Has Rory gotten himself into the Top 10 Golfers of all time?

He did last year. Only 6 golfers have all 4 majors. He is one of them. That holds more weight than simply total number of majors

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I believe in terms of majors, he is sitting somewhere around 12th or 13th all time?

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Something like that, Wikipedia says he's in a 4 way tie for 12th with Trevino, Faldo, and Mickelson. None of the others are part of the 6 to have a career grand slam, and that probably bumps him at least into the top 10.

Tiger, Jack, Hogan, Player, Sarazen, and McIlroy are the only ones to have done that.

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4 way tie for 12th with Trevino, Faldo, and Mickelson. None of the others are part of the 6 to have a career grand slam, and that probably bumps him at least into the top 10

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Add 3 FedEx Cups and 2 Players. He's up there.

Yes

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I believe in terms of majors, he is sitting somewhere around 12th or 13th all time?

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this alone would put him outside the top 10. The grand slam is awesome but if a guy won only 4 majors and just happened to win the grand slam wouldn't make him top 10 would it?

Talent wise he absolutely is. Metric wise he is probably 8-12. 2 more majors it isn't even a question. Hell he might win 2 more Masters.

A lot of people including me figured he would go on a tear after winning one and be really competitive in the other majors last year. He wasn't.

PGA - T47
US Open - T19
British - T7

Maybe the 2nd Masters lights a spark and he goes on a Phil type run in his late 30s.

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I think an interesting question to pro golfers would be if they want to win 3 PGA Championships (and only those) in their career or 1 Masters.

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I'd guess 9/10 choose Masters.

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It's a bit unfair to the guys that came around before these 4 majors were established. Bobby Jones won the 4 major tournaments of his time in the same year; Open, Amateur, US Open, US Am.

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But he gets knocked down a few pegs for allowing Junnah to come back and beat him like that

But seriously, Bobby Jones may not be the best example as he has 0 PGA wins from 1923-1930, but Hagen has 5 from 1914-1929 (all 5 won between 1921-1927). Which means he missed 1 of the major tournaments during his playing time. But does someone like Hagan have a grand slam claim as the Masters started about 5 years after he stopped playing (assuming he won the other major tournament during his time)

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the 4 majors are all quite different. Also, there are varying levels of prestige. I think arguments could be made for the Masters, Open, or the US Open as being the most important, but all would agree that the PGA is the least important.

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So if you have 5 Masters, 1 Open and 1 US Open but no PGA, would you be ranked higher than someone with 5 total majors but has won all four?

Obviously it's a subjective ranking but I would think, like Tennis, a major is a major. Obviously slams matter but major wins are what they show most often on the leaderboards

I think any tennis player or golfer would be lying if they said they would rather 8 total majors but missing one of the 4 versus only having 4 majors but you won all of them

As a competitor knowing you went your entire career without winning that tournament is just a massive miss. A massive hole