Cigarette smoking has been proven to be the leading cause of statistics. But can sports be far behind?
Footballs, baseball, bats, pucks, basketballs, all have remained pretty much the same over many years. Golf equipment has not. Today's clubs and balls are much superior to what was used even 15 years ago. I don't feel any statistical machine can make any sort of accurate comparison from Nelson to Woods.
What I take from all this is that Tiger's competition are not as close to his level as Nelson's (or Nicklaus') were to theirs. Earning points based on margin of victory is misleading at best. Tiger is very agressive to the end, while golfers in the not too distant past were know to become very conservative with a 8 shot lead with 5 holes to go. Bo, totally agree that the equipment of today makes it difficult to compare Nelson and Woods, however, each was playing against competition using the same type of equipment as they were. No statistical analysis is going to stop the debate...one of the great things about sports!
