Top-10 One Major Wonders

Mak Lok-lin reflects on the year which saw three of the four majors seized by relative unknowns and the men from the past who failed to build on claiming one of golf's big four

5 Claude Harmon

Perhaps one of the more positive one major wonder characters is Claude Harmon, winner of the 1948 Masters.

Coached by the legendary Craig Wood, Harmon became the only club professional to win the Masters and the last club professional to win a major –  it also represented his only professional win.

Harmon, who was the club professional at Winged Foot for many years, beat future Hall of Fame inductee and three-time major winner Cary Middlecoff by five strokes and his 279 total set a new scoring record at the time.

However, Harmon’s legacy represents more than this. He put the lessons he had learned from his mentor Wood into teaching his four sons Butch, Craig (named after Wood), Bill and Dick. Each became a top instructor, with Butch Harmon gaining global prominence working with Tiger Woods as he dominated the game in the early part of the last decade.

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Written by Mak Lok-lin

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