Possible Clues:

• Annual May golf tournaments, familiarly
• Tourneys played in Aug
• Snead has won three of them, briefly
• Majors won five times by Jack Nicklaus, familiarly
• Annual August golf tournaments, familiarly
• Two of Rory McIlroy's major wins, familiarly
• Nicklaus has won five of them, briefly
• Some major golf tournaments, informally
• The ___ of Europe (international links org.)
• Annual major golf tournaments played in August, familiarly