Talk:List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins

message: It seems that the (unknown) source for this list is not fully reliable and in some cases it is hard to establish the correct number of wins. The existing golf reference materials are not very complete or trustworthy, but then that is one of the main reasons why "Wikipedia Golf" is such a worthwhile project. Please add any more doubtful cases below so that they can be looked at and hopefully resolved one day. Cases which have already been resolved are struck through. There is another list that goes down to golfers with five wins here but it can't be the original sources for this (or rather the source of the recent extension of the list from players with 20 wins down to players with 5) because it is not an exact match (eg. it excludes Peter Thomson, who won once in the United States and also won The Open Championship four times, which would not have been included until 2002 and he would have been easy to miss when updating the tallies for the retrospective changes made in 2002). Osomec 09:06, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The alternatively list also omits Tony Lema, which means it deserves little credence. Osomec 09:30, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Problem cases

message: This page was voted on for deletion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Golfers with most PGA Tour wins.  dbenbenn | talk 23:45, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rejected deletion proposal

message: According to his PGA Tour death notice  Buddy Allin was a five time PGA Tour winner, but the article only lists three of them. Annandale 13:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He's been added now. Annandale 22:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Buddy Allin

message: Should the flag associatied with players be the one that they played under or the current one? There doesn't seem to be much consistency regarding this on Wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.142.101.172 (talk) 15:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: South African players

message: The use of bold names seems to indicate that Phil Mickelson is not active, and that David Duval and Justin Leonard are active.  Phil is now eligible for the Champions Tour, but he also just went deep into the main PGA Fedex Cup playoffs.  Ke seems very active for PGA wins.  Justin and David are not really competing anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EvilIntergalacticGenius (talk • contribs) 01:55, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Whether or not any are actively competing on the PGA Tour is largely irrelevant - what really matter is that reliable sources verify the content. At present, that does not seem to be the case so I would suggest we abandon all attempts to maintain active/inactive players and remove all bolding (which probably violates MOS:NOBOLD anyway). wjematherplease leave a message... 08:20, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

text: Bolding relating to under/over 50 ("Players under 50 years of age are shown in bold"), not active/inactive. So it's a well-defined concept, although it needs to be kept up-to-date. Whether it's a useful idea is another matter. Personally I'd be more than happy to get rid of it. Nigej (talk) 08:34, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the correction. Over/under 50 doesn't seem especially relevant in relation to total wins, with several players competing successfully after reaching 50 (and many others not really competing long before). wjematherplease leave a message... 15:34, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

text: If anything, This shows exactly WHY the criteria being over 50 is useless. On almost every site, a bold/no bold differnece is for active players. And for a good reason. The list is about # of wins. So boldings makes it easier for the viewer to see who is not going to be adding to their win total anymore. He still has had a decent amount of top 5s over the last 104 weeks to show that he made add to his total. So his age is irrelevant. And why include information totally irrelevant to the list? Going by age makes this list inherently broken. You don't see the list of NBA players with the most rings without LeBron James being still bold, even though he is older than most players. And Roger Federer qualified for the ATP Champions Tour years ago, yet he is still listed as if he is still actively playing and potentially adding to his totals. And rightfully so. 68.194.44.253 (talk) 02:25, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose the problem is defining what "active" means. We've seen this week at the Scottish Open that Craig Lee started with a first round 65, despite not having played an OWGR event for several years. Nigej (talk) 06:37, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Active Players?

message: How about a less distracting way of marking Hall of Fame members besides the large bolded H. An *, or, even better, a little ^, either should satisfy guidelines. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:51, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I recently removed the massive "H" markings and was reverted. These are ugly, disrupt the page by putting the focus on a distraction, and, as I suggest above, how about an unobtrusive ^ instead of a boldfaced H. That's if editors even want to keep them - I'd just remove them - or how about marking the golfers who are not in the Hall of Fame with a ^ instead. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:13, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt a bold "H" complies with MOS anyway and it does distract attention from the main purpose of this list. I would support less intrusive notation. wjematherplease leave a message... 14:45, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Hall of Fame marking

message: Lifespan seems like an odd column to include, especially with such prominence, for a table of golfers with the most wins.
I'd also suggest that we use a site such as Stat Muse in order to establish which golfers to include in bold as those still active. Or, failing this, only embolden golfers that have participated in OWGR events in the last year (or two).
Felixsv7 (talk) 14:27, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lifespan