Major championship golf in the men’s game was for so long dominated by players collecting stacks of the four biggest titles in the game.
Of course, there were the one-off winners, the occasional bolter who claimed a major and disappeared into the competitive abyss or those expected to be multiple champions, but, alas, remained on a single win for their entire career.
But as long as many can remember, it was Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros, Tom Watson, Nick Faldo, Ernie Els, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson claiming a swathe of trophies, with the likes of Greg Norman, Ben Crenshaw and John Daly collecting a couple along the way.
In recent times however, despite some hot runs of form from the…
