Can Jon Rahm separate himself from the rest of golf's elite? | Live From The Players | Golf Channel
ERA, WITH KURT KITAYAMA, AND RORY AND SCOTTIE AND JON, AND WE ARE LOOKING AT A NEW TIME, AND HOW DO YOU SEE THIS NEW TIME, BRANDEL? >> WELL, WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE PARITY OR DOMINANT PLAYERS, AND EITHER IS GOING TO GIVE YOU GREAT STORY, AND WHETHER YOU GREAT STORY, AND WHETHER YOU LIKE THE LOBSTER OR CHATEAU BRIAND, AND FOR GREG NORMAN THEY CHANGED NINE DIFFERENT TIMES THAT THEY ASCENDED TO NUMBER ONE, AND SO IT WAS NINE DIFFERENT PLAYERS THAT HAVE ASCENDED TO NUMBER ONE AND IN THE MIDDLE IS THE DIFFERENCE, BECAUSE DROPPING ANCHOR WAS
TIGER WOODS WHO DID THE SAME FROM 2005 TO 2010, BUT A LOOK AT WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IF TIGER DID NOT EXIST IN 2001, AND HE IS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, BUT AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, BUT IMAGINE WITH THE LEAD HE HAD OVER ERNIE ELS, AND POINTS OVER ERNIE ELS, AND A WIDE MARGIN THAT ERNIE HAD ACCUMULATED OVER THE YEARS, BUT SEPARATING SECOND THROUGH FOURTH BY 0.8 OF A THROUGH FOURTH BY 0.8 OF A POINT, AND IF TIGER HAD NOT COME AL LONG, AND ERNIE AND DAVID AL LONG, AND ERNIE
AND DAVID DUVAL AND PHIL VYING FOR NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD, AND WE ARE THINKING, THAT WE HAVE THREE
IS THE MOST LIKELY PLAYER TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES? TO ME, IT IS PROBABLY RORY. >> YEAH, BUT, WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN, BRANDEL, THEY WILL SEPARATE AND THEN THEY WILL COME SEPARATE AND THEN THEY WILL COME BACK, AND THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE SEEN. NOT BETWEEN THEM, THEY ARE SUCH QUALITY PLAYERS ALL THREE OF THEM, BUT NOT ONE IS GOING TO SEPARATE AND GO OFF IN THE DISTANCE FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, AND THE QUALITY OF ALL THREE AND THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE SUCH STRONG GAMES AND THE MOTIVATION THE BIG THING, AND LET’S NOT
FORGET THAT, AND OBVIOUSLY, RORY IS BIGGER BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN ON TOUR BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN ON TOUR LONGER, BUT THE DETERMINING FACTOR AT THIS POINT IN TIME, AND RAHM IS THE ONE WITH THE MOMENTUM, AND THE RAHM IS THE ONE WHO IS THE HOTTEST PLAYER AT THE MOMENT, AND THE DETERMINING FACTOR IS THAT SCOTTIE AND, BOTH SCOTTIE AND RORY HAVE COME OFF OF THE BOIL IN TERMS OF PUTTING, BUT LAST YEAR WE WERE SITTING DOWN TO TALK ABOUT JON RAHM GOING INTO THE MASTERS AND SAYING THAT HE IS PLAYING SO WELL TEE TO GREEN,
AND PUTTING SO WELL, AND WE COULD SEE HIM WINNING THE TOURNAMENT, AND THEN WHEN THE PUTTING CAME BACK, HE HAS ESCALATED TO THE HEIGHTS, BUT NOTHING BETWEEN THE GUYS, AND IT IS ONE LITTLE MOVING FORWARD AND ANOTHER BACK AND THEN FORWARD AND IT IS THE QUALITY AND THE MOTIVATION THAT REMAINS HIGH, AND IT IS GOING TO CONTINUE, BECAUSE THE QUALITY OF THE GAMES IS SO SIMILAR. >> BRANDEL, DO YOU THINK THAT THE DESIGNATED EVENTS WITH THE SMALLER FIELDS AND HOPEFULLY INTO MAJORS, IT WILL PRODUCE DJOKOVIC S NADAL AND FEDERER-TYPE RIVALRIES ON A CONSISTENT BASIS OF
71st HOLE GETTING AFTER THEM? >> DJOKOVIC AND NADAL AND FEDERER WERE THREE DIFFERENT PLAYERS WHERE IN TENNIS, PLAYERS DOMINATE, AND THAT IS IT, YOU ARE PITTING YOUR STRENGTH AGAINST ANOTHER PLAYER’S WEAKNESS, AND THAT GOING TO LEND IN DOMINANCE AND THEY WERE LUCKY, AND THAT TRIUMVIRATE, AND I DON’T THINK THAT TENNIS WILL HAVE THAT AGAIN, AND I WILL TEXT PAM SCHRIVER AT THE END OF THE SHOW, AND WILL WE SEE IT AGAIN, AND I BET SHE SAYS NO, BUT WE AND I BET SHE SAYS NO, BUT WE HAVE HAD IN GOLF VIE UMTRIUMVIRA HAVE HAD IN
GOLF VIE UMTRIUMVIRA NICK, GARY, TIGER, AND WAIT, LET ME GO BACK, JACK, GARY AND ARNIE, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, FROM TIME TO TIME, YOU WILL GET THAT, BUT I DON’T THINK THAT WE WILL GET A DOMINANT PLAYER IN THIS PARTICULAR ERA, BECAUSE THE PLAYER HAS TO COME ALONG WHO HAS IT ALL. YOU KNOW, LOOK AT WHAT RORY DID LAST YEAR, AND HE WAS MORE DOMINANT THAN ANY OTHER PLAYER DOMINANT THAN ANY OTHER PLAYER FROM THE STROKES GAINED PER PECK PERSPECTIVE BESIDES TIGER, BUT HE WAS NOT A SHOT AND A HALF HE WAS NOT A SHOT
