Dan Jenkins: Tiger Woods beat a bunch of nobodies in majors
Tiger Woods and legendary writer Dan Jenkins aren’t on each other’s Christmas card lists.
Woods never gave Jenkins the kind of sit-down interview he was granted by the likes of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. Jenkins lashed out against Woods in his critique of the former world No. 1 after revelations of Woods’ serial marital infidelity.
Then, after Jenkins published a (clearly) parody interview with Woods in Golf Digest in November 2014 (the December issue), Woods took to Derek Jeter’s The Players’ Tribune to deride the piece and scold Jenkins.
Jenkins shot back this week in an interview with the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, saying Woods’ major accomplishments pale compared to golf’s new generation because of the quality of opponents the two beat.
“There’s much more talent at the top (and the bottom) than there was during Tiger’s peak years,” Jenkins said. “Tiger beat a lot of nobodies to win most of his majors.
“Yeah, there was Phil [Mickelson] and [Ernie] Els around, in and out, but go back and look who was second to him in those majors and tell me where they are now.”
Though Mickelson and Els were runner-up to Woods in three of the majors Woods won, there were also the likes of Bob May and Chris DiMarco.
Jenkins was speaking more in support for fellow Texan and Masters champion Jordan Spieth, but it was an easy shot against Woods.
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