and quicker (greens for example).

  • this is your opionion.. and thats fine, but this is a terrible list.......

  • hahaha you forgot vijay singh

  • chi chi rodriguez? the guy never even won a major. i hope this list is not in order, because tiger woods should be at the beginning of it. and there's no chance arnie is in front of jack, he's barely top 10. trevino, jack, tiger, player, sneed, nelson, hogan, jones, hagen. all better than arnie.

  • You're right about Chi Chi. However I disagree about Palmer......90 tournament wins.....multiple majors......

  • yes, and all the others i've listed have won more majors than palmer. any great player can win 90 tournaments if he plays every weekend like arnie did, but only the greatest have conquered the grand slam, something arnie never did.

  • #1. Jack Nicklaus.

    #2. Bobby Jones.

  • The one who is supposed to be the

    1# is Jack Nicklaus the one who takes Arnold Palmer above Jack Nicklaus has some serious issues and lack of experience with golf.

  • Tiger, 18th of all time?? Are you on crack??

  • @6Ott7

    They aren't numbered. And it didn't say "18th of all time", either.

  • this list is a ******** joke.

    where is

    jodie mudd ?

    craig parry ?

    and most of all how can you leave out frank lickliter?

    lmao.

  • Maybe if you could just mature a little and read the description, it says that this is totally based of his opinion. If you want to argue go make your own "Top 20 Golfers Of All Time" video and people would probably then criticize your opinion just like your doing at this moment.

  • no-he says in his description - in my opinion,there is little room for argument.-read the description properly fool.

  • chi chi but no nick faldo LMAO

  • Hale Irwin needs to be in there

  • I think you missed Tommy Armour and Bobby Thompson. Bobby Jones should be on the top of any list. Jack and Tiger are great, but Bobby won the Grand Slam while working a real job as a lawyer. He had no time to practice. He was just naturally gifted. Imagine what he could have done if he had worked on his game as hard as Jack or Tiger. Not to mention he was suffering from a neurological disease throughout his career.

  • why chi chi and lee treveno

  • fred couples is that a fucking joke

  • it was probably a tough decision between couples and john daly

  • where the fuck is billy casper. the man won 51 times on tour, more than half on your horrible list. BTW Tom fucking Morris? yea, he had a lot of competition.

  • Can I have some of what the guy who make this list up is having? Must be some good stuff.

    There will always be opinions, but one thing is for sure, RyrithEU is a lot closer to reality than the guy who made up this video.

  • RyrithEu, you opinion is typical, and very obvious. if you cant conclude Sam Snead over any of the 5 TOP PLAYERS you named you have no historical knowledge of the game, he only has the World Record for most Pga wins. like i said, you obviously have no knowledege and it bugs me you would even try to put your little list you made out there. thanks

  • chi chi? ben crenshaw? Freddy? what no ky laffoon, ian baker-finch, or Porky Oliver pictures. Or what about Dicky Pride. I think he won a golf .

  • 1. Jack Nicklaus.

    2.Bobby Jones.

    3.Walter Hagen.

    4.Ben Hogan.

    5.Tiger Woods.

  • Indeed Nick Faldo the best europan golfer ever should be in this list.

  • I don't think this was in any particular order though.

  • Fred couples are you kidding me wheres Phil?

  • I don't think this is in any peticular order, he just threw the names out there randomly. However I do believe you forgot 4-time U.S. open champion Willie Anderson.

  • Chi Chi Rodriguez ahead of Trevino??

    Crack <-- stop smoking it.

  • Wheres NICK FALDO??

  • Anyone who puts Palmer ahead of Nicklaus needs to have his medication adjusted.

  • Plenty room for argument

    Ben Crenshaw ahead of 6 TIMES major winner Nick Faldo?

    Are you having a laugh or been living on the moon?

