It’s International Lefthanders Day: All the lefties who have won on the PGA Tour

We’ll lead off with the most accomplished and most famous left-handed golfer, whose nickname is of course “Lefty,” Phil Mickelson. Winner of six majors, 45 PGA Tour events and more than $92 million in on-course winnings, Mickelson actually throws right-handed. His 45 wins account for more than half of the 86 won by left-handers on Tour.

Bubba Watson dons the green jacket after winning the 2012 Masters in a two-hole, sudden-death playoff with Louis Oosthuizen. Photo by USA TODAY Sports

Bubba Watson is a two-time Masters champ, having won the green jacket in 2012 and 2014. With 12 PGA Tour wins and more than $47 million in earnings, Watson is the second on the list of left-handed wins and money.

Mike Weir is presented with the green jacket by Tiger Woods after winning the 2003 Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Photo by USA TODAY Sports

Mike Weir won the Masters in 2003, and the icing on the cake is that he got his green jacket from the previous year’s champ, some guy named Tiger Woods. Weir was the first lefty in 40 years to win a major championship and the first to win at Augusta. He has eight career PGA Tour wins and one PGA Tour Champions win.

Bob Charles competes in a 36-hole playoff for the 1963 Open Championship at Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s in Lancashire, England. Photo by Associated Press

The first major winner who was left-handed, Bob Charles took home the claret jug after winning the 1963 Open Championship in a 36-hole playoff. Also 1963, Charles won the Houston Open, becoming the first left-hander to win a PGA Tour event. Like Mickelson, Charles is naturally right-handed. Charles has a second-place finish in the PGA Championship and a solo third and a tie for third in the U.S. Open. He won six times on the PGA Tour but was a prolific winner around the world, amassing 79 career victories.

Steve Flesch tees off on the seventh hole during the second round of the 2009 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am at Spyglass Hill in Pebble Beach, California. Photo by Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

A regular on the PGA Tour Champions now, Steve Flesch won four times on the PGA Tour, including twice in 2007. His Tour bio says he first learned the game as a righty but later made the switch. His four wins put him fourth all-time, all-lefty.

Brian Harman chips on the 13th hole during the third round of the 2021 Masters Tournament. (Photo by Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports)

An avid outdoorsman and hunter, Brian Harman has two PGA Tour wins and more than $20 million in career on-course earnings. He is one of seven lefties who have earned more than 1 Tour win. His came in the 2014 John Deere Classic and the 2017 Wells Fargo Championship.

Ted Potter, Jr. hits from a bunker on the 16th hole during the first round of the 2021 Valero Texas Open. Photo by Daniel Dunn-USA TODAY Sports

Ted Potter, Jr. took home two PGA Tour titles: the 2012 The Greenbrier Classic and the 2018 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Potter is also one of five left-handers to win on the Korn Ferry Tour. His Tour bio says that he was a natural righthander but would swing left-handed to mirror his father, who was a golf-course maintenance worker.

Russ Cochran kisses the trophy as he poses for the media after winning the Senior British Open Championship at Walton Heath Golf Club in Walton On The Hill, England, Sunday, July 24, 2011. Photo by Getty Images

Russell Earl Cochran, who was born on Halloween, won once on the PGA Tour, at the 1991 Western Open. Cochran was clutch down the stretch, as he made up seven shots over eight holes to beat Greg Norman. For most of the 1980s, Cochran was the only lefty on Tour.

Ernie Gonzalez at the 2011 Senior Open Championship at Walton Heath Golf Club, Surrey. Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Wire.

Ernie Gonzalez won one time on the PGA Tour, in 1986 at the Pensacola Open. The third lefty to win on Tour, he did so only after torrential rains wiped out the third and final rounds, so tournament officials declared Gonzalez the winner after 36 holes. In 2009, he Monday-qualified into the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and then made his first Tour cut in eight years. A strong amateur player, Gonzalez won the 1981 and 1982 San Diego County Amateur Match Play Championships.

