Yes, and thats why you can't assess a player from week to week or even month to month. Players are judged year to year. But you are making the argument that there is so much luck involved with the way the ball bounces and rolls that greatness and accomplishment is fickle and arbitrary. Thats not true and we have seen examples of sustained greatness measured over a period of years in many players. . McIlroy was great and on par with Tiger Woods back in 2014. 8 years of no major wins can't be chalked up to the fickle nature of golf.
Luck is certainly a part of it, but I'm also very much talking about something else.
I take it that you've enjoying some rounds of golf yourself, right? Surely you've experienced this:
Being in 'the zone'. It's wonderful, magical, but then it's gone. And we absolutely see it on the pro tour. Players can hit a zone for a day, a weekend, perhaps a season.
The Zone is how Jim Furyk can shoot a 58. He said what we all say, "Why can't I do that all the time?"
You mention "sustained greatness." Let's think about what that means. Seems to me in most years there are four majors w/four different winners.
