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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 941387" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>I'll outline the arguments they all have, due to the eras it's not as easy to compare based purely off wins, Jones for example played far less tournaments due to his amateur status.</p><p></p><p>1) Tiger Woods - revolutionised the game, dominated in an OK era of golf but weaker than Hogan's or Nicklaus', he is the "winningist" golfer of all time, has the 2nd most major championships and is the only player in the modern major era to hold them all at once in 2000-01. (he has 41 European Tour wins too, included are his majors) </p><p></p><p>2) Bobby Jones - The best amateur of all time, only one has won a major since Jones, the only player to win a grand slam, (all majors in one year but this was when the US and British Amateurs were majors) I can't remember the exact stat but in an era where the majority of golf was match play he didn't lose to the same player twice for the last decade of his career or something like that. </p><p></p><p>3) Ben Hogan - The best iron player of all time, won his 9 majors in 6 playing years in a strong era with the car crash in between and he only played the Open once as he did not like to travel and the PGA three times, he didn't have the opportunity to compete for the Grand Slam in 1953 as the PGA clashed with the Open. Car Crash + WWII harmed his ability to win more.</p><p></p><p>4) Jack Nicklaus - The best major player of all time beating other all time greats in Watson, Palmer, Player, Ballesteros etc... I probably don't know as much about him as his era isn't as well written about/I didn't live through it which may be the reason I don't quite rate him as highly.</p><p></p><p>I've ordered that as to how I'd rate them, if Tiger can catch/overtake Nicklaus in the major race he's the undisputed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 941387, member: 45598"] I'll outline the arguments they all have, due to the eras it's not as easy to compare based purely off wins, Jones for example played far less tournaments due to his amateur status. 1) Tiger Woods - revolutionised the game, dominated in an OK era of golf but weaker than Hogan's or Nicklaus', he is the "winningist" golfer of all time, has the 2nd most major championships and is the only player in the modern major era to hold them all at once in 2000-01. (he has 41 European Tour wins too, included are his majors) 2) Bobby Jones - The best amateur of all time, only one has won a major since Jones, the only player to win a grand slam, (all majors in one year but this was when the US and British Amateurs were majors) I can't remember the exact stat but in an era where the majority of golf was match play he didn't lose to the same player twice for the last decade of his career or something like that. 3) Ben Hogan - The best iron player of all time, won his 9 majors in 6 playing years in a strong era with the car crash in between and he only played the Open once as he did not like to travel and the PGA three times, he didn't have the opportunity to compete for the Grand Slam in 1953 as the PGA clashed with the Open. Car Crash + WWII harmed his ability to win more. 4) Jack Nicklaus - The best major player of all time beating other all time greats in Watson, Palmer, Player, Ballesteros etc... I probably don't know as much about him as his era isn't as well written about/I didn't live through it which may be the reason I don't quite rate him as highly. I've ordered that as to how I'd rate them, if Tiger can catch/overtake Nicklaus in the major race he's the undisputed. [/QUOTE]
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