00:00Oh yeah, he's that. He's already got those skills. He's way in that level to me. He can
00:08be as good as he wants to be. I truly believe that. His iron game to me is phenomenal. Just
00:14his ability to hit it where he's looking more often than not, hit it in the middle of the
00:18face, his divots throughout the entire week. I watched every shot he hit on this weekend
00:23and then also Sunday at Bay Hill. There wasn't a divot that had a bad exit or entry
00:30point from the club face into the ground. Every single divot was a perfect dollar bill
00:36divot. I've been chasing that divot for so long. It was so frustrating. Even on his bad
00:43shots, I would go up and look at his divot. His bad shots still, perfect divots. This
00:49guy can do no wrong. He never has a bad divot. All of them are exactly the way they should
00:54look. I think his wedges get a little steep sometimes, a little diggy, but that would
00:59be my only complaint. Still a perfect divot. This is a little bit of a tangent. Do you
01:05replace divots for over-seeded rye? Obviously, you don't replace Bermuda divots.
01:10At PGA Tour events, anytime you make a divot, you replace it so that the player behind you
01:14doesn't have to play in an old divot. Even if it's Bermuda and you normally put sand on it
01:18to regrow, you would replace it for a playing surface. The ground screw comes back, removes
01:23those divots, and fills them. That's how it goes. That makes sense. I was going to say,
01:27that'd be really cool. You had a little belt with all of Cam. You just collected all Cam
01:30Young's divots and made a little... Man, it was... So I guess he can be as good as he wants
01:37to be. I think if he continues on the path with having a little bit more feel inside of
01:44150 yards, just getting so good with his wedges, he's a high-spin guy. Talked to us about this on
01:50the podcast when he came on. Just getting a golf ball that feels like 130 is 130. I still feel
01:57that
01:57his wedge game, although he's had good wedge seasons, still needs to continue to develop.
02:05But he's not scared to chip it off of the top of your head. His putting is really the routine.
02:12I think... I want to get into just his putting and what I noticed is that his routine and his
02:18caddy, Kyle, are just in so much in sync. I never felt like they were out of rhythm because sometimes
02:26a player's ready to go and hit a putt. And a caddy sometimes is either late in their read or,
02:34let's say, trying to figure out the last steps of the reading process.
02:39Kyle was always in the exact same spot every single time. And it was almost watching an
02:46orchestra, these two. They were so dialed in with one another on the greens. And you could look at
02:53the stats of how good he was on the greens this week. There's one particular stat that I want to
02:58double check, but I'm pretty certain that he only missed one putt inside of 10 feet this week,
03:03which with wind, fast greens, the crustiness that they were dealing with. I mean, that is just
03:10really, really impressive. And I think his caddy, Kyle, who was a roommate of his at Wake Forest,
03:15great connection, those two, deserves a lot of credit because on the week, let's see,
03:20he was 64 of 66 inside of 10 feet this week. Just really, really impressive. Perfect inside of seven.
03:26We talked about it when we had him on the show. And I'm just curious for your observation of,
03:31you know, kind of having been out there broadcasting when he's going through that
03:34period of struggle putting. And then, and then, you know, if you, if you bottle that up and put
03:37that in a time capsule, and then you, you fast forward to kind of this, these last few months,
03:41maybe dating back to the Wyndham win, how different it looks and feels, you know, maybe from
03:45the mechanical standpoint, the setup, all the things he talked about, you know, mechanically and,
03:50and, you know, not tinkering with putters, not tinkering with the grips, but just
03:53the, the, the, the physical demeanor, right. And like the lack of stress, like what,
03:57where are you observing the biggest amounts of change and freedom in his putting that you
04:00didn't see before when he was really going through it? Nothing. There's nothing. He's
04:04not messing with the stroke. He's, he's just really confident and comfortable with his reads. And
04:10he's, he's, he just has great touch and good feel. There's nothing that looks unorthodox to me.
04:16The putting stroke, the technique all looks really good. There's nothing that I've noticed that
04:21looks different than how he putted in this season in which he had all those runner-ups
04:25in major championships and PGA tour events. It looks the same to me. I think that he just
04:31tried different things over the two year period in which he was getting back to being a decent
04:37putter. You know, he had pop weeks in 2021, that season that was so good. But the two years following
04:43that, you know, he struggled. And that was the thing that kind of held him back. But I think when
04:49you look at cam and how we've seen him progress, I think he's a, a very intense individual,
04:55very smart. I think that for a long time, he was too hard on himself. I think we talked about
05:01that
05:02at times that he got in his own way a little bit frustrated with himself, expect so much,
05:07but I think one of the, one of the key keys mentally that, that I think cam has been able
05:12to figure out through the help of his sports psychologist, Brett McCabe, who's come on the
05:16podcast podcast. Also shout, shout out being a show Creek memory here, Birmingham and LSU
05:21tiger. Uh, you know, Brett, Brett had said that just, he's, he has so much belief in himself.
05:27And I think the thing that, that cam had to realize is that he can go and play well when
05:34he doesn't have it.
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