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Jeesh Rick, I fast-forwarded through KP’s nonsense about a random game with his kids, and I kept going 16min until there was a Q!
1:13 to answer about five questions
No way they should give Scheffler anything outside of 2 feet
This is how I frame golf's "putting problem". Let's, for simplicity, say that, on average, 4 of every 10 strokes that a PGA professional takes are putts. Rick, very correctly, points out that top players gain most of their strokes on the field in non-putting stats. In other words, the strokes the elite players gain in putting are, on average, well below 40% of their total strokes gains. 40% of your strokes are putts, 40% of the time you spend on the course is spent putting, 40% of television hours are putting footage, 40% of camera-operator or commentator's job might be on the greens …but substantially less than 40% of the deviation which separates good from excellent from elite golfers is putting. We are doing, watching, filming, editing, counting, mowing and rolling the wretched Poa every dawn for something that isn't very important?
The other problem is, we all know SG:Putting stats tend back to the field average over time more than other SG stats. Indeed, players who gain a lot of strokes putting are exactly those who tumble down the rankings fastest and furthest when the music slows. Over golfers' careers putting gains inevitably trend back to SG zero. But what about Sunday afternoons? Players regularly gain a lot more than 40% of their total strokes on Sunday through putting and it can make a difference between first and second and third, distinctions which are disproportionately rewarded in OWGR points, FedEx points, prize money, fame, attention and so on. And where do they pick those strokes up? Not usually 3-footers, and not usually lag-putting, but by holing putts between 8 and 25 feet. Assuming you read the putt correctly and assuming you hit a good putt – as they usually do, the reason why some putts between 8 and 25 feet drop and some don't is very possibly the one aspect of the game most beyond a top golfer's control (apart maybe from holing out which seldom decides tournaments).