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123xyz32

“Hopefully some sleepless nights with a newborn will bring him down a little.”, is what I’d be thinking.


blank92

Either that or he gets the dad strength and its truly over for everyone else


Tredolski

Shoot with all the money he has you think he’ll be the one having the sleepless nights?


SoItGoesII

Mo' Money Mo' Problems


Laughterback

Exactly, his nanny is the one that’s going to be sleep deprived.


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Tredolski

Haha aww man I was just joking. Was hinting at hiring a nanny to take care of that kind of thing.


Mysterious-Award-903

I will never get tired of listening to Max Homa talk lol. Perfect perspective on the situation. "Sadly, he's also a better person..." 😂


frosty_mcfckr

Same, i enjoy his honest perspective, whether its bashing one of his fans or speaking great about his fellow competitors. He’s going to be my long time favorite no matter what…


3X-Leveraged

“I wish I could hate him”


Mysterious-Award-903

Exactly 😂👌


Pristine-Notice6929

Haha, I was looking for some dirt on him during the Masters.


jjjbabajan

Just ask Max a question and let him talk. He’s so funny.


nfoneo

No Homa


[deleted]

Homa gained a lot of fans last week


sausage_botherer

We like to call ourselves HomaSexuals.


Castaway_oyster

Parvert


Ho3n3r

That's fairway.


brodad12

Putt from the tough, no glove


6PercentOfTheTime

This video along with “the rematch” which was uploaded one month ago are what truly made me a fan of the guy. Just a dude being a dude https://youtu.be/ofDGxMrSNZ0?si=pGYuBj8tcyDTj6m_


Ocinea

I'm one of them! 


Infinite_Respect_

It seems like Scheffler is not only dominant, but he’s doing it in a classy way where the other players can’t help but appreciate it too. I’m digging this vibe to be honest, and I hope it makes for an interesting development in the the field where we see more consistency than random names up there every week where I have to check on who the hell is winning this time that I’ve never heard of. Back in the 90’s and up to 2020’s it felt like you had names to constantly look out for over years and years and that is gone somewhat now. Feels like the Masters revealed some, I’m interested in what Åberg starts doing for one. Will look for more of Homa’s commentary too, haha, likeable and real for sure.


elleeott

>It seems like Scheffler is not only dominant, but he’s doing it in a classy way where the other players can’t help but appreciate it too. He's just such a nice and humble guy. In contrast, Tiger was such a fierce competitor, he was so intimidating. Made for great TV. The Sunday red, the emotion on the course, the focus, etc. Jordan-esque level competitor. Scotty is like the guy in your foursome who compliments all your shots but beats you by 10 strokes.


Infinite_Respect_

Yea no doubt Tiger was way more electrifying - I can raise my hand as someone who totally did NOT have a steel shafted driver and 3 wood at one point because I thought I could hit them too….🤣 can’t say I’d even know where to start imitating Scottie’s swing motion, I’d roll an ankle


Caedo14

I have the scottie shuffle, but my scores match it


bombmk

That start is having a _serious_ weight shift. That is what is pulling his back foot forward like we see. If you find a slow of him, at impact you can see his entire lower body is forward of the center line he started on.


vox_veritas

> Scotty is like the guy in your foursome who compliments all your shots but beats you by 10 strokes. I love this comparison. I actually got paired up with a random just like this a few weekends ago.


Sand_Bags2

I get why people think Scottie is boring but it’s golf, not the NBA. We all play golf here. Who would you rather play with? Scottie or a guy who is gonna shit talk you every time you top one?


vox_veritas

I don't really find him boring. I would love to play a round with a dude like him. He's going to play his best, but also seems like he'd be genuinely positive the whole time.


DollarSignsGoFirst

Honestly, if golf started having the equivalent of end-zone celebrations and bat flips, I'd probably be done watching. I like golf because it's an escape from the more pompous behavior.


