Well on to the 4th page and no mention of Peter Thomson....5 Open wins and 86 tournament wins worldwide. The only player to win a modern major 3 years in a row.
He doesn't merit a mention. He played in incredibly, incredibly weak British Opens. Yippee, he won five! Five events with weaker fields than a lower-tier PGA Tour event at the time.
Gary Player won the 1959 British Open. Few good players were in the field. Four Americans, at a time when American golf was absolutely dominant, and two were amateurs. None made the cut. Hogan won the only British Open he played… because it was easy to win them. They had incredibly shallow, weak fields.
Good players from the 70s and earlier especially benefited from weak, shallow fields. It's comparatively easy to win majors when like 1,000 people in the world play golf at a decent level. It's significantly tougher when millions do. Jack Nicklaus (and Tom Watson to some extent) played majors against club pros (and far more than the 20 at the PGA every year). Hagen won 5 of his 11 majors at match play. Bobby Jones had to beat like three other decent players (and won many majors at match play as well).
Lee Trevino, Tom Watson? Below/after Mickelson. Hogan, probably above. Palmer? Nah.
15 > 18.
Look it up, even Jack Nicklaus even complained about how many club pros were playing majors. When he wasn't busy changing the GOAT criteria for the third or fourth time.