Max Homa picks $400M-worth golfer over Tiger Woods as the ‘greatest champion ever’

Max Homa has joined the ongoing debate among golf fans to choose between Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the greatest golfer of all time. The 33-year-old golfer has won six PGA Tour events in his professional career so far.

On an episode of the podcast, Join The Lobby, Homa was asked if he considered Woods the GOAT of golf.

"There's another guy named Jack Nicklaus," Max Homa said. "So you talk about World Cup, so we have like over the course of a year the PGA Tour has like 46ish tournaments. Each person will play anywhere between 20 and 30, you would never play all of them. I played this year probably like 24 of them."

"But there's four majors a year and those are run by separate organizations but that's a lot of the reason because of Tiger. But that's the way people define like ultimate greatness like the top of the top. Tiger has won 15 of them but Nicklaus has 18," he added. (13:23-13:59)

Homa said that despite Nicklaus having more major wins, he was biased towards Woods. He then talked about Woods' PGA Tour victories and highlighted that he has 82 PGA Tour victories in comparison to Nicklaus' 60s. As per the PGA Tour website, Nicklaus has 73 PGA Tour wins.

Max Homa further noted that Woods' domination was unreal as he won tournaments by a large margin of 15 strokes. Homa then called Nicklaus the "greatest champion ever," but also noted the change in golf dynamics since then. He said:

"And I will say that like you could potentially say that Jack is the greatest champion ever like just using the words because he did win more Majors. But I would argue that the competition has gotten a bit deeper since Tiger Woods made it get deeper because it got more popular." (14:35-14:47)

Jack Nicklaus turned professional in 1961 while Tiger Woods turned professional in 1996. Nicklaus is also considered as one of "The Big Three." As per Celebrity Net Worth, he has a net worth of $400 million.

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A look at Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus' major wins

Tiger Woods has 15 major wins while Jack Nicklaus won 18 majors. Woods has won five Masters tournaments while Nicklaus won six of them. Woods has won four PGA Championship titles and Nicklaus won five.

Woods has won three Open Championships and Nicklaus won three. Woods has won three US Open tournaments while Nicklaus won four.

Let's take a look at Tiger Woods' major wins:

• 1997 Masters Tournament
• 1999 PGA Championship
• 2000 U.S. Open
• 2000 The Open Championship
• 2000 PGA Championship (2)
• 2001 Masters Tournament (2)
• 2002 Masters Tournament (3)
• 2002 U.S. Open (2)
• 2005 Masters Tournament (4)
• 2005 The Open Championship (2)
• 2006 The Open Championship (3)
• 2006 PGA Championship (3)
• 2007 PGA Championship (4)
• 2008 U.S. Open (3)
• 2019 Masters Tournament (5)

Let's take a look at Jack Nicklaus' major wins:

• 1962 U.S. Open
• 1963 Masters Tournament
• 1963 PGA Championship
• 1965 Masters Tournament (2)
• 1966 Masters Tournament (3)
• 1966 The Open Championship
• 1967 U.S. Open (2)
• 1970 The Open Championship (2)
• 1971 PGA Championship (2)
• 1972 Masters Tournament (4)
• 1972 U.S. Open (3)
• 1973 PGA Championship (3)
• 1975 Masters Tournament (5)
• 1975 PGA Championship (4)
• 1978 The Open Championship (3)
• 1980 U.S. Open (4)
• 1980 PGA Championship (5)
• 1986 Masters Tournament (6)