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And lots of comparisons 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.040 to Tiger Woods, lots of comparisons, I think, a lot 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.200 of comparisons to the runs that Ernie L's and VJ. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.360 Singhs got back got on back in the early two thousands. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.800 But it just it just plays great golf. Seems like 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.639 he shoots in the sixties pretty much every time he 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.960 tease it up. Didn't play great in the US Open, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:32.639 but didn't I mean, and then in the PGA obviously craziness, 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.680 but he's a two time Masters champion. He's number one 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.600 in the world. If you still believe in the world rankings. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.480 I'm not a huge I think the world rankings at 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:46.280 this point are massively compromised. But yeah, I mean there 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:51.000 is he's the best player in the game right now. Yeah, 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.200 you make arguments that you know, there are place players 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.600 that are close to him. Bryson Is is playing great golf, 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.360 you know, a second at the PGA and then wins 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.720 the US Open in a duel with Rory McElroy. You 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.200 make an argument that ry McElroy's one of the best 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.760 players in the world. But if we're just looking on results, 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.960 and you're looking at results on the PGA Tour, and 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.120 that's the golf that Scotty has playing right now is 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:24.799 second to none. Just had a baby. I mean, he's 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.480 the Tom Hanks to me of our sport. He's someone 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.080 that I don't know anybody that doesn't like Scotty Scheffler. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.320 I don't know anybody that doesn't like his game, that 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.640 doesn't like his personality, and I think the way he 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:42.480 kind of approaches golf. I've talked about it. He's longtime 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:48.080 old school swing mentor instructor in Randy Smith. His agent 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.120 is Randy Smith's son, Blake Smith. I know Blake very 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:58.000 well from he also manages Brooks Koepka, and Scotty's the 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:04.600 whole package, University of Texas superstar, and he's just a great, 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.720 great golfer. I think the comparisons to Tiger are I 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.480 think they're valid, But I think the one thing that 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.280 when you are going to make a comparison to Tiger 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.520 Woods with any player is majors and can they do 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.679 it for as long as Tiger did. I think Scotty 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.240 has the game and the mentality. His superpower is him. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.240 It's not his game. He is the superpower. The way 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.279 that he thinks, the way that he approaches golf, the 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.279 way that he approaches his life, the way that he 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.640 approaches his life off the golf course. I think that's 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.920 his superpower. I think his game. Yeah, he hits great 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.880 golf shots, he drives it great. He can struggle, maybe 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.960 has struggled with the putter, but he can't win six 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.680 times in a major and be struggling with the putter. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.880 So the work that he's done with Phil Kenyan, I 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.400 think it's been fantastic. He's got a great team of 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:02.200 people around him. His father, his coach, Randy Smith, putting, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.919 Phil Kenyan, Caddie, Ted, Scott Agent and Blake Smith. The 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:11.000 team around Scotty. He's got a great, great wife, young family. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:17.040 He tends to not be on social media. He doesn't 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:23.000 you know, you don't see him on vacations doing crazy 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.360 stuff that you see a lot of athletes doing today. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.400 Is a little bit of a throwback. He lets his 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:32.560 clubs do the talking. He's smart, he's curious, he's a 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:37.360 great interview. I think he's very genuine. The Scotti Scheffler 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.599 you see on the golf courses. The Scotti Scheffler that's 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.120 off the golf course. And like I said, he is 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.760 the superpower. His approach to the game is the superpower. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.920 We've got another major coming up in a couple of weeks, 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:54.480 the Open Championship. Yes, Scotty hits the golf ball high, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.840 he hits high bombs, but he's the full package and 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.280 he's the best player in the game right now. And 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.159 there are a lot of good golfers out there, but 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.640 he's the best player in the game right now because 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.680 he's winning and he's winning a lot, and he's shooting 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.680 in the sixties a lot, and don't expect it to 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.279 end any time soon. I think he's going to continue 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.200 to crush it this year. I don't think. I mean, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.600 I would be shocked if he doesn't win the FedEx 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.440 and then twenty five, I mean, what's he going to 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:34.520 do there? Because it doesn't look like he's slowing down 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.960 to me. So I'm a fan. I love watching him play, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.880 and I'm a fan of him personally as well. A 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.080 lot of questions about Bryson de Chambeau and you know 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:51.360 kind of what he's been doing. Listen, I talked about it. