PGA Championship, as year’s final event, puts pressure on long list of top golfers who have yet to secure a Major win NEW YORK — The list of top players never to have won a Major seems to get longer every year. And it becomes more meaningful at the PGA Championship, the final chance of the year for them to stop answering questions about when they will win a Grand Slam event.Lee Westwood and Luke Donald share the distinction of being the only players to have been No 1 in the world without ever having won a Major. Sergio Garcia has been a candidate for the past five years, and Steve Stricker joined the conversation with his resurgence.Here are five examples of great players who won their first Major at the PGA Championship:• Paul Azinger — a late bloomer, he won his first PGA Tour event in 1987. He won every year after, and had 10 wins on tour when he came to the 1993 PGA Championship at Inverness. He had lost the 54-hole lead in a Major twice — in 1987 at the British Open and in 1988...
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