Current Pro Men’s Golfers from England (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.

England is one of those countries. In fact, England has 15 players in the top 200, the most of any country outside the US (two more than South Africa which has the second most).

PGA Players from England

Here are the 15 golfers from England in the World Golf Rankings top 200 in the spring of 2023 including what town they’re from.

Name	City
Aaron Rai	Wolverhampton
Ben Taylor	Epsom
Callum Shinkwin	Watford
Callum Tarren	Darlington
Danny Willett	Sheffield
Harry Hall	Hayle
Jordan Smith	Bath
Matt Fitzpatrick	Sheffield
Matt Wallace	Hillingdon
Paul Casey	Cheltenham
Richard Bland	Burton upon Trent
Richard Mansell	Cannock
Sam Horsfield	Manchester
Tommy Fleetwood	Southport
Tyrrell Hatton	High Wycombe

Hall of Fame Golfers from England

If you’re looking up the current pro golfers from England, my assumption is you’d also be interested in knowing the Hall of Fame players from the country.

Name	City	Induction Year
Ian Woosnam*	Oswestry	2017
Peter Alliss**	Hindhead Surrey	2012
Sandy Lyle	Shrewsbury, Shropshire	2012
Tony Jacklin	Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire	2002
Nick Faldo	Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire	1997
Harry Cooper	Leatherhead	1992
Jim Barnes	Lelant, Cornwall	1989
Henry Cotton	Holmes Chapel, Cheshire	1980
Harold Hilton	West Kirby, Merseyside	1978
John Ball	Hoylake	1977
John Henry Taylor	Northam, Devon	1975

*Ian Woosnam lists Wales as his sporting nationality.

**Born in Berlin, Germany.

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.