
Who has had the better career? Rory vs Phil
Major Championships – Rory with 5 and Phil with 6
PGA Tour + Euro Wins – Rory with 48 and Phil with 56
Rory was Number one in the world and also has two Players Championships.
Phil never won the Players but did much of his winning during the Tiger Era
Phil also finished 2nd in Majors 12 times.
Rory has finished 2nd in Majors 2 times





[QUOTE=”BuckNasty, post: 13992071, member: 48132″]
Half of his majors came after the tiger effect period
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Agreed but this sorta makes my argument that if no Tiger to contend with he may have 8-10 majors not 6? 🤔
[QUOTE=”CBaker, post: 13992123, member: 25261″]
Rory’s getting much closer now that he’s tied him in Majors, and completed the grand slam.
Rory has 3 tour championships to Phil’s 2. Tied in Majors but Rory has the grand slam. But still needs to rack up more wins to overtake him for me. Phil would have been generational without Tiger in the picture. If Rory can get another major and about 6-7 more wins that might do it for me. So he’s got the time and the skill to do it, but just not quite there yet.
And Phil did it in the Tiger era, but Rory has now had to deal with part of the Tiger Era and Phil early in his career, and now thug life Scottie Scheffler the past few.
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Scottie is a great golfer, not to take anything away from him but he never has been and never will be as utterly dominant as Tiger was in his prime. Scottie’s competitors know that he’s good, but beatable; when Tiger was in his prime, everybody just assumed that the competition was for second place if he was entered in an event.
[QUOTE=”BigMac, post: 13992130, member: 3386″]
Scottie is a great golfer, not to take anything away from him but he never has been and never will be as utterly dominant as Tiger was in his prime. Scottie’s competitors know that he’s good, but beatable; when Tiger was in his prime, everybody just assumed that the competition was for second place if he was entered in an event.
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hasn’t Scottie the past couple years played at a pace pretty close? He’s not been doing it this year but I thought he had done it he past couple.
[QUOTE=”Stemmy66, post: 13992128, member: 41999″]
Agreed but this sorta makes my argument that if no Tiger to contend with he may have 8-10 majors not 6? 🤔
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I could see that if he finished 2nd behind Tiger in more than 1 major. Also hard to quantify the effect Tiger had on driving Phil to bring out his own greatness.
[QUOTE=”CBaker, post: 13992149, member: 25261″]
hasn’t Scottie the past couple years played at a pace pretty close? He’s not been doing it this year but I thought he had done it he past couple.
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The last two years he’s played at a pretty close pace. But over 5 years he’s won 20 events – if we look at Tiger in the 5 year span from 1999-2003 he won 32 events, and in the 5 year span from 2005-2009 he won 31 events (see the graphics below).
To be fair, Tiger’s body of work is done and Scottie’s has a long ways to go, and Scottie plays a lot fewer events every year than Tiger did in his prime, so maybe his body will hold up better and maybe he’ll eventually surpass him.
I’m not a Tiger fan (quite the opposite, in fact), but it was pretty amazing to watch him in his prime even as much as I hated seeing it. He had a killer instinct that I’m not sure Scottie has. In an interview last year, Scottie said that the life of a professional golfer was “not a fulfilling life”, and that he would quit golf if it began to affect his family life. Tiger lived to compete and win, and it was basically all that mattered to him.
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