Golf Digest List Statistically The Best 100 Players In The World Ever

Wow this Brett Avery list in Golf Digest must have taken an age and at least eight AA calculator batteries to prepare.  Avery has delved deep into the PGA Tour annals to compare thousands of rounds, scores and stats and come up with a list of the top 100 players ever ON THE PGA TOUR SINCE 1980.

Easy in your bed there Monty!

To make the list  a player needed either a Major and two wins, or three or more PGA Tour wins since 1980.  The equation used considered performance metrics, versus-peers metrics and a few square root signs.

Get down I said Monty!

Also with the proviso that several players on the list are still active and may move up or down, here is the top 10.



Vijay antler10. NICK FALDO

Score: 9.651 | Seasons: 1984-97 | Best season: 21.239 (1992) | Stroke differential: 1.250

9. RORY MCILROY

Score: 9.728 | Seasons: 2009-13 | Best season: 16.869 (2012) | Stroke differential: 1.289

8. DAVID DUVAL

Score: 9.733 | Seasons: 1995-2001 | Best season: 16.314 (1999) | Stroke differential: 1.680

7. TOM WATSON

Score: 10.318 | Seasons: 1980-98 | Best season: 24.391 (1980) | Stroke differential: 1.700

6. ERNIE ELS

Score: 10.702 | Seasons: 1994-2012 | Best season: 18.202 (2004) | Stroke differential: 1.375

5. VIJAY SINGH

Score: 10.952 | Seasons: 1993-2008 | Best season: 20.633 (2004) | Stroke differential: 1.717

4. JACK NICKLAUS

Score: 11.281 | Seasons: 1980-86 | Best season: 14.938 (1980) | Stroke differential: 1.946

3. PHIL MICKELSON

Score: 11.329 | Seasons: 1991-2013 | Best season: 14.384 (2004) | Stroke differential: 1.440

2. GREG NORMAN

Score: 13.893 | Seasons: 1981-97 | Best season: 19.431 (1995) | Stroke differential: 1.954

1. TIGER WOODS

Score: 23.047 | Seasons: 1996-2013 | Best season: 31.441 (2000) | Stroke differential: 2.603

No surprises then for who came out on top, but wont Greg Norman be grinning inwardly at the news!  And Vijay Singh is sure to be doing that funny laugh thing in a small chamber with it’s air thickened by the must of deer antler spray. 

But you know who I’m happiest the most for in that top 10?  David Duval.  When  he was good, he was great.

Alright Monty, get your lead, I’ll bring you for a walk now.

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Two Naked Pics Of Holly Sonders. The Big News To Emerge From The 2013 PGA Show

Image
The media centre at the 2013 PGA Show was buzzing yesterday.  Not because of anything that happened at the show.  God forbid! When I rocked in, several men (and one woman) were gathered around an iphone ogling and sharing  two pics of who they claimed were Holly Sonders naked. Now I have to hold my hands up and say, I had to google her to find out she’s from The Golf Channel. I don’t watch the Golf Channel because I don’t have an erectile dysfunction problem or need to rent a car from National.  I’m told adverts for both are all that’s on that channel. How they knew for certain it was her, I dont know.  Unless the cheeks of her ass were on her passport photo and they recognized them from there, but I doubt it. The First Pic The first pic is taken from behind. No pun intended.  The media guys say it was taken by her fiancee (?) and shows Holly in a white thong which has disappeared a dangerously long ways into the bummage.  I’m talking two aerial liquitabs and a hot whit
Read more

Sarah Stirk Nipple Gate: Navy Top Leaves Viewers Disappointed

Image
London: Sky Sports management this morning issued a statement  apologizing to subscribers after Sarah Stirk wore a navy dress live on air.  It is believed up to 60,000 horny golfers were left limp after they tuned in to final round coverage of the Valero Texas Open in the hope of getting a glimpse of the legendary Stirk starter buttons. “I pay my subscription, I’m bloody well entitled to see Sarah’s Wimbledon strawberries” said factory worker Paul Manning 52 from Hereford. “I even missed the ten minute freeview, coz my mate Derek tweeted that Stirk was going into the shot centre for ten minutes at 11pm”. The Sky statement read: We apologize unreservedly for the navy dress Sarah wore during last nights broadcast, through which no nipples were visible. This was due to a wardrobe malfunction. However we do intend to rectify this during our US Masters coverage and assure viewers that plenty of bridge rivets will be on show, both from Sarah and special guest Colin Montgomeri
Read more

Holly Sonders Quits Golf Channel After Contract Talks Fail. Moves To Fox.

Image
Tissues at the ready guys as this will come as a shock to you all that Holly Sonders , the female face of the Golf Channel, has quit and reportedly taken a job with Fox Sports. According to  reports Sonders, who appeared regularly on “Morning Drive” since 2011, could not come to an agreement on a new contract deal with the Golf Channel and was quickly snapped up by Fox Sports where she is expected to work on golf and NFL. Related: Holly Sonders Does The Ice Bucket Challenge We've had some fun with Holly over the last few years ( was that really her in those nudie pics? ) but now it looks like we'll be crying into those tissues. Join the GolfCentralDaily community on Twitter for loads more comment on and off the course. Follow @golfcentraldoc
Read more