No rhyme or reason to who shines at majors

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - A major season that began with the Masters favorite falling down stairs ended with one of the game's best young players capturing the PGA Championship - a reminder of the ephemeral nature of the most unpredictable of sports.

Dustin Johnson was the focus of the golf world on the eve of the Masters, coming off three successive victories, having ascended to the world No 1 ranking and for a few months an unstoppable juggernaut.

Four months later, Johnson is almost a peripheral figure and Justin Thomas is the talk of the town, though the latter barely figured in discussions on the eve of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, which finished on Sunday.