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Not in her league?

These are the questions that Woods faced when he won seven out of 11 majors in one stretch early in his career, and then backed it up by winning six out of 14. Jack Nicklaus was among those who lamented the lack of multiple major winners like what Nicklaus faced in his day. Tom Watson was among those suggesting that history might prove Woods was simply that much better.

Comparisons tend to be as pointless between generations as they are between genders....

Making it even more peculiar in women’s golf is the recent passing of the torch. Sorenstam looked unbeatable until Ochoa came along, ended the Swede’s dominance and then was in a league of her own until she, too, abruptly retired.

Ochoa was going for her third straight major at the 2008 LPGA Championship, leading through 36 holes, when a 19-year-old rookie from Taiwan came along and beat her. That was Tseng, who went on to win the Nabisco and the Women’s British Open in 2010, and then the LPGA Championship and the Women’s British last year.

Now, it’s Tseng who rules her sport.

- Tseng in a league of her own, ReadingEagle.com, March 27, 2017.

2. As the actress Jill Balcon was fond of remarking, she was always described as someone’s daughter, wife or mother. The men who cast such a long shadow were her father, the Ealing Studios supremo Sir Michael Balcon; her husband, the Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis; and her son, Daniel Day-Lewis.