Who's better than Brooks Koepka in 4 consecutive Majors?

I'm too lazy to google this question so I figured I would ask the Golf WRX Community for insight. Besides the obvious, Bobby Jones (1930), Tiger Woods (1999-2000, 2000-2001, & 2006-2007), Ben Hogan (1953-1954), and Jack Nicklaus (1971-1972), has anyone had a better stretch of 4 consecutive Majors, in terms of finish, than Brooks Koepka's last 4 majors (2018-2019)?

Major Machine continues to be awesome ... a poor start Friday at Augusta cost him the Masters and simply not making enough good putts left him short here. Not sure what this Open place is all about but you would have to believe he is the favorite. Historical roll he is on.

Tiger. Easy

> @bladehunter said:

> Tiger. Easy

Did you read my post? I listed Big Cat three separate times.

Didn't Rickie have that run of finishing second in at least four straight majors a couple years ago? Poor Rick, can't get it done. He is def tired of answering that question now. Opened 66 then 76 on Friday? Dang.

Willie Anderson, Harry Vardon, and James Braid among the players you haven't mentioned. Also the Tom Morris's and Willie Parks of the earliest years of the Open Championship pre 1880s. An honorable mention to Jordan Spieth in 2015 with his 1st, 1st, 4th, 2nd finishes.

Well, Norman was leading all the majors after three rounds in 1986. Finished 2-12-1-2. And threw in a second the following Masters in 1987.

Actually led going into the back 9 at US Open/PGA only to shoot 4 over each time over the final 9. A lot of people forgot he birded 14-17 to tie for lead in Masters, only to hit a dreadful second on 18 tied for the lead. Classic Norman!

I will say, aside from Tiger, he was the most riveting golfer to watch in my lifetime. I just wish I could get those naked selfies out of my head!

> @thevaporz said:

> Didn't Rickie have that run of finishing second in at least four straight majors a couple years ago?

No. He finished in the top 5 of all 4 majors in 2014 (5-2-2-3). Ernie Els finished 2nd-2nd-2nd in the first 3 majors in 2000.

> @From_Parts_Unknown said:

> > @bladehunter said:

> > Tiger. Easy

>

> Did you read my post? I listed Big Cat three separate times.

Nope. Just the question. I didn’t know it was a rhetorical one.

Kind of like asking: who-is-the-greatest-of-all-time, besides Tiger, Jack, Hogan, Snead, Jones, and it must be a player who is currently playing.

Brooks is like the Terminator- he’s just relentless

Isn't Spieth 2015 better?

Won the Masters

Won the US Open

4th at the Open (two strokes back)

2nd at the PGA Championship

Average finish of 2.

And then 2nd at the 2016 Masters for 5 great finishes in a row.

> @wmblake2000 said:

> Brooks is like the Terminator- he’s just relentless


> @raynorfan1 said:

> Isn't Spieth 2015 better?

> Won the Masters

> Won the US Open

> 4th at the Open (two strokes back)

> 2nd at the PGA Championship

>

> Average finish of 2.

> And then 2nd at the 2016 Masters for 5 great finishes in a row.

Careful there. Somebody will get twisted over that. After all. Isn’t he the “ luckiest” winner ever. ? Lol. ( sArcasm ).

You are correct. It’s Jordan minus the obvious tiger.

> @raynorfan1 said:

> Isn't Spieth 2015 better?

> Won the Masters

> Won the US Open

> 4th at the Open (two strokes back)

> 2nd at the PGA Championship

>

> Average finish of 2.

> And then 2nd at the 2016 Masters for 5 great finishes in a row.

Brooks is better over four consecutive majors

2018 PGA WIN

2019 Masters T2nd

2019 PGA WIN

2019 US Open 2nd

In the era of four majors, The Tiger Slam and Ben Hogan's Triple Crown (followed by a 2nd at The Masters) may be the only ones ahead of that. Jack's best is T2, W, 3, W from the 1965 PGA to 1966 British Open. Due to the 1971 PGA being played in February his 1970 British Open to 1972 British Open line reads W, T6, W, T2, 2, T5, W, W, 2, lots of great four majors stretches, but Brooks beats all of them.

