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You're overlooking a few crucial pieces of evidence: Putts/GIR and Total Putts are also a function of ball striking, especially at a course like Augusta. If you're above the hole on 9 or 4, good luck. Same thing if you hit it in the wrong swale on 14 or 16. You may have a putt at it, but it's not going anywhere close. Do that enough and it will look like your putting is shit even though it's your ball striking that is ****ing you over.
Yeah you have to execute putts and you don't get a lot of kick-ins, but the targets for the greens are incredibly small.
As far as Phil is concerned, he's won three of his four majors there, and finished in the top 10 14/18 times since '95, including ten top 3s. Only two golfers have ever had more sustained success at Augusta: Tiger and Jack (Palmer won one more, but he didn't put up T3s almost every other year).
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