Andy Johnson
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And I think that's the thing that gets mixed up with all the track man and the love of data is that with this love of data, we lose like who are actually golf savants.
Because I think like to be a top tier and before I think Dustin Johnson is
is slash was a golf savant.
Like people will laugh at his answers in press conferences, but I think he understood how to play golf like an exceptionally high level.
But you think about like players that get to the top of the game are, I think are generally golf savants.
And you think about Justin Rose's fifth in the world.
That guy, he has evolved as a player from what he was early on so much, and he continues to evolve in his late 40s.
Cameron Young, I think, goes more into the Rory Tiger camp, but he won at a pretty prolific level at the college level.
He's always won a lot.
Tommy Fleetwood, not a speed demon.
Colin Morikawa, not a speed demon, but excellent, excellent iron players.
And if you watch Tommy Fleetwood play on a challenging condition day, it's like, oh, this guy has such a deep bag of shots in his repertoire.
knock down, low draw, iron shots that you just don't see anybody else hitting.
Russell Henley.
You go through this top 10, JJ Spahn's number 10, Russell Henley's number 8.
Not speed demons.
Guys that have just consistently gotten better at the sport.
I think a through line with their career
they were always really good golfers.
But never going to be somebody that just jumps off the page because their ball speed was exceptional.