List of golfers with most European Tour wins

This is a list of golfers who have won eight or more events on the European Tour since it was established in 1972. There are some complications in preparing such a list, and different publications have produced different numbers. This list is what the European Tour reports the victories being according to their own player guide.

The number of wins a player can accumulate on the European Tour depends in part on how many years he devotes to the tour. There have always been some leading European players or European Tour members from outside Europe who have gone on to play part or full time on the U.S.-based PGA Tour and cut back their commitments in Europe, and this seems to be an increasing trend.

Many of the players on the list have won many events on other tours and unofficial events. The numbers in the "Majors" column are the total number of major championships the player won in his career whether or not he was a member of the European Tour at the time. Players under 50 years of age are shown in bold.

This list is up to date through 6 November 2011.

Rank	Name	Lifespan	Country	Wins	Majors	Winning span
1	Seve Ballesteros	1957–2011	Spain	50	5	1976–1995
2	Bernhard Langer	1957–	Germany	42	2	1980–2002
3	Tiger Woods	1975–	United States	38	14	1997–2009
4	Colin Montgomerie	1963–	Scotland	31	0	1989–2007
5	Nick Faldo	1957–	England	30	6	1977–1996
6	Ian Woosnam	1958–	Wales	29	1	1982–1997
7	Ernie Els	1969–	South Africa	26	3	1994–2010
8	José María Olazábal	1966–	Spain	23	2	1986–2005
T9	Sam Torrance	1953–	Scotland	21	0	1976–1998
	Lee Westwood	1973–	England	21	0	1996–2011
T11	Mark James	1953–	England	18	0	1978–1997
	Sandy Lyle	1958–	Scotland	18	2	1979–1992
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	1964–	Spain	18	0	1992–2010
14	Mark McNulty	1953–	Zimbabwe/Ireland	16	0	1979–2001
T15	Retief Goosen	1969–	South Africa	14	2	1996–2007
	Pádraig Harrington	1971–	Ireland	14	3	1996–2008
	Greg Norman	1955–	Australia	14	2	1977–1994
	Darren Clarke	1968–	Northern Ireland	14	1	1993–2011
T19	Vijay Singh	1963–	Fiji	13	3	1989–2008
	Thomas Bjørn	1971–	Denmark	13	0	1996–2011
T21	Paul Casey	1977–	England	11	0	2001–2011
	Howard Clark	1954–	England	11	0	1978–1988
	Robert Karlsson	1969–	Sweden	11	0	1995–2010
	Ian Poulter	1976–	England	11	0	2000–2011
T25	Bernard Gallacher	1949–	Scotland	10	0	1972–1984
	Sergio García	1980–	Spain	10	0	1999–2011
	Graham Marsh	1944–	Australia	10	0	1972–1985
	Martin Kaymer	1984–	Germany	10	1	2008–2011
T29	Brian Barnes	1945–	Scotland	9	0	1972–1981
	Manuel Piñero	1952–	Spain	9	0	1974–1985
T31	Gordon Brand, Jnr	1958–	Scotland	8	0	1982–1993
	Michael Campbell	1969–	New Zealand	8	1	2000–2005
	Tony Jacklin	1944–	England	8	2	1972–1982
	Eduardo Romero	1954–	Argentina	8	0	1989–2002
	Adam Scott	1980–	Australia	8	0	2003–2011
	Des Smyth	1953–	Ireland	8	0	1979–2001

Detailed criteria

• Only European Tour sanctioned events are counted. As all elite golfers enter the four major championships and the four (three before 2009) individual World Golf Championships each season it is possible for a player to accumulate eight wins in European Tour sanctioned events without ever joining the European Tour, and Tiger Woods (who has never joined the European Tour) reached that mark in the 2000 Open Championship.
• The three U.S. based majors were not designated as European Tour events until 1997, so victories in them before that date were initially excluded. This is in contrast to the list of golfers with most PGA Tour wins, which includes Open Championship wins before that tournament became an official money event in 1995, because they were retrospectively designated as PGA Tour wins in 2002. Sometime prior to 2009, the European Tour made such a retrospective designation with respect to the three U.S. majors, as reflected in their 2009 media guide.
• Wins in the Wentworth World Match Play Championship before 2003 are not included.
• The win lists in the player profiles on the European Tour's official site include some miscellaneous items which are not regular individual tour wins and are therefore excluded: wins in 18 hole pro-ams associated with European Tour events; wins in the Volvo Bonus Pool; team wins in the Seve Trophy; wins on the Challenge Tour and the European Seniors Tour.

There are additional players who won eight or more tournaments on the pre-tour European circuit and the European Tour in the period straddling 1972 who are not included on the list.

See also

• List of men's major championships winning golfers
• List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins
• List of golfers with most Challenge Tour wins
• List of golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins
• List of golfers with most Asian Tour wins