The differences between Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods
Another reminder of how times have changed came from the mouth of the greatest player to have ever played the game. I was playing,
titleist vokey sm5, I used to be able to make a game with a club champion. I’d come to a golf course and we’d both play the back tees. I might hit it 10 or 15 or 20 yards by them, but he knew the golf course, and we always would have a pretty good game, said Jack Nicklaus. played a lot of exhibitions where I got beat by the club champion,
titleist 915 d3, the 18 time major title holder acknowledged. could you imagine a better player, going out and playing Tiger or (Geoff) Ogilvy or whoever it might be from the back tees and see what kind of a game you make? There’s no relationship to how far they hit it to where you hit it today, the Golden Bear answered himself.
Nicklaus was acutely aware of this in designing the Ritz Carleton at Dove Mountain, which hosted the WGC Match Play event for the first time back in February. only way to bring you closer together, he began, to create something to where you can relate to. They are on the greens. The putts that you’ve had and the putts that they have and the chips,
titleist 915 d2, you can relate to because you all are going to have those situations, and they (PGA Tour players) will,
titleist vokey sm5, too. It also means that the average player is going to be faced with a higher degree of difficulty in order to try and shorten the spectrum between the skill sets.
that make it a little bit more difficult for you? Yes. But it does make it a lot of fun because each year you’ll get to have the opportunity to relate back to each of those players and say, hey, I saw Tiger here,
titleist 915 d3, he didn’t get it up and down and I did, Nicklaus countered. are the kind of things that I think make the game fun.