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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Ewan Murray at Royal Birkdale

Blink and you miss it: McIlroy not alone in seeking longer major season to boost golf

Rory McIlroy takes a shot from the fairway during Open practice day at Royal Birkdale in Southport
Rory McIlroy takes a shot from the fairway during the Open practice day at Royal Birkdale. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Perhaps it is not the when but instead the where. Golf’s majors in present form feel far too condensed, too brief. Jon Rahm, a two‑time winner on the biggest stages, has more interest in the fact that three out of four take place in the US than their position on the calendar.

“I think it would be good for golf,” Rahm said on the proposition of an “international” major. “If you could have more golf elsewhere, I think it would be fine. As a major, you need to have that commercial value as well. I understand it. I wouldn’t know the logistics of that. I don’t know who can decide what a new major becomes or is now a major.

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