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Morning Drive: Greater milestone: Phil's 40 or four? (2:49)
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Are four major championships or 40 PGA Tour wins more impressive? 'Morning Drive' co-hosts Erik Kuselias and Gary Williams tell you which Phil Mickelson milestone they would want more.
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-From the Morning Drive studios for GolfChannel.com, I'm Gary Williams
with Erik Kuselias. All right, 4's were wild at Pebble
Beach. It's usually, as you're not looking for 4's when
the dealers has handed them out. Well, his fourth at
Pebble Beach, his 40th win on the PGA Tour. He
has four majors. You can keep going on and on
and on and on. 40 wins on the PGA Tour
is an extraordinary benchmark. Four major championships for Phil. What
is more impressive in your mind? -I'm going to take
the 40 PGA Tour wins. It puts him inside the
top ten all-time no matter what the era is and
you just have to put this in perspective. To catch
Phil, you could be the winningest guy tied for the
winningest guy on tour last year. You would have to
do that for 20 straight years and you still wouldn't
catch Phil. Nobody won more than twice last year. So,
if you won twice each year for 20 years or
two decades, you still wouldn't be ahead of him. -Uh-huh.
-You'd only be tied with him. That is an incredible
statistic to me. It's close. -Yeah. -I'll agree with that.
But, I'll take the 40 wins because of what it
means when you look historically and you look at a
young guy. If you were explaining it to a young
guy what he need to do to get to 40,
he'd say, "I think I'd rather try to get four
majors rather than the 40 wins." -Yeah, you're-- it's a
number that I don't know if we'll see that number
again from anybody of this generation maybe for quite sometime.
When I look at it, there's the same number of
guys who were ahead of him with respect to total
wins as there are and with respect to more majors
in the modern era. -Uh-huh. -And, here's the difference. On
the PGA Tour, you have many more opportunities now than
the guys did 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago.
You play around the clock and around the calendar. I'm
not-- I'm not disparaging the 40. To me, there's just
the same number of guys who have won in the
modern era as-- as far as more-- five or more
all the way up to Nicklaus at 18th and with
that, all in to the majors. And, we talked about
the majors all the time. Guys of the last generation,
the generation before them, they didn't understand it. They just
went out and play. They knew they were big tournaments.
It's around the clock coverage of these things. -I might
want to have four majors-- -Yeah. -over 40 wins. But,
if I said to Rory McIlroy right now, you can--
you know, what do you think of a better chance
to do? What's an easier accomplishment? Winning four majors you
got to go in 40 times in the PGA Tour.
But, I'll tell you if I was a young Rory
McIlroy, I'd say-- I think I got a better chance
to four majors. 40 just seems-- it just sounds so
daunt taking uphill when you put it in perspective. -It's
true. It's true but the other thing you would ask
him, what do yo want more? He'd say the majors.
-I agree. -And if you want something more, that makes
it really hard to get. -Well, I probably would rather
win a major than win three-times in the PGA Tour
this year. Four guys won the majors last year. Nobody
won three-times in the PGA Tour. I'd rather won-- -No,
that's not true. -I'd rather won a major. -Of course,
Tiger's average about seven wins a year for the last
ten years. So, what we do every single day? Debate
it? Somebody is right. Somebody is wrong. Who knows? We
may both be right. 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eastern
right here on Morning Drive.
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