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Originally Posted by gusmahler
The Bridgestone has a more elite field than any of the majors (except arguably the Masters) and pays more than any of them. Oh, and Tiger has won it 8 times (no one else has won it more than once). And he's won the WGC-Cadillac 7 times.
I was scratching my head at this, so I did some poking around. The only really objective measure of field strength that I could find was the one used in the World Golf Ranking. Using just the World Rank factor and ignoring the Home Tour factor, in 2011, the four majors had the strongest fields of all the tournaments (PGA, British, Masters, US, in that order). The Bridgestone and WGC Match Play were next, followed by the Players, Doral, the first three FedEx Cup tournaments, WGC-HSBC, Riviera, the Memorial and Wentworth.
All that to say that yes, Tiger won some big tournaments (and may yet win some more) and had a great year, but the four majors are still the biggest and the hardest ones to win, and he did strike out at those.