Is This A Dead Golf Era?

Hello. Bob McCown raised an interesting point, which was shared by a golfchannel.com emailer. Does Tiger have any competition, like a Lee Trevino, right now?
Arguments have been made how some of today's challengers have had flashes of brilliance. Ernie Els, Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson have looked like they may make permanent strides to rival Tiger long-term.
Trevino made a career of taking on the world's best (Player, Nicklaus and Watson, among others) without flinching. He probably knew sometimes he was outmatched, yet fought tooth and nail anyway.
I would go out on a limb and say only one guy has ever stood up to Tiger, mano-a-mano, and not flinched. And that was little-known Bob May in the 2000 PGA.
I agree there are no challengers to Tiger. There are many reasons for this. However, it's not because of lack of talent. Mickelson in my mind has as much golf talent, but isn't as good an athlete as Tiger.
The field simply hasn't found out what Bob May and Lee Trevino had. What was it? More tomorrow.

Regards,
Steve