Current Pro Men’s Golfers from Tennessee (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).

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

Tennessee has 3 players out of that top 200. That may not seem like a lot, but it’s pretty impressive that 1.5% of the top golfers in the WORLD come from the state of Tennessee.

It also ties Tennessee with four other states for the 7th most of any US state (tied with Georgia, Indiana, New York, and Washington).

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

Name	City
Chris Kirk	Knoxville
Hayden Buckley	Chattanooga
Keith Mitchell	Chattanooga

Hall of Fame Players from Tennessee

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

Name	City	Induction Year
Cary Middlecoff	Halls	1986

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.