With Tiger Woods winning 82 times on the PGA Tour, there are a lot of players who have experience of finishing second to arguably the greatest golfer to have ever lived.

Tiger Woods, of course, won 15 majors during his career. The likes of Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, and Phil Mickelson would have almost certainly won several more majors had they not played in the same era as Woods.

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There are already a number of outside candidates to make the two teams at Adare Manor

But there is just one player who finished solo second to Woods in two major championships.

And cruelly, Chris DiMarco never won a major himself.

The curious career of Chris DiMarco on the PGA Tour

DiMarco had a strange career in many ways. All three of the American’s PGA Tour victories came before the first major of the 2002 season. However, his Ryder Cup debut only came in 2004, while it would be the following year that he registered his best ever world ranking as he reached number six.

Perhaps the most famous performance of DiMarco’s career came at The Masters in 2005.

DiMarco led after both of the first two rounds in Georgia in 2005. However, Woods went into the final round with a three-shot advantage having put together a run of seven consecutive birdies at one stage.

Sunday saw perhaps the most iconic shot of Woods’ career, as he chipped in on the 16th green. That put him two shots clear of DiMarco, and seemingly on the brink of his ninth major win.

However, Woods made bogey on each of the final two holes to set up a playoff between the two men. Woods birdied the 18th to win the playoff.

Remarkably, that meant that the last two majors had ended in playoff defeat for DiMarco, with Vijay Singh winning the 2004 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.

Tiger Woods inflicted more misery on Chris DiMarco at the 2006 Open Championship

The 2006 Open Championship was significant for being the first major Woods won following the death of his father.

DiMarco went into the last round one shot adrift of Woods. However, DiMarco was unable to close the gap any further. He dropped a shot on the first hole. And when he got within one again on the back nine, Woods responded with three successive birdies.

That would prove to be the final top-10 DiMarco had in a major. He struggled with injury for the remainder of his career, with his last appearance for Team USA coming at the 2006 Ryder Cup.

Unfortunately for DiMarco, his two Ryder Cup appearances ended in 18.5-9.5 defeats for the Americans.

He did, however, hole the putt that won Team USA the Presidents Cup in 2005.