Then, it was considered heaven if you did the above and won one major (ex. Andy North, Fred Couples). Because by keeping your card and then winning that one major, you could play less, make a good living by doing the Monday corporate outings with your sponsors and other fans whose legs would turn to jelly just getting to meet you, and get into the golf course design business thanks to the emblem of being a major championship winner.

Most golfers considered multi-major winners like Arnie, Jack, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, Johnny Miller, etc. as other-worldly types and that none of them could do what they had done and they didn’t have to nor wanted to try and win multiple majors—and certainly would never voice that opinion.

Then Tiger came along and said words like ‘I play to win every time I play’ and ‘I want to win majors and win more majors than Tom or Jack’. Thanks to learning the game at an early age and getting taught the right way as well as receiving mental toughness from his ex-Green Beret dad, Tiger was playing well and winning as a kid, obviously loved the sport given how hard he continues to work on his game despite all the money he has, and has never looked back starting with his three U.S. Amateur majors (yes, they are majors and Jack has one too even though none are included in the major totals for Jack or Tiger).

So Kenny Perry is right in that golfers are ultimately judged by how they do in the majors but you use to only need to win one to secure your place in PGA history.

LET’S GO TIGER!!!!!

(By the way, we golf fans are out here in cyberspace, Jeff, so don’t be discouraged that your post hasn’t generated that many comments. We’re just not use to folks at AJ/C asking us for an opinion about anything not resembling the usual suspects: Falcons, Braves, UGA, G-TECH, etc..)

I’ve been a sports fan longer than I care to admit, and Huck nailed it.

No athlete I’ve ever seen possessed his ability to perform at a level to which no other player would even aspire.

The dry-witted Paul Goydos was asked how he felt about the media’s constant fawning over Tiger. He said, “Tiger’s the most under-rated player on the planet.”

By the way, the National doesn’t “sell” tickets. They allow a limited, lucky number to buy them at stupid-low prices. Fortunes have been made re-selling them.