Perspective: Can Tiger Woods catch Jack Nicklaus? Probably not, but it’s fun to wonder again
By Barry Svrluga Barry Svrluga Sports columnist with beat writing experience on baseball, golf, the NFL, college basketball and college football Email Bio Follow Sports columnist April 15 at 5:21 PM AUGUSTA, Ga.
Bethpage has staged two Opens: 2002, when Woods won, and 2009, when he finished tied for sixth in a swampy affair that didn’t finish until Tuesday. Woods has played in two U.S. Opens at Pebble Beach: His unforgettable 15-shot — 15 shots! — win in 2000, and a less-remembered tie for fourth with Phil Mickelson, three shots behind victorious Graeme McDowell, in 2010.
That Woods was in his prime. This Woods couldn’t even swing a golf club two years ago. Four back surgeries will do that to a guy. That victory for Nicklaus was, in fact, an outlier in his career. It was the only major he won after turning 41. Woods’s victory at Augusta is an even more extreme outlier at the moment. It’s his only major after turning 33 — still difficult to fathom given where Woods was in his career at the 2008 U.S. Open.
By winning the Masters at 43 years, three months and 16 days old, Woods didn’t even crack the list of top 10 oldest major winners. Many multiple major champions put a nice bow on their careers by taking one late in life: Floyd at the 1986 U.S. Open at 43, Harry Vardon’s seventh at the 1914 British Open at 44, Lee Trevino’s seventh at the 1984 PGA at 45.
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