PERSON
GolfErnie Els
🇿🇦 South Africa • b. 1969
South African golfer. 4 majors; "The Big Easy" — 9 weeks at world #1 in 1997-98.
- Nationality
- ZA
Records
4 metrics · 4 records
Career Prize Money
1 recordWhat countsOfficial tour prize money only (excludes endorsements; LIV-era totals frozen — see record notes).
- 2026May 25, 2026$49.28Msrc
Major Championship Wins
1 recordWhat countsCareer wins in the four men's major championships (Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, The Open).
- 2012Jul 22, 20124countsrc
PGA Tour Wins
1 recordWhat countsCareer official PGA Tour victories — majors count; Champions Tour and non-PGA tours don't.
- 2013Dec 31, 201319countsrc
Weeks at World #1
1 recordWhat countsCareer total weeks ranked world No. 1 by the OWGR (not the consecutive streak).
- 1998Dec 31, 19989countsrc
Sources
2 sources cited on this page
- VerifiedPGA Tour
Independently confirmed by a credible publisher.
repoint-2026-06: was https://www.owgr.com/about (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. /about and /about-us both 404, homepage 200 (2026-06-09); bare-homepage citation per the existing Transfermarkt/PGA-Tour convention; weeks-at-#1 values verified via the Wikipedia OWGR weeks list (truth-pass Phase A)
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