


Third best player of all time?
#1
Posted 18 May 2017 - 09:44 PM

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#2
Posted 18 May 2017 - 09:47 PM
Edited by knock it close, 18 May 2017 - 09:49 PM.
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#3
Posted 18 May 2017 - 09:48 PM
#4
Posted 18 May 2017 - 09:49 PM
knock it close, on 18 May 2017 - 09:47 PM, said:
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#5
Posted 18 May 2017 - 09:50 PM

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#7
Posted 18 May 2017 - 09:54 PM
Good_Miss_Chris, on 18 May 2017 - 09:48 PM, said:
9 majors in 8 years ... and went 3-for-3 in majors, 5-for-6 overall in 1953 while in horrific pain ... pretty good argument could be made for Hogan.
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#8
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:01 PM
#9
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:03 PM
#10
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:03 PM

#11
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:13 PM
Thrillhouse, on 18 May 2017 - 10:03 PM, said:
I can see Jones ...
littleinjunp, on 18 May 2017 - 10:01 PM, said:
This one is going to need some more convincing ...
cdnglf, on 18 May 2017 - 10:03 PM, said:
And I'm interested to hear more about this ... I kind of understand Nelson, with a lot of his wins coming during the wars years, but why throw Jones in here?
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#12
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:13 PM
Cool topic!
Edited by CCTxGolf, 18 May 2017 - 10:14 PM.
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#13
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:20 PM
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#14
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:29 PM
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#15
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:34 PM

#16
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:49 PM
tatertot, on 18 May 2017 - 10:13 PM, said:
Nelson was the third best player born in 1912.
Palmer, Snead, and Hogan each has 60+ wins. Phil has nearly 50. Hagen's career partially predates the tour, but he still gets credit for 45 (and 11 pro majors). And of course Gary Player won 900 events, give or take. Jones didn't win nearly that many events (even if you count the "1908 East Lake Children's Tournament"), and his amateur "majors" are way overrated. No Hagen (the actual best player of that era), no Sarazen, no Barnes, etc.
Edited by cdnglf, 18 May 2017 - 10:53 PM.
#17
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:49 PM
JunkerJorge, on 18 May 2017 - 10:34 PM, said:
Edited by Shilgy, 30 May 2017 - 04:14 PM.
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#18
Posted 18 May 2017 - 10:57 PM
cdnglf, on 18 May 2017 - 10:49 PM, said:
tatertot, on 18 May 2017 - 10:13 PM, said:
Nelson was the third best player born in 1912.
Palmer, Snead, and Hogan each has 60+ wins. Phil has nearly 50. Hagen's career partially predates the tour, but he still gets credit for 44 (and 11 pro majors). And of course Gary Player won 900 events, give or take. Jones didn't win nearly that many events (even if you count the "1908 East Lake Children's Tournament"), and his amateur "majors" are way overrated. No Hagen (the actual best player of that era), no Sarazen, no Barnes, etc.
Good stuff ...
Nelson is tough for me to judge. He dominated golf for a time, and while it was war time, Snead and Hogan were still playing while Nelson won 11 in a row and 18 of 35 in 1945. His major total is low (5), but he basically retired at 34, and lost out on 14 majors cancelled because of the war. If he hadn't retired in the prime of his career, it would be interesting what his numbers would look like. And, as JunkerJorge pointed out above, Hogan's career did not take off until Nelson called it quits.
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#19
Posted 18 May 2017 - 11:03 PM
cdnglf, on 18 May 2017 - 10:49 PM, said:
Only one of them played against the full complement of international players, in an era with ubiquitous swing trainers and personal masseuses and 'sports psychologists' and hyperbaric chambers and lap-band surgeries. And Tiger Woods.
Edited by littleinjunp, 18 May 2017 - 11:04 PM.
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Posted 18 May 2017 - 11:06 PM

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#23
Posted 18 May 2017 - 11:12 PM
cdnglf, on 18 May 2017 - 10:49 PM, said:
tatertot, on 18 May 2017 - 10:13 PM, said:
Nelson was the third best player born in 1912.
Palmer, Snead, and Hogan each has 60+ wins. Phil has nearly 50. Hagen's career partially predates the tour, but he still gets credit for 45 (and 11 pro majors). And of course Gary Player won 900 events, give or take. Jones didn't win nearly that many events (even if you count the "1908 East Lake Children's Tournament"), and his amateur "majors" are way overrated. No Hagen (the actual best player of that era), no Sarazen, no Barnes, etc.
#24
Posted 18 May 2017 - 11:15 PM
#25
Posted 18 May 2017 - 11:19 PM

Edited by grm24, 18 May 2017 - 11:21 PM.
#26
Posted 18 May 2017 - 11:19 PM
littleinjunp, on 18 May 2017 - 11:15 PM, said:
That statement is an excellent light for us to shine on all your past and future posts in this discussion.
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#27
Posted 18 May 2017 - 11:22 PM
littleinjunp, on 18 May 2017 - 11:15 PM, said:
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#28
Posted 18 May 2017 - 11:23 PM
grm24, on 18 May 2017 - 11:12 PM, said:
cdnglf, on 18 May 2017 - 10:49 PM, said:
tatertot, on 18 May 2017 - 10:13 PM, said:
Nelson was the third best player born in 1912.
Palmer, Snead, and Hogan each has 60+ wins. Phil has nearly 50. Hagen's career partially predates the tour, but he still gets credit for 45 (and 11 pro majors). And of course Gary Player won 900 events, give or take. Jones didn't win nearly that many events (even if you count the "1908 East Lake Children's Tournament"), and his amateur "majors" are way overrated. No Hagen (the actual best player of that era), no Sarazen, no Barnes, etc.
I didn't say PGA Tour... Phil also has 3 Euro Tour wins. So I was a bit generous in rounding up.
Edited by cdnglf, 18 May 2017 - 11:26 PM.
#29
Posted 18 May 2017 - 11:24 PM
I was looking up some other things earlier and saw an article that list the authors top 10 all time golfers. Only Tiger started his career in the last 45 years. Only Woods and Watson started their career in the last 65 years. Just seems unlikely to me that golf is the only sport that has regressed so much. All other sports we acknowledge that the athletes are bigger stronger faster better but not golf I guess. Most on this list were born over a century ago.
Point being it's easy to just look at win totals and be awed by the players of long ago. Might it be at least partially due to the lack of competition? Comments about Nelson strike me like this. We hear that he did have a lot of competition because Snead and Hogan played. Well, if forbid the thought, we had a major war today and the tour consisted of DJ Day and Rory and a bunch of mini tour guys do you think the big three might get a lot of wins?
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#30
Posted 18 May 2017 - 11:25 PM

Edited by dlygrisse, 18 May 2017 - 11:26 PM.
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