Talk:Chronological list of men's major golf champions

Metal count
This metal count seems biased towards the modern era. The list goes back to 1860, but The Masters wasn't started until 1934, the PGA wasn't considered a major event until sometime after that, and getting across the Atlantic wasn't very easy until the 1960s. For a 100 of the 150 years the list spans, the achievements of an era's greatest players is under-represented.
 * It is a list of chronological list of professional major champions, not a "list of the greatest golfers" and hopefully people won't interpret it as such. I'll add the word "professional" to the introduction. Mowsbury 12:42, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Chronology of majors
The majors weren't always played in their current order. The Masters has been played in March and April, the U.S. Open has been played in every month from June to November, the Open Ch. has been played (since 1894) in May, June, and July, and the PGA Ch. has been played in every month except January, March, and April.

Here's a list of the order in which the majors were played each year. M=Masters, U=U.S. Open, O=Open Ch., P=PGA Ch. Sources: www.golfstats.com, www.pgamediaguide.com, www.proquest.com newspaper accounts.

(Add this table to article?)

Inclusion of "by year" table
At the suggestion of moderators on the List of men's major championships winning golfers page, I've added the far superior table of winners by year to the top of this article. There has been some discussion (pedantic, in my view, but never mind) of background colors. If changes need to be made to the colors, please leave the current version up as a resource until such changes are made. -ShaneRyan, Dec. 11, 2021 — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShaneRyan12 (talk • contribs) 18:02, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The background color issue might seem pedantic to him. However, its a bit like holing that one-inch putt in a stroke-play competition. rules are rules and the background colors failed MOS:COLOR. Also the above gives the impression that he wrote the table, which is a million miles from the truth. Nigej (talk) 19:22, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ShaneRyan12 didn't follow the directions at WP:COPYWITHIN, but being a new editor, he probably didn't know about it. He wrote a fun article about his WP-experiences though. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:41, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Indeed, if it encourages a few new editors or even one good one, it'll be all for the good. And we can forgive him for the lack of etiquette. Nigej (talk) 19:52, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 12 February 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

– Request move to match other "list of champions" articles such as List of Super Bowl champions or List of Grand Slam men's singles champions. I originally made this move BOLDly but was reverted as there could be a confusion between the new name of this article and List of men's major championships winning golfers. I'm not sure where to move the other page, but I can see a potential confusion (one article is a list of champions by year and the other is a list of the # of major winners). On 2nd thought, I actually think the 2nd page could be merged into the first, as some of the other pages do something similar. Natg 19 (talk) 08:49, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Chronological list of men's major golf champions → List of men's major golf champions
 * List of men's major championships winning golfers → ?
 * Rather confusingly, Chronological list of LPGA major golf champions has a different focus than this men's article and does not have a year by year list, but only has a list of winners by their first win date. Natg 19 (talk)
 * Yes. That is a consequence of this discussion in December 2021; this is how the article looked before then. wjematherplease leave a message... 09:19, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * As a reference, this is the equivalent for tennis.....
 * * List of Grand Slam men's singles champions
 * * Chronological list of men's Grand Slam tennis champions
 * So you do think that the women's article should be formatted the same as the current men's article? From what I can see, the "chronological list" actually exists right now under the By Player section of Chronological list of men's major golf champions and the List of men's major championships winning golfers seems to be as a superfluous list. Natg 19 (talk) 09:38, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Merging the two articles would create an article that's too unwieldy and large in my eyes. I think the current situation is probably the best one and we remove the by player section from the chronological list. NapHit (talk) 13:41, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose Mainly on the basis of the recent discussion noted above. I'd don't find the two Tennis ones noted, at all satisfactory. Full of meaningless colours and dull stats. Personally I'd be happy to get rid of the List of men's major championships winning golfers section. Nigej (talk) 14:36, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose I don't the suggested redirect or merger is the right way to go. Bringing the chronological list up to featured standard should be a priority and something I'll try and do. Both articles have their merits and are fine as separate entities in my eyes. I'd remove the by player section from the chronological list, as it doesn't add anything that we don't already have in the men's major championships list. I'd also keep the by country section in that list as it provides a useful summary for the reader. NapHit (talk) 14:52, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * My issue with the "by country" is because of doubts about the sporting nationality of certain players. Jim Barnes for instance is down as English. While he was often referred to as English in American newspapers, he was at the same time regarded by the British newspapers as an American and indeed played for the US in 1926 and would have played in 1921 had he not been "indisposed". Things were sometimes not so clear in the old days. Nigej (talk) 16:49, 13 February 2022 (UTC)