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Agreed! Anyone who thinks the PGA isn't "as good" as the other majors have not watched one in the last 13 years. Just based on what has happened in the last decade, the PGA is the best major.

You can have drama and entertainment in a Fall Series event... so that alone does not make a tournament a prestigious one. Look at some of the winners of the PGA since the 90s... Wayne Grady, Daly, Steve Elkington, Mark Brooks, Beem, Micheel, YE Yang, Bradley... these guys did very little else in their careers except for Daly with his Open title. If you look at any of the other three majors, it is hard to find such undeserving champions... even with the surge of recent first time winners in majors, at least most are accomplished golfers... but then any random qualifier can win the PGA and they are credited with a major win... though I think it is very safe to say to win the Player's Championship is a far tougher task that takes a skilled golfer. But if we are going to go by entertainment value, let's make the Greenbrier a major... they had a quite thrilling finish this year with the three-way playoff and last with Mr. 59.

You can have drama and entertainment in a Fall Series event... so that alone does not make a tournament a prestigious one. Look at some of the winners of the PGA since the 90s... Wayne Grady, Daly, Steve Elkington, Mark Brooks, Beem, Micheel, YE Yang, Bradley... these guys did very little else in their careers except for Daly with his Open title. If you look at any of the other three majors, it is hard to find such undeserving champions... even with the surge of recent first time winners in majors, at least most are accomplished golfers... but then any random qualifier can win the PGA and they are credited with a major win... though I think it is very safe to say to win the Player's Championship is a far tougher task that takes a skilled golfer. But if we are going to go by entertainment value, let's make the Greenbrier a major... they had a quite thrilling finish this year with the three-way playoff and last with Mr. 59.

Yea any random qualify can win the PGA, well then I guess any random amature  can win one of the other 3 so that logic doesn't hold much value.

The Players sucks, Sawgrass is so over rated as a course, outside of 17 it's nothing special, actually quite boring. I couldn't tell you who won the Players 2 years ago, it's just another tour stop as far as I'm concerned. Besides, when the #1 and #6 ranked players (at the time) decide it's not worth their time, then you know it's not that great.

As for the Greenbrier, who cares? It is just another tour stop with no one worth mentioning in the field (especially considering most of the top players play in Europe). It may have a nice finish, but with no pressure of winning one of the 4 majors, it doesn't matter. The Canadian Open had a great finish too, but who cares if it's not a major?

Look at all the majors, you will find names that you've never heard of before winning. Ben Curtis anyone?

To me the Masters finishing hole is the easiest in 'Major Golf' year after year...I liked the set up for the PGA this year...You can't just b.s. your way through that course if your game is off...

The only possible dig on the PGA is the number of club pros allowed into the tournament most of which miss the cut with 15 over par scores. However, once you get to the weekend, the field is as strong as any major. It is the players who really decide this issue, if they stopped coming this tournament would fade away like the Baseball All-Star game. There is no player on Earth that wouldn't want this championship on their resume.

The number of club pros in the PGA only adds to the tournament.  It is not a dig.  The guys who make their lives and careers about golf; work weird hours and hollidays; and spend every day working to make sure that others can enjoy the game of golf - get this one tournament.

It is the PGA's tournament, and these guys make the PGA.  I must respectfully disagree with any statement saying the PGA members playing in their PGA event diminishes the tournament.

Plus, qualifying for this event is crazy hard.  It's difficulty level ranks up there with Q school and the US Amateur.

Gof doesn't need Tiger. Tiger needs golf. The PGA was awesome. Great drama and fresh faces. The game was on display and it shone through.

Gof doesn't need Tiger. Tiger needs golf. The PGA was awesome. Great drama and fresh faces. The game was on display and it shone through.

The PGA gets a lot of first-time major winners because the experience is more like playing real golf to a US player than the Masters or the BS they do to US Open courses. When you make the course fair for everybody, you get better competition. Congrats to the PGA for not being the backroom bullies at Augusta or the anal-retentive antagonists of the USGA.