Golfer Name Generator

A PGA Tour leaderboard has a sound of its own. American pros skew toward two-syllable, country-club first names (Davis, Brooks, Hayes, Tripp, Cutter) paired with sturdy Anglo or Southern surnames, with Pacific Islander, Hispanic and Asian American names in the mix. The rest of the field is global: British and Irish players with surnames straight off a links scorecard, Australians and South Africans with Afrikaans and Scots-Irish roots, and a deep bench of Korean, Japanese, Thai, Chinese and Scandinavian names from the DP World and Asian tours. The LPGA is even more international, so a women's field needs Korean, Japanese, Thai, Swedish and American names side by side.

Every name here is invented, but each follows the spelling and rhythm of its tour. Korean names keep the hyphenated given-name form (Sung-hoon, Ji-yeon), Scandinavian names keep their ö and ø, and Southern American names get the nicknames caddies actually use: Bubba, Boo, Jimbo, Hank. There is also a block of 1930s-to-1970s style legends (Horton, Olin, Dutch, Chick) for a golf-history novel or classic-era roster, and a handful of tour nicknames like Silky Graham and Putter Pat Mulroney.

Use the list to name a created player in PGA Tour 2K or EA Sports PGA Tour, fill out a fictional tournament field, or find a surname for your own club tag.