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Webb Simpson

Webb Simpson

American professional golfer

Sep 25, 2026

19:09
And I know I'm taking it back a little bit, but man, talk about that relationship with Paul.
19:14
Yeah, Paul's meant so much to my career.
19:17
I felt like I was a pretty good tour player my first couple of years.
19:20
And then Paul comes along and he really mentored me on course management and specifically how to play certain holes at certain golf courses, how to practice.
19:32
He was already a great player, but Vijay, I think, taught him so much on practice and how to get better.
19:38
So Paul was giving me that information and I saw an immediate impact and how to practice fundamentals.
19:46
Paul's such an old school type of mind when it comes to fundamentals, which I love, you know, in a day and age of technology, which can be helpful for the golfers.

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40:43
Hoping you could just talk to us about that.
13:59
... and reflect on what you might have done differently?
14:02
Absolutely.
14:03
I mean, I think the, the number one glaring thing if we could go back above everything was we should have had long rough like Bethpage normally has.
14:15
I think a few of our guys, their, their weaponry of gifting was taken away because we had no rough.
14:21
And I saw a stat Monday morning after Ryder Cup, it said 26 times, Europe ...
14:29
O- of 26 times that Europe was in the rough and the Americans were in the fairway, Europe won the hole 16 of the 26 from the rough while we were in the fairway.
14:38
So that's mind-boggling to even think.

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33:09
... and, and players like, more like you, Graham McDowell.
56:22
Is there something that you absolutely have embraced wholeheartedly, and is there something that you still kind of hold at arm's length that you don't value as much that maybe some others do?
56:32
Yeah, well, in 2017, I got paired a lot with Dustin Johnson and Jon Rahm, and it just so happened both of them were about 40 yards by me.
56:42
So I'm playing a pretty high level of golf.
56:45
I won the players in 18.
56:46
I was last in the field in driving distance.
56:49
I had a ball speed on Sunday, I remember, of 160.
56:53
But I played enough golf courses and enough golf with those two guys where I felt like I'm behind the eight ball every week.
59:36
I want you to remind people of why you felt the way that you felt.

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