With Spieth winning 2 majors and adding a second and a 4th, if you add that up, he had a total score of 8 (1+1+2+4) and two wins.
The two greatest golfers of all-time are 2) Tiger Woods and 1) Jack Nicklaus. Tiger is the only guy since WWII to have a better year in majors than Spieth:
Tiger in 2000 -- 3 firsts and a 5th (8 total points, beats Spieth on wins)
Tiger in 2005 also posted an 8 with 1-1-2-4,
Jack's best ever single year was 1975 where he went 1-1-3-7.
Why is Jack the greatest ever? Look at the period 1971-1977.
Jack's total scores for those years:
1971 -- 10 (1 win)
1972 -- 16 (2 wins)
1973 -- 12 (1 win)
1974 -- 19 (0 wins)
1975 -- 12 (2 wins)
1976 -- 20 (0 wins)
1977 -- 17 (0 wins)
Did Tiger ever have a stretch of 7 years like that? No. Here is his stretch 2000-07
8, 67, 32, 78, 72, 8, (was cut at US Open, so his score would be above 80), 17.
Tiger in his best 8 years (2000-07) did have 12 major wins to Jack's 8 major wins in his best 8 year stretch (1970-77). But Jack had a stretch 1962-67 in which he also had 7 majors. Tiger will be 40 this year. By age 39, Jack had 15 majors. Tiger has 14. At ages 37-38-39 Jack had 6 top-4 finishes in majors, including one win. Tiger at ages 37-39 has had 1 top-4 finish (2013 Masters where he tied for 4th with Marc Leishman, losing to Adam Scott by 4 strokes) one top 6, and a ton of injuries and awful results.
Jack won 2 majors at age 40 and 1 at age 46. So we shall see whether Tiger can step up and get it done, or whether it is time for him to fade away and allow Spieth, Day, McIlroy, etc. to take over.
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