Does Tiger Woods Need to Break Jack Nicklaus’ Record of 18 Major Titles?

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Published: November 18, 2013

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There is no question that Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 career major championship titles is the pinnacle of professional golf.

Golf’s four professional majors have been, and continue to be, the most important golf events in the world.

That being said, they are not the only important professional golf events in the world, and perhaps we often pay too much attention to how many major titles a player has won and too little attention to all of their other career achievements in the game.

Tiger Woods currently has 14 major championships. Woods will likely add to that number at some point, but his chances of winning more majors than Nicklaus appear to be dwindling by the day. Throughout the course of human history, no one has been able to predict the future with any real sense of accuracy, but let’s just say that it is somewhat unlikely that a 38-year-old golfer who has not won a major in five years and is walking around with an injury report that more closely resembles that of an NFL lineman will win another five majors over the course of the next seven seasons (at which point Woods will be 45 years old).

So, if Woods does not win 18 or more major championships by the time his career concludes, does that automatically mean that Nicklaus was a better golfer?

Does Woods absolutely, positively need to win more majors than Nicklaus in order to be considered the greatest golfer of all time, or will his full body of work be enough to push him ahead of Nicklaus?

Woods’ career accomplishments to this point have been nothing short of just astonishing:

Woods has won 79 PGA Tour events which is second only to Sam Snead’s 82 and is already six ahead of Nicklaus. Woods holds the record for both the lowest adjusted and unadjusted scoring average in PGA Tour history (2000—67.79 adjusted and 68.17 unadjusted) Woods has the lowest career scoring average in PGA Tour histo...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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