Jon Rahm has revealed Tiger Woods was only "firing on all cylinders" in "three at most" of his 82 PGA Tour victories.
Rahm is in the midst of perhaps his best run of form, having won six of his last nine starts and moving back to No. 1 in the world rankings. And while reflecting on his recent form and return to the top of the rankings, the 28-year-old recalled a conversation he shared with Woods.
"The one time I can say I was firing on all cylinders I didn't get to finish the tournament," he said. "So I would have wished to see what that was like.
"The thing is, you don't need to be firing on all cylinders to win. I actually had a conversation similar to this with Tiger.
"I asked him, out of the 82 wins on the PGA Tour … how many times do you think you played your best all four days?
"And he said, 'Three at most.' A lot of those Sundays he played his best, but the whole week, very few."
Rahm revealed Woods counts his 2000 U.S. Open and Open Championship wins as tournaments where he was at his best throughout, before adding that "I think you can pick any other 2000 win" as the third.
"A lot of us are such perfectionists that I think we play close to that A-plus game a lot, but we don't give ourselves that, quite that grade for all four days," he continued. "I think a lot of us probably, you know, that's why probably Tiger said maybe just a few times in his career.
"There's weeks where you think, 'Oh, this part of my game is great, this other part was amazing'. But for every part of your game to be 100 percent all four days, yeah, that's nearly impossible to happen."
