Examining Joaquin Niemann's Dominate LIV Golf Season

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00:00I think that one of the biggest arguments that a lot of people have said about the Live Golf Tour

00:05is that that tour hasn't made any stars, and Neiman would be probably the closest example

00:12that you could potentially give of, well, sure, Neiman was a hell of a player when he left. He

00:17had won Riviera, right? Like, that's one of the biggest PGA Tour events, and we all said that,

00:23okay, this is a star in the making. So technically, Live would not have made him a star, but the way

00:30he has played, we're talking about beating some of the best players over the last couple decades

00:38time and time and again, and the amount of he has won over there is ridiculous. The amount of money

00:43he's won is ridiculous, and I think if he were to eventually start getting into a rhythm where he

00:50was contending at a lot of major championships, I think the whole league potentially could be

00:55looked at a little bit differently because right now you just have, you know, Bryson, you have John

01:00Rahm, you have Tyrell Hatton, and then like all of the players, the Americans that we expected to

01:07conceal play well at the majors, well, Brooks has kind of lost some form, right? And Dustin Johnson

01:14has lost some form, and you just kind of wonder, you know, is Neiman going to be that guy who

01:20carries the torch for the young, young players on that tour to kind of set the tone of like,

01:26all right, we're going to go play good golf over here, Live, and we're going to go play really well

01:30in the majors, and there's a bunch of guys like Surratt was having a good week this week. He's a

01:34player that comes to mind. Yeah, I mean, he's been trending a lot for that team and helped them to

01:40a team win this week. Okay, I'm cooking up a theory here. I might get another sideways tilt

01:47doghead look from you here, all right? So just prepare yourself for that. But okay, Joaquin

01:53strikes the ball as good as anyone on earth. He's got a ton of distance. The thing for him that he

01:59struggled with at times is the putter, right? Anything to the sort of playing your way into a

02:08certain surface or playing on greens that are well conditioned or at a certain speed because they

02:13play less frequently on Live. Like we see Scotty going overseas, kind of adjusting to the fescue

02:19greens that wins, you know, the Open Championship. Like, is there anything to not having as much of

02:25a run up of getting the putter in good form on a surface that's going to approach major level

02:32conditioning and speed? Or is that just, am I talking crazy here? I don't know. It's really

02:37interesting because he's had some really bad putting rounds at major championships. And I wish

02:43I had an answer for you, but I really don't. Hmm. Yeah. Okay. Well, I didn't get the full dog head

02:49tilt. So like, that's, that's, that's something.