It sounds like a typical little bit of knowledge being a dangerous thing situation. In Chamblee's all-knowing mind, fourball is all about ball striking. Armed with that unshakable truth, it's easy for him to use stats to criticize DL3. Of course, there's no reason to assume the truth of the premise other than Chamblee's ipse dixit. It may be that Davis has decades of statistics that show no meaningful correlation between ball-striking stats and fourball victories. It's even possible that he has other data showing a significant correlation between fourball success and some other stat, say strokes gained putting. Or maybe he doesn't. But we can safely assume that if Brandel had numbers showing that the team with the better average ball-striking stats wins at a high rate, he would've let us know about them.