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The men's major golf championships, also known simply as the majors, are the four most prestigious events in professional golf. [1] The competitions are the Masters Tournament, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open, and The Open Championship, contested annually.
Year Order [a] The Open Championship [1] U.S. Open [2] PGA Championship [3] Masters Tournament [4]; 1860: O Willie Park Sr. tournament started in 1895: tournament started in 1916
The Masters is the only one of the four majors to use the same course every year; the Augusta National Golf Club. [3] Masters champions are automatically invited to play in the other three majors (the U.S. Open , the Open Championship (British Open), and the PGA Championship ) for the next five years, and earn a lifetime invitation to the Masters.
Walter Hagen, five-time PGA Championship champion (1921, 1924, 1925, 1926, and 1927).He holds the record for most wins in match play competition. The PGA Championship is an annual golf competition formerly held in mid-August until 2019, when it moved to mid-May.
He is one of six champions to win wire-to-wire after 72-holes played with his victory in 1934. Gary Player , three-time Open Champion in 1959, 1968, and 1974. Jack Nicklaus , three-time Open Champion in 1966, 1970, and 1978 Seve Ballesteros , three-time Open Champion in 1979, 1984, and 1988 Nick Faldo , three-time Open Champion in 1987, 1990 ...
The event is the championship of the United States Golf Association, and in having a very strict exempt qualifiers list – made up of recent major champions, professionals currently ranked high in the world rankings or on the previous year's money lists around the world, and leading amateurs from recent USGA events – about half of the 156 ...
The U.S. Open is an annual golf competition established in 1895, with Horace Rawlins winning the inaugural championship. [1] It is run by the United States Golf Association (USGA). The championship was not held from 1917 to 1918 or from 1942 to 1945 due to World War I and World War II respectively.
This is a list of all the golfers who have won ten or more official events on the U.S.-based PGA Tour Champions (known as the Senior PGA Tour from 1980–2002 and Champions Tour from 2003–2015), the leading golf tour in the world for men aged 50 and above. The list is up to date as of February 8, 2025.