2025 Ryder Cup Pre-Preview Show

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Track golfer, I do want to bring this up
because I saw this and I'm like, this is
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actually a pretty good idea.
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Bryson should go caddie for someone if he wants
to be part of the team.
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How funny would that be?
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And I don't know if the PGA Tour would have
allowed it, but that would have been pretty
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impressive.
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If somebody on the team was like, hey, caddie,
take a week off, Bryson's gonna caddie for me.
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And Bryson was actually game for going out
there and caddying for one of his team members.
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I think that would actually build a lot of team
camaraderie right there and it would lead to
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some great content too because he could film
everything afterwards.
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Obviously, he can't do that at the event.
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PGA Tour bans that, but he could film
everything afterwards and around the team and
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everything along those lines.
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I think that actually would have been a pretty
good content idea.
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So not really sure how that fits in but you
know, I mean,
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Goes to your great coaching though.
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I mean,
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Except for the fact that he sprayed it all over
the place, but I guess he'd sprayed it not too
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bad.
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But his short game was unbelievable that week
as well.
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But yeah.
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It's and it's always in good shape, but it's
also in Napa.
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So, I mean, Mhmm.
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You go out there, it's a tragedy.
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Going to the French Laundry.
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Yeah.
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The guys are drinking wine.
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Yeah.
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I mean, there's a reason why it's okay that the
entire U.S.
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team was required to play the tournament.
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Because they're all like, okay.
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Most of us are married now.
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Welcome back, everybody, to Pull Hook Golf, the
podcast.
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I'm your host, Matt Cook.
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Tonight, we've got our co-host, Mister Brent
Grant, back on the program.
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As most of you, if you have been following this
podcast, Brent has been on quite a bit on this
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program as our tour insider.
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And more recently, he's been absolutely
grinding getting back into gear when it comes
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to professional golf.
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And so he's been playing a lot in regards to
mini tour events like the Asher Tour in
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preparation for leading up to the Q School for
the PGA Tour and in hopes to regain his card
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and to get back onto the PGA Tour in 2026.
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So he's gonna be having a little bit of a
countdown that's been going on on social media.
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So make sure to take a look at his account on
Instagram.
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I imagine you are on Instagram if that's Yeah.
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That's the place where you're posting all of
the content.
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Right?
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Don't have anything else.
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Very good.
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That makes it simple for the listeners to be
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What's your handle on Instagram?
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Brent Grant, golf.
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So brent underscore grant golf.
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Follow that journey and his way back onto the
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Evening partners, evening to you as well.
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We've got a great show here tonight.
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It's the 2025 Ryder Cup pre-preview show.
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So we're gonna be talking a bit about
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We're gonna be talking about the Ryder Cup,
some of the comments that Bryson DeChambeau
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made, and that should wrap up a nice little
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But folks, let's get into this episode.
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Let's talk a little bit of this Ryder Cup
scenario that is coming up.
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So Mister Brent Grant, I mean, you've been on
this program numerous times.
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You know how this goes.
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And the first question that I got for you, good
sir, is who is going to win the Ryder Cup this
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year at Bethpage Black?
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Who you got?
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Oh, man.
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I think we're gonna get our asses absolutely
whipped this year.
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Wow.
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That is shocking.
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and blue that kinda I just realized because the
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other Johnny Walker Devereux shirt that I have,
the polo, is like a navy blue with the kind of
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red.
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So clearly that's Europe versus the United
States.
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So I'm playing into it, but why do you think
that?
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I mean, is it just the camaraderie of the
European team?
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Does Bethpage just happen to play well for
them?
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I mean, talk to us a little bit about why you
say that.
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So obviously, the team is all but one player
exactly the same.
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I mean, technically, they look the same because
Rasmus and his brother are identical twins, and
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their games really aren't too dissimilar.
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But I would say, ultimately, what it comes down
to is the fact that you have, I personally
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believe, you have too many young guys on this
Ryder Cup team that are not what you would call
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seasoned in the fire of competitive, like
hyper-competitive, hyper-pressure-packed golf.
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That's not to say they're not incredible
players because, obviously, they are.
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But the European squad is full of guys that
have been playing great golf all year long.
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And they're coming off, you know, I mean, at
the end of the day, they're the exact same team
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by the exact same captain.
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So there's not really gonna be a whole lot of
extra details that Keegan is gonna have to put
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up with.
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You know?
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And so I think it's just gonna be easier for
them to be more of a team, play better as a
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team, and not to mention the fact that half the
squad is pretty pissed off that, you know,
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Scottie's been kicking their ass all year long.
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So they're all ready to go.
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But I mean, Tommy's been playing well.
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Ludwig's been playing well.
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So
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I
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I look forward to it.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see the US team
doing too well.
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So let's talk a little bit about Keegan Bradley
as the captain of Team America or Team USA.
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And did you agree with him not picking himself
and remaining just as the captain?
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I think it showed an enormous amount of
humility and grace to turn himself down.
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I mean, because that's essentially what it
comes down to.
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He could've made the executive decision, that's
why they call them captain's picks, and he
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could've played.
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And there's nothing statistically that you
could say, well, you know, he hasn't been
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playing.
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No, he's been playing great.
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And certainly better than probably the bottom
four or five guys.
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But that leaves out the fact that Keegan is the
type of person that is going to put the team's
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needs above himself.
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And that's something that a true leader does.
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And so it gives me a lot of hope, and it shows
that he's willing to make the hard choices.
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So, I hope it does fill the—I mean, if I was in
that locker room, I would be absolutely charged
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up to go play for this guy because I know he's
willing to put it on the line for me.
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So as we talk about that, some of the
first-timers for the U.S., how do you think
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they're gonna perform at a golf course like
Bethpage Black under this type of rowdiness
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that's going to go on?
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Do you think it's gonna calm them down being on
home territory, or is that something that could
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ruffle the feathers a little bit for some of
these guys for the first time?
