The pressure of being a legend!

JACK NICKLAUS yesterday expressed a degree of sympathy for Tiger Woods and the expectations his outrageous golfing talent heaps on the world’s number one.

Nicklaus recalled that after winning the British Open at St Andrews in 1970, he walked into the press tent to be told by the American journalist Bob Green: "Jack, that's ten majors, you've got only three more to tie Bobby Jones."

Nicklaus thought to himself: " 'I never counted them and nobody had ever mentioned it before'. And I feel a little sorry for Tiger from that standpoint. They started counting his total before he won one."