> @"Darth Putter" said:

> > @raynorfan1 said:

> > Isn't Spieth 2015 better?

> > Won the Masters

> > Won the US Open

> > 4th at the Open (two strokes back)

> > 2nd at the PGA Championship

> >

> > Average finish of 2.

> > And then 2nd at the 2016 Masters for 5 great finishes in a row.

>

> Brooks is better over four consecutive majors

>

> 2018 PGA WIN

> 2019 Masters T2nd

> 2019 PGA WIN

> 2019 US Open 2nd

>

> In the era of four majors, The Tiger Slam and Ben Hogan's Triple Crown (followed by a 2nd at The Masters) may be the only ones ahead of that. Jack's best is T2, W, 3, W from the 1965 PGA to 1966 British Open. Due to the 1971 PGA being played in February his 1970 British Open to 1972 British Open line reads W, T6, W, T2, 2, T5, W, W, 2, lots of great four majors stretches, but Brooks beats all of them.

uh, yeah, I guess.

Pretty esoteric discussion of "four" majors when you've got the PGA in there twice because of calendaring. But sure.

From my perspective, performance in four different majors is dramatically "better" - but that's a personal opinion, I suppose.

> @raynorfan1 said:

> > @"Darth Putter" said:

> > > @raynorfan1 said:

> > > Isn't Spieth 2015 better?

> > > Won the Masters

> > > Won the US Open

> > > 4th at the Open (two strokes back)

> > > 2nd at the PGA Championship

> > >

> > > Average finish of 2.

> > > And then 2nd at the 2016 Masters for 5 great finishes in a row.

> >

> > Brooks is better over four consecutive majors

> >

> > 2018 PGA WIN

> > 2019 Masters T2nd

> > 2019 PGA WIN

> > 2019 US Open 2nd

> >

> > In the era of four majors, The Tiger Slam and Ben Hogan's Triple Crown (followed by a 2nd at The Masters) may be the only ones ahead of that. Jack's best is T2, W, 3, W from the 1965 PGA to 1966 British Open. Due to the 1971 PGA being played in February his 1970 British Open to 1972 British Open line reads W, T6, W, T2, 2, T5, W, W, 2, lots of great four majors stretches, but Brooks beats all of them.

>

> uh, yeah, I guess.

>

> Pretty esoteric discussion of "four" majors when you've got the PGA in there twice because of calendaring. But sure.

> From my perspective, performance in four different majors is dramatically "better" - but that's a personal opinion, I suppose.

Usually the question is worded as "best year" like you are thinking. 2019 Brooks will need a win at Portrush to top Spieth in 2015.

The OP went for four consecutive majors this time.

> @HitEmTrue said:

> Kind of like asking: who-is-the-greatest-of-all-time, besides Tiger, Jack, Hogan, Snead, Jones, and it must be a player who is currently playing.

>

If you believe that's a similar question, you might have misread my question. I wasn't making a statement or looking for an opinion based answer, as "who is the greatest" type answers would imply. Rather, I was looking for a factual based answer, which is why I prefaced the question with "in terms of finish". If I had asked "who has the greatest 4 consecutive majors", some Brooks Koepka blowhard could argue an asinine opinion on why his last 4 majors are better than Tiger's 4 majors from 2000-2001. That's what people like to do around here. However, if you preface the question based on finish, then you can't debate four wins over two wins and two 2nd place finishes. It's just facts. Sure, there might be some grey areas like in Spieth's case, but I think we call all agree two 2nd place finishes beats a 2nd place & 4th place finish combined.

A more comparable question to mine would be "Who is a better scorer than Lebron James in NBA Finals history, based on PPG?" Sure, we all know the obvious answers, Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant, just like I knew the obvious answers to my question, however, people always forget about Allen Iverson and Jerry West. I knew there were several golfer's with better 4 consecutive majors, but I couldn't think of the older, more unadorned answers like Braid, Vardon, and Anderson.

