Statistical bios for the players competing in Golf Channel’s Ultimate Match Play Championship, in order of seed. Click here to vote in the finals!
No. 1 seed: Jack Nicklaus
PGA Tour wins: 73
Major victories: 18
Ultimate fact: Holds the all-time record for most majors won, capturing his first in 1962 and his last, at age 46, in 1986.
No. 2 seed: Tiger Woods
PGA Tour wins: 74
Major victories: 14
Ultimate fact: The only player to win all four professional majors consecutively, and one of only two to win the career Grand Slam three times over.
No. 3 seed: Ben Hogan
PGA Tour wins: 64
Major victories: 9
Ultimate fact: Won five majors after a life-threatening car accident in 1949, including all three in which he entered during the ‘Hogan Slam’ of 1953.
No. 4 seed: Bobby Jones
Amateur wins: 30
Major victories: 7
Ultimate fact: Won the ‘Grand Slam’ in 1930 (U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open, British Amateur and British Open) and retired shortly thereafter at age 28.
No. 5 seed: Sam Snead
PGA Tour wins: 82
Major victories: 7
Ultimate fact: Holds the record for most official PGA Tour wins, and is credited with at least 135 worldwide victories.
No. 6 seed: Arnold Palmer
PGA Tour wins: 62
Major victories: 7
Ultimate fact: Won at least one PGA Tour event each year from 1955-71, and in 1963 became the first player to eclipse $100,000 in single-season earnings.
No. 7 seed: Byron Nelson
PGA Tour wins: 52
Major victories: 5
Ultimate fact: Won 18 times on the PGA Tour in 1945, including 11 tournaments in a row - both records that stand today.
No. 8 seed: Walter Hagen
PGA Tour wins: 45
Major victories: 11
Ultimate fact: Won 22 straight 36-hole matches at the PGA Championship, capturing the event four consecutive times (1924-27).
No. 9 seed: Gary Player
PGA Tour wins: 24
Major victories: 9
Ultimate fact: Recorded 163 worldwide wins during his career and is one of only five players to win the modern-day career Grand Slam.
No. 10 seed: Tom Watson
PGA Tour wins: 39
Major victories: 8
Ultimate fact: Won the Open Championship five times, including four in Scotland, where he will return in 2014 as captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team.
No. 11 seed: Gene Sarazen
PGA Tour wins: 38
Major victories: 7
Ultimate fact: Struck the ‘Shot heard round the world,’ a 4-wood holed for a double-eagle 2 on the 15th hole at Augusta National en route to winning the 1935 Masters.
No. 12 seed: Billy Casper
PGA Tour wins: 51
Major victories: 3
Ultimate fact: Won the 1966 U.S. Open at Olympic Club in a playoff despite trailing leader Palmer by seven shots with nine holes to play.
No. 13 seed: Lee Trevino
PGA Tour wins: 29
Major victories: 6
Ultimate fact: Completed an unprecedented international sweep in 1971, winning the U.S., British and Canadian Opens in the same season.
No. 14 seed: Nick Faldo
PGA Tour wins: 9 (30 European Tour wins)
Major victories: 6
Ultimate fact: Competed in more Ryder Cups (11) and accrued more individual points (25) than any other player in the event’s history.
No. 15 seed: Seve Ballesteros
PGA Tour wins: 9 (50 European Tour wins)
Major victories: 5
Ultimate fact: Holds the record for most career European Tour wins on the circuit from 1976-95. Won 91 times around the world.
No. 16 seed: Phil Mickelson
PGA Tour wins: 40
Major victories: 4
Ultimate fact: Won the 1991 Northern Telecom Open at age 20 while still enrolled at Arizona State, becoming just the second amateur to win on the PGA Tour since 1954.