The Monterey Peninsula has not seen such a daring gunslinger since Clint Eastwood moved to Carmel. His stunning victory at Pebble brings things into sobering perspective. This is historical stuff here, folks, comparable to any records we might otherwise go bonkers over. By comparison, Roger Maris' home-run record lasted 37 years before Mark McGwire broke it. And when McGwire set the standard, Sammy Sosa also surpassed Maris in the same season, finishing with 66 homers to McGwire's 70.
Nobody is even in the same ballpark with Woods.
No one else is winning two tournaments in a row, much less six. Woods could have 20 wins, which carries with it a lifetime exemption, before his 25th birthday. By winning, Woods also keeps alive what many believe to be an impossible quest. In 1945, during a war year, at a time when the fields were not nearly as deep, when television and print coverage was comparatively nonexistent, Byron Nelson won 11 events in a row. Contrasting Nelson's streak in today's environment is like comparing baseball records of the dead-ball era with today's statistics.