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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2997078, member: 289"]
Which means we need to know what was considered a major in what years. That is the discussion.

The US Amateur was considered a major when Bobby Jones played. Jack considered it a major when he played in it, (and won it twice and so did others, (there were top lifetime amateurs through the 1960's). It's not considered a major now but when did that change? Should we count Jack's two US Amateurs and not Tiger's three?

Consider Lawson Little, who won bot the US and British Amateurs in 1934 and 1935:
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_Little"]Lawson Little - Wikipedia[/URL] 
As the article said, those were still considered major championships and Little won the Sullivan Award as the outstanding amateur athlete that year because he won them. The masters has started in 1934 but that didn't immediately reduce the Amateur tournaments to below major status.

How do we treat the Western Open, the North and South Open the World Championship of Golf and the British PGA Match Play? if the Players is about to a fifth major, will that have any retro-activity?

The World Golf Rankings began in 1986 and they don't rank amateur tournaments so they aren't much help with the historical perspective and an "all-time leader" requires historical perspective. And I prefer to use to  scalpel rather than a meat cleaver, to dissect history.
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