Starting from next August, the tournaments with the best players in the world are going to be even more valuable from a world ranking perspective, relative to the rest, because of the relative value of the players themselves.
The ultimate legacy of his astonishing win at Winged Foot – a course that was supposed to be the antithesis to and kryptonite for the DeChambeau Style – is that we can no longer dismiss him as a pretentious pseudoscientist.
To be fair, while Azinger’s tone and cadence were measured, his comments felt unnecessarily acidic. Trying to belittle the European Tour to make his case isn’t right. That doesn’t mean Azinger was wrong.
Current world No.1 Dustin Johnson has Justin Thomas nipping at his heels, but both might want to keep their eyes on the rearview mirror with this Aussie closing in fast.