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Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods turned pro in 1996 at 20 and, within a year, won the 1997 Masters by 12 strokes at 21, becoming the tournament's youngest-ever champion and its first winner of Black or Asian heritage — a victory margin so large it remains the widest in Masters history. In 2000-2001, Woods held all four major championship titles simultaneously — the US Open, The Open Championship, PGA Championship, and the following year's Masters — a feat known as the "Tiger Slam." It wasn't a calendar-year Grand Slam, but it's the closest anyone has come to holding all four majors at once in the sport's modern history. Woods finished with 15 major championships, second only to Jack Nicklaus's 18, and his 82 PGA Tour wins are tied with Sam Snead for the most all-time. His victory at the 2019 Masters, 11 years after his previous major and following a serious 2009 personal scandal and a series of debilitating back surgeries, is widely regarded as one of the great comeback stories in sports history. Woods's dominance through the 2000s reshaped professional golf's economics almost single-handedly — television ratings, tournament purses, and sponsorship deals all rose dramatically during his prime, a commercial impact that golf historians still credit as much as his playing record when discussing his overall influence on the sport.
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Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus turned pro in 1961 and, across a career that stretched into the 1980s, won a record 18 professional major championships, a total that's stood as the sport's benchmark for more than three decades and that Tiger Woods, despite a genuine run at it, ultimately fell three short of. Nicklaus's major total is matched by an equally telling secondary record: 19 runner-up finishes at majors, meaning he was a serious contender at professional golf's biggest events an almost absurd 37 times across his career, a level of sustained relevance few golfers in any era have approached. His most famous win came in 1986, when he captured the Masters at 46 years old, still the oldest champion in tournament history, closing with a back-nine 30 that's remembered as one of the most dramatic final rounds golf has ever produced, two decades after his first major title. Nicklaus's nickname, "The Golden Bear," became attached to a business empire well beyond competitive golf — a globally prominent golf course design business that he built during and after his playing career, extending his influence on the sport into architecture and course design long after his own major-championship run had ended.
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