Sepp Straka's Impressive Triumph at the Truit Championship

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00:00Let's talk Sef Straka.

00:01We waited a long time to talk Sef Straka.

00:04And as we noted off the top of the show,

00:06he is now ninth in the world,

00:0814th in the data golf rankings,

00:10second in the FedEx Cup standings,

00:13is the second win this season,

00:15won the American Express,

00:16and of course the Truist now.

00:18He also finished tied for fifth

00:19in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

00:21He is playing very, very good golf this season, Smiley.

00:24All those stats reflect that.

00:26What are you most impressed by with Sef this year?

00:30I mean, do you feel like there has been a material leap

00:32in one category of his game?

00:35Well, that's a great question.

00:37As I was heading to find that currently on,

00:39I wanted to give you a fair answer there,

00:41but my instincts say that he's always been

00:46a very accurate driver of the golf ball,

00:48always been a very good iron player,

00:51not necessarily the longest player in the world.

00:53I mean, he's right around average,

00:55maybe a little below average,

00:56but he's typically, on his good weeks,

01:00it's the Austrian microwave when it gets that putter.

01:03When that thing gets going,

01:05he hits so many fairways,

01:06and that iron game's so solid.

01:08He has that 15, 20-foot range.

01:11He just starts hooping, man,

01:12and he was hooping this week.

01:14He gained 2.32 strokes gained on the putting this week,

01:19which it had to be first in the field,

01:21if not very close to it.

01:23But you can look at any of his wins.

01:25It's just, it's really like his putting in general.

01:30You'll go down the list there,

01:32and you'll see it looks like a roulette board,

01:35black and red.

01:36It's like green, red, green, red.

01:39He's a very streaky putter,

01:40but when he is on, he is on.

01:42Well, and he gained, holy smokes,

01:44I'm looking at this right now,

01:45he gained 2.32 strokes putting this week,

01:49which is, and again, if you're looking at his,

01:53to your exact point,

01:55there are three weeks that stand out

01:57with a green bar on data golf

01:58where the strokes game putting is way higher

02:01than his baseline,

02:01and it's the truest,

02:03it's Arnold Palmer Invitational,

02:04and it's the Amex,

02:05and those are his three best results of a season,

02:07two of those in signature events.

02:08That putter, it reminds me of like the old zebra putter.

02:12Like it's in a world of optimization and new tech,

02:15it's like he's got this old retro thing,

02:17but you know, whatever works, works.

02:18It's funny.

02:20All right, so what else do I love about Seth?

02:22His routine is, I think,

02:25the best routine on the PGA Tour

02:27when it comes to when he makes a decision

02:30and when he hits the golf shot.

02:33It's perfect.

02:34It is perfect.

02:35You know who has like the worst routine

02:37that is a PGA Tour card?

02:38Who's that?

02:39This guy.

02:40This guy.

02:41I have a PGA Tour card in my wallet,

02:42so I consider that to be a member.

02:44That's fair.

02:44Dude, it's incredible how quickly

02:47when he gets to the club

02:48and he walks into the shot,

02:50it's club down, one look, club down,

02:54and then like the club's going back.

02:55It's so quick and fast,

02:58and it's not easy to do that,

03:02but it's like if you had a stopwatch

03:04every single time that he hit a shot

03:06from when he walked into the ball

03:08and when he actually hits the ball,

03:11it'll be within milliseconds

03:14every single time.

03:15The guy is just so routine,

03:17and I think it helps his rhythm a ton.

03:20I think he reminds me so much

03:23of an old-school type of a player

03:24like an Ernie Yelts,

03:25swings the golf club

03:27for being a very big guy

03:29with really good rhythm.

03:31You know, a lot of big guys

03:32have to work really hard

03:34to get down to the golf ball,

03:35but it's a really, really efficient golf swing.

03:39Swings his torso

03:39and so incredibly well.

03:42It's just a very repeatable golf swing

03:45that you got to give him

03:46and John Tillery so much credit.

03:50They're constantly working

03:51on the same things.

03:52They're working on their motor pattern

03:54to make sure that,

03:56because anytime I ask that pal,

03:57he's playing,

03:57he's like,

03:58ah, you know,

03:58I'm kind of just same old thing,

04:00just have to keep on working

04:01on this motor pattern.

04:03And so it's been fun to watch him

04:05just continue to improve,

04:07because I go back

04:08to when he was on the Corn Ferry Tour.

04:10He was missing cuts,

04:11missing cuts,

04:12and all of a sudden,

04:13he wins a Corn Ferry Tour event

04:15out of nowhere in Kansas City

04:17that basically saved from him

04:19to go back to going to Q School,

04:21going back to the mini tours,

04:23and gets to the PGA Tour

04:25and has never left,

04:26and is now a top 10 player

04:27in the world.

04:28And heading into the Ryder Cup,

04:31European Tour Ryder Cup rankings,

04:33he was,

04:34he jumped up 15 spots this week.

04:36He was 20th on those rankings,

04:37because I guess Amex

04:38didn't get any points,

04:40I guess?

04:40Is that what we decided?

04:42Well, I think it would have been

04:43a lower amount of points.

04:45Okay.

04:45We could dive into that.

04:46Still surprising, right?

04:47It's a long document.

04:49Yeah, I guess that is a little surprising

04:50when they get him a little higher,

04:51but...

04:52But he's fifth.

04:52He's fifth now in the standings,

04:54which, dude,

04:55we'll get into the Ryder Cup thing

04:57a lot throughout this year,

04:58but this European Ryder Cup team

05:01is going to be nasty.

05:04Absolutely nasty.

05:06...

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