Doesn't that sound familiar. There's no question Woods is better at 25 than Jack Nicklaus was at 25. Nicklaus won 17 tournaments on the PGA Tour before his 26th birthday. Woods has 27 wins on tour and has the rest of this year to go before he turns 26. So the issue is not who has had the better infancy of their career.
Woods clearly has.
It's way too early to start handing the honor to Woods. One thing that likely won't derail him is complacency. If there was any of that in his sturdy frame, it would have surfaced. And, while his intent focuses only on the majors, he wins enough of the other tournaments he enters to prove that he's always in it to win it. This is the first time there have been three newcomers to the winner's circle since early 2000 when Kirk Triplett, Darren Clarke and Jim Carter won for the first time in consecutive tournaments.