American Professional Golfer. In the NY Times, 2009 he said, "If you look at it, guys are getting bigger and stronger. People forget that. When Jack and Gary and Arnold played, and Hogan, they're all about 5-9. I'm 6 foot and I'm the shortest guy in the top players of the world", and he has said that height in the same paper from 2001: "I'm a 6-foot guy chasing a little white ball."Photo by PR Photos When I was a kid, ,checking the X rays of my back and my knees, the doctors guessed I'd be six-three or six-four. It didn't turn out that way. I'm six-one, six-two. Here I am six foot, and I'm considered short at six foot. Most of the guys now are 6'3", 6'2", 6'4" Just like every other sport, it's evolved.