There’s a not-so-secret, not-so-unspoken conventional wisdom that among the four majors, some are more major than others. The Open Championship has seniority and majesty, the U.S. Open has brawn and muscle, the Masters has tradition and elegance, and the PGA Championship has … a big ol’ trophy and a whole lot of one-time major winners.
But conventional wisdom isn’t true wisdom, and the truth is that the PGA Championship, in the decade of the 2020s, has given golf banger after banger tournaments, delivering a reliable mix of storylines, drama and highlights, year after year.
Yes, the three best major tournaments of the first half of the decade are Rory McIlroy’s Masters win this year, Bryson DeChambeau’s U.