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Originally Posted by ntnBO
If you truly don't understand why I'm not even going to try to explain it. See Tiger winning his cute little 18 man event with an elite field and then going to Australia and beating 153 others except for Greg Chalmers and some other random.
Don't be intentionally obtuse.
BO
I'm not being intentionally obtuse. I'm just TELLING you it is impossible to quantify your opinion that winning the Match Play is easier than winning a full field Tour stop. "You only have to beat 6 people" is LOL
Winning a regular PGA Tour event takes some combination of good play over 4 days. Could be 1 unbelievable day, 1 so so day, and 2 good days. Could be 4 good days. Could be 2 so so days, 1 good day, and 1 great day. It can also be ruined completely by 1 bad day.
The Match Play is a completely different animal. The combination and consistency that it takes to win the Match Play is just about undefinable. There is an abundance of landmines waiting to take out someone who is playing well enough to win a stroke play event on Tour that given week. Your match play life could be ruined on a "great day".
As for Tiger winning at the Chevron. I don't think that winning the Chevron is harder than winning a full event, though it is much closer than many think. That argument you are referring to stemmed from idiots like yourself looking at the fact that Tiger's winning score was only -10 or something as evidence that it would not have stood up in a full field event. To that, I laugh and am embarrassed at the same time for so many people on a gambling forum to be making complete fools of themselves.
You see, when you take a field of 18 of the best golfers in the world, whatever the winning score is that week has a very good chance of winning a full field event. Will it win every time? No, of course not, however it will win A LOT. But if you want to give me the best 18 golfers in every event, you can have the field and we can bet as much money as you'd like.
Last edited by NxtWrldChamp; 08-13-2013 at 02:15 AM.