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It's tough.
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You know, obviously, living in Phoenix like
you, we hear a lot of stories about Spaun, and
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we've known, you know, I've known of him, and
I've known him for a few years now.
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And, you know, I played on the Korn Ferry Tour
with Ben Griffin.
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Obviously, I've been, you know, I played on the
tour.
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So I know all of those guys that are on the
team.
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It just doesn't seem like they're the type of
guys to go out there and, at least the
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first-timers that is, aside from maybe Henley,
to go out there and to get punched in the mouth
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and punch back even harder.
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They don't seem like the type of guys that if
they're down, you know, let's say it's six to
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two—well, what is it?
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Twelve—how many points are on the first day?
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It's like eight points.
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Right?
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Mhmm.
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I think.
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Something like that.
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So let's say they're down six to two after the
first day or whatever it ends up breaking down
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as.
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I just don't see them coming back after being
punched in the mouth.
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And that's kinda what you need.
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I mean, the scrappiness is what the Europeans
have always had.
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So that's why they're able to go into these
different environments and play just fine.
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Now, I know I asked you whether or not you felt
like Keegan made the right decision.
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However, and yes, I totally understand the
angle that it could pump up the players, make
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them feel even more, you know, part of this
team with Keegan and everything, but given
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Keegan's experience and the fieriness of a
Keegan Bradley out there on the golf course and
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he was playing.
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I mean, he did finish in the top 12 of guys.
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So it wouldn't have been like he picked himself
outside of the ranks that would have been
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considered for the Ryder Cup.
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So talk to me a little bit about whether or not
you think that the team would have been better
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with him in there versus one of these
first-time guys.
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Yeah.
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It's again, just strictly off the top.
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He said from the beginning that if you're
outside the top 12, don't expect to get a spot.
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And I'm pretty sure there's at least one guy on
that list that got a spot that has not played
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good golf in quite a while.
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Who's that?
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Regardless of whether or not he's the
quote-unquote best putter on planet Earth,
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which I don't even remotely.
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Who are you referring to?
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Sam Burns does not belong on the Ryder
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Cup. Do
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Do you think Scottie Scheffler might have had a
little say in Sam Burns being on a
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100%.
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So the way it broke down last time for Paris, I
mean, not to mention the fact that I talked to
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a buddy of mine that was kind of close in and
around the group of guys that went over to
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Paris.
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And it was like they were so disorganized.
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They didn't know what they were doing.
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You know, Scottie and Brooks didn't even know
that they were playing together until, like,
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two hours before their match and all kinds of
stuff like that.
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So the hope is that Keegan, with his
experience, is able to dial those things in.
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However, if you're not playing well going into
the Ryder Cup, I don't see all of a sudden just
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breaking out and going, oh, yeah.
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I'm just gonna go ahead and dominate.
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Because the guys that were the dominating
players, you know, five, ten, fifteen years
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ago, they don't exist anymore.
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That talent pool is much, much, much smaller
now.
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I mean, even Patrick Cantlay.
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I mean, I'm not even sure how he made it inside
the top 30.
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I never saw his name one time all year long.
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I mean, it shows you how bad the PGA Tour
coverage is if you have a guy that's in the top
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30 that you don't see him all year.
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But that's neither here nor there.
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But I just think that the bottom half of the
team is not are not guys that I would ever
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depend on in a pinch.
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Keegan, I would 100% depend on in a pinch.
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I mean, the stories that Pepsi told me about
the Ryder Cup playing with Phil, just that one
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Ryder Cup alone would be enough to fill
somebody's career with enough experience to be
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able to play great.
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And he has.
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I mean, he's obviously been playing well the
last few years.
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But yeah.
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I mean, at the end of the day, it's a good old
boys club.
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So, I mean, I'm sure Scottie had something to
do with it.
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Now, let's talk a little bit about the European
side that you do believe are going to take this
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win in New York State, in Long Island, out at
Bethpage Black, which is a beast of a golf
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course.
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Everybody who is a golf aficionado knows the
sign that sits out there.
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That is a warning to golfers that the Black
Course is an extremely difficult golf course,
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so talk to me.
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Alright?
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I know you may not have had a ton of experience
out at Bethpage.
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I can probably speak to it a little bit better
being a New Yorker and playing out there
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numerous times, and that was one of my go-to
golf courses that if I was losing money
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matches, you better believe you're gonna play
me out at Bethpage Black because that I felt
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like I had a big advantage over a lot of guys
out there playing that golf course.
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So to me, there is definitely an angle for the
type of player that is going to play well
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there, and it's not necessarily somebody that
putts extremely well.
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So talk to me.
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Who do you like on the European team that you
really think is going to stand out?
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Well, let's see.
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So we've got Fleetwood, obviously, right off
the top.
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I mean, unbelievable ball striker.
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He's riding high.
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He's been playing great.
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And he does play well in the Ryder Cup.
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I mean, he's just as much of a fiery guy as
anybody out there.
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And the simple fact that, I mean, he's played
the best out of everybody.
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That's
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Yeah.
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I agree.
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I mean
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Outside of Scottie Scheffler.
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I mean, in the last four events that he's
played, he's got two or three seconds and a
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win.
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So, yeah.
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I mean, definitely trending.
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And then we'll see what Rory shows up.
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Obviously, well,
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Rory just won over on the
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DP World Tour.
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Won the Irish Open.
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Win his own home event.
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So, obviously, he's got a fire in him, which is
great.
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And it's definitely not bad for the game of
golf to have Rory McIlroy playing well.
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And, I mean, we've seen it for a decade now.
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Rory McIlroy is by far one of the best players
to play in the Ryder Cup for a number of
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reasons.
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And well, yeah.
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See, so the Trotgolf says the Euros will
probably have to get four points on-site.
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Sorry.
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Over.
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Yeah.
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That's pretty bad.
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But yeah.
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I mean, it's we'll see how that ends up
breaking out.
