00:00because here's here this guy is already a a a one of the best players on tour in fact i think he
00:06finished 13 the fedex cup this last year but i think he's closer like 40th in the data golf
00:10rankings like mid 40s akshay batia it just feels like he's ready for a year with
00:17some some big wins he's won before on tour of course multiple times but it's like
00:22he's he's it feels like he's ready for some some big serious wins some major contention
00:28we talked to you know guys whether it's stats guys whether it's it's fellow tour pros
00:35people think a ton of akshay batia's game and he's still only 23 years old
00:40i think i think this is i think we see a very legitimate step in his game this year to winning
00:47some big events to contending in a lot of these maybe even sneaking a major in so that that was
00:52the guy i profiled i wonder if you feel like is he is he too far out of your box already or is this
00:56kind of the guy that fits the profile you're creating no he's he's he's perfect and rick
01:00game and i talked about this when he came on the podcast and he was a player that he mentioned
01:04that could take it to the next level i my only concerns with akshay is that i think he needs to
01:09drive it better i think he's a little too inaccurate right now off of the t but when you think about
01:14akshay's profile of what type of player he was really coming out of high school turning pro a very
01:21elite ball striker where where has he improved throughout his young pga tour career it's been
01:26with the putter going from uh just conventional a couple years back to he added uh what's the thing
01:33on the the arm lock he had the arm lock now he's a broomstick he but he's turned himself into a
01:39phenomenal putter and so when you throw that in with a very elite iron player which he is so now you
01:45have a good iron player a good putter i think where he needs to improve is to be better off the t i think
01:50he tries to curve it too much off the t where he just i know shaping it one way is great but i think
01:55sometimes it leads to a bit inaccuracy sometimes um and in certain holes that don't go the correct
02:02way it doesn't fit his eye uh but with second shots it's easier because he you know he can kind of work
02:07it both ways but um i'll look for him to improve there off the t and then also around the green he's
02:13shown signs that he can be very good around the green but stats last year were a little down so you
02:18want to see him kind of improve that scrambling statistic uh because he worked on that with
02:22with gabe chetstead i think i'm saying his last name right like he did not a lot of work i'm not
02:26sure so he may still work with him i'm not sure but he definitely has creativity around the greens uh
02:31but definitely want to see him just kind of tidy up that okay so now let's lead to your list who you got
02:37okay all right so i'm gonna start with flushers of the golf ball who i think just need to find a way
02:48to put it together okay and these are these are guys all i guess all of the players i'm about to tell
02:53you um are inside the top 10 whether it be off of the t statistic or t to green so players that can
03:01really flush it uh first guy's thor uh michael thuren bornsson uh i was just kind of blown away
03:07looking at his his whole profile and you kind of get excited when you when you when you see some
03:12statistics of some young guys you like you're like oh yeah this guy's this guy could potentially be
03:16uh a really top end player of the game especially when you got a full year of data on the player
03:21um what i really liked with thor is that he was seventh off of the t but what i really liked is that
03:29he was 64 percent driving accuracy so that number we were talking about earlier yeah if you're a long
03:35player which he is like thor is a he was sixth in the driving distance category this year and he was
03:4164 in accuracy that is a really great recipe to to make a lot of money on the pga tour but also
03:48play your way into being a top player
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