46 PGA Tour pros were asked about a variety of subjects.

What PGA Tour pros really think - Golf DigestSome notables

Have a season with only 1 win, but it's a major 95%

A season with 3 wins and no majors 5%

Major you most want to win

Masters 77%

British Open 16%

US Open 7%

PGA 0%

Should the Players Championship be a major

Yes 22%

No 78%

You have to choose where to play your last round. Which do you pick?Augusta National: 62 percentOld Course at St. Andrews: 14 percentCypress Point: 10 percentPebble Beach: 10 percentLoch Lomond: 4 percent

one of those is not like the others ... that's a real curious choice there at 4 % ...

My favorite part is the 0% of tour players that want to win the PGA Championship. People laugh when I mention the long list of mediocre players that have the PGA as their only major. Looks like the tour players also agree.

Just off the top of my head:

Elkington

Brooks

Beem

Sluman

Mahaffey

Micheel

YE Yang

Bradley

Duff

Tiger has an eight-footer to win this year’s Masters. Do you take:Make: 100 percentMiss: 0 percent

That's pretty respectful ; )

I'm not sure that list is any longer than the British list.

Compare to the British:

Bill Rogers

Ian Baker-Finch

Tom Lehman

Paul Lawrie

Ben Curtis

Todd Hamiltion

Stewart Cink

Louis Oosthuizen

Lehman and Oosthuizen are legit players, but agree with the rest.

PGA:

YE Yang

Rich Beam

David Toms

Shaun Micheel

Jimmy Walker

Mark Brooks

Wayne Grady

Jeff Sluman

Bob Tway

John Maheffy

Welcome to Snooze'ville.

Very surprised to see the Masters is the most desired major and Augusta is the most desired course. Ranked no.1 did not surprise me, but the margin did.

No, it got no votes as the one they most want to win. Big difference. You are wrong again.

Not surprising, Masters still the one wanted the most.

Obviously they would like to win it, but since it lacks the identity and prestige the others have, it's not first on their list. Kind of like living in Iowa.

You said 0 want to win it. Already was clear before it wasn’t first on their list, again that was the point.

I'd like to know the identities of the players who favor the British and US Open's over the masters in order to know who to root for.

More telling from PGA Tour - 78% agree The Players shouldn’t be regarded as a major.

Nice to see they have it in perspective.

The 22% are guys who've won the Player"s but not a major! LOL!

What really sticks out it for those idiots at Golf Digest is a survey where the questions go:

About golf

About golf

About golf

About golf

Sneak one in on tour player wives / girlfriends

About golf

About golf

About golf

About golf

What is wrong with these people? Locker room small talk is one thing, but featuring that sort of question out of the blue is just plain juvenile.

Maybe, but Loch Lomond is quite plush. I don’t know how much you quantify location but purely from a course design / layout / challenge perspective, Cypress is relatively pedestrian.

Agree Lehman and Oosty shouldn't be on that list. And Lawrie only won because Van de Velde made like a fifteen on the last hole. Not that he would have been better I guess.

It seems out of place, but a survey of 46 guys, 4%, that's 2 guys. Probably coincidentally asked two guys who are members there.

Lehman; 1 British Open, 4 PGA tour wins, 1 Euro Tour win.

Oosthuizen: 1 British Open, 0 PGA Tour wins, 8 Euro Tour wins.

Yes, they fit on the list of BO fluke wins. So, "Welcome to snooze'ville".

Not much different from the PGA flukes you listed like;

Jimmy Walker: 1 PGA, 5 PGA Tour wins

But this one should not be on your list;

David Toms: 1 PGA, 12 PGA Tour wins. David Toms won more non-major PGA Tour events than Westwood, Woosnam, McDowell, Baker-Finch, Clarke, and Kaymer COMBINED.

Or California.

Deer hunting is my first love, even over golf, so for that reason I would LOVE to live in Iowa. Plus I can't stand big cities and too many people.

What about Zach Johnson?

The most desired course margin surprised me, but not the most desired major victory. I'm very patriotic, so winning the US Open has always been my dream. But the fact remains that if you win The Masters...you're set for life. Too many important and powerful business leaders are members there and it's viewed as too prestigious of an event for a winner and their family to not be set for the rest of their life.

There's a big difference between Michael Campbell or Todd Hamilton and Charles Coody. Most people don't even remember Campbell winning the US Open or Hamilton winning the British Open, but they know that Charles Coody has a green jacket.

RH

Point taken. But you could make a similar list for any of the majors. For example off the top of my head

US Open

Lou Graham

Orville Moody

Jack Fleck

Steve Jones

Andy North (twice)

Scott Simpson

Jerry Pate

Michael Campbell

Lehman and Oosthuizen don’t have a lot of wins, but they had a lot of high finishes... they’re not “flukes” in the same way Beem and Micheel are. Lehman got to #1. Oosthuizen has finished 2 or T2 in every major and the Players.

The innumerate like to pick on the PGA Championship because it has the most non-name winners, but that is actually an indication of field strength. The PGA invites more guys with a realistic chance of winning.

The PGA, The Open, and TPC have the strongest fields year after year. If a “well known” isn’t playing up to snuff there are a slew of elite players that could step up, because more of them get invited/qualify. That’s why the list of winners for those 3 events may be full of, maybe, head scratcher names. Just my .02.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding but Zach Johnson has a jacket and a jug, yes?

“Have a season with only 1 win, but it's a major 95%

A season with 3 wins and no majors 5%”

Assuming these are regular wins (ie not opposite field or team)...

3 wins is rarer and more difficult than a major.

3 wins is significantly more prize money and I suspect better for your pension, although this may be offset by the endorsement deals and other perks that come with a major

3 wins gets you 4 years of exemptions (5 if one of the wins is a WGC or invitational) vs 5 for a major

What about 4 wins? 5?

Plus 3 regular wins get you about 150 OWGR points as opposed to 100.

Most importantly, you get 1500 Fed Ex Cup points instead of 600.

Something else must be at work to get these guys to choose one major.

There’s the “being part of history” stuff, but nobody actually remembers 1-time major winners, except in WRX “worst player to win a major” threads.