Danny Willett previews the USPGA at Baltusrol

Danny Willett speaks to the media during a pressconference prior to the 2016 PGA Championship at Baltusrol

Masters Champion Danny Willett believes it is becoming increasingly difficult to taste major success due to the ever improving nature of the sport’s elite.

Addressing the media ahead of the US PGA Championship the 28-year-old said everyone keeps improving making victory ever more difficult.

“Everyone keeps getting better,” said Willett. 

“We are all training harder. We are all practicing harder. We are all working a bit more clever.

“I think it’s kind of showing that with scores. Like I said, everyone now that’s in the top 30, 40, 50 in the world, they are all phenomenal golfers.

“If they pitch up, they have done their work and not many of them back down these days.”

The Englishman also believes that the sport has become more open since Tiger Wood’s injury problems brought to an end his period of dominance and that golfers have had to push them a little bit harder to be able to compete at the top.

He said: “When Tiger was at his best, he almost scared people away a little bit from competing with him.

“Now I think he’s helped everyone over the last ten or 15 years try to get to a level that he was at, and I don’t necessarily think anyone did get to that level.

“But in pushing people that little bit harder, I think that’s how you’ve seen some of the great golf that you’ve seen over the last two, three, four years within different people since Tiger has kind of fallen away a little bit.

“I think that golf’s in fantastic hands. I think you’re going to see the next ten or 15 years, I think you’ll see more records broke and more scoring records broken, and I think you’ll see a lot more different champions.

“Like I said, I think after Augusta, I think winning a Grand Slam these days is virtually impossible, and I think it’s definitely proved that this year with the three different winners that you’ve had at the first three majors.”