Most Likely to Complete the Grand Slam Next

[notsohard]

On 3/13/2024 at 5:00 PM, notsohard said:

If Scotty can believe in his putter, he can do some damage over the next 10 years.

Scotty is a good boy...Scotty makes me money. 

[billyspan]

On 3/16/2024 at 3:24 PM, Hawkeye77 said:

 

 

Some fantasy in that article.

 

The four majors were recognized as such as far back as the early 1940s and plenty of newspaper articles to support that - there were recognized next tier championships, but the four are and were the four.  In fact, although there are plenty of other examples if one takes the time to research old newspapers, the article below has a nice story from 1941 re Craig Wood confirming that.  I've found several over the years.  The whole Western Open major thing just gets repeated around here a lot, but it was one of those next tier.  The Masters was considered one of the four majors very shortly after it got started.

 

The Palmer story, which was complete BS but told by Palmer and Drum over and over, is that the idea for the Grand Slam (not any majors) came about as the result of a conversation between Palmer and Drum on an airplane ride to the British Open, which Drum took credit for the rest of his life.  Look up a writer name Will Grimsley - and fortunately a few years ago someone took the time to debunk it, even though it was pretty well known it was nonsense.  Good read -- idea of professional grand slam goes back to 1932 (not the now recognized four) and talked about over and over through the years before Arnie and Drum "created it", haha.

 

Edit:    Sorry, forgot to include the article!!

 

https://www.thinkingaboutgolf.com/blog/arnie-bob-drum-a-trans-atlantic-flight-and-the-modern-grand-slam-one-of-golf-s-great-myths

Good info here @Hawkeye77

A book (title that again, escapes me) I read a few years ago outlines golf majors timelines.

 

It includes the British and US Amateurs.  Later the British PGA Matchplay (indirect precursor to the British "BMW" PGA Championship) which was later replaced by the US PGA Championship.  It can absolutely be argued that the best players pre-WWI were in the UK.

 

Edited March 19 by billyspan

[miami1023]

Sleeper pic but I would love to see Tom Kim get it

[Custom]

On 3/13/2024 at 10:05 AM, stinger_gc said:

Rory should’ve won the 2022 Open and the 2023 US Open 

No he shouldn't have, he didn't play as  good as Cam and Wyndham. He simply got outplayed, and was thinking more about how much he hates LIV

[Yuck]

Joaquín Neimann.  In 2032.

 

 

[stinger_gc]

On 3/19/2024 at 2:27 PM, Custom said:

No he shouldn't have, he didn't play as  good as Cam and Wyndham. He simply got outplayed, and was thinking more about how much he hates LIV

Wydham got super lucky 

[Hawkeye77]

14 minutes ago, Yuck said:

Joaquín Neimann.  In 2032.

 

 

They were talking about creating their own majors, lol.