Professional Golf 2024 & 2025

Arthur Wedge said:
The good news is that it’s not up to the US
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Its all academic. There will only be 4 majors. As there should be. Nor will there even be a not-a-major but officially-the-5th-major. Jack and Arnie, and the early days of television golf declared it so.
Like the 4 1/4" hole, whatever the merits of changing it may be, they will never trump thats what it has always been so we cannot change it.
 
AussieKB said:
Does anyone really believe that US/PGA would let another Major be anywhere but the USA.

I think they believe ALL Majors should be played in the good old USA.
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I make you right but...
... the money coming into golf surely wants to get returns from the rest of the world?
The current markets feel a bit golfed out, is there really the opportunity to make money by just doing more of the same?
Tennis has it right. Golf having 3 majors in the US is a big limiting factor in its further development.
 
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Dunesman said:
Its all academic. There will only be 4 majors. As there should be. Nor will there even be a not-a-major but officially-the-5th-major. Jack and Arnie, and the early days of television golf declared it so.
Like the 4 1/4" hole, whatever the merits of changing it may be, they will never trump thats what it has always been so we cannot change it.
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What is the definition of a Major? Are they any different from most of the golf we see week in, week out - maybe Open aside?
 
Neilds said:
What is the definition of a Major? Are they any different from most of the golf we see week in, week out - maybe Open aside?
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The definition of a major is one that is recognised to be one by players and wider world, has been declared to be one for reasons lost in time, is understood that they can neither be add to nor reduced, and are selfevidently the most prized trophies in golf
 
Dunesman said:
The definition of a major is one that is recognised to be one by players and wider world, has been declared to be one for reasons lost in time, is understood that they can neither be add to nor reduced, and are selfevidently the most prized trophies in golf
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But only since the 50s or 60s. Lots of other competitions were considered Majors before then (according to Wiki :cool: )
 
Neilds said:
But only since the 50s or 60s. Lots of other competitions were considered Majors before then (according to Wiki :cool: )
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And even then only really in the US. It wasn't until 20-30 years later, as a result of having the concept repeated constantly in the media, the current 4 majors became accepted as such anywhere else.
The Amateur Championship and US Amateur were also counted as majors (still are by many) until one of the PGA Tour's revisionist crusades in the late 1980s. One day Jack had 20, the next he had 18.

Ironic that the Western Open and other "majors" were killed off and erased from the record books by the PGA Tour, which now pushes history, legacy, etc. as key selling points; all while still trying to rewrite history again to get its own tournament accepted as a major (edit: I see Deane Beman is championing his baby again).

Perhaps if things has been different, and one of golf's great icons had been British or Irish, our own PGA Championship would now (still) be considered a major.
 
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The Open wouldnt have been a major, in a global perspective, before Palmer really. It was a weak field up to that with only sporadic visits by yhe best golfers in the world, who did it more as a novelty or ticking an experience box.
And while other tournaments were prestigious, and standings were fluid, they are more pre the concept of majors, and were not majors as we understand them. The quartet we know, was an evolution of the old amateur top quartet of the two opens and two amateurs.
But once the modernt quartet came to be, no further evolution is possible.
 
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Dunesman said:
The Open wouldnt have been a major, in a global perspective, before Palmer really. It was a weak field up to that with only sporadic visits by yhe best golfers in the world, who did it more as a novelty or ticking an experience box.
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If only it had stayed that way, then we wouldn't have rich overseas tourists pushing up the green fees to ridiculous levels and your average golfer would still be able to afford to play at Open venues.
 
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