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To update the future major venues, in order of US Open/Open Championship/PGA Championship.... 2016: Oakmont, Royal Troon, Baltusrol 2017: Erin Hills, Royal Birkdale, Quail Hollow 2018: Shinnecock Hills, Carnoustie, Bellerive 2019: Pebble Beach, Royal Portrush, Bethpage Black 2020: Winged Foot, (presumably) St. Andrews, Harding Park 2021: Torrey Pines, TBA, Kiawah Island 2022: The Country Club at Brookline, TBA, Trump National 2023: L.A. Country Club, TBA, Oak Hill 2024: Pinehurst, TBA, TBA I'd presume that the 2021-24 Opens will be, in some order, Lytham, Muirfield, Liverpool and St. George's. It's also possible Troon goes back into the 'first half of the decade' rota and bumps one of the English courses to make it more of an even mix of English and Scottish (and now Irish) courses. I also wonder if Trump National will actually end up hosting the 2022 PGA, or if it'll lose the tournament due to Trump's various offensive marks.

And even with Rickie's "issue with the US Open," he's still recorded a T10 and T2 in the tournament within the last three years.

I do enjoy how Fowler won the Players about a week after that article was published. Good way to shut up the haters. btw, if this poll was "biggest overachiever in the majors," Andy North would have it all the way.

That list makes me think Luke Donald should've been in the poll. Norman has two majors and at least Sergio/Monty/DJ have been close a few times. Donald has a grand total of five top-fives in 50 major starts, and he's never finished better than tied-3rd (both times finishing way behind Tiger at the 2005 Masters and 2006 PGA).

Masters: Jordan Spieth. This may be my default Augusta pick for the next decade. U.S. Open: Jason Day. Oakmont has arguably the most impressive list of winners of any multi-time major venue, as it takes a great to master this beast. As such, I'll predict another of the big three to win it. British Open: Todd Hamilton repeat!....well, I won't make that big a leap, but I'll still stretch a bit to predict Lee Westwood finally nabs his major. PGA Championship: Louis Oosthuizen, I just have a feeling he'll rise up and finally grab another major. Bonus predictions: Phil Mickelson will record another second-place finish in a major this year.

I agree, though the weather delays really put a damper on this year's Open.

My vote went to Sergio, narrowly edging Monty. Garcia underachieves since he openly admits to a lack of mental strength, which is kind of stunning for a pro golfer to acknowledge about himself. I almost feel like Sergio *can't* win as long as he doesn't actually believe he can win a major. Can't vote for DJ quite yet since he's still in his prime and it's easy to see him eventually winning a major (or majors) before he's done. Can't vote for Norman since at the end of the day, the guy won two claret jugs. He could or even should have at least six majors to his name, though Norman's major defeats often came due to bad luck (Mize or Tway hitting miracle shots) or another guy just playing a bit better. That said, he certainly blew his share of sure things or possible wins --- the 1989 Open, his blowout loss to Fuzzy in the 1984 US Open playoff, and at least three Masters tournaments.

My vote's for Jack Nicklaus. Nineteen second-place finishes in majors? What a choker!

I wonder if we're not far away from the 2022 PGA Championship getting pulled from Trump National

The choice is in, Serena William was named Sportswoman of the Year. Hard to argue with the pick.

Steph Curry is probably the overall best choice but SI might choose to wait on him since he's still pretty young and could conceivably win in 2016 as well. Then again, the combo of the Warriors' championship and their unbeaten start to this season makes Curry the best choice as both the man of the moment and the man of the year. Serena is a good candidate as this might be SI's last chance to award one of the iconic American athletes of this generation. While I'd be shocked if she *didn't* win at least a couple more grand slams in 2016, this might be the best chance to reward her at her peak. Spieth can wait. He'll likely have plenty of chances to win this award in the future. American Pharoah is a damn horse, people. Let's not be silly.

Not sure George "Champion At Age 45" Foreman is the best example to make your point :) Still, I agree. It's not only a question of Tiger getting healthy AND getting back into good form (even his 2013 form) AND peaking at one of the four major weekends --- now it's also a question of him doing all three things and maybe still not having enough to beat Spieth, Rory, Day or any other top player who's having a hot week.