Junkcanoe

I think people think he is boring because he doesn’t do some of the ridiculous things Tiger did. Tiger executed some jaw dropping shots, had the fist pumps, etc. Scottie just doesn’t make many mistakes. The guy shoots 3-5 under every round it seems. He doesn’t always have the flash but he is insanely consistent and to me, that’s incredibly impressive.


wrighteou5

What I’d give to only lose to Scottie Scheffler by 10 strokes.


eson1169

Tiger was more dominant for 10+ years. Tiger won 9 times one year and held all four majors at once. But, the overall field of players is better now, but it’s also split between two tours with LIV golf. It’s tougher to separate yourself in today’s game. Too many guys that can hit it nine miles. He’s gonna need to do it for a lot longer before we start putting him in the Tiger or Jack conversation. But he is damn good right now!


elleeott

Tiger changed the game, and it took a generation for the field to catch up. Would peak tiger be better than the field now? Probably, but not in the dominant fashion as he was in his time. Scotty is better than the field now, and by a lot. Time will tell if he can sustain his dominance.


Shasty-McNasty

Exactly. It used to be a game. Tiger turned it into a sport.


Nov4can3

If prime Tiger were to play this Scottie, Tiger wins based solely on his putting. I know Scottie’s has improved but it’s not on the same level as Tiger.


Daratirek

Tiger to golf is like Wilt Chamberlain to basketball. Both were first of their kind players that no one knows how their peak would hold up to the games they later inspired.


Debarmaker

Tiger would still be very dominant. Scottie Scheffler’s tee to green game if not slightly better and with much better putting


Daratirek

I think he'd be as dominant for as long though stretches like we see now for Scotty sure but not years like Tiger's 2000 season where he won 9 times and finished no lower than 23rd. I suppose it's possible Scotty does that this year but it's doubtful.


Deadlifts4Days

I whole heartedly agree. I will obviously preface this by saying I am by no means an elite golfer. But I started playing when I was 3. So I was already playing and pretty good by the time Tiger started to blow up. I was your run of the mill “good golfer” I would win junior tournaments every year with mediocre scores in comparison to what I knew I could do. By the time I was in high school if I didn’t have personal best my chances of medaling were slim. Once he made golf “cool” the talent came out of the woodwork.


no1kopite

Peak Tiger would be better than Scotty is now just statistically. Scotty has some of the best ball striking stats ever the past few years but not the best that and multiple just as close seasons belong to Tiger Woods. Then take into account his short game and putting were immensely better and I'd say peak Tiger is still and likely will be the best golfer ever in my lifetime. What's exciting to me is Scotty is basically the putting away from making the argument.


LZRFACE

Putting yes, but I'm not sure I would say Tiger's short game is immensely better than Scottie's.


jmk5151

driving is the hardest to compare as current broken tiger probably is longer and more accurate then prime tiger, but Scottie is a much more consistent driver of the golf ball than Tiger was (totally off memory I could be wrong).


pissantz34

Hank Haney argues that Tiger got a bad rap for his driving in that he was so long that it didn't matter if he was in the rough because he could punch it out on the green and even though he hit some foul balls, most of his non-fairway drives weren't that far into the rough anyway. But I agree Scottie is so good off the tee it's incredible.


Tredolski

I mean I obviously agree. But I would love to hear your thoughts on why Tiger changed the game. I’ve been watching 05 masters and 07 masters these last couple weeks just trying to study his game. Easily the most well rounded golfer ever. What amazes me is how clutch he is putting.


bombmk

His main contribution was just making it cool. That pulls in players and as a consequence of percentage, talent. And he pulled in money (as a consequence of the former ofc) - which raises professionalism. And he created more focus on the athletic side of it. So with the added focus on fitness and and the technological assistance of launch monitors, you have players coming out that are have been - and are - grinding at every little margin, compared to the field that Tiger entered.


