00:00Why Scotty is maybe more successful in these higher leverage events, but we went through the whole list of his wins and, you know, you put more than half the events he's won into like this higher category.
00:10It's whether it's either major or it's a player's championship or it's a signature event.
00:15First one of the year, by the way.
00:16What's that?
00:17First signature event of the year for him.
00:19That's right.
00:19Oh, yeah.
00:20This year, that's right.
00:20Because he's won like CJ Cup, PGA.
00:22He won six of them last year or like five of them.
00:25Hey, by the way, don't look now.
00:26Yeah, no, someone on this podcast predicted 10 wins for Scott this year.
00:30We've now got three, seven more.
00:33We were in a very tough spot in April when we pulled that stat back up.
00:38Do you do honest answer right now?
00:40Do you think he's going to turn this year or do you think I'm still waiting?
00:43Agree to disagree.
00:44I think you could do it.
00:45I mean, at this rate, it's just amazing.
00:48I mean, I don't know.
00:49Well, I don't I don't even know if he's going to play 10 more or seven, seven more times.
00:55Let's think about that.
00:56Yeah, close to that.
00:57Seven to 10 more times.
00:59Soapy wins all seven for the sake of that prediction.
01:03Let's just think about it.
01:04He's going to play US Open.
01:04He's played Travelers.
01:07Maybe the three playoff events.
01:08We're going to get into that here in a minute.
01:10Oh, yeah.
01:10So let's just say five, but potentially four there.
01:14There's five events.
01:15And then Ryder Cup won't count.
01:17And he'll probably play the hero.
01:19Really?
01:20He might just play six more times this year.
01:23Golly, that's actually kind of scary to think.
01:25We're here June 1st and like the season's almost over.
01:28Yeah.
01:28Yeah.
01:29Calendar.
01:30Throw in the open.
01:31In the open.
01:31Open championship.
01:32In the open.
01:32Sorry.
01:32I can get a seven.
01:33Easy.
01:34So I but just just talking about, you know, the differentiator between a really tough test.
01:41We saw this week in Muirfield Village and a putting contest week.
01:44You know, we've heard, I think, different.
01:46I'm not going to name names on tournaments.
01:48We've heard some guys sling that term around in a derogatory fashion.
01:51Well, he won that by eight, didn't he?
01:52Well, he won that by eight.
01:53And I think maybe that speaks to the fact that everyone's hitting it close and he's now
01:57an elite putter.
01:57We're now out in everyone's hose.
01:59But just, you know, looking back at some of the weeks where, you know, we see this highlight
02:05reel or low light.
02:06We are real.
02:07You know, when he was struggling with putting of like, oh, he missed another makeable birdie
02:10putty, missed the makeable.
02:11But he's hitting it so close that he's minimizing.
02:13Yeah, like he maybe he should have shot 66, but he shoots 70.
02:16To your point, that doesn't take him out of it.
02:18Whereas guys that need to have a hot putter to get a score out of it, they're out of position.
02:23I mean, does it all just really come back to the ball striking and his ability to just
02:27hit it exactly where he's looking all the time?
02:30Give himself 20 feet for birdie, no matter what, worst case.
02:33I don't know how many different ways I can put this.
02:35This guy is hard.
02:37We're like running out of ways.
02:38He's that good.
02:40He's even when he's off.
02:42One of the things that I found in in the stats this week when I was just kind of digging
02:46around with Scotty stuff is that he leads the tour in rough.
02:53It's not proximity.
02:54This would be on which side of the fairway he typically misses it on.
03:00And when I looked at it, he was number one of being not on the right rough.
03:06So basically less than 10 percent of the time he hits it in the right rough.
03:11And I was I was like, OK, let's see if that's an anomaly.
03:14And I saw that the last year he also was first and in that he was never in the right rough
03:22less than 10 percent of the time.
03:23So when I think about that, it's like, all right, he he basically can eliminate the right
03:29side of the golf course because we only see him miss it left.
03:32So he knows where his misses are.
03:34He knows how to adjust his game.
03:36And that's like the most important thing for professional golfers.
03:39Can you make adjustments on the golf course?
03:41We saw him do it for the PGA championship.
03:42And then you go into the scrambling stats.
03:45He's second in scrambling this year.
03:47Around 69 percent of the time he gets it up and down.
03:50OK, so why?
03:51So how how do we get to that number?
03:53And how we get there is because he leaves it in better spots than other people.
03:59And then when he does it, he is good enough to get it up and down.
04:04He's got one of the best and probably somehow the most underrated pitchers of the golf ball
04:09in the game.
04:10Yeah.
04:10So he just doesn't make bogeys.
04:15The bogey avoided stat is so freaking important on the PGA Tour.
04:21And every year he's going to be at the top of that list.
