Jack Nicklaus declared Tiger Woods has ‘to get with it’ if he’s the break the Golden Bear’s record of 18 Major Championship victories.

Nicklaus was speaking as a guest commentator on the final day of the Honda Classic and moments after Woods had signed for a disappointing final round 74 and a dozen strokes more than the 62 he shot to finish runner-up a year ago.

Woods matched one of Nicklaus record last May in capturing a 74th PGA Tour with victory in the Nicklaus-hosted Memorial before then winning earlier this year to go one past Nicklaus with 75 Tour victories.

Tiger Woods enjoying a joke with Jack Nicklaus after matching the Golden Bear’s effort of 74 PGA Tour wins at the Memorial last year. (Photo – www.pgatour.com)

However it’s been more than four years since Woods won his 14th Major title and that was his remarkable near one-leg 2008 US Open play-off success at Torrey Pines in California.

Nicklaus has been quizzed often if he believes Woods will break his tally of Major triumphs and his view had not changed as he sat in the TV commentary booth at the PGA National course he re-designed.

However if Woods is to become golf”s greatest-ever Major winner the 63-year old Nicklaus suggested his 37-year old rival better be getting a move on.

“My standard answer is that he will still break the record and I frankly think that with Tiger’s talent and the fact he’s only 37, and that’s not very old,” said Nicklaus.

“Let’s see, I won one Major in ’78, two in ’80 and the Masters in ’86 so that’s four after I had turned 37.

“So I don’t think that was that difficult and I don’t think it’s that difficult for Tiger to win four, five or seven more down the stretch.

“Of course, a lot of it will depend on how focussed he is but then Tiger’s been pretty calm, and not that he’s like cold-blooded but he can really focus on what he wants to do.

“So I don’t see any reason why he won”t break my record.  Then he still has to do it.

“But also let’s just put it this way he still has more than five years, and he better get with it if he’s going to.”

When Woods returns to Augusta next month he will have competed in 14 subsequent Majors without a victory.  His previous longest Major winless stretch was 10 Majors from June 1997 to August 1999.