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.360 Bryson's figured it out. Bryson is real. Now, this is 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:04.719 not a joke. This is not a gimmick. The YouTube 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.559 stuff that he's been doing, the engagement stuff he's been doing. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.040 There are a lot of people that maybe might think 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:16.720 that's kind of contrived and kind of I've heard fake. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.160 I see Bryson on a regular basis on Live right, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.480 and I think a lot of people that I've seen 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:28.560 commenting on Bryson in the press, they're not I never 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.880 see them in any live tournaments. So I know Bryson. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.360 I talked to Bryson. I've watched the maturation of Bryson. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.200 I've been with Cobra Puma for a long time now. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.880 Bryson was at Cobra Puma for a long time. We 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.280 did photo shoots and shoots together for stuff. I got 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.920 to talk to him. He's changed, he's matured. I think 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.560 he's a perfectionist in a sport where that doesn't work. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.000 But I've said this before. His superpower is he doesn't 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:05.800 care what you think about floating the balls, about the equipment, 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.560 about the way that he goes about things. He does 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.960 not care, And I think that's his superpower. His superpower 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.160 is every golfer has a superpower, right. Rory McElroy's superpower 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.920 is the driver, the speed, the length. A guy like 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:27.280 Patrick Reid, Sevy Biasteros, their superpowers were short game, right, 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:33.920 ball striking. Adam Scott's ball striking is his superpower. Guys 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:39.240 like that Tiger everything was a superpower, right. Bryson's is 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.480 he does things his own way. But I've talked to 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.920 him about this before. He says, everything is weird as 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.240 it looks to us, as strange as it looks to us. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:53.320 The one length irons the way that he's using irons 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.680 now that have a little Bulgian roll to them, nobody's 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.840 ever done that before, really, And the four degree crank 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.240 driver that he's using, nobody's really ever done that before. 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.440 He went on a big kick to change his body 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.440 to try and be a long driver, and all of that. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.760 I think he's taken all of that something. Here's the 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.360 other thing. Bryceon' is a smart kid. He's a thinker. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:22.199 He's not dumb, and he's just figured it out. And 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.400 it's I don't think it's a gimmick. You know, Phil 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.360 Mickelson in the Phil Tiger era, Tiger didn't give didn't 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.800 give a lot of interviews, Tiger didn't really interact with, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.320 didn't give a lot of back to the to the fans. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.200 He he was in the Tiger world. He was stoic, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:48.800 he was driven, he was at times robotic, and Phil 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.800 would stand there and sign autographs for an hour. Tiger wouldn't. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.040 Is that made up? Is that contrived? I don't know, 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.959 but it's smart and I think what Bryson is doing 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:05.080 is smart. He is engaging with the fans. For all 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:09.160 the people that think Bryson is it's contrived by his 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:16.760 management team, by his handlers, all that bullshit. Listen, Bryson 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.320 is taking advantage of the modern age of social media, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:25.719 and it's smart, and the fans are responding. I think 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.400 right now Bryson moves the needle. Nobody's ever going to 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.560 move the needle, in my opinion, the way Tiger Woods did. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:36.640 But I think the way that the golf community embraced 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.600 his win at the US Open, the way he won, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.360 the way he handled the win, what he did after 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.200 the win, taking the trophy around. Listen, I think Bryson 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.559 gets a lot out of that. I think Bryson gets 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.280 more out of that than the fans do. It's an 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:59.640 opportunity for him to kind of show off who he is. 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.959 And listen, I talked to him, I'm around him, I'm 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:09.080 around his team. I buy it. It's to me, it's real. 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.960 And the reason why I think it's real is because 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.080 I see it up close in person. I'm not watching 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.120 it on TV, not commentating on it, and not going 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.280 to tournaments and seeing it. You know, it was a 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.559 really cool moment that I got to watch on the 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:32.040 range at the Live Nashville tournament Brooks, Brooks and Bryson. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.200 I mean they had real beef. I mean, they didn't 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.640 like each other, and it's been cool to kind of see. