Larry Mize thinks it's Ben Hogan. Hagen is the correct answer. He finished his career with 11 professional majors. Hogan and Gary Player are next on the list with nine each. You go back 10 years and start naming the major champions and ask who finished second, people don't have a clue.
Golf is different from major team sports, where there is one champion crowned each year.
In golf, there are four major championships each year and they're normally won by different golfers. In fact, the last 13 majors have been won by different players. Tom Lehman said. Another question asked of some golfers in the Masters concerned how many major championships Tom Watson has. Invariably, most guessed he had more than the eight majors he's won.