Multiple major wins scenario

Player A wins the Masters and PGA at Harding Park.

Player B wins the US Open at Winged Foot and the British Open at Royal St George.

Who has had the better year?

Gee, what were the results the rest of the year?

A major is a major. I don't think any is more prestigious than others.

Player A also wins John Deere Classic.

Player B also wins Valspar.

I think a lot of people would rank the PGA at the bottom of the four, myself included. Probably because it lacks an identity.

Finishes at other majors? $? FedEx? Race to Dubai? Previous majors? Publishers Clearinghouse? Marriage issues?

Oh, this is a knock on the PGA Championship with most often in the past many years the strongest field.

It has a solid identity for those that understand its history.

To make it simple, let's just say each player only played in those tournaments and won them. The opposing player also played, but missed all cuts.

I would personally say Player B. Although the Masters is the most prestigious, I feel the PGA is almost a half a major. The US Open is probably the hardest course set up wise and the British Open is so different than what a tour player is used to on a normal week.

The thing I don't like the modern PGA, I know it used to be a different thing when it was match play, is there is a laundry list of one-off major winners who all seem like they couldn't have won any other major.

Lannny Watkins, Jeff Sluman, Paul Azinger, Steve Elkington, Shaun Micheel, RIch Beem, David Toms, YE Yang, Jimmy Walker, Davis Love III, Wayne Grady.

"Riff raff" ----- got it.

Some real chumps on that list. And it is W-a-d-k-i-n-s.

We're in agreement.

think it all depends on performance...8 shot win at the masters could outweigh a 1-shot win at both opens

Player B.

The two most important tournaments in golf are the national championship of Great Britain and the United States. Period.

flip a coin.

You should have titled this thread “do you consider the PGA as prestigious as the other majors”, since that seems to be the thinly veiled gist of this.

Says who? Most important to many who actually play the majors is the Masters, and The Open is usually right there with it. U.S. Open not on the list of most as the major they most want to win.

Other than you can't spell the name of Hall of Famer --- no.

I bet Jordan Spieth would beg to differ.

I’ll also disagree. Masters isn’t most prestigious. Us open for Americans then the British. Then masters. Then pga. Flip British and US open for rest of the world. And I’m from the south. Augusta isn’t greater than the Us open. Not if I’m the guy wanting to win. I mean Trevor Imelman won at Augusta.

I think that's a separate discussion, it certainly went in that direction on this thread though. I'm more interested in if any two combination out weigh the other.

Winner of the two Opens.

The US Open is a national championship. The Open is THE Open.

Augusta is an invitational. PGA is the weaker sister of the four.

And before anyone says. All 4 much greater than the players. Lol

I think the Players actually has a harder field to beat statistically. PGA has a dozen or so teaching pros who play, it may be more.

He only won one major and he lost the Ryder Cup as a captain, some Hall of Famer.

Kind of figured this was a “ players is the 5th major “ thread. It’s about players time and every year we have to rehash this. Lol

I’ll take the Open and the US Open win thank you very much.

This one.

Except that when players are surveyed it's historically been the Masters by more the twice as much as The Open and then the U.S. Open -- not saying the player surveys are all that scientific, but that had been the case for a long time, haven't seen anything recent, though.