Three favorite golfes

Tinker

Who are your three favorite golfers all time? I got to go Snead, Palmer and Travino

kenner

Tinker
Only three, huh? How about different categories:

Impact on the game - Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan
Style - Julius Boros, Freddie Couples, Ernie Els
Personality - Chi Chi Rodriguez, Jake Trout, McCord/Feherty
Overall Talent - Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tiger Woods
Shotmaking - Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Phil Mickelson

My three favorites (among the ones I've seen personally) - Men: Boros, Palmer, Trevino; Women: Nancy Lopez, Judy Rankin, Annika Sorenstam

fatshot

Tinker
It's tough to limit yourself to just three, but.....

Snead, Palmer, Nicklaus

Close behind would be Hogan, Trevino, Bobby Jones

Sparky

Crenshaw, Trevino, Chi Chi

HybridWood

Jones, Hagen, Sarazen 😁

meagain

Rickie, Bubba, and Arnold

johnnydoom

Without good reason (I know nothing about them personally):

Vijay Singh
Ian Woosnam
Beth Daniel

mulegolf

Jack Nicklaus, Freddie Couples and Raymond Floyd for the men and
for the women: Nancy Lopez, Annika Sorenstam and Dottie Pepper.
Ray Floyd and Dottie Pepper are almost the same person. Talk about intense...

RobertThomas

Trevino, Mickleson and Speith/Thomas tie

Chrtistina Kim, Natalie Gulbis and Korda sisters for the girls

meagain

RobertThomas Do you like Lee Trevino golf balls? Have many dozens of brand new still in the case they were shipped in. Last ones I sold were to the Rawlings Corp. to put in their lobby showcase. They have never seen the light of day, absolutely like day they were made.

Weirfan

Jack ( the irrefutable greatest player of all time)
Freddie ( smooth and the calmest player under pressure I've seen)
Phil ( The thrill, nice guy, generous still a great player and exciting to watch even at almost 48)
Honorable mentions Rory and Ian Poulter

will add my three least too
Justin Thomas ( pouty, cry baby, tantrum and club throwing, swearing never smiling jerk)
Patrick Cantlay (never smiles, takes forever and ever and ever and ever and ever to play)
Tiger ( too many reasons to list)

Natpharm

Weirfan

No Mike Weir??

RobertThomas

Weirfan

Interesting as I believe Freddie had the least amount of victories for his talent level, therefore I would go as far as to say he is one of the better choke artists of all time.

Freddie lost a lot of tournaments that he should have won. He is also a dick in person.

I hear ya on Thomas, but he is young, just needs to mature a bit.

Weirfan

Natpharm

I do/did like Weirsy , he could be 3rd in there with Phil.
I suppose I could also add Brooke Henderson , great person and player.

Ringoblack

jones, vardon, nicklaus, and strange....you did ask for 4, didn't you?

women zaharias, sorenstam and pepper

Natpharm

I'll go with Tiger, Freddie Couples, and Jim Furyk as the 3 favorite I've seen in their prime. I think if I was a little bit older Arnie and Sam Snead would probably make the list.

Weirfan

RobertThomas

For me with Freddie it's more about when he was in his prime his graceful swing , calm on course demeanor ,the no glove, his saunter etc that I liked when I was just getting into golf seriously. I also played TA 845's at the time ( won them ) and wore no glove but would never be described as having a graceful swing. 🙂
I have been up close to him at tournies and never saw anything but positive interactions. Never really heard much about his off course behavior.

Jack and Freddie had the biggest influences on me taking up golf seriously .

I think he had a very good career that was severely impacted by a bad back. 64 Professional wins ( 15 on the PGA tour - 1 major) ranks in the top 30 all time.

LBlack14

Fuzzy, JD, Walrus and I root for Phil as well.

sdandrea1

Trevino, Palmer, Couples.

Par4QC

Jack Nicklaus
Roy McAvoy
Jake

RobertThomas

Weirfan

I used to love the guy, the way he walked, his smooth swing, he was cool. I guess he frustrated me so much as I rooted for him and he would somehow do just enough to lose many tournaments that I though he should have won. I think something happened as he got older as many , many people I have spoken to have noted his rudeness on and off the course. Thirty years ago he would have been in my top 3, I guess I am being too tough on Freddie in my old age. 🙂

Interesting note: Speith made more money in 2015 on the course than Freddie did his whole career on the course.

GLFTPS

Arnie
Tiger
Speith

mikeintopeka

Palmer (Arnie's Army enlistee here)
Ben Crenshaw (never will forget his emotional Master's win right after Coach Harvey Penick's death)
Gary McCord (I almost bought a jar of bikini wax because of this guy)