Tiger Woods has recently announced that additional back surgery will delay his comeback to the PGA Tour for the indefinite future. As noted here and here and here, Tiger Woods is d-u-n-n DONE. The indefinite future is also known as never. At least not as a PGA Tour player who will ever win another tournament.
Lost amid all the hoopla over whether Tiger Woods will break Jack's record of 18 major golf tournament victories is the potential futility Tiger may experience chasing another amazing career record. Slammin’ Sammy Snead owns the record for total PGA victories with 82. Tiger is sitting right behind him at 79, having passed Jack Nicklaus’s total of 73 PGA victories in 2012. Snead is one of the top five all-time golfing greats. Among his many records is the fact that Snead is the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event: age 52 years, 10 months, 8 days at the 1965 Greater Greensboro Open, a tournament he won eight times. (Snead also is the oldest player to make a cut on the PGA Tour at the tender age of 67 years, 2 months, 21 days at the 1979 Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic.) Snead, with his smooth swing (ask Tom Watson) was smashing 300 yard drives with ease when it was an almost impossible feat, given the lack of today's superior golf technology in the '40s, '50s and '60s.
Amazingly
athletic, Snead was proud of the fact that he could leap from a
standstill to kick the top of a seven-foot door jamb. Not only is catching
the
Golden Bear becoming less likely with each passing tournament, Woods’
catching Snead
has now become a great deal less likely as well. Hold on, Sammy!
Lost amid all the hoopla over whether Tiger Woods will break Jack's record of 18 major golf tournament victories is the potential futility Tiger may experience chasing another amazing career record. Slammin’ Sammy Snead owns the record for total PGA victories with 82. Tiger is sitting right behind him at 79, having passed Jack Nicklaus’s total of 73 PGA victories in 2012. Snead is one of the top five all-time golfing greats. Among his many records is the fact that Snead is the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event: age 52 years, 10 months, 8 days at the 1965 Greater Greensboro Open, a tournament he won eight times. (Snead also is the oldest player to make a cut on the PGA Tour at the tender age of 67 years, 2 months, 21 days at the 1979 Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic.) Snead, with his smooth swing (ask Tom Watson) was smashing 300 yard drives with ease when it was an almost impossible feat, given the lack of today's superior golf technology in the '40s, '50s and '60s.
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| And never concede a putt |
AMDGTM
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