Overshadowed by blockbuster PGA Tour-PIF merger, golf's four major events are still all that matters

Next week's U.S. Open at LACC will be a reminder that golf's four majors stand the test of time

In all the hoopla of this week, it's easy to forget that one of the great majors at one of the most anticipated golf courses of the last decade is on deck next week: The U.S. Open. You are forgiven if you have forgotten. After all, who can possibly focus on the third major of the year at Los Angeles Country Club with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia working with the PGA Tour and DP World Tour on a potential multi-billion dollar deal as part of an all-time stunner to the highest order of the golf world?

And yet, all the back and forth of the last year with LIV Golf emerging first as a threat to the PGA Tour before partnering with it, has simply been window dressing for the only events that truly matter. Kevin Van Valkenburg wrote a piece this week that included a line I'd like to reiterate here: "Here is the brutal truth about the PGA Tour: Its greatest value has always been providing context for the majors." 

This is correct and something that has endured all along.