Difference between TIGER and RORY

depends how you measure success.

I measure success with percentage of wins. That's why I chose not to say greatest. But if he wins the most tournaments of all time with his win percentage as high as it is them I'd say most succesful yes. If he gets the majors too (less likely). Then I would say he would be greatest but don't wish to start that off again.
 
Get to the back of the queue, i'm still waiting for mine!

Lets get this going again....

I think the competition at the top is much greater and tighter now, anyone from 20 guys could and probably will win a major this year. can the same be said for the 90's/00's when tiger was so dominant?? Big fish, little pond springs to mind..
We will never get universal agreement as a group on TW. What I will say is that if you look at the scores posted by woods in his hey day, the amount of successive rounds under par etc, was it that the field was weak? Or he was just so much better? It happens in all sports. I've heard people question federer saying he was lucky with his tally of majors. Re the weaker fields for woods and how many people win majors these days. I had a look at the lists. During the 10 years from Woods first major win. There were 20'alternative major winners, some with multiple wins. So 2 different a year over 10 years. Since then, in 7 years there have been 18 winners. So 2.5 a year with no dominant player. Hardly a great or a signal of a new dominant field you suggest there is. I think TW woods lack of universal approval is due entirely to personality and not skill. Maybe with the advantage of time. People will, in 20 years revere him as they do others. But I think to belittle his skill as can be done. Is baseless when you look at his career.


As to the op. They're two completely different players and whilst I don't think Rory will get near the records set ahead of him, I'd still rather watch his game than 95% of the field he plays against.
 
Neither Tiger or Rory can hold a candle to the Worlds greatest golfer........Jack Nicklaus.

I love this argument. People often talk about the competition that Jack beat in order to win his Majors; Palmer (7), Player (9) and Tom Watson (8) and say Jack must be the best because he beat the best.

Arnold Palmer had won 5 of his 7 majors before Nicklaus won his first - was he competing against Arnold at his best?

Gary Player did not perform well during the back end of the 1970s and the whole of the 80s in Majors (except for 2, neither of which he won) where Nicklaus won 6 of his Majors - Was Player a contending figure throughout Nicklaus' career?

Tom Watson - Tom won 5 of his majors in the 1980s at the back end of Nicklaus' career so a big question mark over how many times Watson really competed against Jack in the Majors.

Lee Trevino - sporadic at best when looking at his Majors record. As his peers claim he was the best ball striker around people claim him to be a great but his record in the Majors is not special, except for his 6 wins. Trevino had 4 excellent years competing in the Majors.

Yes Jack won 18 Majors but he wasn't competing against all these great players in every Major tournament.
 
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But I will take a box of your finest hot sweet popcorn Brendy while this develops into mayhem.

Haha. Was literally thinking 'it's odd that Homer hasn't responded to the attack on him in this thread yet' when I came to this picture. It actually made me lol.

This thread is very interesting. I've always found it peculiar how people get so agitated when comparing others they have never met, are unlikely to and have no possible way of knowing what the individuals in question are thinking/going through.

Obviously unrelated to golf, and I would never suggest that anything within this forum is even remotely similar, but football hooliganism is something else that I find hugely perplexing. Completely alien to me how anyone finds it acceptable to behave in such a manner, based upon the result of a competition played between people they cannot relate to on any level and are never likely to know personally. Bizarre.
 
I love this argument. People often talk about the competition that Jack beat in order to win his Majors; Palmer (7), Player (9) and Tom Watson (8) and say Jack must be the best because he beat the best.

Arnold Palmer had won 5 of his 7 majors before Nicklaus won his first - was he competing against Arnold at his best?

Gary Player did not perform well during the back end of the 1970s and the whole of the 80s in Majors (except for 2, neither of which he won) where Nicklaus won 6 of his Majors - Was Player a contending figure throughout Nicklaus' career?

Tom Watson - Tom won 5 of his majors in the 1980s at the back end of Nicklaus' career so a big question mark over how many times Watson really competed against Jack in the Majors.

Lee Trevino - sporadic at best when looking at his Majors record. As his peers claim he was the best ball striker around people claim him to be a great but his record in the Majors is not special, except for his 6 wins. Trevino had 4 excellent years competing in the Majors.

Yes Jack won 18 Majors but he wasn't competing against all these great players in every Major tournament.

Seve, Jonny Miller, Peter Thomson, De Vicenco, Jacklin, Weiscopf, Lema and Sir Bob. were just a bunch of hackers then!
 
Get to the back of the queue, i'm still waiting for mine!

Lets get this going again....

I think the competition at the top is much greater and tighter now, anyone from 20 guys could and probably will win a major this year. can the same be said for the 90's/00's when tiger was so dominant?? Big fish, little pond springs to mind..

My own view is that Tiger of the late 90s early 00s would be wiping the floor with the current crop the way he did with the old crop. Of course I can't prove it and I'm not going to try but at his best he was IMHO head and shoulders above anyone in the modern era. It's no coincidence the experts are still looking for "the next Tiger"
 
At least rory gives an interview after a shocker. Cant help but think that if todays field was about when tiger was winning his majors he wouldn't have got to 14.

And rory only wins with a 5,6,7 shot lead! What a stupid thing to say! He had to get the bloody lead to begin with

Must say I agree with you , I think Rory will win one this year , Woods sadly may have one more major in him but I would not put money on it
 
So you don't care what clubs one of the top golfers in the world uses but feel the need to post incessantly on here telling us all about your choice of clubs and how your custom fitting went and what shafts you got what performances out of and what head you do and don't like the look of.

I've news for you Homer and I'm quite sure the vast majority on here really don't give a stuff what clubs you use but might have a slight interest in what McIlroy has in his bag especially after his much publicised and in some quarters criticised switch to Nike.

Touch paper lit, now stand back please. :eek:
 
Find me any current player that even comes close to Tigers achievements in Golf............any takers? Thought not, now stop playing games, name calling and tittle tattling and finish this drivel. It's all about titles and earnings in pro golf no one and I mean no one comes anywhere near Tiger Woods on both counts. As for the irons McIlroy uses they are the same as Tigers, make of that what you will but Nike they most certainly are not.
 
Get to the back of the queue, i'm still waiting for mine!

Lets get this going again....

I think the competition at the top is much greater and tighter now, anyone from 20 guys could and probably will win a major this year. can the same be said for the 90's/00's when tiger was so dominant?? Big fish, little pond springs to mind..

Nor have I mate and we have been waiting for hours! Come on Brendy pull your finger out.

As for your other comment it seems many have forgotten Tiger is the man who made the modern game the game it is today. He pushed the envelope and forced the courses to "Tiger proof" them. Some pros pushed their games and fitness to the new levels required to play agianst and compete with Tiger while other top players simply ended up turning into journeyman pros. Rory and the other young pros of the last ten years have grown up knowing what they have to do to beat the man and the courses designed to over come him. Rory has a lot to learn about the game and himself but he hasn't had the impact on the game in general that Tiger has.
 
Find me any current player that even comes close to Tigers achievements in Golf............any takers? Thought not, now stop playing games, name calling and tittle tattling and finish this drivel. It's all about titles and earnings in pro golf no one and I mean no one comes anywhere near Tiger Woods on both counts. As for the irons McIlroy uses they are the same as Tigers, make of that what you will but Nike they most certainly are not.

I would be surprised if many pros used irons that resemble what we can buy. I can remember clearly an interview with Ian Poulter a few years ago when he was going on about how happy he was with his new cobra irons. They were uniquely forged for him and cost £20000.00 to make.
 
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