As Tiger Woods makes his first attempt this week at surpassing Sam Snead for the...
- As Tiger Woods makes his first attempt this week at surpassing Sam Snead for the most all-time PGA Tour victories, the man largely responsible for pegging Snead’s number at 82 has weighed in with his thoughts on how the two greats compare.
Indeed, in 1987, then-PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beman set up a panel of golf historians to sift through Snead’s victories with a fine tooth comb, deciding which to include in the official tally and which to discard. “Whose 82 victories demonstrate the higher level of accomplishment?” Beman said in a telephone interview with Reuters before answering his own question.
Woods far outstrips Snead in major championships, with 15 titles, second all-time to Jack Nicklaus’ 18, versus seven for Snead.Beman noted the difficultly the panel he appointed faced in deciding what Snead victories to count as official.The panel decided to include them because of their historical significance, and also to credit Snead for his four wins at Pebble Beach, even though one came in an 18-hole tournament in 1936.
Among tournaments it deemed not worthy of official victory status were the 1940 Ontario Open in Canada, because it included only one other touring professional, and an LPGA event played on a par-three course. “But even though it is not an exact process and one that would create some controversy then and into the future ... they tried to treat the players in the past the fairest way they could based on the way the tour was back then.”
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