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Thudman69; leaving aside Jimbog's ability to take a few words out of a sentence and change the meaning to suit him. From what I've read it seems unlikely you are suffering from VEM consistently. Aside from anything else it sounds like it's negative impact is when you are scoring very well.
I would not necessarily worry about the last part of " You have a 1.65 putts per hole average, and 14 ft to the pin, which is terrible", either though. These stats are similar to mine (1.56 and 15 ft) and I don't think my approaches and putts are "terrible" , perhaps not up to others standards and improvement would be nice but most players would say that. I don't think these refresh each tier, 'though i'm not sure, if they don't a large part of the reason for them may be historic.
Often peoples ave distance to the pin and pph are quoted to show them as a bad player but surely it depends on, among many factors, what courses/conditions you are playing most. Others with better averages may repeatedly play a nice, no wind, monthly 9 hole tournament , or a cc tournament designed specifically to drop averages.
There could be many factors to your scores increasing; when did you become legend? When did wgt move the pins at KI and Merion (and make putting much harder, without vem)? Computer, mouse, concentration, confidence, time to play.......... I'm not suggesting any of these just listing some vague possibilities.
I don't mean to sound like I'm arguing with everything AgentBrown says, I accept most of it (the reason I don't say agree is I have no experience of vem that I can pinpoint, I always think it's my fault). It is also obviously true that he has more experience and understanding of, and much more skill at, the game than me. His take on vem sounds the most sensible in this thread. I just don't think he has a better understanding than another player of that players stats, nor is there any need to use their stats as a stick to beat them with.