At the end of each chapter you will find individual New-Money career
records for the player discussed. These records have been collected painstakingly, event by event, year by year, from a multitude of public-domain and
contributed sources to provide the most comprehensive career records ever
assembled on the players who make up Golf’s Greatest Eighteen. Each year
of each player’s tournament life is here, an analysis that has incorporated
approximately eighteen thousand event appearances. Taking account of
each and every player’s Top 25 finishes over his career has meant sifting
around 450,000 items of data.
In addition, although charting international wins was a tiny exercise by
comparison, simply finding ways to capture and analyze the data, then
transform it into meaningful 2002 U.S. dollars, was a fascinating and occasionally bizarre exchange-rate paper chase.
What we discovered during these last nine months is that composite
ready-reference books on player winnings, or indeed comprehensive major
championship money records, simply did not exist—until now.
New-Money Rankings of Golf’s Greatest Eighteen
Before we turn to the individual giants of the game, let’s take a look at
where things stand through the end of the 2002 season.Of course, as the following eighteen stories confirm, there are many
measures used to evaluate greatness, and who knows what money number
or final rating Tiger Woods will achieve when he reaches Jack Nicklaus’s
age? However that may work out in the future, here’s a new and different
way of summing up the fabulous achievements of golf’s greatest heroes for
the twentieth century and beyond—as well as a means for each and every
reader to reach a personal decision on who really was or is the Greatest
Player of All Time.
At the end of each chapter you will find individual New-Money career
records for the player discussed. These records have been collected painstakingly, event by event, year by year, from a multitude of public-domain and
contributed sources to provide the most comprehensive career records ever
assembled on the players who make up Golf’s Greatest Eighteen. Each year
of each player’s tournament life is here, an analysis that has incorporated
approximately eighteen thousand event appearances. Taking account of
each and every player’s Top 25 finishes over his career has meant sifting
around 450,000 items of data.
In addition, although charting international wins was a tiny exercise by
comparison, simply finding ways to capture and analyze the data, then
transform it into meaningful 2002 U.S. dollars, was a fascinating and occasionally bizarre exchange-rate paper chase.
What we discovered during these last nine months is that composite
ready-reference books on player winnings, or indeed comprehensive major
championship money records, simply did not exist—until now.
New-Money Rankings of Golf’s Greatest Eighteen
Before we turn to the individual giants of the game, let’s take a look at
where things stand through the end of the 2002 season.Of course, as the following eighteen stories confirm, there are many
measures used to evaluate greatness, and who knows what money number
or final rating Tiger Woods will achieve when he reaches Jack Nicklaus’s
age? However that may work out in the future, here’s a new and different
way of summing up the fabulous achievements of golf’s greatest heroes for
the twentieth century and beyond—as well as a means for each and every
reader to reach a personal decision on who really was or is the Greatest
Player of All Time.
