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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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Sam Snead
Sam Snead's PGA Tour career stretched across four decades, from his first win in 1936 to his last in 1965, and by the time he was done he'd won 82 official PGA Tour events, a total that stood alone as the all-time record for more than five decades until Tiger Woods finally tied it in 2019. Snead won seven major championships — three Masters, three PGA Championships, and one Open Championship — but never won the US Open despite finishing runner-up four times, a gap in his résumé that's often cited as the biggest "what if" of his career given how dominant he was almost everywhere else. His swing was widely regarded, even by his contemporaries, as the most naturally fluid and mechanically efficient in the sport's history, a reputation that outlasted his playing career and that instructors still reference when describing an ideal golf swing tempo. Snead's longevity was as remarkable as his win total — he shot his age or better numerous times well into his 60s and finished third at the 1974 PGA Championship at age 62, a level of sustained competitiveness deep into what should have been retirement age for most professional athletes.
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