No event without a cut can be a major. Ever. So scratch Samsung. ADT championship has multiple cuts and high stakes, but it’s basically a cool gimmick, not a major. Evian is limited field, which is a strike against it, but at least they have a cut. (The HSBC stroke-play event could rival it someday, but not yet.) That leaves Michelob Ultra or Canadian Women’s Open (which is making a bid to improve its fields by raising its purse) as its top contenders. I’m rooting for the CWO, but I don’t think it can compete with Michelob Ultra or Evian just yet.

A Grand Slam is equal to four. If you make it five, what are we going to call it, the Royal Flush?

Back to serious mode, long established LPGA events(Not the ones used to sell real estate. As soon as that’s accomplished, the tournament vanishes) have had a nasty habit of going belly up. Look at tournaments in Youngstown, Tuscon, and now Phoenix.

Bill

…they’re ALL “5th Majors”. It seems like every tournament has some player spouting that it “feels like a 5th major” – a line that makes me look crosseyed at the screen.

On the PGA Tour, majors have tradition and either a tie to a golf association, or the only man to have ever actually won a Grand Slam. On the LPGA, with the exception of the US Open, the majors are up for sale – which leaves open the possibility of adding more majors if someone ponies up enough cash – Kraft-Nabisco, McDonalds, and RICOH come before the actual championship.

Dog has a good point – Grand Slam was a baseball term before it was adopted for golf, then tennis – if you add a 5th major, what do you call it ? There are only 4 bases in baseball.

My question is this – what is the point of the discussion ? Is there some sort of need for a “5th major” ? Is it anything other than bored media people forcing an innane debate ?

When a sportswriter starts talking about some golf tournament being a tour’s 5th major, we know that person has run out of ideas for something to write about. In this instance it was a golf blogger, Golf Girl. Today was the first time I visited her blog, therefore I won’t make any guesses as to why she brought up the subject.

I don’t think that there’s really a 5th major on the LPGA Tour. But, if I had to name one, I’d add the CWO to the list of contenders, too.

I guess if we have to put up with The Players talk every year on the PGA Tour – the ladies might as well do the same thing.