The relationship between Majors and the PGA Tour

PGA Tour started in the 60s. All of the majors have been around since and before the 20s. What is your question?

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What is your question?

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Uhm, do they have nachos at the masters?

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Ryder Cup is jointly run by the PGA and the European (DP World) Tour.

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Ryder Cup is run by the PGA of America. Presidents Cup is run by the PGA Tour

Edit: rereading, I think that is what you said, it’s just unclear the way you phrased it

I was a PGA apprentice and know the difference. That's why I said PGA and not PGA Tour.

The two Opens were started before there was something that resembled professional golf, which would be, essentially, in the '20s - driven quite a bit by Walter Hagen. The two Opens and the two amateurs (US/British) were considered the four majors at the time, and Bobby Jones is credited with winning the original grand slam, in addition to having been credited with 13 majors well into the late '70s, of which 6 were amateurs (5 US and 1 British). The Masters was not much of a tournament early on (an invitational for Bobby Jones at his course/club), but became a big tournament in the late '40s/early '50s, and gained bigger status with the creation of the TV and golf's first TV star, Arnold Palmer. The PGA Championship was started in the early '20s when golfers started being able to earn a bit of a living winning tournaments. Although the PGAt was technically created in the late '60s, the PGA had established the tournaments, for the most part. The golfers decided they deserved a bigger cut of the money and forced a split.

I don't know that it was "kept" so much as it was respected at the time as the ultimate test since it was the premier tournament (or among one of) for professional golfers after the game of golf became something of a livelihood that could be sought. The Western Open was once considered a professional major, but the crystallization of the four modern majors took hold with the growth of the Masters, to some degree, and various references to it, the PGA and the two Opens as the modern grand slam.