You seem to be completely conflating his personality and demeanour with his golf game, he has literally every shot in the world in his bag, he hits it high, low, draw or fade. Any shot he needs he has, his short game is outrageous, and his ball...
That actually further discredits him, he literally only properly puts in defensive effort when he has personally lost the ball. It's an ego thing, he doesn't press properly at all, but when someone robs the ball off him he bust a gut trying to...
Do you think that a manager that gave a player his start and put huge faith in him shouldn't be allowed to indirectly say said player didn't play well? He's a fecking teenager, shut up and keep your head down.