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Originally Posted by leoslayer
fact is tiger either wins or does not contend. same with his competition. and rocco absolutely choked. ill have to go check but i believe he had wedge in hand on 18 in regulation and made bogey. he also had wedge on 18 in playoff and failed to convert. ok i stand corrected but he missed the damn green with a wedge on 18. great players dont do that. ( you can say watson at the brit but tom even said he choked tht one)
big fng difference having to beat guys that havnt won a major before they throw up all over themselves.
i measure greatness by majors and majors alone. i dont care how many yards marino threw for he has 0 rings.
1) Tiger has been in the mix in a number of majors that he didn't win, he is nowhere near total feast or famine as your post puts it. Off the top of my head without looking it up - 1998 British, 1999 US Open, 2005 PGA, 2007 Masters, 2007 US Open, 2009 PGA, 2010 Masters, 2011 Masters, all very high finishes. This would be a lifetime worth of big finishes for your average player, and that's before we discuss the FOURTEEN wins.
2) I see. You're one of those guys who throw out the regular season (which comprises 90-95% of an athlete's games played), because postseason wins are all that matters. After all, you heard some legends say while you were growing up, "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" and other such cliched silliness. So Marino doesn't qualify as an all time great to you? How about Ted Williams? Ty Cobb? Ernie Banks? Karl Malone?
3) "I measure greatness by majors and majors alone". This is very stupid. For starters, on it's face, you'd think this would mean you wouldn't dump all over Tiger, but you are still doing so. Second, there are any number of other regular Tour events with fields as strong as those in the majors (The Players, Barclays, BMW, etc) - winning those events doesn't equate to chump change, you don't just throw them out.