10 Best Golfers Without A Major Championship
By Danny Norris
Jul 16, 2015; St. Andrews, Scotland, SCT; (From left to right) Patrick Reed, Sergio Garcia, and Lee Westwood walk up the 18th fairway together during the first round for the 144th Open Championship at St. Andrews – Old Course. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports
Being the best golfer without a major championship is a backhanded compliment. On one hand it’s wonderful to be recognized as a great player.
On the other, you are a great player….who hasn’t won a major championship in his career. Someone like Colin Montgomerie was a great player, but he never won that major championship that could have made his career that much greater.
That’s what we’ll be talking about in this list. Only instead of it being from a historical perspective we will be talking about the best golfers without a major championship right now.
Jason Day just recently shook himself off this list with a win at the PGA Championship. With Day winning and with the Masters still eight months from now this seems like an ideal time to update and rank which 10 are the best golfers without a major championship right now as we head into the 2016 season.
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The caveat I put on this list is golfers have had to play at least 16-20 majors. I felt that putting someone like Brooks Koepka or Hideki Matsuyama or Patrick Reed on a list like this wasn’t right.
They are great players and from a technical stand point they probably are some of the best golfers that haven’t won a major yet.
However, they just haven’t played in enough majors yet and they haven’t experienced the heartbreak of having a major ripped from their hands, which is the kind of experience everybody in this top ten has felt at some point.
In a couple of years, Matsuyama, Koepka, Reed, etc. might be fair game, but for now, we’ll leave them off the list.
So, now that we got that out of the way, let’s kick things off and get this show on the road starting with number ten.
Next: #10: Paul Casey or Bill Haas?