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It sounds like a complete beat down.
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But but, yeah, I mean, so and then let's see.
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Who else do we have?
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We have Sepp.
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You got the list there, Maddie?
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Ryder Cup Euro team.
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Let's see.
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Oh, I can pull it up for you.
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Here we go.
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Sorry.
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I was looking at the comments.
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We got Aussie chiming in with don't count don't
count your chickens, Trot.
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And, he says Rory is in form right now.
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So we've got, let's see.
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So the automatic qualifiers were Rory,
McIntyre, Fleetwood, Rose, Hojgaard, Rasmus
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Hojgaard, Tyrrell Hatton.
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Captain's picks were Rahm, Lowry, Aberg,
Fitzpatrick, Straka.
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Dude, I mean, that team is stacked.
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I mean, that's an unbelievable squad.
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I mean, you can't look I mean, maybe you look
at Sepp Straka and go, maybe not, but he's
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played great.
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Fitzpatrick, another grinder.
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Ludvig Aberg is probably the I mean, he's the
most consistent player for sure.
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And then, I mean, Shane Lowry and Jon Rahm, I
mean, two guys alone are enough to get anybody
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charged up to go play golf.
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So I mean, it's so hard.
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Because I mean, you look at Beth's ball, and
all you really like, I mean, you tell me.
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At Bethpage, obviously, you gotta hit it long
and straight, which is which is important.
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But most of those guys do.
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So, like, yeah.
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The length conversation so many times has
backfired because it used to be where guys that
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hit it shorter couldn't necessarily play on
some of these bigger golf courses.
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Now every golf course is 7,500 yards, it feels
like, on the PGA Tour.
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So these guys that are hitting, but they hit
these low missiles, like a Collin Morikawa hits
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a low missile, right, in order to get it out
there, gets tons of roll, which you could
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certainly get that at Bethpage
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So I do think that's going to become a little
bit moot of a point.
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But what I don't think is that the short game
is gonna come in nearly as much because they're
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subtle breaks.
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They're relatively flat greens at Bethpage
Black, okay?
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And with that, when you have more flat greens
with subtle breaks, those are tough to read.
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So you gotta have guys that can see those
subtle breaks, hit those putts, and ultimately,
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it's all about hitting greens, hitting fairways
and greens out there at Bethpage because if
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you're missing the fairways, you're probably
gonna have a tough day.
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And that's
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Yeah.
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I mean, that's everything I've read.
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Everything I've read, I looked at Google Maps,
Google Earth the other day, and I looked at
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course reviews and all kinds of stuff.
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But, yeah, I mean, I think at the end of the
day, it's the type of golf course where Russell
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Henley would win by six.
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Because he would just go out there.
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He would go out there.
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You think so?
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Every fair oh, he's just he's such a he, like,
he dominates those courses where the greens are
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sort of flat because he's he like, I mean, I
think almost all of his wins have been on
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courses like that.
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I mean, one where he won in Mexico, greens were
really not all that undulating.
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He won Wailai by a million.
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So but he's also, like but also at the same
time, you go on the other side, and you're
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like, okay.
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So pretty much everybody on that team, on the
Euro team anyways, is really, really good when
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the golf courses are difficult.
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The courses that are wide and undulating and,
you know, great for the long player, not
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necessarily the greatest for the European Tour
players, but these U.S.
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Open style I mean, not even a U.S.
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Open style.
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It is a U.S.
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Open course.
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It's pretty much U.S.
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Open course all the way throughout the entire
year.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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So, I mean and I think they're gonna have one
here soon, which would be amazing.
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But yeah.
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I mean, it's tight.
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It's long rough.
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If it rains, it's gonna be to the advantage of
the European players.
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Absolutely.
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And at the end of the day, it's gonna be who
can hit it the best.
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And if their partners putt well, they win.
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If they don't
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You know what?
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It's like
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a pendulum.
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It swings back and forth, back and forth, where
for the longest time, the U.S.
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on paper was always the best.
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Right?
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Now you kinda look at it on paper and you're
like, shoot.
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The European team looks to be the stronger club
on paper, and they have the camaraderie and so
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forth.
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I mean, I'm just even looking at and what a
ballsy play by Luke Donald to have a captain's
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pick be Jon Rahm.
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Right?
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Now the DP World Tour has gotten a little bit
closer to LIV Golf in a lot of ways where a lot
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of those guys go over there and play.
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So that isn't super shocking.
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Whereas, like, clearly, the U.S.
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did not make any picks outside of the automatic
guys who qualified to get in, aka Bryson
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DeChambeau.
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But were you surprised at all that Luke Donald
tapped good old Jon Rahm and was like, hey.
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I want you to come over and play on the
European team this year, as well as, well,
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Tyrrell Hatton qualified.
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Mhmm.
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He's he's played great this year.
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Yeah.
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So I was kind of expecting him to be the only
one, but, Jon Rahm getting in.
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I love that for Jon.
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What do you think about the pick from Luke
Donald to go with a LIV Golf guy and bring him
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into the fold?
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Think it's a big deal or no?
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No.
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I think I think we so, I mean, the guys that I
talked to that were European, that I talked to
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about the LIV, they were like, listen.
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Like, you just go make your money.
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They don't care.
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Like, there were obviously the issues locally
for certain players, but that is what it is,
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it's all politics.
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So for them, they don't care.
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It's about winning, and that's it.
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I mean, the fact that Luke Donald was the
captain shows you that the European squad, the
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European conglomerate, whoever chooses that,
was like, yeah, we're just gonna do the same
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thing we did last year.
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So it's like and what's incredible is that
while Paris was not, that golf course is a
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little weird, a little quirky.
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Obviously, they had the French Open there.
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So I'm sorry, no, this was that was Rome, not
Paris.
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Yep.
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Yep, I'm sorry.
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You're right.
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That was Furyk and gosh, can't remember.
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It doesn't matter.
