Evaluating Davis Thompson's Rising Golf Career and Potential
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00:00Where do we think we stand on projecting Davis Thompson long-term because I'm, I'm just, I just had a curiosity. I just pulled up the president's cup standings and he's jumped nine spots. He's 21st on that list.
00:15Um, and, and I mean, for me, I mean, we're, we've almost answered the question away in the last 10 to 15 minutes. It's like, I think we're both believers in Davis Thompson's talent.
00:25Um, but it's just a guy who, you know, do, do we think he keeps this run of form going through the end of the season playing in, you know, uh, uh, higher profile events.
00:34I think we're, we're, we're through the signature events at this point, I believe the travelers was the last signature.
00:39So we'll have, of course, the Scottish we'll have the open. And then really, when we come back on the backside of the Olympics, we're getting into the FedEx cup playoffs.
00:47And so, you know, I don't know if that's enough time for him to kind of make a move and get into a spot where, you know, if I, if I'm reading you, let's just, I'll just read you the top 12 and the, and the, and the president's cup standings right now.
00:59Scotty Scheffler, Xander Shafley, calm or Kawa Wyndham, Clark, Patrick Cantley. So hit the gala Tony fee. Now Max Homa, Brian Harmon, Akshay Bhatia, Chris Kirk, and Russell Henley.
01:13And just outside of that cut liner, Sam burns, Justin Thomas, Eric Cole, uh, and JT Poston is your 16th player on that list. Keegan Bradley, by the way at 18, if interested.
01:24So Davis is at 21st. I mean, I wonder if this is a guy who we could see him kind of play his way into this and, and, um, you know, and if, and if, you know, this is an opportunity again, like Luke Donald for the Ryder cup to kind of grab.
01:39Two or three young guys in a competition that's theoretically less challenging the president's cup and kind of bed them in and get them some team experience.
01:47I think this is the type of player that, that you have to just keep your eye on. If you're Jim Furyk, I know he's not quite, um, as close as you'd like him to be if you're Jim Furyk, but man, he just, when you look at some of his advanced metrics and in his stats, like strokes gain total seventh on the PGA tour this year.
02:08I mean, wow. Seventh and he's around the green stats fifth, man. So we're talking about a guy that, that can ball strike it. He can chip. The biggest issue is, is the putter. And this year he's 61st in putting. So it's not even that bad. He drives it long. Um, the driving distance is 304 yards.
02:27So I think Davis Thompson is that type of player that you kind of talked about? Like, I'd love to see some youth, uh, get into president's cup Ryder cup teams. He, he's kind of like a Nicole Hoy guard type of pick, uh, that, that Luke Donald had in Rome. Um, I don't think he's probably quite too Ludwig, um, at the moment, just as far as just getting in contention enough over the last four weeks, he's proven that he has, but can you keep that, uh, sustained?
02:57Play up. I it's hard to see him slowing down right now. I don't see what is going to slow him down besides just stamina, because what he's doing right now is, is pretty dang impressive. When you, when you talk about how well he's been playing over the last month and a half.
03:16It's so interesting looking at his event by event profile and looking at some of those underlying stats where, you know, it's his miscut weeks are just like a train wreck putter week. Yes. Yeah. It's like obviously Canadian open train wreck putter week, CJ cup, Byron Nelson, train wreck putter week, bounce bar, like, like off the charts, train wreck putter week. And, and maybe in looking at the stat in totality, it's like you remove a couple of those, you know, a few of those outliers.
03:42And, and then he's actually not as bad as we think. And it seemed, I mean, I didn't, I didn't, I think very anecdotally, if I think back to that duel with John Rom and the final round of the Amex, I believe two years ago, that was kind of the story of the round was they were, you know, kind of both striking a pretty good early on.
04:00And there was just a lot of, you know, narrowly missed putts where he's looking confused as to whether he didn't, he got the read wrong or he didn't hit it in the center of the fair, whatever it was. But, um, I mean, if that's something he's cleaned up, cause it's really, it's really, that's, that's the only, he's had just a few kind of aberration weeks, you know, missed a cut at the farmer's insurance open where he just had a bad week off the tee, but there's nothing.
04:22No, no, there's no consistent story to tell there other than just when the putter is off, it kind of falls apart. But when, when he's doing everything well, it's just top 10 city, dude. That's what I'm looking at here. Just scoring average. What do you think is scoring average, uh, rank is this year?
04:38I'm not, I'm not going to look, I'm not going to look cause I don't, I want to, um, scoring average rank. So if he's, if he is seventh in the seventh in strokes gain, it can't be too much different from that. I mean, we're talking about like a top 15, top 10 number scoring average scoring average. He's fourth on the year. Wow.