Even inflation corrected, the figures will not make sense. There is more interest in the game now, resulting in more relative money being poured into it. To make a true comparison, you would have to take the results Jack Nicklaus had in one of his good years (say, 1975), and then figure out what those same results would have netted in money last year. That would give you some idea of how to scale it.
Agreed. The fact that Paul Goydos cleared over $1 million for second place at this year’s Players Championship tells you how much the purses in golf have escalated in the last 10 years, almost entirely due to inflated TV contracts courtesy of one Mr. Tiger Woods. He has made everyone in golf rich. Monetary inflation is only part of the picture.
Maybe he did, but it seems to me that his own website would be a better primary source. It refers to him as Eldrick (Tiger) Woods.
This is the extent of the CNN cite : A single sentence buried in a reporter’s article about his Masters win. – Earl gave his son the same nickname and the boy took to it so much that he legally changed his name from Eldrick to Tiger.
I wish to congratulate this year’s British Open and PGA Championship winners who will forever have a virtual asterisk by their names, whether they deserve it or not.