@From_Parts_Unknown , fair enough!

> @"Darth Putter" said:

> > @raynorfan1 said:

> > Isn't Spieth 2015 better?

> > Won the Masters

> > Won the US Open

> > 4th at the Open (two strokes back)

> > 2nd at the PGA Championship

> >

> > Average finish of 2.

> > And then 2nd at the 2016 Masters for 5 great finishes in a row.

>

> Brooks is better over four consecutive majors

>

> 2018 PGA WIN

> 2019 Masters T2nd

> 2019 PGA WIN

> 2019 US Open 2nd

>

> In the era of four majors, The Tiger Slam and Ben Hogan's Triple Crown (followed by a 2nd at The Masters) may be the only ones ahead of that. Jack's best is T2, W, 3, W from the 1965 PGA to 1966 British Open. Due to the 1971 PGA being played in February his 1970 British Open to 1972 British Open line reads W, T6, W, T2, 2, T5, W, W, 2, lots of great four majors stretches, but Brooks beats all of them.

See, this is why I asked the question the way I did. I completely forgot that the 1971 PGA Championship was is February! I was just going based on memory of what majors Jack won in certain years. Thanks for correcting me. I think sometimes people, like myself, forget that the majors didn't always have concrete dates back in the day. The greats also didn't always play in all 4 majors every year. If I recall, Hogan skipped numerous PGA Championships and only played The Open once.

Walter Hagen's best

1923 PGA 2nd

1924 US Open T4th

1924 British Open WIN

1924 PGA WIN

Sam Snead's best

1949 Masters WIN

1949 US Open T2nd

skip British Open

1949 PGA WIN

1950 Masters 3rd

Arnold Palmer's best

1961 British Open WIN

1961 PGA T5th

1962 Masters WIN

1962 US Open 2nd

then he wins the 1962 British Open, so pick one stretch

Player, Watson and Faldo each have two wins and two top 10s

Brooks is ahead of all of them.

> @"Darth Putter" said:

> > @raynorfan1 said:

> > > @"Darth Putter" said:

> > > > @raynorfan1 said:

> > > > Isn't Spieth 2015 better?

> > > > Won the Masters

> > > > Won the US Open

> > > > 4th at the Open (two strokes back)

> > > > 2nd at the PGA Championship

> > > >

> > > > Average finish of 2.

> > > > And then 2nd at the 2016 Masters for 5 great finishes in a row.

> > >

> > > Brooks is better over four consecutive majors

> > >

> > > 2018 PGA WIN

> > > 2019 Masters T2nd

> > > 2019 PGA WIN

> > > 2019 US Open 2nd

> > >

> > > In the era of four majors, The Tiger Slam and Ben Hogan's Triple Crown (followed by a 2nd at The Masters) may be the only ones ahead of that. Jack's best is T2, W, 3, W from the 1965 PGA to 1966 British Open. Due to the 1971 PGA being played in February his 1970 British Open to 1972 British Open line reads W, T6, W, T2, 2, T5, W, W, 2, lots of great four majors stretches, but Brooks beats all of them.

> >

> > uh, yeah, I guess.

> >

> > Pretty esoteric discussion of "four" majors when you've got the PGA in there twice because of calendaring. But sure.

> > From my perspective, performance in four different majors is dramatically "better" - but that's a personal opinion, I suppose.

>

> Usually the question is worded as "best year" like you are thinking. 2019 Brooks will need a win at Portrush to top Spieth in 2015.

> The OP went for four consecutive majors this time.

I get it. But I don't know what it shows except that there was a fluke of the calendar.

> @bladehunter said:

> > @From_Parts_Unknown said:

> > > @bladehunter said:

> > > Tiger. Easy

> >

> > Did you read my post? I listed Big Cat three separate times.

>

> Nope. Just the question. I didn’t know it was a rhetorical one.

LOL! Thank goodness I have my coffee early in the morning and it's not now on my laptop!