I have to think some personal biases or grudges could be coming into play here, since Norman did a decent job at the US Open. Not perfect, but keep it mind it was also a pretty big stage to more or less debut as an announcer. Faldo and Azinger are good in tandem, very weak on their own. Faldo tries too hard to be Peter Alliss with his inane comments but at least Alliss' jokes are funny. I'm very surprised Faldo and Wadkins ranked so low on the 'least favourite' list....maybe Wadkins has improved in recent years since he was dull as dishwater on CBS

I don't think 'desire' has all that much to do with it. Jack has openly said that there were a few years in his prime where he started to lose interest in the game, so it could be argued that he got to 18 even without any burning desire. Tiger had all the desire in the world but he broke down due to injury. If anything, I could argue that a LACK of an all-consuming "desire" may actually be a plus. Let's face it, every golfer on Tour has a fantastic work ethic since that's a basic requirement to be a top-rank pro golfer --- the guys who are overly focused beyond the norm can tend to burn out quicker. Had Tiger, for instance, took longer to properly rehabilitate his injuries rather than rush back to action, he'd almost certainly be in better shape right now. Jack, meanwhile, didn't just have his playing career but also his course-designing, his various other business interests, his long and happy marriage and his family. I'd say this helped Nicklaus sustain his career since he was more mentally comfortable than many golfers.

Federer is a unique case since he and his wife met while they were both competing at an Olympics. Naturally the Games holds a particularly warm spot in his heart. The Olympic gold medal is the highest achievement for most sports in the Games, yet not for others --- basketball, tennis, baseball, hockey* and I'm assuming golf will be the same. * = unless you're a Canadian player, in which case winning a gold for Canada is equal to the Stanley Cup. This is a great point. If this was Fowler, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, etc. saying this, we'd all be rolling our eyes and telling them to win one of the big ones.

Langer's legacy and career is cemented. Anything he does now is just gravy.

Boo never wins anything outside of April and May anyway, so he thinks the season should be two months' long. Jokes aside, I do agree with him big-picture. The fall tournaments are so under the radar that you wonder why the Tour bothers. Hell, we're all big golf fans here on this forum....how much of the "2016 season" have you watched so far?

Frankly, if Tiger wins even one more major, it will already create hysteria due to the flood of "is Tiger back?" stories. It's not impossible for him to get to 15 (stealing a Masters sometime) but the ship has sailed on him breaking Jack's record.

When a player gets his career off to the kind of hot start that Bradley did, people naturally assume he could be a next great star in the sport. It could be that we've already seen Bradley's best and he'll never be a top-flight guy ever again, save for maybe the odd victory or two over the rest of his career. In ten years' time, we could be slotting Bradley in with the Micheels, Beems and Immelmans as obscure flash-in-the-pan major champions.

I also hope it isn't Lytham, but I kind of doubt it would be the course that gets ousted. The R&A clearly likes it a lot...since 1996, Lytham has hosted three Opens, four women's Opens and one British Amateur.

It only makes sense that the Open should visit all of the British countries and not just Scotland/England. Let's start beating the drum for a future Open at Royal Porthcawl so Wales can get into the picture! The question now becomes whether the R&A will now incorporate 10 courses into an 11-year cycle (with St. Andrews still every five years and one course being the 'odd one out' every decade) or if one of the current rota will get the boot to make way for Portrush. I'd have to think that Turnberry may be on the chopping block given all the Trump drama and the fact that Turnberry still doesn't really meet the R&A's standards for hosting, even given the course and infrastructure upgrades.

It's hard to use majors as the main ranking criteria since the 'four majors' as we know them have only really been the measuring stick for 50-55 years since Arnie revived the British Open as a huge event for all the world's big players. Also, old-timers like Vardon or Hagen posted those huge major win totals despite the Masters not existing until 1934. Then again, this is all pretty subjective anyway. :) My top ten....Nicklaus and Tiger are the top two. After that I've got Hagen, Hogan, Snead, Player, Palmer, Nelson, Casper (most underrated player ever, IMO), Vardon.

I would've been surprised had Every won somewhere other than Bay Hill, but clearly he loves that course and it suits his game. Kind of surprised that Davis Love III didn't make the list of surprise winners, I don't think anyone saw his Greensboro win coming (despite his own past success in that tourney).

Bingo. Bishop was on the way out, it was just a matter of time. The Poulter incident was a conveniently-timed last straw.

They should both be assistant captains to prepare them for their inevitable stints as Ryder Cup captain. Phil could captain the team as soon as 2018, in fact.