Ryan Brehm hits Tour's ultimate home run in Puerto Rico

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When it comes to physical tools, Ryan Brehm has buckets full.

He’s 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds of pure, Midwest power. The kind of guy that answers a question about his swing speed with, “Well, how fast do you want it to be? And I can do that for ya.” (For the record, even at age 35, Brehm games it around 123 mph – with plenty left in the tank – and produced an average ball speed, 183.3 mph, that ranked behind just five players last season on the PGA Tour.)

And don’t even think about crowding the plate when he throws an inside fastball on the pitcher’s mound.

“There is not one other athlete on the PGA Tour as talented as Ryan Brehm,” said Mike Dunphy, player development manager of…