If I was a player on tour today, I would be mightily offended by someone who says the athletes of 40 years ago are better than my generation. Golf, according to the Chamblee's of the world, defies the human evolutionary law. In every other sport athletes are better today; bigger, stronger, faster. Except golf. Golf peaked in the 60s and 70s and has gone all the way down to the level of Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, vijay Singh et al. As soon as a guy dominates, the field is weak. In American golf, eras have typically had 3, 4 guys battling it out at the top; Jones, Hagen, Sarazen followed by Hogan, Nelson, Snead then the Palmer, Player, Nicklaus time, and so on. Just because, with the possible exception of Phil, this era is dominated by one guy, does not have to mean the field is weak. It just might mean the one guy is way better.