Sutton was among those who beat Woods during a time when the world's No. 1 player looked unbeatable, going head-to-head with him at The Players Championship in 2000 and winning by one shot.
He watched part of the championship match Sunday "until I got bored."
"Tiger is definitely more dominating," Sutton said.
Curtis Strange is among those who played in the prime years of Woods and Jack Nicklaus, and he said it is pointless to compare generations. But he also found speculation of a perfect season to be "a little over the top."
"He is by far and away the best player," Strange said. "We've never had a player this much better than the second-best player. He's unbelieveable, really. But he's not unbeatable. Let's not get ahead of ourselves just because he beat Stewart Cink 8 and 7."
As usual, the best comparisons are to Woods himself.
Most consider his best golf to be from late 1999 through the 2001 Masters, when he won 16 of 32 times on the PGA Tour and four consecutive majors. Dating to the 2006 British Open, Woods has won 15 of his last 24 events, a 63 percent clip.
"He just has this strong sense of belief in himself that he's just never out of it," Cink said. "He's never going to mess up. He's just always in control. He never loses his composure."
The more he talked, the more Cink made Woods out to be a machine.
"I think maybe we ought to slice him open to see what's inside there," Cink said. "Maybe nuts and bolts."
Not many thought Woods could ever produce better results than 2000, the benchmark of greatness in his era. Woods, however, has been saying all along that his plan was to get better. And with each victory, what seemed impossible is not unthinkable.
Woods knows he was fortunate to win the Match Play. In the first round, he rallied from 3 down with five holes to play against J.B. Holmes by winning four straight holes with three birdies and a 35-foot eagle. In the third round, Aaron Baddeley twice stood over putts inside 12 feet to win the match before Woods prevailed on the 20th hole.
"I played 117 holes this week," Woods said. "I could have easily played 16 and then been home. That's the fickleness of match play."
And such is the fickle nature of golf.
Odds are, Woods won't win them all.
But if he were to even win three of his next six on the PGA Tour, that would give him 18 wins in his last 30 starts, essentially matching Nelson's golden year in 1945.
And even that might not be enough to satisfy him.
"You can always better," Woods said. "You can always keep improving."
