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Originally Posted by JohnnyFlame
Yes I'm sure they could(cough, cough) Player alone has as many majors as all three of them but yeah they could match him. Arnold with double of any two of them and then some with seven. Watson with a mere eight. Trevino with six(again double). Fart even Ray Floyd has won one more than any of them with four. Not to mention he had to contend with Irwin as well with 3.
There is a reason you can google literally hundreds of articles on Tiger not having a competitor. Never mind the Mickelson choke jobs.
Nicklaus quite easily wins the level of competition argument by far.
I'd like nothing better than to see some non-choke job types come up and challenge Woods. I believe he would still come out on top but him beating guys that beat themselves ain't nothing like two top guys going at it.
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Part of the reason that Mickelson and others don't have so many is that Woods has been so great and won majors that they would have won.
Mickelson did choke two away (not against Woods though) so his 3 majors is pretty misleading in terms of his actual talent.
Player and Palmer weren't exactly in their primes against Jack either.
I would easily take Mickelson over Trevino and Floyd and say he is at least as good a player as Watson was.
You also conveniently ignore the fact that joe blow golfer was pretty bad in Nicklaus's day while today there are many more golfers with the ability to win in any major.
I think that Nicklaus is the best golfer ever and will likely still be when Woods is done, but that doesn't mean that Nicklaus played against greats while Woods is facing hackers out there.