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.840 One of the things that Live is done is it 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:46.280 brought Bryson and Brooks together. It helped them form a 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:52.120 mutual respect for each other. They have a friendship. It's 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.560 maybe not the friendship that a lot of people, but 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:59.760 they they have a mutual respect for each other. Now. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.760 I think Brooks definitely respects Bryson way more than he 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.280 used to. And you thank Live for that. Live brought 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:15.280 them together as team captains and it's it's real. I 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.280 like it. I like Bryson. I'm a fan. I like 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:23.520 what he's doing in the game. I like the crossovers 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.440 with all the stuff that he's doing on YouTube. I 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.880 think he's got smart ideas. I think he's got engaging ideas, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:34.520 and I think the fans are responding. Uh so, I'm 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:42.800 here for that. Well. Asking about Brooks kind of going 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.160 back and forth between kind of the blade and the mallet, 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.400 he went back to the blade last week. He has 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.280 been using a mallet. I think he's just struggling with 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.960 a little bit of confidence right now. We see players 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.880 go through that. See players, I mean Scotty Scheffler went 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.520 through that. I mean, Scotty Scheffer always put it with 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:03.120 a blade, kind of the tiger Scotty Cameron Newport too. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.800 Brooks kind of had that shape too, and Scotty went 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.480 away from that to try and get some confidence and 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.880 go to a blade it or go to a mallet. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.960 It took him a while to figure it out, to 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.600 figure out it reacts. So I think Brooks is kind 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.360 of caught right now, but in just some confidence. He's 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:22.040 not seeing a lot of putts go in. He won 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.680 in Singapore and putted great, and right now he's not 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.960 seeing any puts go in. I think that happens to players, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.960 right It happens to lots of players. And that's another 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.440 question that I got asked about one of the players 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.040 I work with, DJ. What's going on with his game 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.800 right now? Listen, right now, DJ's he's struggling. He's not 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.680 able to take what he's doing in practice and put 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:47.520 it into play. Yeah, he's missed some cuts in majors. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:53.960 But I think anytime I tried to, I could easily 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.880 have because of all my players have gone to live, 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.280 I could easily use this podcast to just constantly talk 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:04.600 about that. I try not to. I try and inform 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.080 people about Live because that's the tour that I work on. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.480 And I think a lot of people make a lot 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.720 of assumptions on Live, and they will openly tell you 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.040 they don't watch. They don't they don't watch tournaments, they 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.120 don't go to the tournaments, and they think it's all 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.760 a joke, so they don't watch it. So I try 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:27.720 and give my experience on Live. What I think happens 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:32.160 just my opinion, but I think it's when somebody on 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.160 Live that's a superstar plays bad, a lot of people 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.560 easily go to the narrative that they took the money 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.760 and they just don't care anymore. Well, Nellie Corter got 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.880 a ton of money from Nike a couple of years ago. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.640 She's won a bunch of tournaments this year, shut eighty 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.920 in the US Open. Is that because she doesn't care 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.720 because she's got money in the bank and doesn't have 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.560 to worry about majors. No, she played bad. Justin Thomas 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.120 hasn't won a major since two When you win a major, 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.320 you cash in. You cash in on the course, you 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.000 cash in off the course. Is anybody writing articles? I 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.720 don't see anybody writing articles about JT taking his foot 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.400 off the gas because you want a major in at 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.880 Southern Hills. That's not the case. Good players play bad. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:24.920 Good players don't play good all the time, right, it happens. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:32.640 Good players miscuts in majors. It happens. Doesn't have any 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.400 other meaning other than the fact that that week they 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:40.560 didn't play good. So good players can play bad, and 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:46.320 good players can have go through tough times where they're 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.440 not hitting the ball where they want to. I think 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.680 the narrative that if you went to live and you 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.520 play bad, you don't care anymore. I don't see that, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.120 But listen, you can make up your own minds on that. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.960 DJ is he just turned forward and the game gets 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.640 harder the older you get. DJ used to be able 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.800 to dominate golf through the driver. He could hit the 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:14.000 driver in spots and distances nobody else in the world 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.640 could now the game. Five years ago. That was the case. 