Gary Williams brings in Johnson Wagner of CBS Sports and PGA TOUR Radio for a Player of the Year conversation that has been building for months and finally has enough contenders to argue about. With the Open Championship and the FedEx Cup Playoffs still to come, Wagner lays out exactly why this race is more crowded and more compelling than it has been in years.
Johnson Wagner, part of the CBS broadcast team heading to the Scottish Open this week, walks Gary through the resumes that matter most right now. He points to Matt Fitzpatrick’s strong season, Chris Gotterup picking up his third win, and Wyndham Clark’s two wins plus a major as legitimate cases, while noting that Rory McIlroy has not played enough to be in the conversation despite his Masters win. But Wagner keeps circling back to Scottie Scheffler, breaking down just how absurd his consistency has been, never finishing outside the top 25, racking up nine top four finishes, and putting himself in position to win nearly every week he tees it up. Wagner also shares what he saw firsthand walking with Wyndham Clark, Chris Gotterup, Scottie Scheffler, and Rory McIlroy this season, including a detailed look at how Clark has rededicated himself to the mental side of his game with sport psychologist Julie Elion. The conversation turns personal as Wagner previews an itinerary that will take him and his brother TJ through North Berwick, Muirfield, Nairn, Brora, Royal Dornoch, and both courses at Castle Stewart, a trip he calls one of the best of the year.
That conversation follows Gary’s own history lesson on the Scottish Open itself, a five to know segment covering the event’s unusual path from a 1935 debut at Gleneagles through a decades long absence and its current home at the Renaissance Club in East Lothian. Gary details how Ian Woosnam remains the only three time winner, how only two Scotsmen, Colin Montgomerie and Robert MacIntyre, have ever won their home Open, and how the tournament has crowned champions from 16 different nations since it returned to the calendar in 1972.
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