Kevin Van Valkenburg
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You can just hammer it down there.
And of course, that's how you're going to end up shooting 58 on a week setup.
But it doesn't really work at a course where you have to be super precise with your irons.
And the Masters showed that.
He's a full, I mean, the sample size isn't great, but he's a full stroke worse in strokes gained this year than he was last year.
So that's a pretty significant drop.
I got to go with Victor Hovland in part.
In part that Victor Hovland has become one of the worst drivers of the golf ball, certainly of a player his caliber.
I mean, like Jordan Spieth's a better driver of the golf ball.
Max Homa right now is a better driver of the golf ball than Victor Hovland.
And we all know what kind of problems Max has had.
They have similar rounds.
So this is not like an unfair sample size difference.
Victor just cannot keep the ball from spinning way right.
He's only missed, I looked it up this morning, he's only missed two balls in the left rough all year.
It's just everything is spinning off the planet and going right.
I mean, it's like 20% of his drives almost are missing in the right.
And this used to be a person who thrived on taking away one side of the golf course, just setting up and hitting it down the left side and with a power sort of bullet cut.
And whatever that was has disappeared for him.
And you talked about Matt Fitzpatrick having 14 top 10s.