[Formerly YB-2]

While he has feet-of-clay (don't we all........... ), think he is the best to ever play the game. Too bad there is really no way to have the greats of yore go head-to-head when they were each at their peak. The changes in club & ball technology also have an impact as well as the numbers of players that the best come from today. Hope he wins number 83 this next year, though four (4) more majors is likely a stretch.

What Rex Hoggard said, "In this era to win even 50 times on the PGA Tour is an unbelievable achievement in itself. Even Phil’s number [44 Tour victories], but to get to 82. I feel like I’ve had a decent career, [but] if I win six times a year for the next 10 years I still wouldn’t get there,” Rory McIlroy said.

McIlroy’s point is easy enough to prove. Among today’s active stars, only Dustin Johnson has at least 20 Tour victories. McIlroy has 17 Tour tilts, Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth have each won 11 times on Tour and Brooks Koepka, the world’s top-ranked player, has seven titles.

Combined, they trail Woods by 16 wins.