If you keep waiting for Tiger to become the dominant golfer he was in 2000 you'll be waiting a long time.
Miller was never a dominant golfer again.
Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson; each a legend, each a dominant golfer in his era.
That sacred phrase should be saved to describe a dominant golfer in major championships, not merely a "hot" golfer.
The resume of the truly dominant golfers, alias the world's best golfers, is filled with trophies, not merely money.
Jones developed into one of the dominant golfers of the 1920s.
Not that Sorenstam was playing, but that she had been a dominant golfer for so long but received great attention only when she played against men.
Dorothy Iona Campbell (March 24, 1883 - March 20, 1945) was the first internationally dominant female golfer.
But the more difficult the course, the more it favors a dominant golfer.
All of these traits would become implicit as time went on, as Nicklaus would become one of the most dominant golfers in the history of the game.