So you're not familiar with Jack's career. Fair enough.
Everyone didn't play with Tiger's equipment...golf was just getting into the equipment wars when he started off on tour.
The point was give Jack the same and it's a different story. Hell, the shaft alone has added 25+ yards to the game.
I was a big Jack Nicholas fan and he didn't dominate his peers even close to the overwhelming manner that Tiger has destroyed the field for those years. Save your typing fingers cause it won't be explained by equipment either. It was far too human and fearsome than that. He had opponents craping in their paints on any given tourney. And when he had the lead on Sundays, he didn't give it back.
So what makes the most dominant golfer of any generation? Here's some:
Highest Green in Regulation percentage for a season - 75.2% in 2000
Highest average birdies per round for a season - 4.92
Best season scoring average - He holds the top 9 spots in this category with his 2000 and 2007 average of 67.79 leading the way.
Most consecutive rounds at par or better - 52 from 2000-01
Most victories in a single event - 8 (Arnold Palmer Invitational and the WGC-Bridgestone). He's tied with Sam Snead who won the Greater Greensboro Open 8 times.
Most consecutive victories in an event - 4 (Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Buick Invitational). He's tied with Young Tom Morris, Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen for this record.
Most victories at one course - 8 (Bay Hill Club, Torrey Pines Golf Course and Firestone Country Club)
Most wins by a player in their 20s - 46 (Jack Nicklaus in second with 30)
Youngest player to win the Masters Tournament - 21 years, 3 months, 14 days
One of 11 players since 1934 to win the week before a major - 2007 won the WGC-Bridgestone prior to winning the PGA Championship.
One of 9 players since 1934 to win the week after winning a major (the only player to do so twice) - Won the WGC-NEC Invitational following the 2000 PGA Championship and the WGC-Bridgestone following his 2006 PGA Championship win.
Consecutive cuts made - 141 (Byron Nelson second with 113)
Most years leading the money list - 10
Most consecutive years leading the money list - 4
His 11-1 playoff record is the best career playoff win percentage of players with at least 6 playoff wins.
Woods won 32 times on the PGA Tour from 1999 through 2003. No other player won more than eight times in that span.
From the 1999 PGA Championship through the 2002 U.S. Open, Woods won seven of the 11 majors contested. Woods was a cumulative 94 under par in those tournaments ā 60 shots better than any other player.
Woods won 10 majors before his 30th birthday. Since the first Masters was held in 1934, the only player to even win five majors before turning 30 was Jack Nicklaus, who won seven.
In majors from 1997 through 2008, Tiger recorded 34 different rounds of 67 or better. No other player had more than 16 such rounds in that span.
Woods won 46 times in his 20s, 16 more than any other player in PGA Tour history (Nicklaus, again, is second). During the time Woods was in his 20s, the player with the second-most victories before age 30 was David Duval, with 13.
Woods has a career scoring average of 70.86 in the Masters. That is the best career scoring average in that event for any player with at least 50 rounds played. Woodsā 11 top-five finishes in the Masters is second all-time to Nicklaus.
During the entire 2000 PGA Tour season, Woods recorded one round higher than 73. One. It came in the first round of the Masters. He shot 75, on a day when the field averaged 75.59.
Tiger has won the Vardon Trophy (lowest scoring average on Tour) nine times, four more than any other player (Billy Casper, Lee Trevino). The trophy has been awarded since 1937.
There are five instances in PGA Tour history where a player won a single PGA Tour event seven or more times. Woods owns four of them. Sam Snead, who won in Greensboro eight times, is the only other player to do it once.
A player has won a major championship with a score of 18 under or better eight times. Tiger owns five of those eight instances.
Woods is, of course, the only man in the modern era to win four consecutive majors ā a feat known as the Tiger Slam. The last of Tigerās four straight major wins came at age 25. The only other players in the modern era to even win four career majors (not consecutive) at age 25 or younger are Jack Nicklaus and Rory McIlroy.
Woods is the only player in history to win the U.S. Junior Amateur, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open in his career. He won three of each.
Woods has won nine USGA Championships in his career, tied with Bobby Jones for most all-time. Woods won the 2000 U.S. Open by 15 shots. No other player in the last 100 years has won a U.S. Open by more than nine shots.
From 2002-05, Woods had 1,540 putts from 3 feet and in on the PGA Tour. He only missed three of them.
Woods completed the career Grand Slam at age 24. Not only is he the youngest player to win the slam, only five other players in the last 50 years have won a major at age 24 or younger.
Tiger is 16-1 in his career in playoffs on the PGA and European tours. His only defeat came to Billy Mayfair at the 1998 Nissan Open.
Sports Illustratedās Sportsman of the Year has been awarded since 1954. Woods is the only athlete to win the award more than once (1996, 2000).
Tiger has held the outright 54-hole lead 45 times in his PGA Tour career. He went on to win 43 of them, good for a 95.6 percent clip. For context - over the last three PGA Tour seasons, players with an outright 54-hole lead have gone on to win 39.7 percent of the time.
Tiger has held the outright 36-hole lead 33 times in his Tour career. He went on to win 28 of them (84.8 percent). In comparison,
Jack Nicklausā 36-hole outright conversion rate was 63 percent.
Tigerās 46 PGA Tour wins before he turned 30 would be eighth on the overall all-time wins list ā one ahead of Walter Hagen.
Woods is credited with 40 career wins on the European Tour, third-most all-time. Woods has never played a full season on the European Tour.
Tiger is the only player since World War II to win a PGA Tour event four straight years. He did it two different times.
Tiger has won five straight PGA Tour starts three different times. Over the last 60 years, he is the only player to do it once.
From 1997 through 2008, Woods led or co-led following any round in a major 42 different times. Second on the list in that span was Phil Mickelson ā with 13. Woods won 14 majors in that span.
Tiger has 18 career World Golf Championship victories. Second on the all-time list? Ogilvy. He has three.
In a stretch from the middle of the 1999 season through the middle of the 2001 season, Woods won 20 of the 38 stroke-play events he played on the Tour (a .526 win percentage). In those events, Woods was a combined 472 under, a cumulative score 307 shots better than anyone else. Vijay Singh was second.
From 1997 through 2008, Woods was a combined 126 under par in majors. There are 138 other players who played at least 40 rounds in major championships in that span. Among that group, Woods was a staggering 189 shots better than anyone else. Second on the list: Joe Ogilvie, at 63 over.
