One of the greatest things I\u2019ve struggled with while constructing my order of the 13 most dominant performances in the last 13 majors is whether to measure a tournament solely by the four days it occurred, or for its potential impact. That enigma hits hard when you look at this pick. When all is said and done and the chapters written, we may look back on this tournament as some bizarre four-day stretch that the player never vaulted into anything more.<\/p>\n
Still, when I looked each of the last 13 up and down, this one fell at #5\u2026<\/p>\n
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#5 -Louis Oosthuizen at St. Andrews in the 2010 Open Championship<\/strong><\/p>\n When the 2010 Open Championship ended, everyone tried to make sense of it. They looked at Oosthuizen\u2019s nine-shot victory and tried to justify it. \u201cHe won on the European Tour in March so you could see this coming.\u201d \u2026\u2026.\u201cHe won the 2010 Masters Par 3 contest, so, ya know\u2026\u201d\u2026. \u201cHe did just crack the top 50 OWGR a few months back\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Hogwash with a capital H. Nobody saw this coming. Nobody thought Oosthuizen had a chance to win by a stroke much less blow the field away. Nobody was sitting around Wednesday evening thinking, \u201cthat Louis kid\u2019s going to go 65-67-69-71 and just run away with this thing\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n But, he played that well and won a major title. He did what has escaped perennial talents like Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia for years. It\u2019s entirely possible he\u2019ll never be a big time factor on another Sunday major championship hunt, so how do you quantify it?<\/p>\n The setting for one plays a role.St. Andrewsis the home of golf. There are no grounds more hallowed. To be honest, that was the big factor in pushing Oosthuizen\u2019s win this high.<\/p>\n You show up unheralded to the Open Championship atSt. Andrews, make the course your birdie amphitheater and knock the tar out of the field \u2013 well that sounds a lot like dominance.<\/p>\n 13 – \u00a0Keegan Bradley, 2011 PGA One of the greatest things I\u2019ve struggled with while constructing my order of the 13 most dominant performances in the last 13 majors is whether to measure a tournament solely by the four days it occurred, or for its potential impact. That enigma hits hard when you look at this pick. When all is said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-mouth"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n12 \u2013 Stewart Cink, 2009 British Open
\n11 \u2013 Angel Cabrera, 2009 Masters
\n10 \u2013 Lucas Glover, 2009 US Open
\n9 \u2013 Padraig Harrington, 2008 PGA
\n8 \u2013 Darren Clarke, 2011 British Open
\n7 \u2013 Graeme McDowell, 2010 US Open
\n6 \u2013 Martin Kaymer, 2010 PGA
\n5\u2013 Louis Oosthuizen, 2010 British Open<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"