Four Major Golf Tournaments
The four Major tournaments are proposed the most prominent of all circumstances in men’s golf.
They are
1.) The Masters, held in April, is the foremost Major of the year. It is held every year at Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia, and is the only one Major to be played at the same course every year.
2.) The U.S. Open, held in Mid-June
3.) The British Open – also referred to as the Open Championship, is played on the weekend of the third Friday in July.
4.) The PGA Championship usually played in mid-August.
The 4 Majors were initially the U.S. Open, U.S. Amateur, British Open and British Amateur. The grand slam – winning all four Majors in the same year – has been achieved just once, by Bobby Jones under the primitive Major format in 1930.
The Major tournaments tempt more attention and renown than any other event in golf, and for that cause, a golfer’s profession is regularly defined by the quantity of Majors he has won. Jack Nicklaus holds the record, with 18 Major tournaments conquests, and Tiger Woods is the only one golfer since Nicklaus to get any indication of being able to shatter that record. Tiger Woods won ten Majors before turning 30 in 2005.
Golfers are commonly not considered among the sport’s best players until they win a Major. The “greatest” player not to have won a Major” label is one that gets passed around until the players eventually win their first Major. Phil Mickelson is presumably the most renowned of these players, as he did not win his first Major – the 2004 Masters – until the age of 33.
There are also Major tournaments in women’s and elder (senior) golf. These tournaments are entire 72 holes – the length of professional men’s events – instead of the 54-hole events typically played by women and elder. The women’s Major tournaments are the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the LPGA Championship, the U.S. Women’s Open and the Women’s British Open. The five senior Major tournaments are the Senior PGA Championship, the U.S. Senior Open, the Senior Players Championship, the Senior British Open, and The Tradition. Both of these lists have altered and evolved more often than the men’s list, which has been relatively steady.