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Tiger or Jack?
Published: 3/27/2012 2:28 PM
Last Modified: 3/27/2012 2:50 PM

At what, best dresser? Best divorce settlement? Best surgery?

For best golfer, it's no contest.

Jack wins easily.

As Tiger himself has proclaimed, the only measuring stick is the number of major tournaments won.

There's another element of golf where Jack is a light year ahead of Tiger. Golf is supposed to be a game of manners, of honor and respect.
The new Tiger is starting to look and sound a lot like the old Tiger. The old Tiger was something of a punk. When it comes to class, Jack is easily the best.

Plus the current competition is lame. Pinky Poulter? Silly Sergio? The Orange Man, the OSU guy who does everthing but win? Grinning Phil? Watson and Player and Trevino and Palmer would have dominated those sissies.

In unrelated news, it appears that TU cannot give away its head basketball coaching job.

Does Wojo have a job yet? Quick, get him back.






Reader Comments 6 Total
Thunder196 (11 months ago)
Tiger will never come close to being like The Golden Bear.
colhi64 (11 months ago)
All things aside but the golf game, if it was possible to bring Jack back in his prime, Tiger would mop up the course with him. Jack is the better man, yes. Best golfer? No.
LaffALot (11 months ago)
Tiger may be a ‘chump,
but he has @ least 20 more tries @ Augusta
where he’s already won a green jacket 4 times

Tiger may close in on the # of majors Jack won,
but what’s truly amazing is Jack has something like 18 second place finishes in the majors.
Tiger is not even close there.

TU b-ball has fallen so low that they are willing
to take a risk on Asst coach Danny Manning?
What, no high school coaches available?
ClanJoyWalkSig (11 months ago)
Apples to oranges. Golf used to be only a rich man's game. The field of players is quite different now. Would Jack have had greater/stiffer competition back in the day? Would he have won so many times if there had been so many great golfers as there are now? I don't know. Just thinking out loud...
241362 (11 months ago)
Sig, we're not talking fruit, it's golf balls to golf balls. Jack won more tournaments, beating better players. Laff, Tiger having 20 more Augusta tries is another way of saying he has 20 more Augusta weekends with party planners. He is at his best in chump courses like the last one, where there's a tree every four blocks. Good point about Danny what's his name. It took so long to find that? Get Wojo back.
colhi64 (11 months ago)
14 majors on chump courses? How come there are not others out there with 72 victories on those chump courses? If there were better golfers during Jack's heyday how come they didnt win 10 majors or 60 tournaments? Golfers like Arnie, Jack and Tiger come along every couple generations, these guys are simply better. Put the three in their prime and turn them loose, Tiger in his prime was heads and heels over anyone else that has ever played the game.
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