re: Who has been the best golfer in the world since Tigers last reign at #1 in 2014?

Bruh… show your work. List out the 29 tournaments that Rory has won… bc he definitely has not.


Anyways, I already said it’s not all about wins but for some reason that’s what you want to hone in on.

DJ has been the best golfer in the world since 2014

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show your work. List out the 29 tournaments that Rory has won

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1. 2009 Dubai Desert Classic
2. 2010 Quail Hollow Championship
3. 2011 UBS Hong Kong Open1
4. 2011 U.S. Open
5. 2012 DP World Tour Championship, Dubai
6. 2012 Honda Classic
7. 2012 PGA Championship
8. 2012 Deutsche Bank Championship
9. 2012 BMW Championship
10. 2014 The Open Championship
11. 2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
12. 2014 PGA Championship
13. 2015 Omega Dubai Desert Classic
14. 2015 WGC-Cadillac Match
15. 2015 Wells Fargo Championship
16. 2015 DP World Tour Championship, Dubai
17. 2016 Deutsche Bank Championship
18. 2016 Tour Championship
19. 2016 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open
20. 2018 Arnold Palmer Invitational
21. 2019 The Players Championship
22. 2019 RBC Canadian Open
23. 2019 Tour Championship
24. 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions
25. 2021 Wells Fargo Championship
26. 2021 CJ Cup
27. 2022 RBC Canadian Open
28. 2022 Tour Championship
29. 2022 CJ Cup
30. 2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic
31. 2023 Genesis Scottish Open
32. 2024 Hero Dubai Desert Classic

Sorry, shorted Rory a few. It's 32 worldwide wins

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10. 2014 The Open Championship

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So starting here would give him 23

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Then why did you give DJ 19 PGA Tour wins? He only has 16 since 05/11/14

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I gave you one back last page. He has 16 on PGA, 2 on euro, & 3 on LIV.

Glad we can finally agree that it’s 23 vs 21

So Rory has more tour wins, they have the same amount of major wins, and DJ has 13 more weeks as world #1. If I'm you, I probably just compare their Ryder Cup records since Rory literally can't play in the President's Cup. Since 2014 Rory has played in 5, DJ in 3. Their career Ryder Cup records since 2014 are: DJ 8-6 (2-1 in singles); Rory 12-10-2 (3-2 in singles)

Kind of splitting hairs here

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Kind of splitting hairs here

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I already listed the many reasons why DJ has been a better golfer since 2014. We’ve settled on their professional wins since 2014 as 23 vs 21.

You can disagree if you want, but that is who I think has been the best….. even if he is currently ranked 297th

When he left for LIV, he was #12 & Rory was #7.

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has more $, more appearances & team wins in international competition, more time spent as #1, and is a Masters Champion.

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4 of these are true

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When he left for LIV, he was #12 & Rory was #7.

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You wanna talk how each has done in majors since DJ left for LIV? Rory has 6 top 10 finishes out of 7 majors and 1 missed cut. DJ has 2 top 10 finishes and 2 missed cuts

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Looking at the entire 10 yr period

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You interjected their current world rankings and what they were pre DJ leaving for LIV. I was responding to that.

If it wasn't relevant to this thread and you didn't want to discuss that, then why even post it?

DJ's world ranking very likely would have dropped regardless. Even leading up to his exit, he wasn't playing his best golf. Prior to his exit, the 2021-22 season, he'd played 10 PGA Tour events with just 2 top 10 finishes, and 3 missed cuts. He was #1 in the world in July of 2021 and had fallen to 13th in just under a year. prior to that, he hadn't been outside the top 5 since 2016 and hadn't been outside the top 10 since March of 2015.

Further proof that it’s DJ….

He spent 135 weeks as #1, but he also remained in top 10 for 355 consecutive weeks from 2015-2022.