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"Ranking players in golf has always been problematic. The margins are small, and the variables are big. The fallback position has been to make it all about the majors&amp;#8212;golf&amp;#39;s CliffsNotes. But only counting majors grossly oversimplifies.\nThere&amp;#39;s a better standard, the one that athletes themselves use to judge themselves against their peers&amp;#8212;day-in, day-out performance. In 1980, the PGA Tour created a database with complete scoring and performance statistics that made &amp;quot;apples to apples&amp;quot; comparative analysis more possible. Thirty-four years later, using those now-voluminous resources, Golf World has created the &amp;quot;100 Best Modern Players,&amp;quot; a ranking of the top performers on the PGA Tour since 1980.\nBriefly, our Modern 100 sought to:\n\u2022 Intensely focus on performance, keeping subjectivity to a minimum.\n\u2022 Give majors 50 percent added value, but reward day-to-day, week-to-week excellence.\n\u2022 Use a formula designed to highlight a player&amp;#39;s best golf.\nThis last goal is aimed at de-emphasizing the slump-ridden periods that are inevitable over careers of any length. In the process, we wanted to create a statistical chronicle of the best in their prime years, in essence answering the question, &amp;quot;How good was their good?&amp;quot; &amp;#8212;Jaime Diaz\nVIEW CHART: 100 BEST MODERN PLAYERS \u21D2\n*Note: Performance calculations include match-play and modified Stableford formats such as The International, but they were omitted from versus peers calculations. Sources: PGA Tour ShotLink database and the tour&amp;#39;s media guides from 1980-2014.\nAverage point total of the 1,945 individual seasons graded: 3.942. We eliminated from consideration 63 seasons where, regardless of quality of results, players missed significant playing time due to injury. We used the tour&amp;#39;s medical exemptions as guidelines on those decisions.*"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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