Hers is an interesting tidbit. Maybe its Arnie’s fault-—
The majors originally consisted of the Open Championship, the British Amateur or The Amateur Championship, the U.S. Open, and the U.S. Amateur. With the introduction of the Masters Tournament in 1934, and the rise of professional golf in the late 1940s and 1950s, the term “major championships” eventually came to describe the Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship, and the (U.S.) PGA Championship.
It is difficult to determine when the definition changed to include the current four tournaments, although many trace it to Arnold Palmer’s 1960 season, when after winning the Masters and the U.S. Open to start the season he remarked that if he could win the Open Championship and PGA Championship to finish the season, he would complete “a grand slam of his own” to rival Bobby Jones’s 1930 feat.
As I said it is a fluid concept. I have seen interviews with Nicholas where he wants credit for his US AM which was a major at the time, but maybe kiddingly does not want Woods to get credit for his 3 US AMs.
But anyway as far as I am concerned the NEGBJI is a nice tourney like Arnie’s invitational or Jack’s Memorial, but it is not a major. We shall see how history views this.