Chris Tank (10.5)

The Career Snapshot

Chris Tank is one of the most decorated active players in the league. Three Green Jackets. Three Match Play titles. Six championship trophies on the mantel and counting — one of the strongest records in the ETGL's modern era. His Match Play titles came in 2010, 2014 and 2018; his Green Jackets in 2010, 2023 and 2025. If a 30-year tribute book gets written, he gets a chapter, and so do the people who finished second to him.

At Maplewood in April, he matched Jon Hayenga at 70 for co-net honors. He finished the 2026 net season second at $4,367,500, just $22,500 behind Hayenga, with his three Green Jacket titles still standing at 2010, 2023 and 2025. Asked about it afterwards, he reportedly said something about par being a perfectly good score. Multiple witnesses confirm he was already calculating the FedEx-style points implications.

The Scouting Report — "Known For"

Steady around the greens, ruthless from inside 12 feet, and the only player in the league who treats the back nine of a match-play final like it's a leisurely Sunday walk. His swing has not changed materially in 15 years, which appears to be the point.

Strongest part of his game: closing speed. Weakest part: pretending the trophies don't matter.

Signature Moments

"You don't have to make birdies. You just have to wait long enough for the other guy to stop making them." — Tank, on match play

• 2025 · Third Green Jacket
  Net champion · third career title
  Defended his form into the final event and outlasted Chris Clogston in a runner-up margin you could measure in inches.
• 2023 · The Second Coming
  Net champion
  Edged Warren Berger after nine months of one-shot margins.
• 2018 · Match Play Three-peat (sort of)
  Third Match Play title (2010, 2014, 2018)
  Beat Mark Schoonover in the final. By then, "Tank's bracket" was its own scouting category.
• 2010 · The First Green Jacket
  Net champion · also won Match Play same year
  A season-long double in net and Match Play.
• 2010 · The Breakthrough
  First Match Play title · beat Chris Clogston in the final
  First entry in what would become the league's defining rivalry.

The Rivalry

The Clogston conversation cuts both ways. Tank holds the head-to-head edge in Match Play finals (2010, 2014), Clogston now holds the gross trophy three years running and added the 2026 Match Play title. Tank finished the season as net runner-up to Hayenga, keeping the rivalry prominent on the final boards.

In His Own Words

"I'm not trying to beat anybody. I'm just trying to stay out of double bogeys for four hours. Whatever the leaderboard does after that is its problem." — Tank, on his approach