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.720 It's not the case anymore. He's getting older, like everybody, 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:24.320 every player currently playing competitive golf is getting older every 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:29.960 single year. And in your forties, you know, golf gets harder. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:35.840 I've seen it, I've watched it. He's I think he's 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.040 gonna get back to playing good. And here's the other thing. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:44.120 DJ's won already this year, So can't be playing that 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.000 bad that hasn't played the way he wants to in 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.680 the majors. It's frustrating for him, it's frustrating for the 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.600 guys on his team. So I'm one of those. So 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.040 we're grinding. We're going to do our best to try 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.600 and get him back to where he wants to be, 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.520 where I think a lot of people want him to be. So, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.680 but I don't think has anything to do with Live 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.240 and money. I really don't a lot of people asking 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.720 about PGA Tour and Live are they going to get 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:20.280 a merger? Listen, I don't know anybody on Live that 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.320 knows what's happening, and I sure as they'll don't nobody 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.760 on the PGA Tour, you know, at all these majors. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.560 Everybody on the PGA Tour side players, Caddie's agents all 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.720 say to us on the guys that are in the 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.080 live ecosystem, all the PGA Tour ecosystem guys, every time 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.520 we're at a major, all ask us the same question, 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.159 what are you hearing? We ask them the same question, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.479 what are you hearing? I don't know anybody that's got 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.240 any answers. I think they need to get a deal 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:51.680 done quick because the longer the deal takes to be done, 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.280 I just think the fans are missing out. I think 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:01.040 I personally, and maybe this is good to be controversial. 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:06.240 I think the game's good right now, meaning from the 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:11.840 golf side, there is great golf being played all over 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:19.640 the world on all the tours. And yeah, I don't 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.919 know if a deal is going to get done. But 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.119 and then you know a lot of people asking questions 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.880 about why isn't Bryson on the Olympic team. You got 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.359 to ask the people that are involved in that. It 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.960 goes off of the world rankings. I personally think in 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:40.040 twenty twenty four in June, the world rankings are compromised. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:46.200 It's just too many good players playing golf that aren't 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.240 getting world ranked. Yeah. I know the talking points. I 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.800 know it. You knew this going in. You knew this 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.920 going in, you took the money all that. I understand. Yeah, 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.919 they didn't know that. But the game can change, in 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:03.280 the game evolve. If they want a deal, I believe 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.520 they can get one done. That's my opinion. I think 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.600 up until this point the reason why a deal hasn't 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.520 gotten done. It's just just my opinion. I think there 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.280 are people that don't want to want it to happen, 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.480 but I do believe that if they want a deal 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:26.439 to get done, they can get it done. Would you 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.080 take the best driver of the ball on tour or 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:35.080 the best putter? And why? That is a very interesting question. 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.920 You got a pot well to win? I mean, I 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.200 think we just saw that and Roy McElroy. Roy can't 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.040 really hit the golf ball any better, and he hit 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.440 it at the US Open. He sure as hell can't 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.600 really drive the golf ball anyway any better. I mean, 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.719 he's just driving the golf ball so good. I mean 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.760 I'm staying on the driving range the US Open and 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.800 when he pulls out driver, you just stand there and 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:04.560 just it's so cool to watch up close. It's so 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.600 cool in the practice rounds that I've been lucky enough 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.760 over the years to be in with Rory to watch 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.560 the way he drives the golf ball. He's such a 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:17.640 good player, right, but you gotta make putts to win. 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.320 And for as good as Rory hit it at the 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:25.119 US Open, he missed putts when it counted. I will 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:30.720 say this to be I believe and again just my opinion. 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:35.040 I think to be a great competitive golfer at the 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:39.679 elite elite tour level, to have a chance to be 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.399 number one in the world, to have a chance to 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.840 win major championships, you have to be able to drive 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.480 the golf ball. Scotti Scheffler drives the shit out of 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:51.320 the golf ball. John Rahm drives it great right justin 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.399 Thomas when he plays well, drives it well. Jordan Speed 0:20:55.480 --> 0:21:00.800 can spray it. But when Jordan is dominating as he has, 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.399 he drives it really good. His ball striking's a mazing 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:05.679 and he's a great putter, So I think you need 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:10.359 a combination of both. It's funny I asked Freddie Jacobson, 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:14.320 one Swedish player played on the PGA Tour, played in Europe. