According to official PGA Tour statistics, the golfer with the most all-time majors wins is Jack Nicklaus. Considered by most to be the greatest of all time, Nicklaus won 18 major championships during a career that spanned more than a quarter-century. Tiger was close on his heels, with 15 majors under his belt, his most recent having been a spectacular and unexpected victory at the 2019 Masters in Augusta, Georgia.

Although that win came a couple years after his global ranking dipped as low as 1,119th, CBS News speculated in December 2020 that Woods would never surpass Nicklaus for the most majors in the history of the sport. It gave three reasons for his inability to do so, his age and injuries playing major roles in that unlikelihood.

But sportswriter Kyle Porter also attributed Woods’ influence on the sport as a reason he’ll most likely never break the record. He said that Woods made the game of golf more competitive, and with so many expert players vying for the sport’s most prized trophies, it was only going to get tougher for Tiger to pull off those sensational wins. Now, although a statement posted to Woods’ official Twitter account announced that he was recovering from the injuries he sustained in February’s crash, that possibility appears to have only gotten further from his grasp.