
In the space of 40 Majors in the 80s, 29 of them would go to the Americans but it would represent a changing of the ways as the Europeans began to take over at Augusta. This was something that was also mirrored in the Ryder Cup as Europe's big guns began to dominate things.
In the women's game the Americans would still rule things, this was before the Solheim Cup had even begun, while we would have to wait until 1998 for the Korean breakthrough.