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Anyway, Rome was a kind of tight, narrow, kind
of whatever golf course, and they had multiple
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European Tour events there.
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But, yeah, it's it's not surprising at all.
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And honestly, if anybody looks at Jon Rahm and
says he's not gonna play well in the Ryder Cup,
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they're absolutely out of their mind.
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Well, and it's a golf course that plays right
to Jon Rahm's strengths.
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Right?
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100%.
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And it's like, man, if he gets the ball on the
green, he's a guy that makes a lot of putts
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when there's subtle breaks to the greens and
longer putts.
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So Donald, I really think, was a home run pick
for Luke Donald.
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That was kind of a no-brainer in a lot of ways.
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And you raise a very good point as well around
how the European side, there's not as much
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drama with LIV Golf.
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It's like it was more of a U.S.-based deal
because of the funding coming from the Saudis.
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And so that whole thing really got blown out of
proportion in my opinion, to where, like, that
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isn't even what bothers me with LIV Golf.
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Like, it never really did.
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But let's move on from that for a second
because this is gonna stay within the LIV Golf
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world.
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But let's move on to the U.S.
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side of it with Bryson DeChambeau.
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And Bryson DeChambeau, a week or two ago, came
out with some comments in regards to he was
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very bitter that he couldn't play Silverado
this week since the entire United States team
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is playing, and he feels like an outsider.
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And he made the comments around how LIV Golf
was gonna let me play.
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PGA Tour decided not to let me play.
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They've banned me from this event.
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00:25:09,224 --> 00:25:10,504
Like, look at them.
464
00:25:10,585 --> 00:25:11,784
They're terrible.
465
00:25:12,105 --> 00:25:13,544
So I want to ask you.
466
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,480
I mean, he made his own bed originally.
467
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,160
He knew he was going to be suspended.
468
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:23,559
You really think that the Ryder Cup was going
to sway the PGA Tour?
469
00:25:23,559 --> 00:25:29,695
You made a good point before we came on air
that the Ryder Cup isn't even run by the PGA
470
00:25:29,695 --> 00:25:30,015
Tour.
471
00:25:30,015 --> 00:25:35,615
Why in the world would they even care to allow
him to play if he's already suspended?
472
00:25:35,855 --> 00:25:37,454
So talk to us about that.
473
00:25:38,095 --> 00:25:38,734
Yeah.
474
00:25:38,734 --> 00:25:43,200
I mean, it's owned by the PGA of America, and
so they're gonna do whatever they wanna do.
475
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:44,960
And I mean, granted, yes.
476
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:50,399
Does it add a little bit of spice to the
conversation?
477
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:51,119
Sure.
478
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,075
But that's Bryson.
479
00:25:53,075 --> 00:25:56,755
I mean, he's a child, and he always will be.
480
00:25:56,755 --> 00:25:57,555
And I listen.
481
00:25:57,555 --> 00:25:58,515
And I love him.
482
00:25:58,755 --> 00:26:00,515
He's always been nice to me.
483
00:26:00,515 --> 00:26:02,195
We have multiple mutual friends.
484
00:26:02,195 --> 00:26:04,275
I'm super pumped for his success.
485
00:26:04,275 --> 00:26:05,714
I'm really happy for him.
486
00:26:06,195 --> 00:26:14,119
But what comes along with being a social media
activist, if you will, is you get sucked into
487
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,400
the world of me, me, me, me, me, me all the
time.
488
00:26:19,555 --> 00:26:26,994
Bryson is in no position whatsoever to look in
at the PGA Tour and say, can't believe they're
489
00:26:26,994 --> 00:26:28,755
gonna do this to me.
490
00:26:28,835 --> 00:26:36,099
Like, dude, they told you to take your YouTube
channel down in 2020 during COVID, and you did.
491
00:26:36,420 --> 00:26:42,339
And then when you decided to say it's a
business decision when you took the half a
492
00:26:42,339 --> 00:26:48,714
billion dollars, which again, that is what it
is, but if I had that, like if you're talking
493
00:26:48,714 --> 00:26:50,634
about that kind of money, why does it matter?
494
00:26:50,634 --> 00:26:51,514
But anyways.
495
00:26:53,914 --> 00:26:59,835
And then you decide that you're gonna trash
them by suing the PGA Tour, and you're gonna be
496
00:26:59,210 --> 00:27:04,970
surprised or make it a big it just shows that
the YouTube golf stuff is all fake.
497
00:27:05,289 --> 00:27:15,724
Every single bit of it is scaled and it's boxed
in to make a product that the sheep will just
498
00:27:15,724 --> 00:27:19,644
consume and say, oh my gosh, this is so
something.
499
00:27:19,644 --> 00:27:22,684
I watched Good Good the other day for the first
time.
500
00:27:23,085 --> 00:27:23,804
First time.
501
00:27:23,805 --> 00:27:24,605
What'd you think?
502
00:27:24,605 --> 00:27:25,565
Guess what I saw.
503
00:27:25,940 --> 00:27:26,660
What'd you see?
504
00:27:26,660 --> 00:27:28,259
So you're panning this way.
505
00:27:28,259 --> 00:27:31,220
Let's say the camera is focused on chest high.
506
00:27:31,220 --> 00:27:31,700
Right?
507
00:27:31,779 --> 00:27:36,419
And then as you back up, it kind of pans and
kind of looks head to toe.
508
00:27:36,579 --> 00:27:41,184
Well, there's a ball at I don't even know who
the guy's name was, at this guy's feet, and
509
00:27:41,184 --> 00:27:43,585
it's buried, but you can see the ball.
510
00:27:43,664 --> 00:27:48,705
He brings his foot right up to the ball, and
you hear click, and as you hear click, the
511
00:27:48,705 --> 00:27:53,159
camera pans up back to his face, and then all
of a sudden they start looking around.
512
00:27:53,159 --> 00:27:59,480
So he literally foot wedges it in the middle of
a YouTube match or whatever with Xander or
513
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:00,519
Grant Horvat.
