There are not enough adjectives in the English dictionary to describe how prolific Scottie Scheffler is. His form over the past four years has been spectacular, and he has been able to win 20 PGA Tour titles because of that. But if you ask him to describe how he exactly did it, then the world #1 might find it difficult to put it into words. And that’s why Brandel Chamblee claimed he was “inarticulate”.

In a conversation on Golf Central, Chamblee told Damon Hack, “Scottie Scheffler is a very intelligent guy. But listening to the best players in the world or the greatest athletes trying to explain their talent, you’re almost always disappointed. One of the best writers, the late David Foster Wallace, wrote three essays about this very topic. And in it, he basically says, the best athletes are physical geniuses, but they are notoriously inarticulate at describing their performances.”

As an athlete, it’s not Scheffler’s or Rory McIlroy‘s or any other top pro’s job to describe their game perfectly. As long as they deliver on the course, they have played their part. The world #1’s inability to provide a detailed assessment of his performance is not the precise manner to measure his intelligence. In fact, Chamblee suggests that it actually reflects positively on their genius.

“To get to the highest skill, it’s achieved through combining great talent and great repetition to such a degree that the variables are performed unconsciously. They’re not thinking about it. And because they’re not thinking about it, they cannot clearly articulate it. David Foster Wallace argues, and I would agree with him, that it is not a failure of intelligence that they can’t explain what they’re doing or how they’re doing it. Quite the contrary, it’s a necessary component to the genius.”

Chamblee adds, “The best performances live in a very narrow psychological bandwidth. The minute you start thinking about them, they get to the front of your mind. Everything gets difficult then. It’s just only when you’re not thinking about them and can’t explain them subsequently, where you play your best golf.”

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Golf is not a sport that you can calculate and plan to play precisely. Even the most accurate and perfect finishers struggle in unexpected conditions. Various variables like the lie, wind, humidity, spin, delays, and even complete cancellation of rounds can come into play. Golf can be as unpredictable as playing poker with 22 people with a single deck of cards. The true geniuses in the sport are those who can adapt to every challenge and come out on top.

That said, another moment of genius was captured in the third round of the Genesis Invitational. And a Hollywood star was left gasping after it.

Scottie Scheffler’s rival left a Hollywood star gasping through his genius on the green

Scottie Scheffler was finishing his round towards the back end of the course. But his rival, Jordan Spieth, was just kicking things off on the par-5 hole 1. And he had Kathryn Newton as the guest on-course analyst watching him closely.

Sitting 70 feet away from the hole on the fringe, Spieth had the chance to hit a flop shot or a putt. Instead, to Newton’s surprise, he hit a chip shot. And the master of short-game executed it to perfection.

The ball landed perfectly and rolled over 2 feet and 2 inches close to the hole. Newton audibly gasped at Spieth’s brilliance as she said, “That was so good! Let’s go! Let’s go, Jordan! You can’t do that.” That was a moment of genius that the Hollywood actor could to words. But when it comes to top pros like Spieth & Scheffler, they are better off putting it into practice on the course.