They are not saying, ‘Quit shooting three-pointers.’ But we don’t celebrate when a guy makes eight birdies, or a guy bombs it 400 yards.
“I want a 6-foot-8 guy not playing in the NBA, I want to see him on the PGA Tour bombing the ball.
Although he didn’t call him out by name, Watson was likely alluding to Bryson DeChambeau and his extreme bomb-and-gauge approach that helped him win the 2020 U.S.
They don’t ever talk about us chopping out of the — hey, he laid up again.
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