
Tiger's tale of the tapeRanking the 12 best achievements in Woods' careerPosted: Wednesday January 31, 2007 12:37PM; Updated: Thursday February 1, 2007 10:02AM
Where does Tiger Woods' current streak of seven consecutive PGA Tour wins rank among all his achievements? Here's my top 12 list. 1. Tiger Slam No, it wasn't a calendar-year Grand Slam but holding all four major championships at the same time (in 2001) is practically the same thing. It's the Big Lebowski and a big achievement that no one else has come close to, with the exception of Ben Hogan, who won three of the four titles in 1953 but had no intention of playing the PGA because he traveled to Britain by ocean liner and the events were scheduled back-to-back, making it impossible to play both. You wouldn't say the Tiger Slam will never be done again because Phil Mickelson was one par away from nailing three in a row at Winged Foot last summer. And Woods has two in a row and is playing the best golf of his career. He could run his majors streak to four, five, six -- who knows? 2. Twelve major championships No one thinks he's done, either. You'd have to be pretty brave to bet against him reaching Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 professional majors. And he's done all this at age 31. 3. Six straight national amateur titles Woods won three U.S. Junior Amateurs in a row, then followed it with three straight U.S. Amateur championships. For any teenager to play golf that consistently well and win in match play is highly unlikely. It's difficult to imagine anyone matching this record. 4. Lowest scores in all four majors Only a handful of legends have won all four majors -- Woods, Nicklaus, Gene Sarazen, Gary Player and Ben Hogan. For Woods to own or share the lowest score in all four majors simply underscores his greatness. It's one of the mind-boggling things he's done that doesn't get enough credit because he's set so many other mind-boggling records. 5. Seven PGA Tour victories in a row All right, you already know all the asterisks. It's not seven straight weeks and he played in other world events that he didn't win. Still, no one had even done six in a row since Hogan in 1948.
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