The Golf Majors 2021

The 2021 major golf tournaments will be played on a variety of courses throughout the United States. The four Major golf tournaments are considered the most prestigious events in the sport of golf. Each year the top players compete to win the prestigious Wanamaker Trophy. The first three of the majors are held in the summer and the Masters is played each April.

COVID-19 turned golf upside down in 2020, removing the Open Championship from its normal August slot and pushing back the Masters and the PGA Championship to September. That has resulted in five months of majors being crammed into 11 months, a stretch that has not happened since 1945.

It’s also made chasing down the Grand Slam of all four majors a much more difficult feat, with only a handful of men ever having accomplished it in their careers. Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka are all awash in major titles but have yet to join the elite list of men who have won all four.

As a result, there’s never been a time when the men’s game has been so blessed and crowded with talent. That includes a crop of upcoming young guns who are ready to make their mark in the Majors, with McIlroy, Reed, Brooks and the newly crowned Players champion Justin Thomas all vying for glory on their own terms. Then there are a number of veterans who can still turn it on at the biggest moments, with Bernhard Langer and the sprightly Hideki Matsuyama leading that group.

That group of major-winning veterans is likely to expand this season, with defending champion Dustin Johnson, a two-time winner of the Masters, in fine form. That’s good news for the rest of the field, which will be bolstered by the addition of several more Major winners from the last few years, including Webb Simpson, Sergio Garcia and Louis Oosthuizen.

Of course, the other side of that equation is the big names who have come up short in head-scratching fashion this year, with heavy favorites like Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas suffering from fits of inexplicable madness. In fact, it’s hard to think of a more head-scratching major performance in recent memory than the one DeChambeau put up at Torrey Pines South.

That’s the kind of thing that could conceivably happen again this week at the 2022 PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. That event was postponed in 2020 due to the pandemic but returns this year, kicking off what is expected to be an exciting and competitive season of majors for the best players in the world. And that’s something to be glad about, even if the resulting frenzy of triumph and disaster will give Rudyard Kipling nightmares for weeks to come.