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Let's not forget about something that is oh so very important. Courses used to have much deeper roughs (especially in the majors) which required a more conservative approach with the driver. More importantly, the ability to recover from the rough, with the old equipment and balls took skills that modern players didn't have to devote practice time on. The point is that if you put today's players in a time machine and went back to the sixties or seventies their games would suffer. Flip that script and the old timers would thrive.
Beast in his day I loved jack
On the basis only of this video, there can be no one else even considered as GOAT. Eldrick is clearly the best of his generation bu he's obviously a hacker compared with Nicklaus.
Jack is a far better man but the depth of competition between the two isn’t even comparable. So many more great players Tiger had to deal with.
When I was growing up, Jack was the all-time best. A 'few' years later, he's still the best.
Jack is the GOAT… 18-19 and another 9 or 10 top 5's
Jack for me, having seen both play in the flesh at various British Opens, Jack was much more friendly with thw crowd, Tiger was very distanced by comparason….
The biggest factor in comparing greats is comparing who they had to beat
it was a different game using woods and hitting long irons into greens not short irons! but i suppose the skill level required back then eliminated alot of the opposition!
Wonder what his winnings/earnings would be translated in today’s money?
Jack was built to play golf the way Wilt Chamberlain was built to play basketball. Jack had eyesight like Ted Williams, a high IQ, a 35-inch sleeve length, incredible natural strength and legs like tree trunks. In addition, he was all state honorable mention as a shooting guard in basketball in Ohio. Jack's vertical golf swing made him highly consistent with the longest clubs in the bag. He won the long drive competition at the PGA in 1983 with a drive of 341 yards using old fashioned equipment. He putted well enough to win at Augusta six times. He rarely practiced his short game. Jack was obsessed with majors 8 weeks a year and his family 44 weeks a year. This is the reason he started designing golf courses at the age of 29. Chi Chi Rodriguez said that Jack was a legend in his part time. Tiger on the other hand is very smart and has great fine motor skills, but he was physically fragile even before the car accident. Tiger had his eyes lasered twice, had four back surgeries and four knee operations before the car accident. Tiger is bionic and would not have been able to play at a high level if he had been born in 1940 because medicine was in the dark ages relative to today. If Jack had been born in 1976 and spent the amount of time that Tiger spent practicing, it would have been no better than a push for Tiger against Jack.
+3 Handicap at 13 years old.. Insane
Go back and listen to the sound of the shaft and the pure ness of the contact. Jack was a legit ball striker.
There is no doubt, Jack Nicklaus is the best but the one golfer who is close to him is Ben Hogan
I'm a big fan of Tiger's but Jack has been and is the best ever!
I know Tiger hasn't had a chance yet, but Jack's Seniors record is superb as well. In his first 2 Senior seasons Jack won 5 (of a possible 8) majors, accumulated the Senior Grand Slam, before ultimately winning 8 Senior Major championships – and he never missed a cut in them until his sixties. I cannot see Tiger matching that!
Also, Jack was a good family man with solid, down-to-earth values – and that counts for a lot in my reckoning.
Jack Nicklaus is the Greatest of all time!!
Jack is the best, period.
Jack is the G.O.A.T
Tiger is the GOAT , Jack had no competition because there was no competition.Golf was pretty much a pastime for most of the players not the professional competitive game it is today.
No contest…it's Jack. Jack won 18 majors (it's all about the majors), so he has Tiger there who has 15, but he came in 2nd 19 times!!! and 3rd 8 times!!! Tigers had no where near that number of 2nd and 3rd place finishes. If it wasn't for one other person in each of those 2nd place finishes in the majors Jack would have 37 majors. A feat that would have never been reached-EVER!! ALSO…consider the level of competition Jack was up against. He played against LEGENDS…LEGENDS…the likes of Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, and Tom Watson. Those 4 right there won a combined 30 majors. The best 4 Tiger went up against won a combined 13. Last but not least, look at the equipment advantage Tiger had. Jack played with unforgiving equipment…wood woods. The Persimmon wood drivers were about only 175 cc in size with sweet spots the size of a dime, and steel shafts. The irons were like butter knives on a stick. No heel/toe weighting, no titanium, zero forgiveness. And the balls were wound balata balls that cut easily and spun like crazy way left and way right when mishit—way more than today's balls. If you know anything about golf history, it's no contest. Tiger was great, but Jack is the G.O.A.T.
Jack's not quite twin brother, Johnny Miller, at 5:46