Current Pro Men’s Golfers from Australia (PGA 2023)
Golfers, and athletes of all sports really, take pride in where they’re from. Whether it’s the state, city or area code – you always notice players wanting to rep their home area.
The whole Ryder Cup is basically built on the principle of competing and representing where you’re from.
Fans tend to do the same thing. It’s always more fun to pull for a player when they’re from your home state (or even your hometown).
With all that in mind, we went through the World Golf Rankings and pulled the home states (or countries) of every player in the top 200 (as of 5/19/23).
There are 28 countries (29 including the US) with at least one player representing them in the top 200.
Australia is one of those countries. In fact, Australia has 9 players (including South Australia and Western Australia) in the top 200. 9 is tied with South Korea for the 4th most of any country outside the US.
Current Pros from Australia
Here are the 9 golfers from Australia in the World Golf Rankings top 200 in the spring of 2023 including what town they’re from.
| Name | City |
|---|---|
| Brad Kennedy | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Cam Davis | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Cameron Smith | Brisbane |
| Jason Day | Beaudesert, Queensland |
| Lucas Herbert | Bendigo, Victoria |
| Marc Leishman | Warrnambool, Victoria |
| Matt Jones | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Adam Scott | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Min Woo Lee | Perth, Western Australia |
Australia Hall of Fame Golfers
In addition to the current players on the tour, I thought it would also be interesting to know the players from Australia who are in the World Golf Hall of Fame.
| Name | City | Induction Year |
|---|---|---|
| David Graham | Windsor, New South Wales | 2015 |
| Kel Nagle | North Sydney | 2007 |
| Greg Norman | Mount Isa, Queensland | 2001 |
| Peter Thomson | Brunswick, Victoria | 1988 |
| Walter Travis | Maldon, Victoria | 1979 |
Golf Hometown Fun Facts
England has the most players in the top 200 of any country outside the US. They’re followed by South Africa (13), Japan (12) and South Korea and Australia with 9 each.
To give you some context to how that compares to US States – California has the most golfers of any state in the top 200 with 21. Second most is Texas with 8, followed by Florida (7), and North Carolina and South Carolina with 5 each.
More Countries
We are slowly but surely adding our golfer hometown resources to the site. We have each state on the site and are now adding countries.
Here are a few we have so far:
Current Pro Men’s Golfers from Japan
