Ranking the best of each major championship in the 2010s

As the 2010s draw to a close and we usher in the roaring ’20s, which years gave us the best of each major championship?

The 2010s have been an incredible time in golf. In many ways, we’ve watched three very distinct phases of the sport. The early ’10s gave us sort of the last of the “old guard” in the game, the middle of the decade saw a bunch of players trying to take over for Tiger Woods when nobody (even him!) knew what his future would hold, and today we’re in the middle of a full-blown youth movement on the PGA TOUR.

Oh, yeah…Tigers’s still out here winning majors and carrying national teams to victory in the Presidents Cup. I mean, the greats never go away that easily, do they? But hey, that’s just making things more fun.

Throughout all this, we’ve been treated to 40 major championships, almost all of which have been incredibly entertaining. If you’re a golf fan, you mark your calendar by these four weeks; as great as the rest of the game is, it would be like going through an entire NFL season without the Super Bowl – fun, but a bit disappointing. And in golf, we get four cracks at the “big game” every year!

So without getting into the petty debate over what defines a “new decade” – can there be a year zero? – let’s close out 2019 and the 10’s in general with a look back at some of the most entertaining weeks in this great game.

While we all have our personal favorite majors in general (the Masters is correct and it’s not close), each one has had some incredible moments, and that’s what I’m taking a look at here. I’ll also tip my cap to the “best of the rest” in each major, because there’s just too much good stuff out there not to.

As we get ready to roar into the Twenties, here’s the best of the last ten years.