Could Russell Henley Make a Leap in the 2025 PGA Season?

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00:00I see Russell being a top 10 player in the world. Yeah, his ceiling is 100% a top 5 player in the world

00:06but with Russ it was

00:09It seemed like his wins early in his career became they just came really easy to him

00:13And it just seemed like he had this dog and this killer instinct on Sundays that it didn't matter who he's going up against

00:20I even heard a little bit of that on the broadcast. I think Brad mentioned that Rory McIlwain played with

00:27Henley at a US Open in the last couple years and he just was so impressed of how well he plays hard golf courses

00:35but I go back to the early part of his career and that his wins just

00:41you know how he know how hard it's went on the PGA Tour how guys talk about it, but

00:47To me it didn't seem like it was crazy difficult when Russell got in to into

00:53Contention it felt like you know, it was like riding a bike for him

00:57It looks like it was just like a college event that he's playing. It's like, ah, yeah

01:01I'll go make seven birdies in the back nine get a hot putter

01:05We haven't seen that at all as far as just what he's capable of doing on a Sunday

01:12he had done that since he was, you know in his first couple years when he was winning some PGA Tour events right out of

01:17Point on the I guess been the web.com tour at the time. So from a ceiling perspective

01:24Where is what like what his game to me is that he hits it right out of the middle of face

01:29Comes out the same window every time pretty much is a point-and-shoot type of player

01:34Plays very creative very athletic very cerebral. So when you kind of combine all things together jumble them all up

01:41It's like alright, you can kind of compare him to a Louie

01:44who stays in type of player someone who's just not gonna

01:47Shoot themselves out of the golf tournament players that seem to always be at the top page of the leaderboard of a of a US Open

01:56that's kind of like my

01:58Comparison for a type of player

02:01that that he is now, can he hit all the shots that

02:06Shoot you can name so many guys and in the shots at Russell

02:12As far as just overall trajectory on how high he hit shots. He just he doesn't hit it that high

02:17but

02:18Tell you what, he does do he hits it out of the window. It's a dead straight

02:22It's it's fairways his screens and when he's putting a well, you know

02:25You can get it done and all it just a little help from a flagstick every once in a while

02:29And there you go. You win a signature and I'll say this too

02:33There seems to be a bit of a trend here and since like the Phoenix open

02:37So so Michael Kim and Russell Henley

02:41Both go go and get chipping lessons from Joe Mayo like in the past month and both of these guys have I

02:49mean that that chip and obviously he's been his

02:54Chipping has been really good lately Russell like he's chipped in a couple times like an event and then Michael

03:00Just doesn't make bogeys. So he's getting up and down quite often