514
00:28:00,519 --> 00:28:03,079
But the point is it's all fake anyway.
515
00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:08,105
So Bryson is kind of fed into that, and the
problem for him is that he's gonna enter into a
516
00:28:08,105 --> 00:28:13,865
place where all of these players have pretty
much solidified their careers for the next five
517
00:28:13,865 --> 00:28:14,904
to 10 years.
518
00:28:15,065 --> 00:28:22,319
And certainly, the PGA Tour will continue to
make rules to make that a reality.
519
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:27,440
And so he's absolutely an outsider, but it's
not because of what the PGA Tour did.
520
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:28,799
It's because of what he did.
521
00:28:29,839 --> 00:28:30,400
Agreed.
522
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,079
And it's one of those where it's like, hey.
523
00:28:32,079 --> 00:28:33,279
There are gonna be consequences.
524
00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:37,585
You knew it when you took the money, and don't
be upset about it now even though it's years
525
00:28:37,585 --> 00:28:39,264
later and, like, I get it.
526
00:28:39,345 --> 00:28:41,744
You wanna be a part of this with the U.S.
527
00:28:41,744 --> 00:28:42,384
team.
528
00:28:42,625 --> 00:28:44,704
However, you made your bed.
529
00:28:44,704 --> 00:28:48,944
And as, I believe, Trot said, he's hitting ping
pong balls.
530
00:28:48,944 --> 00:28:49,904
He will be fine.
531
00:28:49,904 --> 00:28:50,544
So yeah.
532
00:28:50,544 --> 00:28:50,865
Exactly.
533
00:28:51,809 --> 00:28:53,730
He's creating content.
534
00:28:53,970 --> 00:28:59,570
And here's the thing, like, a young generation
loves Bryson DeChambeau right now, and I don't
535
00:28:59,570 --> 00:29:02,690
think that's necessarily a bad thing because
it's growing the game of golf.
536
00:29:02,690 --> 00:29:03,490
It is what it is.
537
00:29:03,490 --> 00:29:04,450
It's entertainment.
538
00:29:04,450 --> 00:29:04,690
Right?
539
00:29:04,690 --> 00:29:05,170
Yeah, for sure.
540
00:29:05,170 --> 00:29:05,570
It's not.
541
00:29:05,835 --> 00:29:09,755
The one thing I will say, though, is that all
of a sudden, these creators have started
542
00:29:09,755 --> 00:29:15,034
getting good at golf, and they actually played
in that Creator Classic, and they're not doing
543
00:29:15,034 --> 00:29:15,754
terribly.
544
00:29:15,835 --> 00:29:17,594
And people are no longer interested.
545
00:29:17,674 --> 00:29:23,579
Like, all I see are posts that say, Creator
Classic, great idea, but terrible, like,
546
00:29:23,579 --> 00:29:27,420
execution, and it just doesn't work anymore and
all this.
547
00:29:27,420 --> 00:29:31,900
And I think it's only, like, three years into
this whole entire thing, but I feel like guys
548
00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:36,335
have gotten too good to where it's like they're
shooting around average par, and people don't
549
00:29:36,335 --> 00:29:36,974
wanna see that.
550
00:29:36,974 --> 00:29:40,654
People wanna see the hack that's going out
there embarrassing themselves.
551
00:29:40,654 --> 00:29:45,535
And I think a lot of the traction early on were
people that were happy to see them get
552
00:29:45,535 --> 00:29:47,295
embarrassed out there on camera.
553
00:29:47,295 --> 00:29:51,134
So I think that also plays into a part of that.
554
00:29:51,509 --> 00:29:57,669
But getting to Silverado this week, where this
is a golf course that you are familiar with.
555
00:29:57,670 --> 00:29:59,109
Have played this track.
556
00:29:59,269 --> 00:30:01,509
Talk to us about this golf course.
557
00:30:01,509 --> 00:30:02,869
Why do you like it?
558
00:30:03,029 --> 00:30:05,990
What does it actually bring out in a golfer?
559
00:30:07,105 --> 00:30:07,585
Yeah.
560
00:30:07,585 --> 00:30:12,864
So it's one of the only courses that kinda
makes you hit all the shots.
561
00:30:13,424 --> 00:30:21,839
It's not a long course, but you have a lot of
holes that bend right to left, and you got a
562
00:30:21,839 --> 00:30:24,000
few that bend left to right.
563
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:30,079
But what's odd, what's really odd about the
course is that if you can hit a solid draw,
564
00:30:30,815 --> 00:30:38,014
like a 10- to 15-yard draw that goes about 290
to 300, it's perfect.
565
00:30:38,335 --> 00:30:43,375
If you're the type of guy that maybe hits a
little too far, and maybe you get a little bit
566
00:30:43,375 --> 00:30:45,535
sideways, it doesn't really work out.
567
00:30:45,970 --> 00:30:51,730
But if you hit it short enough, it's also
perfect for you because you can kind of stay in
568
00:30:51,730 --> 00:30:52,690
between all the trouble.
569
00:30:52,690 --> 00:30:57,329
Now saw his last year somehow, somewhat or
actually, it was 2023 rather.
570
00:30:57,410 --> 00:31:02,535
I gave him a driving lesson, and then he goes
out and sprays it everywhere and wins the golf
571
00:31:02,535 --> 00:31:03,494
tournament somehow.
572
00:31:03,494 --> 00:31:07,494
So not really sure how that fits in, but, you
know, I mean,
573
00:31:07,734 --> 00:31:09,575
Goes to your great coaching, though.
574
00:31:09,575 --> 00:31:10,295
I mean,
575
00:31:10,615 --> 00:31:14,759
except for the fact that he sprayed it all over
the place, but I guess he sprayed it not too
576
00:31:14,759 --> 00:31:15,319
bad.
577
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,519
But his short game was unbelievable that week
as well.
