Current Pro Men’s Golfers from New Zealand (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.
New Zealand is one of those countries. They only have one, but one is still more than most of the countries on the planet.
Here is the golfer from New Zealand in the World Golf Rankings top 200 in the spring of 2023 including what town they’re from.
| Name | City |
|---|---|
| Ryan Fox | Auckland |
Hall of Fame Players from New Zealand
In addition to the current players from New Zealand, we compiled a list of all players that have gone on to make it into the Golf Hall of Fame:
| Name | City | Induction Year |
|---|---|---|
| Bob Charles | Carterton | 2008 |
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 States
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 India
