Rory McIlroy Announces Tiger Woods Is The Undisputed Greatest Player Of All Time
Golf Channel — After getting an up-close-and-personal look at the organized chaos that follows Tiger Woods around a golf course, Rory McIlroy believes the 14-time major champ may be playing at a disadvantage these days.
McIlroy and Woods were grouped together for the first two rounds at the Genesis Open, during which McIlroy moved into contention while Woods faded to a missed cut. With well-hydrated fans still screaming his name from various corners of the Riviera Country Club clubhouse, McIlroy told reporters that the buzzing galleries ultimately have a negative impact on Woods’ score.
“I swear, playing in front of all that, he gives up half a shot a day on the field,” McIlroy said. “Like, it’s two shots a tournament he has to give to the field because of all that that goes on around.”
I was doing Barstool Radio yesterday afternoon then right into #RnR2 so I missed this. Apparently Tiger Woods missed the cut or something but looked healthy as hell doing it. People are going crazy about how healthy he looked. Healthiest person in Los Angeles some were saying. He also committed to the Honda for next week so great stuff from Tiger, what a week.
Anyway, after two rounds with Big Dick Eldrick, Rory made these comments yesterday on the crowds. Says Tiger deals with so much crowd bullshit that it costs him half a shot per day or two shots per tournament. Unfair! We got lunatics yelling while he’s over the ball, screaming in his backswing, shuffling and moving and scurrying around nonstop for 5 straight hours trying to get a glimpse of the legend himself.
Even got some clowns offering putting advise.
“You’ve got a 6-foot putt and guys say, ‘It doesn’t break as much as you think.’ Just stuff like this that they don’t have to say.”
Kind of love that move but still, Rory has made an undeniable point — Tiger deserves to be spotted 2 strokes per tournament.
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So I did a little math, cross-checking this only fair and practical application of subtracting 2 strokes from all of Tiger’s tournaments with his results in major championships and come up with something very interesting. These are the new results based on this now fair rule.
1998 British Open: Tiger wins by 1
1999 US Open: Tiger enters playoff with Payne Stewart
2002 PGA Championship: Tiger wins by 1
2003 British Open: Tiger enters playoff with Ben Curtis
2005 US Open: Tiger enters playoff with Michael Campbell
2005 PGA Championship: Tiger enters playoff with Phil Mickelson
2007 Masters: Tiger enters playoff with Zach Johnson
2007 US Open: Tiger wins by 1
If we follow Rory McIlroy’s theory, which we should because he’s smart and qualified, Tiger Woods is at 17 major wins PLUS he’s in 5 additional playoffs. If we say he wins just 2 of 5, which is WAYYYY below his 11-1 Tour record and 3-0 major championship record in playoffs clip, Tiger is at 19 majors, 1 ahead of Jack Nicklaus.
Bottom and very clear line: Congratulations to Tiger Woods on officially becoming the greatest player of all time.