Who is the oldest player to win a men’s PGA event? 50-year-old golfers who have won on tour

The average age of a tour golfer in the men’s game is 35, but did you know that the average age of a male major winner is just shy of 33 years old? Well, while golf may not necessarily be coined as a young man’s game, especially with other sports boasting top-level champions in their early twenties, there certainly appears to be a distinct peak period for players. Nonetheless, there are always exceptions – those luminaries of the game who defy conventional wisdom and continue to shine, seemingly unaware of when to hang up their clubs.We’ve had more than 900 winners of a PGA Tour event – there have been over 4,000 competitions in total, in case you wondered – but just eight of those champs had reached the ‘big 5-O’ by the time they lifted the trophy. This exclusive fraternity belongs to Craig Stadler, Fred Funk, John Barnum, James Barnes, Davis Love III, Art Wall, Jr., Sam Snead, and Phil Mickelson, the latter being the most recent to etch his name into the veteran record books with a h...