ESPN.com · Apr 9, 2019
Tiger Woods and the fight against Father Time
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Golf has Tiger Woods, which means golf has at least one advantage over the Big Three of the NFL, NBA and MLB. Tom Brady, LeBron James and Mike Trout have no chance of competing and winning beyond their 50th birthdays. (Well, Brady might, but play along for the hell of it.)
Tiger? He conceivably has as much as a 17-year window to add to his major championship total of 14. Tom Watson was closing hard on his 60th birthday when he stood one makeable putt away from winning The Open at Turnberry in 2009, and here is an indisputable fact about the iconic Mr. Watson:
He was never as good a golfer as Tiger Woods. Not even close.