578
00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:22,359
But yeah, it's always in good shape, but it's
also in Napa.
579
00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:22,519
So I,
580
00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:22,920
mean, mhmm.
581
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,480
you go up there, it's a tragedy.
582
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:26,920
Going to the French Laundry.
583
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:27,080
Yeah.
584
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:28,839
The guys are drinking wine.
585
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:29,240
Yeah.
586
00:31:29,325 --> 00:31:34,605
I mean, there's a reason why it's okay that the
entire U.S.
587
00:31:34,605 --> 00:31:39,884
team was required to play the tournament
because they're all like, okay, most of us are
588
00:31:39,884 --> 00:31:40,684
married now.
589
00:31:41,005 --> 00:31:44,609
We probably would have taken some heat if we
didn't go.
590
00:31:44,609 --> 00:31:46,929
So it's like, it all just works out for them
anyway.
591
00:31:46,929 --> 00:31:48,529
Team bonding, you know what I mean?
592
00:31:48,529 --> 00:31:48,929
Yeah.
593
00:31:48,929 --> 00:31:49,490
You know, bond,
594
00:31:49,650 --> 00:31:53,569
camaraderie rather than grinding over a golf
tournament.
595
00:31:53,569 --> 00:31:53,890
Exactly.
596
00:31:53,890 --> 00:31:58,585
You also, like, looking at it, like Max Homa's
won there multiple years.
597
00:31:59,304 --> 00:32:05,224
And it's just overall, it's a great golf
tournament in a great part of the country.
598
00:32:05,224 --> 00:32:05,625
Exactly.
599
00:32:05,625 --> 00:32:11,250
If anybody hasn't been up to Napa Valley in
Sonoma and gone wine tasting and so forth, it's
600
00:32:11,250 --> 00:32:12,609
a hell of an experience.
601
00:32:13,009 --> 00:32:19,169
And it's just it gives you a great relaxing
feel before ultimately in two weeks after this
602
00:32:19,169 --> 00:32:19,809
event.
603
00:32:19,890 --> 00:32:26,825
Probably one of the most stressful, intense,
anxiety-ridden events that we have in
604
00:32:26,825 --> 00:32:32,265
professional golf in the Ryder Cup, where
there's a lot of pride that goes into that.
605
00:32:32,505 --> 00:32:37,384
And, they're track golfer, I do wanna bring
this up because I saw this and I'm like, this
606
00:32:37,384 --> 00:32:38,664
is actually a pretty good idea.
607
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,639
Bryson should go caddy for someone if he wants
to be part of the team.
608
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,000
How funny would that be?
609
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,640
And I don't know if the PGA Tour would have
allowed it, but that would have been pretty
610
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:54,234
impressive if somebody on the team was like,
hey, caddy, take a week off, Bryson's gonna
611
00:32:54,234 --> 00:32:55,355
caddy for me.
612
00:32:55,355 --> 00:33:00,795
And Bryson was actually game for going out
there and caddying for one of his team members.
613
00:33:00,795 --> 00:33:06,329
I think that would actually build a lot of team
camaraderie right there and it would lead to
614
00:33:06,329 --> 00:33:09,849
some great content too because he could film
everything afterwards.
615
00:33:10,170 --> 00:33:15,049
Obviously, he can't do that at the event, PGA
Tour bans that, but he could film everything
616
00:33:15,049 --> 00:33:18,970
afterwards and around the team and everything
along those lines.
617
00:33:18,970 --> 00:33:22,914
I think that actually would have been a pretty
good content idea.
618
00:33:24,035 --> 00:33:24,755
Yeah.
619
00:33:24,755 --> 00:33:26,835
Plus, I mean, they could've what yeah.
620
00:33:26,835 --> 00:33:31,714
I mean, we don't know that that's what's odd is
that, like, you we'd like to envision these
621
00:33:31,714 --> 00:33:32,115
guys.
622
00:33:32,115 --> 00:33:33,634
Oh, we're on the same Ryder Cup team.
623
00:33:34,019 --> 00:33:38,500
Why don't we all get together and do, a
three-day retreat at, you know, such and such
624
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:38,900
place?
625
00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:41,940
Let's go let's go do some ayahuasca Yeah.
626
00:33:41,779 --> 00:33:43,940
In the jungles of Chile.
627
00:33:44,259 --> 00:33:49,299
And let's all bond with the spirits.
628
00:33:49,664 --> 00:33:52,545
That's what's crazy is that, like, so, so, so
what?
629
00:33:52,545 --> 00:33:57,424
They're, they're, they're gonna, they, they had
to have had something in the last two weeks
630
00:33:57,424 --> 00:34:02,065
where they all went to Bethpage and did
whatever they're, they're doing, depending on
631
00:34:02,065 --> 00:34:02,465
the weather.
632
00:34:02,465 --> 00:34:03,505
Obviously, it could have been terrible.
633
00:34:04,890 --> 00:34:08,329
We got Anthony Avila, my boy, a Sacramento
native.
634
00:34:08,329 --> 00:34:08,570
Yeah.
635
00:34:08,570 --> 00:34:14,170
He says that he'll be making it out to Napa
this weekend, which is an unreal experience.
636
00:34:14,170 --> 00:34:17,929
I was always trying to get up there when Bobby
Brown was a co-host on this show.
637
00:34:17,929 --> 00:34:22,545
He always was talking about that particular
tournament and how it's just an absolute blast
638
00:34:22,545 --> 00:34:23,665
to go up there.
639
00:34:23,985 --> 00:34:28,625
So, and again, I've been up there for wine
tasting, but never been to this particular
640
00:34:28,625 --> 00:34:29,985
tournament, but I heard it's a blast.
641
00:34:29,985 --> 00:34:35,989
So, Anthony, we hope you have an awesome time
out there and really enjoy this weekend, and
642
00:34:36,150 --> 00:34:38,070
hopefully, you get to see some golf too.
