In addition, Tiger has not done what Ben Hogan did with a grand slam and this was after Ben's body was destroyed in a head on collision with a greyhound bus in 1949. No airbags, no seat belts, no modern medicine. Ben got a ticker tape parade in Manhattan. There were no steroids in Ben's era either.
Ben Hogan didn't win the grand slam. He won The Masters, The US Open and British Open all in the same year. At the time, it was impossible to get back from the British Open for the PGA by ocean liner.
I don't think Ben Hogan would have appreciated his name being dragged into a thread of this nature.
You are right. Tiger has not beaten Jack’s record. Yet. Barring some reason for Tiger to give up golf, it’s pretty clear he will.
I am LOL at your requirement that in order for Tiger to be REALLY good, he must first live through a horrible car accident (the current one does not count) and then have a remarkable career.
What year are you suggesting that Ben won the grand slam, as the info I have found shows that he grand slammed for his career (which Tiger has done twice already), but not in any one year?