In August, Tiger Woods once again hogged the sports pages with his fifth straight victory on the PGA Tour in the 2006 season as well as seventh overall PGA championship this year. When you think about the fact that so many great golfers have yet to win a single tournament in their entire careers and yet here is Tiger with seven titles this year alone, you can easily why they are saying Woods has a chance to be universally recognized as the greatest golfer who ever lived before his career is over.
With such a blistering pace to his year so far, it’s time once again to review the career record of Tiger Woods to get a better feel of how he currently ranks in history.
If there is one period in Woods’ career that shows his true dominance, it has to start with his victory at the Memorial Tournament in June 1999 when Woods went on to record one of the greatest sustained periods of excellence in men’s golf history as he went on to capture 17 PGA Tour titles in the two calendar years that followed. Overall, he won 32 PGA championships in the next five calendar years, an amazing feet that has not been in professional golf in decades.
In late 1999,...