Evolution of Golf: Comparing Legends and Modern Greats

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00:00It's not the fault of a Arnold Palmer, a Jack Nicklaus, they play in the era that they did,

00:08you know, and some of what they did was foundational groundwork.

00:12So that in the same way that Tiger laid a lot of groundwork for the generations behind

00:15him to succeed, you know, it kind of set precedents that became norms on, you know, in the professional

00:20golf world.

00:22That's what Arnold and Jack did in their own way.

00:24It's like the same thing, like looking at basketball, the evolution of the game of basketball,

00:28you know, at one point they're playing a game, you know, like wilts where like there

00:31isn't three pointers and you know, you can't dunk a certain points and the game evolves.

00:37You have like a magic and a Larry bird and yeah, and then Jordan and it's like comparing

00:43Jordan LeBron, LeBron, I always feel like as a flawed exercise because it's just two

00:47different styles of games, you know, and LeBron does stuff that Jordan never did, but he benefits

00:53from everything Jordan did to revolutionize the game of basketball and take it to the

00:59point that it made where LeBron in his league and plays a different version of pro basketball.

01:03So I think that's why and there's even a disconnect between the generation Scottie's currently

01:09playing in and the equipment and the type of competition then, you know, Tiger and Vijay

01:15kind of they're teetering.

01:17Those years they had are in the very early years of modern equipment, right?

01:23The first iteration of the title is probing one, you know, the moving from persimmon woods,

01:30actual woods to like, you know, metal woods for the first time.

01:32Like it's, you know, in that first five to 10 years post of that sort of golf technology

01:37way, it's a different time.

01:39I guess like why we always talk about Tigers because there was talent in and the dominance

01:46that he showed and he's clearly was doing something that nobody else was doing.

01:50I guess what I was referring to maybe in that, you know, from Arnold Palmer to Jack Nicholas

01:55to Trevino that they each had years in which there was dominance.

02:01And so I think when we look at today's day and age, it's like, all right, you know, Xander

02:07Shoffley won two majors this year, but how many wins did he have?

02:10Like there is multiple, multiple players like Jack Nicholas, like Arnold Palmer, Trevino

02:16that won two majors in the same year, but also won five times.

02:20So when we talk about Xander's huge year and like why we're not mentioning Xander Shoffley's

02:25career year, it's, it's, it's that it's been done before that, you know, players have won

02:30two majors in a year, but also they won five plus times.

02:34And I think when we go to compare Scottie season to all of the greats, yes, the wins

02:40were there, but not getting that second major is where I think you kind of draw the line

02:45of how good of a season, yes, it was.

02:48But when you look at history and how we're going to judge the season, it's not going

02:53to stop.

02:54I don't think it can stack in the top five because of, or even the top 10 because he

02:58doesn't want two majors that year.

02:59And let me ask you this then, because it's, if you look at the, like, how, how would you,

03:06I think we all agree Tiger 2000 is the standard, right?

03:10Like, and no one's going to sit here with a straight face and try to tell you that Scottie

03:1424 is on par with Tiger 2000.

03:17Looking at those different resumes between BJO four and Scottie 24, which way do you,

03:22do you kind of fall on that?

03:25Because I would, I would probably say that the amount of times that VJ played definitely,

03:34you know, there's, there's more of an argument of how many, you know, the percentage of times

03:37you teed up and how many times you won, I would, I would probably lean towards Scottie

03:42of his, you know, just his overall dominance in the game that year where, you know, I would

03:49say that probably Tiger that same year in oh four was probably played the role of Xander

03:54a little bit more.

03:56Maybe not winning quite as much.

03:57I don't know how many, how many times the Tiger went in oh four.

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