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:19.280 One of the best putters on the planet and pure putter, 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:23.080 hooped it from everywhere. He was a great putter. And 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.400 I asked him once, if you could start your career 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:32.280 over and be a great ball striker or be a 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:36.320 great putter, which one would you choose? And I was 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:40.960 really interested to see what his response would be because 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:44.560 he's one of the best putters I've ever seen. He's 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.920 one of the best putters anybody has ever seen. Right. 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:50.160 He said, if he could do it all over again, 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:53.720 he'd take great ball striking over great putting because he 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:58.600 said in major championships, I can't put great ball strikers 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:01.600 off the golf course. If they're great ball strikers, they're 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:05.440 going to have more chances. Freddy was never a great 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:07.480 driver of the golf ball. He was never really a 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:11.560 great ball striker. Brad Faxon was an unbelievable putter, he 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:16.960 was never a amazing driver of the golf ball. So 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:22.800 I think you need a combination of both. But I 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.520 do think that you can have a career if you 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:33.520 are a pure, pure, every category great ball striking. Great 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:38.040 Patrick Reid is a great example. Patrick Reid's superpower is 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:42.160 short game. That's his superpower, right, it's not ball striking. 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.840 He's got a green jacket. He's been one of the 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.359 best players in the world for a long time. Again, 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:51.879 a lot of stuff off the golf course. I'm just 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:57.800 talking about pure golf there. Adam Scott has been a 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:02.919 great ball striker his entire career. He got to number 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.879 four in the world in two, number three in the world. 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:08.760 Maybe yeah, three in the world two thousand and eight, 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:13.119 lost his putting and then he goes to the long 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:18.200 putter and wins a major the Masters, goes to number 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:20.400 one in the world, and what does everybody say? How 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:22.399 goods is ball striking? I'm like, where the hell have 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:24.360 you people been for the last twenty years. Guy's been 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:28.680 an elite ball striker. Ernie Els was an elite ball striker, 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:33.200 an elite elite when it came to hitting the golf ball. 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:35.760 He was a great putter too, So I think you 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:40.600 need a combination of both. But you can't compete at 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:43.719 a high level if you can't get the ball in 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:49.720 play off the tee. You just can't. You cannot be 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:58.160 a consistent elite player, I believe unless you can drive 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:01.240 it so and especially in the modern game. Now, yeah, 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:08.000 everybody hits it far now, but in major championships, you 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.800 gotta do a combination of both. Bryson didn't drive it 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:16.720 that great on Sunday at the US Open, made putts 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:19.680 when he needed to, short game bailed him out. I 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:23.160 think it's a combo, but it's hard. I think it's 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:27.639 hard for the average golfer listening for the rest of us, 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:32.480 and to me, the average golfer is non competitive elite. 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:38.440 Just for the average handicap golfer, driving the golf ball 0:24:38.560 --> 0:24:42.800 in play is paramount to lowering your scores. The more 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:46.399 balls you can get in play off the tee, the 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:48.800 better you play. Great example is someone I work with 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:52.359 on Live Pat Perez, forty eight years old. As a 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:55.919 forty eight year old body, doesn't hit it anywhere close 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.520 to what the guys that he's playing with. He's one 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:02.240 of the shortest guys out there. He shot sixty four 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:05.520 on Sunday. I think he missed one fair way. He 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:07.960 kept the golf ball in play in an effort to 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:11.359 try and hit the golf ball further. At times, Pat 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:14.400 tries to swing too hard and an effort to try 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:17.199 and get more distance because he's not long and is 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:19.600 shorter than some of the other guys. He doesn't hit 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:23.560 it good. He hits it offline, he hits makes doubles 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:25.720 because he hits the driver in the water, hits the 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:28.320 driver out of bounds. I'm trying to get him to 0:25:28.320 --> 0:25:31.440 buy in. Okay, just get the golf ball in play 0:25:31.480 --> 0:25:33.600 off the tee. You get the golf ball in play 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:38.959 off the tee, your confidence goes up a lot, and 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:42.920 I mean a lot, a lot, and I think it's 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:48.359