643
00:34:38,630 --> 00:34:38,949
Yeah.
644
00:34:38,949 --> 00:34:39,429
Exactly.
645
00:34:39,429 --> 00:34:41,190
Don't, don't drink and drive.
646
00:34:41,269 --> 00:34:43,934
But, yeah, it's, it's, it's, can I
647
00:34:43,934 --> 00:34:46,494
pause for you for one second as you say that?
648
00:34:46,494 --> 00:34:46,815
Right?
649
00:34:46,815 --> 00:34:47,215
Absolutely.
650
00:34:47,215 --> 00:34:48,894
So make sure to drink responsibly.
651
00:34:48,894 --> 00:34:50,255
21 years and older.
652
00:34:50,255 --> 00:34:55,695
Johnny Walker is also a part of this episode
with the collaboration with DevRoe Golf.
653
00:34:55,695 --> 00:35:03,429
However, I'm gonna say out in Napa, there are
drivers that will drive your rental car for you
654
00:35:03,429 --> 00:35:06,550
and drive you from winery to winery.
655
00:35:06,789 --> 00:35:08,150
So this is not a pitch for them.
656
00:35:08,150 --> 00:35:09,829
They have not paid me anything for this.
657
00:35:10,164 --> 00:35:14,724
I'm just saying if you would like to have a
good time and drink a lot of wine, which you're
658
00:35:14,724 --> 00:35:19,444
gonna do if you go to the wineries and you're
tasting because you get absolutely lit up if
659
00:35:19,444 --> 00:35:24,619
you go to a couple different wineries, make
sure to hire one of those gentlemen.
660
00:35:24,619 --> 00:35:26,139
They're absolutely great or women.
661
00:35:26,139 --> 00:35:30,699
I don't know if there's any women that do it,
but I had a nice gentleman several years ago
662
00:35:30,699 --> 00:35:35,420
who just literally drove us all the way around,
dropped us off, and then hopped in his car and
663
00:35:35,420 --> 00:35:36,059
went home.
664
00:35:36,059 --> 00:35:37,259
It was absolutely incredible.
665
00:35:37,259 --> 00:35:37,420
So.
666
00:35:37,824 --> 00:35:38,385
Perfect.
667
00:35:38,385 --> 00:35:39,265
Little segue.
668
00:35:39,585 --> 00:35:40,304
Absolutely.
669
00:35:40,304 --> 00:35:40,945
I love that.
670
00:35:40,945 --> 00:35:41,265
Yeah.
671
00:35:41,265 --> 00:35:45,985
I mean, it's sad because, like, they've been
tossing back and forth whether or not they
672
00:35:45,985 --> 00:35:47,265
should get rid of this event.
673
00:35:47,425 --> 00:35:51,579
And they've changed, you know, they've changed
sponsors, like, three or four or five times or
674
00:35:51,579 --> 00:35:52,219
whatever it is.
675
00:35:52,219 --> 00:35:53,019
So what is it now?
676
00:35:53,420 --> 00:35:54,539
It was Procore.
677
00:35:54,539 --> 00:35:55,019
Right?
678
00:35:55,099 --> 00:35:56,300
And then it was it
679
00:35:56,300 --> 00:35:57,019
still is.
680
00:35:57,179 --> 00:35:58,699
It was is it Procore?
681
00:35:58,780 --> 00:35:59,019
Let's see.
682
00:35:59,019 --> 00:36:02,300
It's Procore now, which I don't even know what
that is.
683
00:36:02,940 --> 00:36:04,494
Fortinet was
684
00:36:04,335 --> 00:36:05,295
Fortinet was the one.
685
00:36:05,295 --> 00:36:05,534
Yeah.
686
00:36:05,534 --> 00:36:06,175
Yeah.
687
00:36:06,494 --> 00:36:10,414
Then it was Safeway before that.
688
00:36:12,494 --> 00:36:12,974
Yeah.
689
00:36:12,974 --> 00:36:15,375
It's it's one of the best events.
690
00:36:15,614 --> 00:36:22,590
It used to be where we we would host we would
get hosted for our rookie orientation and all
691
00:36:22,590 --> 00:36:24,670
that good stuff, which was phenomenal time.
692
00:36:24,989 --> 00:36:30,670
But, yeah, it's hopefully not going anywhere,
but based on how things are going, I mean, Las
693
00:36:30,670 --> 00:36:32,030
Vegas and stuff like that.
694
00:36:32,030 --> 00:36:33,174
So God knows
695
00:36:33,014 --> 00:36:36,855
I still can't believe that the Shriners is gone
out of Vegas.
696
00:36:36,855 --> 00:36:38,135
That was the best, man.
697
00:36:38,614 --> 00:36:39,494
I love that tournament.
698
00:36:39,494 --> 00:36:39,974
It's my favorite.
699
00:36:40,054 --> 00:36:41,655
It's my second favorite event.
700
00:36:42,534 --> 00:36:43,094
Same.
701
00:36:43,094 --> 00:36:47,335
I mean, I love I am partial to the Waste
Management Phoenix Open here in Arizona.
702
00:36:48,110 --> 00:36:51,869
But let's actually talk about your favorite
three events.
703
00:36:51,869 --> 00:36:53,550
Let's go with top three.
704
00:36:53,789 --> 00:36:59,789
And for me as a fan, right, not as a player,
but as a fan, Waste Management Phoenix Open.
705
00:37:01,014 --> 00:37:02,135
Actually, hang on a second.
706
00:37:02,135 --> 00:37:07,655
Let me reframe this because I should go with
just regular PGA Tour events, but I've been to
707
00:37:07,655 --> 00:37:08,375
the Masters.
708
00:37:08,375 --> 00:37:09,414
So, yes, folks.
709
00:37:09,414 --> 00:37:12,135
The Masters is everything you think it is and
more.
710
00:37:12,135 --> 00:37:17,610
I went three straight years, and I will just
say this that the Masters is an event unlike
711
00:37:17,610 --> 00:37:18,570
any other.