Sam Adams won the 1973 Quad Cities Open, seemingly against all odds. That season, Adams entered 26 events and missed the cut in 19 of them. He also had three WDs. Of the four cuts he made, he managed two top-10 finishes, including a T-4 in the Southern Open in early September. Three weeks later, he won the Quad Cities. And while Bob Charles goes down as the first lefty to win a PGA Tour event, Adams is the first American lefty to do so.

Greg Chalmers plays his shot from the ninth tee during the second round of the Puerto Rico Open at Grand Reserve Country Club on February 26, 2021 in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images

Greg Chalmers, 47, has one PGA Tour win, the 2016 Barracuda Championship in his 386th start. It was his first top-10 in three years. The Aussie has won the Australian PGA twice and has won on the European Tour as well.

Eric Axley tees off during the first round of the 2020 Barracuda Championship at Old Greenwood in Truckee, California. Photo by Andrew Wevers-USA TODAY Sports

Eric Axley won the 2006 Valero Texas Open for his lone PGA Tour win. He’s also won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour and did so 13 years apart: The 2005 Rex Hospital Open and the 2018 North Mississippi Classic.

Cody Gribble plays his second shot on the eighth hole during the first round of the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Photo by Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports

Cody Gribble has one win on the PGA Tour at the 2016 Sanderson Farms Championship. He was on the 2012 Texas Longhorn NCAA Championship team with Jordan Spieth and Dylan Frittelli. In 2017, Gribble was one of 12 rookies to make the season-ending FedEx Cup Playoffs. In 2019, he made 11 of 26 cuts. He hasn’t played a Tour event in two years, his last being the 2019 Wyndham Championship.

Garrick Higgo hits off the third tee during the final round of the Palmetto Championship golf tournament in Ridgeland, South Carolina, on Sunday, June 13, 2021. Photo by Stephen B. Morton/Associated Press

There are seven left-handers who have a lone PGA Tour victory, the most recent is South African Garrick Higgo, whose recent exploits quickly landed him a spot on his nation’s Olympic team. Higgo won his in his second Tour start at the Palmetto Championship at Congaree. Inspired by a morning phone call from Gary Player, the 22-year-old, a winner three times on the European Tour, stormed back from six shots and closed with a 3-under-par 68. In Tokyo, Higgo never really got it going, finishing 1 over and in a tie for 53rd in the 60-man field.

Robert MacIntyre on the 13th hole during a second-round match at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play Championship on Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Photo by David J. Phillip/Associated Press

Now we’ll get into some lefties who are seeking their first PGA Tour victory. Robert MacIntyre, a 24-year-old Scotsman, finished 12th in his Masters Tournament debut in 2021. He later finished 49th in the PGA Championship. Macintyre has one European Tour win at the 2020 Aphrodite Hills Cyprus Showdown. In 2019, he won the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award.

Nick O’Hern reacts after making an eagle hitting the ball out of a bunker into the 10th hole of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course during the second round of the 2013 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in Pebble Beach, California. Photo by Eric Risberg/Associated Press

Nick O’Hern played baseball as a youth and pondered a professional career but settled into golf instead. The Australian has two international wins and played on two Presidents Cup teams but has yet to post a PGA Tour win. O’Hern’s might be remembered by many as the first to beat Tiger Woods twice in the WGC-Match Play.

Scott Langley watches his tee shot at No. 18 sail leftward into the water during the second round of the Korn Ferry Challenge on Friday, June 12, 2020. Photo by Will Brown/The Record

Scott Langley has been a pro golfer for ten years and has the 2018 Panama Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour on his resume. He was on the 2010 Palmer Cup team. When he earned his PGA Tour card in 2013, he became the first former member of The First Tee to do so.

Tim Wilkinson plays his shot from the eighth tee during the third round of the 2020 Workday Charity Open at Muirfield Village Golf Club. Photo by Joseph Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports

Tim Wilkinson is a natural righty. He turned pro in 2003 and is seeking his first professional win. He came up just short in 2019, losing in a playoff on the Korn Ferry Tour.

Jordan Spieth throws out the ceremonial first pitch before a 2015 baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas. Photo by LM Otero/Associated Press

OK, we added Jordan Spieth to the list but mostly just for fun. He plays golf right-handed, as we all know, but growing up he played baseball as a lefty and even shoots a basketball with his left hand.