Tiger was more dominant in us hey-day in the lesser events against weaker competition for sure. Tiger wanted to win more in the lesser stuff. Jack wanted to win more of the majors and focused way less much earlier in his career on the avg stuff
I can't deny the top 3, top 5, or top 10 major statistics. But one would be foolish to ignore the two truths of those events. 1) International players were limited at 3/4 ** of the events when Jack played in the majors, and 2) Fields were just not as deep. (** The Masters did try to encourage international players more than the others but there was still some players that would get in today, but would not get in the past)
I can't agree with the bolded part either. This does not consider the restrictions on international players and international events, or the general lack of such events in Jack's day. There was no such thing as a WGC event which is a very strong field. The creation of the World golf rankings in the mid 80's changed a lot with respect to international players.
So there was no PGA fields like the WGC or the Players in Jack's day.
Tiger won 15 majors and 18 World Golf Championship events and 2 players.
That bring him down to 47 "other" victories.
Are you going to argue that the following are weak events at a level that Jack never played. These were the exact same level of events Jack would play during the regular tour.
3 Tour Championships?
8 Bay Hill Invitationals
5 Memorial's
2 Playoff Events
2 Doral
3 Western Open's (which was a very strong event)
1 Byron Nelosn
2 Mercedes Championships
1 Pebble Beach
1 Canadian Open (this may be a stretch)
That leaves 19 other victories which could be more middling events, and over 1/3 of those are Torrey Pines which is not that weak a field. That leaves 12 other events.
I don't buy the argument that Tiger padded his win total in modest events - at all.
