Smylie Kaufman Reacts to Min Woo Lee's Slow Pace at Houston Open

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00:00You know, he's seven shots off the lead to when he's doing this. Yes, and it's that's that's where it gets really annoying for

00:07for for me because that's

00:11Now you're really impeding somebody's

00:15Rhythm and a chance to win

00:18And that's the annoying part if it's match play Charlie, I get it

00:21Whatever like be it be an idiot and do whatever you want. I don't like that that whole idea if that was intentional

00:29It's I think that's well, you know, it's match player even if like if he's right there

00:35Alongside men will Lee in a stroke like if he was a shot off the leader two shots off the lead and he's saying

00:40Okay, you're gonna slow me down

00:41I still don't like it

00:42but I don't understand it more there than a guy who is playing bad golf and seemingly sort of you know pouting and also is

00:49Susceptible to emotions and anger as we've seen in numerous, you know junctions throughout his career and sort of takes out an unproductive way

00:56But hey, nothing if not entertaining this guy is that don't make this really angry will not like the strudel when he's angry

01:04so that was that was highly but just another like slow play moment for men was happened on the 18th hole and

01:12That decision on 18 and what club to hit took entirely too long

01:16I mean that had to be from when they because they were the last guy to hit right? Yeah, and they were still

01:22Just walking off the yardage now

01:23There could have been other things going on as far as clearing out the crowd that I was trying to kind of figure out what?

01:28Was happening but even then it just seemed like all right

01:32we walk off the yardage after the two guys hit and then

01:36We go walk out of the tunnel of all the people to then now go check the wind

01:40It just seemed like the process took a very very long time

01:45Yes, he had to make a part of when they go after me. Yes

01:47It was so important that he got his first win, but at the same time

01:51I

01:54You know if I might just go armchair psychologists here for a second where I could be entirely off

02:01but this is my just assessment of who Minwoo Lee seems to be as a human being is that we know that there are

02:07Categories of types of competitors, right? Like there's like the guy who is borderline sociopath Kobe Bryant

02:13Like I'll do anything to win Minwoo Lee seems more like a relatable human being

02:19Than on the sociopath end of the spectrum, right? We see this in the way he interacts with fans on social media

02:26It's why we love him so much

02:27all the way down to the bit on the last hole where he's aimed pointing from a few inches out like

02:34It was great I say all that to say I

02:37Think that we've seen him in some high-pressure high leverage situations where the moment kind of gets to him

02:42We saw it a couple years ago in that final group of Scottie Scheffler where he falls off the pace early and loses the golf

02:48Tournament we even saw it on Saturday at the players this year where he has a chance and then you know tough conditions and he

02:53Kind of falls away from the golf tournament because he's trying to do something

02:56He's never done before win event on the PGA Tour a lot of pressure comes with that and depending on your wiring

03:02You know, he's immensely physically gifted and has all these tools

03:05But there's that last step of do I have the mental resolve to play through all you know

03:10The number one player in the world chasing me down Alejandro toasty playing mind games with me and win this golf tournament

03:16So was he too slow?

03:17Totally agreed

03:18but I also get that until you get over that hump for the first time you're taking a little extra time to make sure you

03:24Just make a par on the 18th hole to win by a shot. I kind of get that

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