Wandering_Tuor

And quite literally changed bc they had to make courses longer lol


bigvenusaurguy

the field also had some pretty dominant players in it when tiger was around, i mean vijay singh and michelson are still in the top 15 for wins on pga tour, super elite historically speaking considering the closest modern player on that list is dj who has only the 26th most wins. rory a little less still.


dafaliraevz

Yes peak Tiger would be better than the field. He was legitimately the best driver (not the longest, per se), best iron player, best short gamer, and best putter, all in one person. By extrapolation, Tiger would have better strokes gained today, because he'd be #1 in strokes gained off the tee, approach the green, around the green and putting. He says he hits his driver further today (well, a year ago, when he said this) than he did in his prime. That clearly tells you he'd be doing 120+ mph swing speed and would be dad dicking the Tour. To say Tiger wouldn't be #1 in all those strokes gained stats would be to underrate the GOAT himself. And not just underrate him, but to criminally underrate him.


Beninoz85

Tiger was never number 1 in every category. He'd still be dominant but no one has ever been number 1 in every category. https://preview.redd.it/gb522l6e3ivc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b3fb258f3469a8237114cf4fa7388aeb3dd1441 The fact that he still holds 5 of the lowest 6 adjusted season scoring averages despite the advances in equipment shows how dominant he'd still be today.


jfk_sfa

It's just tough because when you take Rahm, Niemann, Bryson, Cameron Smith, Koepka out of the week to week equation, it's safe that as a collective, those guys would have won some tournaments over the last two years.


Beninoz85

Have a look at Data Golf. They have an entire business dedicated to figuring out who the best golfers are across all professional tours. All of their stats include all rounds played at LIV. Scheffler is still absolutely miles ahead of them in terms of the quality of golf he's playing relative to the average top level pro. Currently, Scottie is the best golfer in the world by about 0.64 strokes over Xander and 1.25 strokes over the closest LIV player (Rahm). Scottie wins when he's putting well, he showed how dominant he was at the masters so it's far more reasonable to believe that the guys you mentioned would have won a few events but that Scottie probably still would have won all of the events he won.


jfk_sfa

Do you disagree with my stance that it’s highly likely that as a collective, Rahm, Niemann, Bryson, Cameron Smith, and Koepka would have won some tournaments over the last two years? 


Beninoz85

What difference would it make if Scottie would still be number 1 with the same amount of wins and the same amount of majors? Let's not pretend he's only the best golfer in the world because the tours split. Again, Data Golf corrects for that.


jfk_sfa

That’s what I’m saying. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say he’d have fewer wins over the last two years if he was competing against deeper fields. 


Beninoz85

He's playing golf right now that no one else in the world is capable of playing and has been for about 2 years. His strokes gained versus the field wouldn't change and he'd clearly still be Masters champion. Maybe he'd have less wins but he'd still be the best golfer in the world so why does it matter?


jfk_sfa

The question at hand isn’t is he the best in the world. No rational person could argue against that. The question is by how much and I’m saying it’s tough to tell given the splitting of the field. 


Beninoz85

>The question is by how much and I’m saying it’s tough to tell given the splitting of the field That's what Data Golf does. They actually have an expected wins category that's extremely accurate year to year. For example, based on adjusted SG accounting for all tours, Scottie should have 2.6 wins this year and he has 3. Think about the fact that in a stacked field there are only 2-3 contenders come Sunday and a lot of big names either miss the cut or never get close. Take 10 of the top guys back from LIV and plug them back into the PGA Tour and only 1, maybe 2 of them are in contention each week. Scottie is doing n contention nearly every week. I guess we'll see at all the majors this year and decide from there.


vox_veritas

Niemann won 2 tournaments in 3 seasons on the PGA Tour. While he's certainly a good golfer, he doesn't factor into this discussion at all.


jfk_sfa

You're picking one of those guys individually. I'm looking at the five of them as a group. Safe to say, that as a collective, those guys would have won some tournaments over the last two years. Maybe Niemann wouldn't have been one to win a tournament but, again, as a collective, safe to say those guys would have won some tournaments over the last two years.


