Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 3 March 2015 | Page 19

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Whats Mirror
Putting Mirror
If Snow White’s nemesis,
the Evil Queen, had been
a golfer and had any
pretensions of having a
tournament career, rather
than consulting her sports
psychologist, she might have
asked her magic mirror to
confirm – ‘who is the best
player of all’?
The mirror would have been hard
pressed to offer any answer but ‘alas,
thou art good indeed, My Queen, but
Jack Nicklaus is the best’.
As the first of this year’s golf Majors
approaches and Tiger Woods remains
stuck firmly in the doldrums in what, as
recently as four years ago, was thought
to be his unstoppable ascent to the
previously untouchable heights scaled
by Jack Nicklaus in his stellar career,
the inevitable questions about who is
the ‘best’ will get trotted out into the
conversation at the 19th hole at golf
clubs everywhere.

Cross generation comparisons are
generally ill informed, odious at best
and of little real value (except as fairy
tales or perhaps to certain liquor
companies whose products help fuel
the fires of argument!), but they can
be fun… so here goes!
Tiger Woods is currently second on
the all-time list of Majors’ winners
with 14 titles and, after his last win in
a Major at the US Open in 2008 (was
it really that long ago!), according to
the current rankings, has only Nicklaus
with 18 wins ahead of him.
With the Woods ‘juggernaut’
temporarily stalled, it would seem,
Rory McIlroy is undoubtedly the
current form player in the Majors by
quite some margin, having won the last
two on offer in 2014 when he backed
up his maiden victory in the Open
Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf
Club with a repeat win at the USPGA
Championship at Valhalla Go