I actually agree with genius's original post. Size doesn't necesserely make you a major!!!
If you take the British Open Golf Championship, it has a first prize of about 750,00GBP and is cosidered a "Major", there are plenty of other tournaments in the world with prizes of a million and over and they are not considered "majors".
A major has history, culture and, if you like, breeding. BA has all three and Ryan only has one, that being a greed "culture".
I think the point genius was trying to make was that by major he meant legacy, the detractors here know that and were just being pedantic.