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18 wins over 25 years plus another 55 top ten finishes over 39 years ............. 15 wins over 23 years plus another 26 top ten...

Put Tiger into the courses and fields of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s he’d have dominated more than Nicklaus, no question

Whenever comparing two sportsmen from different eras, there's an argument to say you should automatically side with the more recent one...

I think a reasonable comparator of levels across eras is the scoring averages. Hogan & Snead were scoring sub 69.50 over a full season...

I have Byron 18th 5 majors 28 top 10s 64 wins over 20 years! 2 Ryder cups. 2 money lists & 1 scoring average win. Comfortably a top 20 CV

In my mind, comparing players of the past with players of the current is just impossible as conditions and equipment used is so...

Yeah, assessing GOATness is subjective no matter what criteria you attach. Only way to settle it is to be so far ahead of any and all...

The Open and US Open wins Vardon 7 Jones 7 Nicklaus 7 Hagen 6 Watson 6 Woods 6 Hagen missed out on a few that did not run because WW1...

Fair point. It’s my attempt to be as objective as I can without drawing on intangibles and what I would consider the values of each...

Sorry I don’t follow. The spelling?? lol Bit weird to dig that up, but you’ll probably find it’s the correct spelling in this context.

Thanks for the feedback. As I said, this is entirely objective based on recorded achievements converted into points. Hagen & hogan...

There are many players that would have been well placed on the list points-wise, such as Singh, langer, Norman but don’t qualify due to...

When you introduce subjectivity the goalposts shift to factor in intangibles like influence, impact, aura, clutch, bias. For example my...

Oh no not another GOAT debate!! Bear with me… When I first joined the forum one of my few posts was my GOAT list and the objective...

So I was at day 3 of the Australian open and my daughter was a guest of Golf Australia and I was her plus one. Spent the morning with...