re: More impressive Masters

There are more than a few serious tiger haters in here saying '97. That tells me all I need to know.

I'm a huge Spieth fan fwiw.

I think they are equally impressive for different reasons:

Tigers is so impressive because he was able to score that low when everyone else couldnt remotely come close


Spieths is impressive because he was able to shoot that low with an extreme amount of pressure with people chasing

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You can't say how weak the field was this week

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Where did I say this? Link please

I posted that list to show how dumb it is to say the field was weak in 97. It had some of golfs greatest, just like this week did

Here are the 1997 pga tour money leaders.

1 Tiger Woods 21 2,066,833
2 David Duval 29 1,885,308
3 Davis Love III 25 1,635,953
4 Jim Furyk 27 1,619,480
5 Justin Leonard 29 1,587,531
6 Scott Hoch 22 1,393,788
7 Greg Norman 15 1,345,856
8 Steve Elkington 17 1,320,411
9 Ernie Els 19 1,243,008
10 Brad Faxon 23 1,233,505
11 Phil Mickelson 21 1,225,390
12 Jesper Parnevik 19 1,217,587 13 Mark O'Meara 22 1,124,560
14 Mark Calcavecchia 1,117,36
15 Loren Roberts 24 1,089,140
16 Vijay Singh 21 1,059,236
17 Nick Price 16 1,053,845
18 Stuart Appleby 23 1,003,356
19 Tom Lehman 21 960,584
20 Steve Jones 24 959,108

Here's the 2014 money leaders

1 Rory McIlroy 17 8,280,096
2 Bubba Watson 21 6,336,978
3 Jim Furyk 21 5,987,395
4 Jimmy Walker 27 5,787,016
5 Sergio Garcia 16 4,939,606
6 Chris Kirk 28 4,854,777
7 Billy Horschel 27 4,814,787
8 Rickie Fowler 26 4,806,117
9 Matt Kuchar 24 4,695,515
10 Martin Kaymer 19 4,532,537
11 Jordan Spieth 27 4,342,748
12 Dustin Johnson 17 4,249,180
13 Adam Scott 17 4,098,588
14 Patrick Reed 28 4,026,076
15 Justin Rose 19 3,926,768
16 Jason Day 15 3,789,574
17 Webb Simpson 25 3,539,601
18 Brendon Todd 29 3,396,747
19 Zach Johnson 26 3,353,417
20 Kevin Na 27 3,153,107

I used 14 because this year there haven't been enough tournaments to rule out a guy being on a hot streak.

I'm not sure I can agree with the thought that today's fields are better then 97. Golf was different then but the top guys in 97 were darn good at the time with there equipment and the top guys now are also good. I think the fields are closer then some people think.

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Has anyone in the history of the Masters ever been 20 strokes below par?

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Speith got to 19.

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I'll say Tiger because he won by 12 strokes

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merely proves the competition wasn't as good back then

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Other than Spieth, no.

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Spieth only hit 19 under. Only

In any event, its still Tiger, even after 5 pages.

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The course was a lot shorter then. How can people say the course was easier last week.

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The difficulty in Augusta isn't the length.

according to Tiger it was 97! In Tiger's congratulatory comments after the Tourney he made sure to point out how his was more impressive...

The bigger issue here is whether we just witnessed the emergence of a new superstar in world golf. Time will only tell. Tiger's generation is moving into the Twilight and nobody has filled that void yet. Spieth is the lead dog now in USA golf.