Saw this stat on twitter today (via @timcusickgolf):
@TigerWoods has won 27% of all PGA TOUR events he's played in. Nicklaus won 12%, Palmer 8%, Mickelson 8% & Singh 7%.
Don't know if it's accurate or not, but if so WOW.
Accurate - not quite, unless they parsing it somehow. The stats on his bio page of PGATOUR.COM put it a little lower.Apples to apples? Not at all, really.
Nicklaus has 594 career starts (PGA Tour only - not counting Champions Tour). Woods has 285 career starts.
Nicklaus was 0-126 between winning the 1986 Masters and his last year of playing the Majors, 2005, when he was 65 years old.
From 1962 to 1978 Jack won at least two events every year for 17 straight seasons. He had no wins in 1979, won two majors in 1980, and then had one or zero wins in each of the next 6 years. In all, from 1979 to the end of 1986, he was 5-125. That makes him 5-251 over his last 27 years of playing on the PGA Tour.
In his first 17 years, the Golden Bear racked up 68 wins in 343 starts = 19.83% (up through age 38).
Tiger is in his 17th year, 74 wins in 285 starts = 25.96% (age 36). Super impressive, without question.
Jack through age 35 (1975, 14 seasons) had 296 starts, 59 wins (19.93%), and 14 majors.