Golfers Who Won on the PGA Tour the Week After Winning a Major
That's one fewer times than a golfer has won a PGA Tour tournament the week before a major, and then won the major. So it's rare. Often a golfer who wins a major winds up withdrawing from the next week's tournament, if they were entered in the first place. That's one reason this accomplishment isn't more common.
Another reason is that it's hard to win a major and it's hard to win two weeks in a row on the PGA Tour. But it happens! And these are the times when a golfer has followed a major championship win with a PGA Tour win the very next week:
- Scottie Scheffler won the 2024 Masters and then won the RBC Heritage
- Tiger Woods won the 2006 PGA Championship and then the WGC Bridgestone Invitational
- Tiger Woods won the 2000 PGA Championship and then the WGC NEC Invitational
- Vijay Singh won the 1998 PGA Championship and then The International
- Ernie Els won the 1997 U.S. Open and then the Buick Classic
- Hale Irwin won the 1990 U.S. Open and then the Buick Classic
- Bernhard Langer won the 1985 Masters Tournament and then the MCI Heritage Classic
- John Mahaffey won the 1978 PGA Championship and then the American Optical Classic
- Gary Player won the 1978 Masters Tournament and then the Tournament of Champions
- Billy Casper won the 1966 U.S. Open and then the Western Open
- Jimmy Demaret won the 1950 Masters Tournament and then the North Fulton Open
- Ralph Guldahl won the 1938 U.S. Open and then the Western Open
Have any golfers pulled off both feats — winning a PGA Tour event the week before winning a major, and winning a PGA Tour event the week after winning a major? Yes: Woods and Ralph Guldahl appear on both lists.
