Since you already know a bit about the four golf majors, let’s find out how the experience affects your winnings chances. Speaking generally, it is quite straightforward that the four most prestigious golf tournaments will be the most competitive ones out of all golf tournaments. While this statement is true, it also creates the belief that previous experience in majors often helps finding value when shopping for odds.

In order to have a better idea about it, we need to take a look at the table below.

The table above shows us that, in fact, you need to have some experience before winning your first major. While this confirms the initial statement about the importance of previous experience, it only shows us general information about the majors. Let’s talk about other aspects of the dataset we used before making any further decisions.

First of all, we should keep in mind a couple of outliers. They are Ben Curtis who was the first to win a major at the first attempt,  Francis Ouimet and Keegan Bradley. On the other side of things, we have Sergio Garcia, who competed in the most majors (73) before winning the 2017 Masters.

Moving on, we might also need a median number of majors prior to the first win.

These statistics will show us the average amount of experience required to win a major. Interesting but a fair amount of previous experience needed to win the Masters & the US Open is the same (16). However, people actually need more attempts (27.89) to win Masters, than the US Open (18.90). Might be something about those Augusta National Golf Club courses. 

The youngest major – PGA Championship is actually the easiest one to win, despite being less likely to be won by amateurs. The only non-US major appears to be the hardest to win, requiring the most experience. Appears that golfers really do struggle with links-style UK courses.