Ranking the 10 Best Golfers Yet to Win a Major Championship

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Published: August 18, 2015

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Golf, while not the most purely athletic sport in the kinetic pantheon, is the cruelest. For instance, even if a player is really, really, really good and a winner of, say eight tournaments and over $40 million, he will get drawn and quartered on the “best player without a major” table (hereafter referred to as BPWAM).

That’s how mean professional golf is. Once players graduate to a level of competitive relevance, they enter a sort of limbo. They must then win a major to be considered great.

Are we going to sit here and say Shaun Micheel is better than Sergio Garcia? Of course not, but Micheel has one career win: the 2003 PGA Championship1.

This is a dastardly list, and Jason Day was No. 1 on that list until his emphatic and emotional win at Whistling Straits2.

Day said in an Associated Press story (h/t Chicago Sun Times):

It was probably the hardest round of golf I’ve ever had to play. I knew today was going to be tough, but I didn’t realize how tough it was going to be. The experience I’ve had in past majors helped me prepare for a moment like this. I guess you can take me off the `best players without a major’3 now. It’s good to be a major champion.’

It’s the sweetest list to exit, a list Day will never see again, but that just upped the ante for more players good enough to win a major but still lacking one of the Big Four.

A note on criteria: The players must be under 40. Lee Westwood, once one of the players you’d say belongs on this list, has aged out.

Read on for the updated list of best players without a major.

1: An interesting sidebar to this slider: Ranking the 10 Worst/Unaccomplished Players with a Major Championship. Don't run away Ben Curtis!

2: Not gonna lie…tears… How could you not when he was bawling his eyes out just marking his ball f...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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