Sometimes it takes just one shot to change your fate in golf. Often that opportunity presents itself at a major, where the best field is assembled and the spoils are more than a simple trophy and a winner’s check. Major winners are remembered long after the final putt drops.
Amid a global pandemic, seven majors were salvaged in 2020. The U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur, what you might call amateur majors, were also played. But there was magic in other events, too, particularly in one writer’s home-state tour stop, a place where he knows the setting intimately.
Relive some of golf’s greatest triumphs from the past calendar year, when a single shot set up the best kind of golf glory.
