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Best Under-40 Player Without A Major

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  1. 1. Best Under-40 Player Without A Major Win?

    • Dustin Johnson
      9
    • Sergio Garcia
      3
    • Paul Casey
      0
    • Ian Poulter
      0
    • Henrik Stenson
      6
    • Rickie Fowler
      6
    • Matt Kuchar
      1
    • Brandt Snedeker
      0
    • Luke Donald
      1
    • Bill Haas
      0
    • Jimmy Walker
      0
    • Patrick Reed
      1

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Broke100Once Well Established Member

Broke100Once

Spieth and Day got the major monkeys off their backs this year, who is now tops on the BPWAM list?

I stuck to the under-40s since otherwise we'd get into an argument about whether guys like Lee Westwood, M.A. Jimenez, Steve Stricker, etc. should really technically still be the 'best' given their career resumes, even if their windows for winning majors has arguably already closed.

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Matt Kuchar -

Coming out of college, he collected low amateur honors during 1998 in both the Masters and the U.S. Open.

After his first PGA Tour win in the 2002 Honda Classic, he hit a rough spot, lots his card, and had to play on the Nationwide for awhile. (9+1 resilience)

Since 2010...

Kuchar has hit his stride, winning six tour events and ranking in the Top 10 in FedEx Cup points in four of six years. (2015 was a lower-money year). He averages 23.7 events a year, and on average only misses the cut about 1.2 times a year. He made the cut in all 23 events in 2013.

If he's around on Saturday and Sunday most of the time - this a necessary condition for winning a major, or any tournament for that matter.

His major stats:

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 1 2 3 5 9 8
U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 8
The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 1 2 11 5**
PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 4
Totals 0 0 1 2 7 16 40 25

** Made cut four of last 5 Open appearances

Since 2010, he has only missed the cut in 2 majors (One Open championship, one PGA - and skipped one PGA due to back injury).

He has streak of 11 straight major cuts made, from 2013 Masters to 2015 PGA (he missed 2014 PGA with bad back.)

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skydog Great Member

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I think the list would go DJ Rickie Sergio All three of these guys have a huge amount of talent and should/could have majors by now. Sergio is a bit of a wild card in this discussion- he's almost irrelevant because he has convinced himself and seemingly made peace with the fact that he'll never win a major. DJ and Rickie fortunately haven't gotten to that point and both have enough talent to rack up several majors.
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Best now, or best career? I think there's only one on that list who has been #1 in OWGR (Luke Donald) but I doubt anyone will pick him.

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Wally Fairway Great Member

Wally Fairway

Best now:

Stenson

DJ

Rickie

Reed

Walker

I can see any of them picking up a major in the next 3 years

I can't see Sergio, Poulter, Haas, Casey, Snedeker, Donald or Kuch winning a major

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