re: Jack Nicklaus Or Tiger Woods?

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damn this held true even after the last decade?

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Yep.


Woods has won 81 official PGA Tour events, second only to Sam Snead (82), and eight ahead of Jack Nicklaus's 73 wins. (See List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins.)
Woods has won 15 majors, second all time behind Jack Nicklaus' 18.
Woods is 14–1 when going into the final round of a major with at least a share of the lead.
Woods scoring average in 2000 is the lowest in PGA Tour history, both adjusted, 67.79, and unadjusted, 68.17.[1]
Woods has the lowest career scoring average in PGA Tour history.
Woods has amassed the most career earnings of any player in PGA Tour history (even after inflation is considered).
Woods is one of five players (along with Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, and Jack Nicklaus) to have won all four professional major championships in his career, known as the Career Grand Slam, and was the youngest to do so.[2]
Woods is the only player to have won all four professional major championships in a row, accomplishing the feat in the 2000–2001 seasons. This feat became known as the "Tiger Slam".
Woods set the all-time PGA Tour record for most consecutive cuts made, with 142. The streak started in 1998, he set the record at the 2003 Tour Championship with 114 (passing Byron Nelson's previous record of 113 and Jack Nicklaus at 105) and extended this mark to 142 before it ended on May 13, 2005 at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. Many consider this to be one of the most remarkable golf accomplishments of all time, given the margin by which he broke the old record and given that during the streak, the next longest streak by any other player was usually only in the 10s or 20s.[3][4][5][6] It should be noted that when Byron Nelson played far fewer players made the cut in a given event.[citation needed]
Woods has won a record 23.0% (80 out of 348) of his professional starts on the PGA Tour.
Woods is the only golfer to have won the U.S. Amateur three consecutive times (1994–96).
Awards records
Woods has been the PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times.
Woods has been the PGA Tour Player of the Year a record eleven times.
Woods has been the PGA Tour Money Leader a record ten times.
Woods has been the Vardon Trophy winner a record nine times.
Woods has been the recipient of the Byron Nelson Award a record nine times.


I bolded the good ones

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People who support Jack tend to say he had more elite competition he had to contend with.

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Those people are wrong.

Yeah, and no one gives a shite about second place.

Jack had Arnie, Player, Trevino, Watson & Seve as his main rivals. Toss in Norman too I guess.

Let’s look at the rest of the top 10 and their world rankings

#9 Schauffele shot a 68
#3 Koepka shot a 70
#1 Johnson shot a 68
#7 Molinari shot a 74
#13 Day shot a 67
#20 Simpson shot a 70
#14 Finau shot a 72
#18 Cantlay shot a 68
#11 Rahm shot a 68
#10 Fowler shot a 69


That may be the toughest Sunday field Tiger has ever had to beat for a major imho

Also woods shot a 68 and a 67 on Friday and Saturday that put him position to be -11 under on Sunday.

If the amount of 1st time Major winners the last few years doesn't show you how deep the field is right now, then I don't know what to tell you. It used to be the same players competing year in and year out, now everyone in the Top 25 of the OWGR has a shot every major it seems.

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Only thing Jack has over Tiger is majors and better legends to go up against at his peak

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I don’t think this is fair.

Who was the harder competition in majors?

Palmer for Jack or Koepka for Tiger?

Clearly Palmer is a true legend. But Koepka might be the harder golfer to get past in a major. Jack gets credit for going up against this legend while most folks think Koepka isn’t half as notable.

Tiger also has won 3 majors 2 years in a row. Something Jack has only done once.