The oldest championship in golf has become the last men’s major tournament on the calendar.
The British Open has 166 years of history behind it, so it doesn’t need a catchy slogan — the PGA Championship was “Glory’s Last Shot” for part of the time when it was last in the lineup before moving to May in 2019 — for reigning champion Scottie Scheffler and everyone else to know it will be eight months before the next major.
“We look forward to them so much, we build our schedules and the year around them, and then they’re over like that,” two-time PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas said. “It sucks when they’re done.”
And for the 153 players who have their last chance at winning a major this year? The pressure is not necessarily any greater, nor is there greater urgency to win one before the season is done.
“But every year you don’t,” Thomas said, “is another year you haven’t.”