As always, we forget the other Grand Slam winner Gene Sarazen

1922-23

2 PGA WINs

1 US Open WIN and a T16th

skipped both British Opens

or

1931 British Open T3rd

1931 PGA T3rd

1932 British Open WIN (June 8-10)

1932 US Open WIN (June 23-25)

You guys are forgetting about a couple of runs for the wee iceman. ‘53 was his best calendar year with regards to majors but it wasn’t the first time he won three consecutive majors he played in. Ben won the 1950 US Open, skipped the 1950 PGA and Open Championship, and then won the Masters in 1951 followed by the US Open. It would have been four majors in a row if he had defended his title at the Masters in 1952.

He also went 1st, 1st, T4, and 1st from the 1948 PGA to the 1950 US Open. He skipped all the majors in 1949. I heard somewhere that he might have been injured that year.

He had an 18 major stretch where his worse finish was T8. It’s hard for me to even fathom a player, even Tiger Woods, going 18 consecutive played majors finishing inside the top 10. I’d call Hogan a machine but heck, even machines break down occasionally.

> @"Darth Putter" said:

> As always, we forget the other Grand Slam winner Gene Sarazen

> 1922-23

> 2 PGA WINs

> 1 US Open WIN and a T16th

> skipped both British Opens

> or

> 1931 British Open T3rd

> 1931 PGA T3rd

> 1932 British Open WIN (June 8-10)

> 1932 US Open WIN (June 23-25)

Man... you just keeping hitting this thread with great info!

> @From_Parts_Unknown said:

> > @"Darth Putter" said:

> > As always, we forget the other Grand Slam winner Gene Sarazen

> > 1922-23

> > 2 PGA WINs

> > 1 US Open WIN and a T16th

> > skipped both British Opens

> > or

> > 1931 British Open T3rd

> > 1931 PGA T3rd

> > 1932 British Open WIN (June 8-10)

> > 1932 US Open WIN (June 23-25)

>

> Man... you just keeping hitting this thread with great info!

lousy golf course scheduled an outing on the one day it isn't raining

> @"Darth Putter" said:

> > @From_Parts_Unknown said:

> > > @"Darth Putter" said:

> > > As always, we forget the other Grand Slam winner Gene Sarazen

> > > 1922-23

> > > 2 PGA WINs

> > > 1 US Open WIN and a T16th

> > > skipped both British Opens

> > > or

> > > 1931 British Open T3rd

> > > 1931 PGA T3rd

> > > 1932 British Open WIN (June 8-10)

> > > 1932 US Open WIN (June 23-25)

> >

> > Man... you just keeping hitting this thread with great info!

>

> lousy golf course scheduled an outing on the one day it isn't raining

They will do that. Nothing like 36 carts shotgunning on top of you. Wth.

the new scheduling and ball parks really helped him i believe. Didnt do anything at the british last year. Phil was also 1-1-2 from PGA 2005-to US open 2006 then i think 17th at the british

Hogan from 53 to 55 went 1-1-1-2-6-2-2 and never could play the PGA because of his injury.

> @Llortamaisey said:

> You guys are forgetting about a couple of runs for the wee iceman. ‘53 was his best calendar year with regards to majors but it wasn’t the first time he won three consecutive majors he played in. Ben won the 1950 US Open, skipped the 1950 PGA and Open Championship, and then won the Masters in 1951 followed by the US Open. It would have been four majors in a row if he had defended his title at the Masters in 1952.

>

> He also went 1st, 1st, T4, and 1st from the 1948 PGA to the 1950 US Open. He skipped all the majors in 1949. I heard somewhere that he might have been injured that year.

>

> He had an 18 major stretch where his worse finish was T8. It’s hard for me to even fathom a player, even Tiger Woods, going 18 consecutive played majors finishing inside the top 10. I’d call Hogan a machine but heck, even machines break down occasionally.

Jack went 23 straight majors from 1973-1978 only finishing outside of the top 10 once, which was a T11 at the '76 US Open.