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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4265016, member: 1969"]
I don't fully agree with a few of your observations.   [B]Note - [/B]I actually wrote most of the post below totally forgetting that Phil won last year's PGA... only while I was researching the rankings of winners did I remember that Phil won.   So while it was an exception to what I was writing. I think my points still generally stand as Phil's win was more of an anomaly.

#1) In my view the most "Open" of the majors is the British Open.   Looking back since 2000 they had Ben Curtis, Todd Hamilton, old Darren Clarke all win who I believe were outside of the top 100 at the time.   Curtis was in the world 300's.    Tom Watson at 59 and Greg Norman at 52 were in contention until a playoff / back 9.

During that period the PGA did have some obscure winners as well - Yang, Micheel, but that is still a level up from where the Open winners were at the time.

That being said that was in 2002-2011 era when obscure major winners were fairly common place... since then the winners have been much more predictable.   That was such a strange era of golf.  Which leads to point #2.

#2)  Regarding your comment that we should not be surprised if someone in the 50-100 range wins the PGA that would actually really surprise me... it has not happened since the beginning of 2012 (with one recent exception being Phil).   I view that as more of an anomaly  but we shall see.

Rankings entering week

Masters
Hideki - 25
Johnson - 1
Tiger - 12
Reed  -24
Garcia - 11
Spieth - 4
Willett - 12
Bubba - 12
Scott  -7
Bubba - 18

PGA
Phil - 116
Morikawa - 12
Koepka - 3
Koepka - 4
Thomas - 14
Walker - 48
Day - 5
Rory - 1
Dufner - 21
Rory - 3

US
Rahm - 3
Dechambeau - 9
Johnson - 6
Koepka - 9
Koepka - 22
Woodland - 24
Spieth - 2
Kaymer - 28
Rose  -5
Simpson - 13

British
Morikawa - 4
Lowry - 33
Molinari - 15
Spieth - 3
Stenson - 6
Z Johnson - 25
Rory - 8
Mickelson - 5
Els - 40
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