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[Sport Snipe - Sports News Made Easy] Jack Nicklaus vs. Tiger Woods: Who Faces Tougher Competition?: Many casual golf fans immediately think that Nicklaus played during golf’s golden age and was faced with more competition from greater players.
[Bleacher Report - Front Page] Men's Golf: Who Is the Greatest Player Ever?: Considering Tiger is currently four years older than Bobby was when he retired, who knows what he would have achieved had he continued? Of the 30 majors he entered, Bobby won 13 and finished second another seven times—not bad, considering his first major was at the age of 13.
[What's Hot in Golf | Golfuncut.com Golf Video News] Perry Needs a History Lesson: It is usually the very best of the best -- Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson -- who wait until the last minute to commit, so as not to get hopes up and feelings hurt if they change their mind. Many players often commit to every tournament they think they will play, simply so they do not forget to do so.
[golfbrief.com - Top News - Golf] British Open: With this victory: Becomes the 16th player since 1950 to win major championships in back-to-back years, joining Ben Hogan (1950-51), Sam Snead (1951-52), Peter Thomson (1954-55-56), Cary Middlecoff (1955-56), Arnold Palmer (1960-61-62), Gary Player (1961-62), Jack Nicklaus (1962-63, 1965-66-67, 1970-71-72-73), Tony Jacklin (1969-70), Lee Trevino (1971-72), Seve Ballesteros (1979-80, 1983-84), Tom Watson (1980-81-82-83), Curtis Strange (1988-89), Nick Faldo (1989-90), Tiger Woods (1999-2000-01-02, 2005-06-07-08) and Phil Mickelson (2004-05-06).
[Golf Stuff Review Blog - Golf News - Golf Equipment Reviews] TOP THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE 2008 OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: Tiger Woods will miss the Open Championship as well as the rest of the 2008 season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn left ACL on June 24 in Park City, Utah. Woods revealed two days after winning the U.S. Open that he had been playing for at least 10 months with the torn ACL, and that he suffered a double stress fracture in his left tibia two weeks before the U.S. Open.
[golfbrief.com - Top News - Golf] British Open: Early Saturday thoughts: In eight previous Open Championships held at Royal Birkdale, the 54-hole leader has prevailed six times, including most recently Ian Baker-Finch in 1991. Previous third-round leaders/co-leaders at Royal Birkdale are listed below with eventual finish:
[Betting at Betfair: Sports] Els and Garcia battle for favouritism in most wide-open major ever: The best player in Tiger's absence, world No.2 Phil Mickelson, is no less than [20.0]. Funnily enough, Els and Mickelson were always amongst the market leaders in that pre-Tiger era, so in a sense its as if nothing changed for them in the last decade besides winning many fewer tourmaments than they would have without Tiger.
[buckeyeplanet Ohio State Forums] Golf: What if Tiger was never born.....: Other Players-Each of these players would have won their first and only major (with the exception of Miguel Jimenez and Thomas Bjorn who would have been in a playoff with Ernie Els for the 2000 US Open and 2000 British respectively).
[Sport] A very ”˜open Open’: Whilst there is talk of audiences dropping by up to 30% in America we do have evidence that when Tiger is not in contention, say at the Masters or the Open (both BBC events), then interest is not diminished. Tiger’s record in majors speaks for itself and having won three out of the eight Opens this century would have been the overwhelming favourite, but his absence throws the field wide open!
[Ara Sports] Perry needs a history lesson when it comes to passing on major ...: who wait until the last minute to commit, so as not to get hopes up and feelings hurt if they change their mind. Many players often commit to every tournament they think they will play, simply so they do not forget to do so.
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