Let's talk golf analytics as it related to the Masters. As with all full-field tourneys, a golfer should aspire to amassing +14 SG if he wants a realistic chance to win. Isolating OTT, APP/AG and P, at the expense of the other two, here's what you'd need to do at AGNC to be +14SG

Zero SG:OTT and SG:App essentially means driving in the fairway, 163 yds from the pin, and then hitting an approach to within 33 feet, and hitting all par 3 tee shots to 33 feet.

To pick up 14 SG:P a golfer would need to make 14 out out of 72 putts from 33 feet, and never 3 putt

Assuming the 58 missed putts averaged 3 feet, our putting wizard with +14SG:P would have made 636 feet worth of putts.

Is that realistic? In 2019 Matthew Fitzpatrick led the field with 467 feet of made putts. When Patrick Reed was unconscious with the flat stick in '18 - 408 ft

Assuming no SG:OTT and no SG:P, one way a golfer could pick up +14SG would be to drive each fairway, 163 yards from the pin, hit 28 approaches/Par 3 tee shots to 8 ft while leaving the other 44, 33 feet away. He'd then make half the 8 footers and 2-putt all the 33 footers.

Is that realistic? Well there are many, many ways to distribute the 72 approach/tee shots on the green, so it's almost certainly more realistic than doing it via putting. Jordan Spieth (+13.07) came close in '18 though no one topped 9.2 last year. (Woods 2nd at 9.02).

So maybe the handful of best iron players in the world can depend on their approaches carrying them to victory at the expense of all other skills.

Then there is driving. To gain +14SG would seem impossible. After all, you only get 56 bites at the apple compared to 72 with the other skills.

Last year, 56 drives in the fairway, each 322 yards off the tee would have picked up +14.03 SG:OTT.

We can all agree no one is going to hit 56 fairways out of 56 -- but that's the baseline! If you can drive it 340 or 350 you don't have to hit anywhere near 56 to still pick up 14 strokes on the field!

This is, to my analytics eye, nothing short of astounding. I never thought a strategy existed to win a tournament solely with OTT skill. It turns the entire "drive for show" adage on its ear (which frankly '90's-era Tour Pro H. Gilmore already knew.)

There's one caveat to this strategy. Like tanking for a top draft pick, the strategy only works if you're the only one (or two) participants doing it. Once you demonstrate its effectiveness and others attempt it, the ability to pick up those strokes vs. your peers diminsihes.