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Originally Posted by Your Boss
Because it wasn't a comprehensive list of all of the high finishes? Just a list of those where he was way out of contention and then a low final round made him look more in contention than he ever actually was?
Here's something that might be interesting if anyone wanted to take the time to do it that I think would speak to the depth of field argument pretty well.
Take Jack's 2nd and 3rd place finishes and calculate average strokes behind the winner. The do the same for all of Tigers top 10's.
I'm not sure how that would end up, top 10 might be stretching it. But not by a whole lot I don't think.
To add on to this, through 60 major starts as a professional TW has 30 top 5's and 36 top 10's. That's broken down as 14 wins, 6 seconds, 3 thirds, 5 fourths, and 1 fifth, and then 6 where he finished sixth-tenth. At same time in Jack's career, he had 35 top 3's broken down by 14 wins, 13 seconds, and 8 thirds.
My hypothesis here is that the average stroke differential in Jack's 21 non wins in that group would be greater than the stroke differential in Tiger's 16 non win top 5's, and would be close to the differential in top 10's.
The conclusion you could draw, assuming I'm correct, is pretty obvious.