Name: Hideki Matsuyama Wins Hero World Challenge with Playoff Birdie
Uploaded: 2025-12-09T17:00:48-05:00
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Description: Hideki Matsuyama secures a riveting victory over Alex Noren at the Hero World Challenge, nailing a birdie in a playoff to showcase his remarkable talent.

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Let's start with Adeki Matsuyama's playoff win. Uh, birdie's the first playoff hole, with replayed 18 to defeat Alex Noran. Uh, big congrats to your fellow Strixson teammate there. And uh how about, how about Hadecky starting the year, winning the century and closing the year, winning the hero. Nice little booking for Hadecky. Yeah, it was an interesting year for Hadecky. Uh, first off, heading into the day, if you'd have told me the playoff was anybody other than uh Seth Straka and, and Scotty Scheffer, I would have said, uh, I'll give you, I'll give you, uh, maybe one, but not two guys, not in the playoffs. That was shocking, especially even heading. Um, into the back nine. I felt like it was gonna be one of those two guys to win the golf tournament, and then Hadeki holds his iron shot on the, uh, 10th hole, hits a shot in from 116, he was 7 under through 8 holes at that point, uh, going from the 3rd to the 10th. Isn't it nice too when Hideki, you know, with all the, when he won hands a finish and it's like, you know, 20 ft or whatever, when Hideki holds a post, like that's going in the hole. So I actually talked to Wyndham Clark about this because he played with Hideki, I think in the first round. And we were talking about how he one-hand finishes. I, I, I maybe I was asked how Hideki played, he's like, yeah, Hidecky made a lot of putts, but, you know, you just never know with his iron game, like there would be times that he would one-arm it and we would go right at it, but he thinks that The only time he takes his hands off of the club is is when he slightly mishits it. He, he said it could still go dead straight, like, that's, that's happens all the time or it could be going right at the pin, but if it's off center at all, that's when he takes his hands off the club because he's played with them when he's hit it in the middle and it's gone offline, like right or left, like big miss. And he doesn't take his hands off the club. So I think we've kind of figured out and solved the the Hadeki mystery of whether he gets good shots or bad shots. He's, he's a contact merchant. He just, he likes to flush it, doesn't care where it goes. Uh, I, I thought it was in the context of this week, Smiley, Hadeki was 2nd, uh, for the entire week in strokes game around the green, uh, only moved off 1st stupid. He's stupid. It's so stupid. And the only reason he got first was he was 2nd because JJ chipped in, JJ Spawn chipped in 3 times on Sunday and leapfrogged him. So that was where your flip flop was. And, and obviously we've talked about the raw strokes game data at this event not mattering a ton because it's a limited field, but you can look at comparatives within the field. But the shot link information's kind of a little wonky because they, how they get it, they. have like somebody walking with every group and taking a picture of the golf ball where it is, and they, I think they triangulate it from there somehow. So I was kind of always using the data with a grain of salt a little bit, especially like when it came to like proximity, but like scrambling stats, that doesn't change a whole lot, so Uh, but just overall like gains in, in how much one had versus another, it's kind of wonky that week. Well, and, and I'll say too, we're gonna talk about turf conditions a little bit later in the show with some sound from Wyndham Clark, but just you, you just started talking about how stupid Hideki's short game is. Like what did you see, you know, from him that was really good in this department this week that helped him win this golf tournament. I think it's, I, I wish I would have looked up the stat, uh, over the last couple of years to see how many years in a row Hideki's been leading in around the greens, uh, statistic. He's well known for how good of an iron player he was. I think if you think about the course of his career, and you think about, all right, Hideki Matsuyama, brilliant iron player. Yes, I, I would tend to agree that is a reason why he's a world-class player, but I think over the last couple of years, The iron game's still been good. He's had injuries he's dealt with, but he is the best pitcher in the golf ball in the game today. It's not even a question in my mind, this guy is unbelievable around the greens. His ability to, you know, he could put a golf ball on the top of your head, and he, he could, he could do whatever he wanted with it, and I wouldn't even be concerned at all. I wouldn't be concerned about the top of your head.

Hideki Matsuyama Wins Hero World Challenge with Playoff Birdie

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