PGA Tour: Who’s the Best?

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Published: September 15, 2010

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When it comes to the best who ever played the game, without a “golf medium” to contact the dearly departed, it’s hard to know who Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen or Bobby Jones thought were the best of their eras.   Most golf fans today, most golf reporters today don’t even have a good grasp of the skill level of golfers who hit their prime in the 1970s and 1980s, which would include the latter part of Jack Nicklaus’s career and the Lee Trevino, Raymond Floyd and Tom Watson eras, to name just a few.

Looking back, no one was more deadly at attacking pins in the 1980s than Lanny Wadkins.  And it is hard to surpass Hale Irwin’s iron game.  Curtis Strange won two US Opens, and that’s not possible without dead-eye accuracy. But every pro had off weeks. Some even had off years.  To even guess who was the best back in the 1900s, the roaring ‘20s, between the wars or even in the post-war, pre-PGA Tour era, is impossible.  We only know who won the most.  We know that Byron Nelson was said to have hit into his own divots one day to the next, he was that accurate.  We believe Bobby Jones to be a good putter, but few alive today saw him putt, and no one alive saw him in his prime.  Hogan seldom talked to anybody, and the few who played with him and Nelson are now in their 80s. 

What we can do is identify who today’s best golfers think are the best at certain aspects of the game. 

We surveyed ten players from the BMW Championship and one anonymous caddie, who -- as it happens--  has seen the best from the last two decades.  Here are their opinions on the Best Drivers,  Best Mid-iron Players and Best Putters in the game.  Some names keep coming up, particularly Tiger Woods, Steve Stricker and Brad Faxon.  Woods in all categories, Sticker in all categories and Faxon in putting.  See whether you agr...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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