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Page 7 The 22 Times Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods


Played in The Same Major By T.J. Auclair


You may not realize this, but the


two greatest major champions in golf history -- Jack Nicklaus with 18 and Tiger Woods with 14 -- actually crossed paths in the majors on 22 occasions.


In a recent interview with Cigar


Aficionado, which you can watch here, Michael Jordan -- arguably the greatest basketball player in history -- was asked who he believed to be the best golfer of all time.


It was no surprise that His


Airness, who also happens to be a golf aficionado, wasn’t falling into


that trap. “Tey’re both great and I would


never say one is greater than the other,” Jordan said.


Jordan also said, “Jack and Tiger


never played against each other. Tey never played in the same tournament. Tey never played with the same equipment. Tey never played with the same length of golf course. I never played against Wilt Chamberlain. I never played against Jerry West. To now say that one is greater than the other is being a little bit unfair.”


Not all of that is entirely true,


though we do understand Jordan’s point. Woods and Nicklaus actually played in many of the same events early in Tiger’s career, but at that point, the Golden Bear was well past his prime while Tiger was coming into his own.


Since the talk is always about


majors when it comes to Nicklaus and Woods, we decided to breakdown the 22 occasions in which the two played in the same major.


A couple of fun stats that came


out of this: Nicklaus got the better of Woods


on five of the 22 occasions, most notably his T6 to Tiger’s T8 in the 1998 Masters when Nicklaus was 58 years old.


In four of the five majors where


Nicklaus bettered Woods, Woods was still an amateur.


Perhaps most remarkably of


all, in the 22 majors where Woods and Nicklaus were both in the field, Woods collected seven of his 14 majors and finished in the top 10 nine times.


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