No one has mentioned the advantage of winning during the era of Daylight Savings Time......
(Sarcasm)
Joe, we have reached that point of absurdity in this thread, haven't we? An argument about which is more difficult, given that all of this calendar stuff is a made-up human convention anyway. But I have the solution! Stick with me here...
1. The dates of the 2000 Masters were April 6 thu 9.
2. Tiger's mother is from Thailand, which follows the Songkran calendar.
3. The Songkran New Year's celebration in Malaysia, including Thailand, is April 13th thru April 15th.
4. Therefore, Tiger Woods won the US Open, the British Open, the PGA, AND The Masters ALL IN THE SAME CALENDAR YEAR, unless you happen to be a racist/xenophobic/religious zealot/nationalistic/provincial/ethnocentric a**hole who thinks the Gregorian Calendar is somehow divinely inspired magic instead of just a made-up convenience.
5. Hereafter, this unprecedented and never duplicated achievement by Woods will be referred to as "The Songkran Slam", as distinguished from "The Gregorian Slam". (We are leaving out MANY other "alternative" calendars here; Jewish, Islamic, Chinese, Ba'hia, and so on. I'll need to do further research on those.)
6. If you are a Songkran Slam Denier, then to have credibility for your position, you must explain the following passage in less that one million words: "In the
Gregorian calendar, a year ending in "00" that is
divisible by 400 is a
century leap year, with the
intercalation of
February 29 yielding 366 days instead of 365. Century years (divisible by 100) that are
not divisible by 400 are not leap years but
common years of 365 days. For example, the years 1600, 2000, and 2400 are century leap years since those numbers are divisible by 400, while 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, and 2300 are exceptional
common years despite being divisible by 4. Leap years divisible by 400 always
start on a Saturday; thus the leap day February 29 in those years always falls on a Tuesday (
dominical letter BA)."
So I hope that settles this once and for all, now that all of you know that Woods accomplished BOTH sorts of Slams. My work here is done...