  • With 51 PGA tour wins , 3 majors, 9 Senior wins, and 5 Vardon Trophies, Billy Casper could arguably be on everyone's top 20 list. Yet time and time again he is overlooked. And remember he did all this in the era of Palmer, Nicklaus, Player and Trevino, so he faced the stiffest competition!

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  • needs moar nick faldo

  • Tiger and Jack, everyone else is riff-raff.

  • You are so clueless :p

  • i agree with your top 20 but not the order

  • there was no order, silly :P

  • well then i just agree lol

  • hehe..

  • OK....everything that should be said has been said....pffftttt 1:44 i won't get back.

  • I think the list is intentionally ridiculous and is meant to generate criticism and argument.

    After I saw Chi Chi at number 10 (or whatever), I was waiting to see where Keith Clearwater and Dillard Pruit would show up.

  • Keith Clearwater and Dillard Pruitt?

    I was waiting for Steve Scott and Kevin Stadler after I saw Chi Chi

  • Wow, the list is so subjective, i can come up with a better list of great golfers in order stone cold drunk. You must not know too much about golf.

  • billy casper man

  • Couldn't agree more.

    Peter Thompson 5 majors

    Nick Faldo 6 majors

    Both should be well inside the Top 20

  • here! here!

  • wow! this list is purely terrible

  • Now I know why it got 2 stars. That was really bad.

  • Yeah. Some dodgy selections, but it's a matter of opinion, I guess. Interesting to see Faldo omitted while Norman is included (Faldo always had his measure). Can't work out why on earth Crenshaw, Chi Chi and Couples are in a top 20 list. To include these, you'd have to throw in Stewart, Singh, Mickelson, Els...etc, etc

    And where is Peter Thomson, 5-times Open winner?

    No, it's clearly a list based on highly personal criteria. Many worthy inclusions, several absolute shockers!

  • Couldn't have put it better myself!

  • I played old Tom Morris when I was A kid. All the way round he kept moaning about Tony Blair and saying what a complete idiot he was. I agreed with him and then he said something I will never forget. If only I could remember it. But he was right about Blair and his twaddle talking wife.

  • hopefully not in the right order

  • There are at least 5 and probably 8 or 10 in this list that clearly don't belong.

  • definitely the wrong order.

  • Ray Floyd, Nick Faldo, and Billy Casper are in my top 20.

  • yes. Nick Faldo. 6 majors. Can't forget him...

  • wow u put tiger in 18th spot.........

    i guess 6 w0rld junior titles, 3 US junior amateur titles,3 US amateur titles and 14 majors gets you next to ben crenshaw...dipshit

  • The more I look at this the more room for argument I see. Billy Casper in. Denny Shute has to be out.

  • Francis Ouimet in.  Chi Chi Rodriguez out.

  • Sorry , Jack Nicklaus record speakes for itself , he has to be the greatest golfer of all time. Tiger woods has the chance to take this title away if good enough over the future years.

  • hmmmmm.... i think tiger shud b further up than tht... will u move him up to top spot when his career is finished and he has broken all the records by miles??? heh... i think u shud do ur research m8... arnold palmer is certainly not better than nicklaus as well

  • Tiger still has a tough record to beat. Byron Nelson's record for the longest streak of PGA victories in one year. I think it was 11.

    Even Tiger Woods has said that year and record are the greatest in the history of golf. I don't see that record being broken in our lifetime.

    You might say Nelson's accomplishment isn't as great because of WW2 weakening the competition, but remember that Snead and Hogan still competed that season.

  • umm...Chi Chi was good but in my opinion not in the top 20.Maybe top 100,but he wasn't that good.

  • I have a old tape where Davis Love III was in a long drive contest with I thnk Norman and Couples - he still was using a persimmon driver - (he was the last on tour to change - he actually was in a playoff with Tiger using a persimmon driver) - his drive was 320 if I remember correctly - it's on tape if I can get it recorded I will put post it - people don't remember but him and Couples were the big guns not too long ago - I still have a Boom Boom driver the same one couples used.