Kevin Van Valkenburg

I can take, you know, big chunks of time off and keep myself fresh and get ready.

And I think we're going to see him contend in at least two more majors this year.

He didn't have a great time at Shinnecock last go around, but I would be really surprised if he wasn't in it at Birkdale and he should be in it at Aronamink.

It's, I just think that it's,

He could put, he could begin to put a huge gap between him and the other players in terms of like majors one with a historic year this year.

When you can, it's hard to like say that, you know, anything other than the mental bugaboo of having not won the masters was holding Rory back over the last decade.

And now he's won two in a row.

Like, I don't know.

I noticed we said some of this last year, like, oh, he's going to be freed up after winning the masters.

But I actually really believe it now this time that this is, he's figured out a formula for himself.

I just kind of agree with all that.

I think the thing I would emphasize the most as someone who has thought a lot about Scottie this year is that he...

really needs to have a simplified life.

And the more complicated it gets, the more little annoyances start to kind of creep into the rest of his life.

Let's give him a little bit of a pass, just kind of adjusting on new parenting.

Two kids is a lot more than one kid.

I think he wants to be a pretty involved dad.

I think, you know, it just, you can see the tension sometimes in him just dealing with the bullshit of being the best player in the world.

It's like, he doesn't really want to talk about live stuff after every single development in this, but there's an obligation.

There's a responsibility of the best player in the world to sort of weigh in on that kind of stuff.