Jaime Diaz
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And he got very good at not saying very much.
I think Scotty is, you know, he's an intelligent guy.
Tiger is too.
He kind of outsmarted the media for a long time.
But I think Scotty likes having, you know,
conversations in normal life.
Uh, he's, he's engaging.
He's pretty funny.
Uh, but he also knows from watching and studying number one players over these last decades, especially that demand on the number one player is just getting greater and it's getting to be more of a distraction and a harder thing to stay up there than ever.
And I think he studied it in a way that's going, okay, how do I survive up here?
How do I do it best?
And to some extent, he's got to suppress his normal personality and not really engage every question and try to get through it with a decent kind of
honest answer that's not too in-depth.
And so I think he struggles when a question that he knows is going to lead him into an area that would open up a lot of interesting kind of writing about it, whether it was the putter or whatever it happens to be.
He puts the brakes on it.
And so it makes him look like he's not enjoying it.
And I'm not, you know, I kind of said that earlier that he doesn't really enjoy.
I think he doesn't enjoy the obligation of it when it can
encroach on his concentration on the game.
And I think one of the things that Scottie does best of all is just get into a really ironclad mindset for four days.