It's been a wonderful life for Mark O'Meara. The 16-time winner on the PGA Tour and three-time winner on the PGA Tour Champions announced he's hanging up the golf spikes and putting away the tour bag for good after the 2024 Pure Insurance Championship.

“My advice is to go to the practice green, take five balls and hit all five of them without looking up, trying to roll them all the same distance. Do it to 50, 30 and even 10 feet. By the time all five balls are always finishing up in the same area, you’ve got a pretty good handle on the right speed.”

O’Meara is a 16-time PGA Tour winner and two-time major champion, winning the Masters and Open Championship in 1998 as his final PGA Tour victories. He played in 674 events on the PGA Tour, making the cut 444 times and amassing more than $14 million in career earnings.

Mark O’Meara is ready to retire, and he has picked the ideal spot in Pebble Beach. O’Meara won the California State Amateur in 1979, the first of his six titles over three decades at Pebble Beach. Five of those were the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am,

O’Meara won the California State Amateur in 1979, the first of his six titles over three decades at Pebble Beach.

The full list of golfers, in alphabetical order, to have won the same event at least five times in PGA Tour history: James Braid, Walter Hagen, Ben Hogan, Davis Love III, Mark O’Meara, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Sam Snead, J.H. Taylor, Peter Thomson, Harry Vardon, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods.