Current Pro Men’s Golfers from Georgia (PGA)

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).

28 of the 50 states in the US have at least one player representing them in that top 200.

We found 3 players from the state of Georgia. That’s tied with four other states for 7th most of any US State (tied with Indiana, New York, Tennessee and Washington).

Pretty impressive when you think of it in terms of over 1% of the top golfers in the WORLD come from the state of Georgia.

Here are the 3 guys from Georgia in the World Golf Rankings top 200 in the spring of 2023 including what town they’re from.

Brian Harman	Savannah
Harris English	Valdosta
Russell Henley	Macon

Hall of Fame Players from Georgia

In addition to the current players from Georgia, we compiled a list of all players that have gone on to make it into the Golf Hall of Fame:

Name	City	Induction Year
Bobby Jones	Atlanta	1974

Golf Hometown Fun Facts

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.

California actually has more players than any country (outside the US) in the top 200 as well. England has the most, 15, of any foreign country.