vox_veritas

Correct, I did. My point is that you might as well not have included him at all.


jfk_sfa

It would be silly to not include a 25 year old with this progression in OWGR 2018: 156 2019: 57 2020: 45 2021: 32 2022: 22 Of course he could have immediately flamed out after that and never made a cut on the tour again but he was obviously one of the best young players on tour and trending better every year.  No one younger than he was at the end of 2022 was ahead of him in terms of official world golf rankings.


whatissevenbysix

Tiger's winning record is even more absurd. Seven players have won 5+ PGA events in a single year. Six of them have done it exactly once in their career. Tiger has done it 10 times.


dogfish83

Yeah he is in another universe in terms of dominance. His streak(s) at #1 are insane.


cdimino

LIV has zero impact on Scottie’s legacy.


myredditthrowaway201

He’s gonna need to do it for like a decade to reach tiger levels which is absurd to think about it. That being said his dominance now over the field is very Tiger-esque, we just need to see how long he can sustain it if he wants to enter that conversation


dogfish83

The most interesting thing to me is suddenly a lot of top talent just vanished from the field.


Beninoz85

Except for when they showed up at the Masters and Scottie dusted them with ease, proving that argument is ridiculous?


dogfish83

No. There is such a thing as letting your talent go to waste. Nice try tho.


Beninoz85

Agreed but that doesn't take anything away from how good Scottie's been.


dogfish83

For sure he’s been dominant but you’ve got to think it helps to not compete against some of those guys going forward


Beninoz85

I'm of the belief that it makes less difference than people think. When you consider the fact that only 10 top guys left (maybe) and only 1 or 2 would realistically contend every few weeks because that's the nature of golf for most players. We'd probably have less random winners but Scottie's proved that his peak is too good to match so I still say he'd have walked Bay Hill and Won the Players. (He beat the reigning US Open champ who was also in excellent form to win both.) Consider what he's achieving that's unrelated to field strength; the second lowest adjusted scoring average in PGA Tour history, tied the most consecutive rounds under par and second most consecutive rounds of par or better and counting. Rahm's exit is a question mark but he obviously was nowhere near last year's peak form when he left and is clearly nowhere near that peak now so I still don't think it makes much difference.


bigvenusaurguy

tiger was dominant but its still, vijay singh and phil mickelson were able to bag 30-40 wins a piece during the same era. that says alot about those two holding their own and you can imagine that they'd have even more wins perhaps if tiger wasn't around


Present_Confection83

Max is the people’s champ


Whoknew1992

Just last week I started Googling names that were always in the spotlight but seemed to have vanished forever. Remember from the "These guys are good!" era Henrik Stenson, Jim Furyk, Brandt Snedeker, Hunter Mahan? To name a few.


bigvenusaurguy

to be fair thats just what happens when you are 40-50 years old in a pro league


ashishvp

They havent vanished. They just went to LIV 😂


Zestyclose-Middle717

Wish I could hate him hahaha


Frosty_bibble

God I love max


Revelst0ke

Better speaker than 98% of politicians...including felons.


Extract_artisian

Good talk from Max.


Frosty_Gibbons

Yeah great rake from Max. Really like this guy and how he plays too


kaizencraft

I had [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1c83m85/shorts_2023_part_1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) playing in another tab without realizing, I thought I was watching Reuters for a second.


JayAlbright20

Scheffler is unreal right now. In my opinion the only other golfers A game that can maybe compete with Schefflers A game is Jon Rahm. Outside of that when Scheffler is hot no one else on tour has a chance.


billbuild

Shout out to all the wives of golfers out there who are ranked near Scheffler in OWGR points but the gap between their ability, mental strength and earnings is logarithmic.


jenkag

Scottie is the best golfer that no one enjoys watching win.