AND A HALF BETTER THAN EVERYBODY ELSE THE WAY THAT TIGER WOODS WAS, SO THE NEXT DOMINANT PLAYER, WE DON’T KNOW HIS NAME, BECAUSE HE IS IN HIGH SCHOOL, AND HE IS IN COLLEGE SOMEWHERE, AND WE JUST HAVE NOT SEEN HIM YET ON THE STAGE OF GOLF. >> I DON’T KNOW IF YOU WILL SITE AGAIN, BRANDEL, BECAUSE WHEN TIGER CAME ON THE SCENE, AND A NUMBER OF AREAS AND GAPS THAT HE WAS AHEAD OF THE GAME ON THAT WAS AHEAD OF THE GAME ON THAT HAVE BEEN CLOSED NOW, AND ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY, AND
HE KNEW WHAT TO DO, AND USING WHOLE NIKE TEAM BEHIND HIM TO CREATE EQUIPMENT SPECIFICALLY USEFUL FOR HIM THAT THE OTHER GUYS WERE NOT ON, AND HE WAS MOVING IN A FITNESS LEVEL, AND INTO A DIFFERENT PLACE THAT THE OTHER PLAYERS WERE NOT ON, AND THERE WAS GAP THERE THAT HE COULD MOVE IN, AND A SHORT GAME ON A LEVEL THAT WE HAD NOT SEEN OF, AND IN TERMS OF HITTING THE BALL AND IMPORTANCE OF NOW THE BALL AND IMPORTANCE OF NOW THE MODERN GAME OF USING GOLF BALL TO DO THAT AND MOVING INTO A
DIFFERENT DIRECTION S AND MOVING INTO THE GAPS THAT WEREN’T THERE, AND I DON’T SEE THE GAPS, THERE AND THE SPORTS LEVEL OF THE PROFESSIONAL GOLF, AND THE PROFESSIONAL GOLF, AND EVERYBODY HAS MOVED TO THAT LEVEL NOW. SO I DON’T SEE THE GAPS, AND I DON’T KNOW IF SOMEONE CAN COME TO DO THAT. >> SOMEONE WILL COME ALONG AND DO IT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM DO IT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM EVERYBODY ELSE. EARLIN,Y NON, TIGER WAS USING A LARGER SHAFT. >> AND CAN YOU DO THAT WITH THE WAY YOU EXPLAINED TIGER WITH THE WORLD RANKINGS. >> NO, I
DON’T THINK THAT WE WILL SEE TIGER WOODS AGAIN, AND WILL SEE TIGER WOODS AGAIN, AND I HAVE SAID IT AGAIN, THAT WE WON’T SEE SHAKESPEARE AGAIN, AND WON’T SEE SHAKESPEARE AGAIN, AND IF TIGER HAD NOT COME ALONG, PHIL MICKELSON WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN EDGED OUT, AND WE WOULD HAVE CALLED HIM A DOMINANT PLAYER, AND THE SAME AS OTHERS, BUT THE SAME WAY AS GREG NORMAN A DOMINANT PLAYER. >> IF TIGER HAD BEEN IN THE FIELD AT BAY HILL, DO YOU THINK THAT HE WOULD HAVE ALLOWED KURT KITAYAMA, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, A TRIPLE BOGEY TO
BEAT HIM ON SUNDAY? >> I DID A DEEP DIVE WITH MARK BRODIE WHO WILL BE ON LATER IN THE SHOW, AND THE DETERMINING FACTOR IS BETWEEN THE YEARS, AND IT IS ALSO REPRESENTED IN THE STATISTIC. YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE STATISTICS, AND YOU DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WHO TIGER WOODS WAS, THE STATISTICS WOULD SHOW YOU THAT I GET THAT BETWEEN THE EARS IS A LARGE PART OF THE PUZZLE. >> BUT IT IS REFLECTIVE OF ITSELF, AND NOT MISSING THE PUTTS THAT MATTERED. >> AND WE CAN ATTRIBUTE THINGS ON THE ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT THE STATISTICS ARE OFF OF
THE CHART FOR TIGER WOODS. >> AND STATISTICS ARE ABOUT FOCUS ON THE BACKSIDE. >> IT IS A FAIR POINT, BUT WHAT TIGER DID OFF OF THE TEE WITH THE GOLF SWING, AND WHAT HE DID INTO THE GREEN WITH THE GOLF SWING, AND ALSO WITH HIS, I THINK, HIS CONSERVATIVE APPROACH AND THE ABILITY TO WORK THE BALL, AND RIGHT NOW, ALL OF THE PLAYERS ARE TAUGHT NOT TO WORK THE GOLF BALL, BUT ONE SHAPE IS ALL YOU NEED, AND MEANWHILE, THE GREATEST PLAYER OF ALL TIME HAD ALL DIFFERENT SHAPES, BUT NOW THEY ARE ALL TAUGHT ONE
SHAPE, AND IF THEY ARE ALL TAUGHT THE SAME WAY, AND THEY ARE ALL GOING TO BE PLAYING THE SAME WAY, AND SOMEBODY ELSE GOING TO BE COMING ALONG WITH A DIFFERENT WAY, AND THERE IS GOING TO BE A SEISMIC SHIFT. >> BUT CAN THEY BE A GAP, AND THERE IS A SEISMIC SHIFT COMING IN WITH THE PSYCHOLOGISTS IN THE GAME, AND NOW, THERE WAS NEVER A PSYCHOLOGIST, AND NOW EVERYBODY IS USING THEM, AND YOU HAVE TO USE THEM TOGET TO A PEAK.
