Golf Digest dives into the numbers and ranks the 50 greatest players of the past five decades by their best single season.
To mark the 50th playing of the Players Championship, the founding of which in 1974 coincided with the dawn of what we might call golf’s modern era, Golf Digest ran the numbers and ranked the 50 best players of the past five decades by their best single season.
Why, you might ask? It’s about finding new ways to identify greatness across eras, which is an inescapable part of being a golf fan.
Golf Digest’s formula also accounted for total wins, top-10s, scoring titles and player-of- the-year awards.
They gave a slight advantage to players who won in multiple countries.
Their top choice of Tiger Woods 2000 season is one that most can agree upon, but what follows in their assessment may surprise you!
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