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Hideki Matsuyama won the first leg of the 2024 FedEx Cup playoffs. He registered his second victory of the season by winning the 2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis. He dominated the greens with a hot putter throughout the event and led the SG Putting stat.
Surprisingly, the Japanese golfer asked for a putting lesson from a former pro golfer and NBC golf analyst, Brad Faxon. The former pro golfer wanted to look at Matsuyama's putter, saying he is a Scotty Cameron geek. While looking at the putter, Matsuyama suddenly asked for a putting lesson from Faxon.
"Can I have a putting lesson? And he says it to me in English. I looked at him. I swear to you. He goes, Can I have a putting lesson? I started laughing," Faxon said while talking to PGA Tour Radio.
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"I said, Hideki, you're leading by five. You're putting first on the tour this week. I said I want a putting lesson from you. And I don't know that he thought that was very funny. I thought it was funny. And then Bobby's Well, Bob Turner came up because he's serious. He wants to know what you like about his putting, and I'm like, boy, is this a bad situation to be in here," Faxon said.
Brad Faxon was surprised as Hideki Matsuyama led the event by five strokes, and he was not sure what advice he should give to the Japanese golfer. He decided not to provide technical advice or something that might confuse him.
So he gave just two tips about bouncing putter and the squareness of his setup and posture. He also recalled a story from Ben Crenshaw, who said he liked the softness in the arms and the shoulders.
"I don't know if I can do that, but thank you so much," Matsuyama said.
Hideki Matsuyama's interpreter, Bob Turner, thanked Faxon and said Hideki knows how good a putter you were and how you assisted Rory McIlroy.
Where is Hideki Matsuyama ranked in the FedEx Cup rankings?
Hideki Matsuyama carded -17 for the event and won the 2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship by two strokes. This victory has taken Hideki into the top 3 of the FedEx Cup rankings going into the 2024 BMW Championship, ranked 3rd just behind Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele.
Scheffler is way ahead of the field in FedEx Cup points as he has 6,533 points, while Schauffele and Matsuyama have 5037 and 3,899 points, respectively.
The 2024 BMW Championship begins this week and has only the top 50 golfers from the season-long rankings in the field at the Castle Pines Golf Club. The final playoff event, The Tour Championship, will feature the top 30 ranked golfers.