712
00:37:19,130 --> 00:37:21,769
There's just no comparison to anything else.
713
00:37:21,849 --> 00:37:25,130
It is everything that I would want out of a
golf tournament and more.
714
00:37:25,369 --> 00:37:29,795
And, yes, there are no birds at Augusta
National, so I don't know how they do that, but
715
00:37:29,795 --> 00:37:31,715
there are no animals at all.
716
00:37:31,795 --> 00:37:32,914
Not even a chipmunk.
717
00:37:32,914 --> 00:37:35,635
So, that's my little 2¢ there.
718
00:37:35,635 --> 00:37:36,594
So that's number one.
719
00:37:36,675 --> 00:37:39,474
Number two would be the Waste Management
Phoenix Open.
720
00:37:39,635 --> 00:37:43,690
And then my third, which I've been to a lot of
PGA Tour events.
721
00:37:43,690 --> 00:37:47,130
I've been in, you know, the Northeast at the
Barclays.
722
00:37:47,130 --> 00:37:49,369
I've gone to numerous events.
723
00:37:50,329 --> 00:37:58,324
I will say this and as my camera drops out for
a second, my third favorite would be that
724
00:37:58,324 --> 00:38:01,045
Shriners in Las Vegas.
725
00:38:01,045 --> 00:38:01,684
I loved it.
726
00:38:01,684 --> 00:38:04,405
It was an absolute blast of a golf tournament.
727
00:38:04,644 --> 00:38:10,289
You could go up and watch your favorite players
play, and it just a lot of guys would go out
728
00:38:10,289 --> 00:38:11,089
and play it.
729
00:38:11,089 --> 00:38:13,809
Like, there wasn't a whole lot that didn't go
and play.
730
00:38:14,369 --> 00:38:16,369
So, again, it's disappointing to see that.
731
00:38:16,369 --> 00:38:19,089
But what's your top three favorite tournaments?
732
00:38:19,089 --> 00:38:23,409
And you can do it from a fan perspective or
from a player since you got both worlds.
733
00:38:24,005 --> 00:38:24,644
Yeah.
734
00:38:24,644 --> 00:38:27,684
I can't stand watching golf, so there's not
really a time.
735
00:38:28,244 --> 00:38:33,125
But, honestly, I've kind of a little caveat to
it.
736
00:38:33,125 --> 00:38:36,164
I would have said I would say the U.S.
737
00:38:36,164 --> 00:38:43,070
Open as a player, but the one at LA Country
Club was the worst as a fan.
738
00:38:43,869 --> 00:38:44,429
Mhmm.
739
00:38:44,750 --> 00:38:48,030
So best as a player, I was five minutes away.
740
00:38:48,030 --> 00:38:49,230
They paid me to be there.
741
00:38:50,505 --> 00:38:53,945
They pay every player at least $5,000, which is
awesome.
742
00:38:54,585 --> 00:38:58,264
They give you a brand new Lexus SUV.
743
00:38:58,824 --> 00:39:01,625
They picked us up at the airport from Canada.
744
00:39:01,625 --> 00:39:03,160
Like, it was unbelievable.
745
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,039
Like, if you're on the PGA Tour playing in the
U.S.
746
00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:07,239
Open, the U.S.
747
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:12,840
Open is a blast, but not my favorite.
748
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:18,235
My most favorite event to play in is the Sony,
bar none.
749
00:39:18,235 --> 00:39:19,275
Like, it's not even close.
750
00:39:19,275 --> 00:39:20,074
That makes sense.
751
00:39:20,074 --> 00:39:20,394
Yeah.
752
00:39:20,394 --> 00:39:27,515
So for me personally, it's well, first of all,
for a player, it's one of the best clubhouse
753
00:39:27,675 --> 00:39:29,434
presentations as far as food.
754
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,920
The locker rooms are always really good.
755
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:33,679
Practice facilities are fine.
756
00:39:33,679 --> 00:39:36,239
I don't really care about the practice
facilities, but it's about the fact that you're
757
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,400
in Hawaii, and it's so calm.
758
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,719
If you stay at the hotel that's 50 yards from
the first tee, it's awesome.
759
00:39:44,594 --> 00:39:46,755
And then second favorite was Vegas.
760
00:39:48,355 --> 00:39:50,355
Just the I love the golf course.
761
00:39:50,355 --> 00:39:52,114
They took such great care of us.
762
00:39:53,554 --> 00:39:58,440
Even though they didn't quite have they didn't
give you a car for the week, like, which was
763
00:39:58,440 --> 00:39:59,000
always weird.
764
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,719
Like, they didn't have, like, a you would think
that in Vegas there would be some dealership
765
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:04,599
that was, yeah.
766
00:40:04,599 --> 00:40:06,840
We're gonna give you a fleet of whatever.
767
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:08,679
Lotus Elises.
768
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:09,400
Yeah.
769
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:10,119
I'd take them.
770
00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:13,125
They're great now, but no.
771
00:40:13,125 --> 00:40:14,085
Not back in the day.
772
00:40:14,085 --> 00:40:14,645
But yeah.
773
00:40:14,724 --> 00:40:20,724
And then a distant third would be Wells Fargo.
774
00:40:21,285 --> 00:40:24,644
Well, formerly known as Wells Fargo, so it's
the Truist now.
775
00:40:25,699 --> 00:40:27,059
They took great care of us.
776
00:40:27,059 --> 00:40:29,619
It's a small, tiny clubhouse, but it was a
blast.
777
00:40:31,219 --> 00:40:34,339
And the golf course is unmatched.
778
00:40:34,339 --> 00:40:34,579
So
779
00:40:35,299 --> 00:40:36,260
There you go.
780
00:40:36,819 --> 00:40:43,724
That was an unrelated pivot, and it worked out
nicely.
781
00:40:43,724 --> 00:40:48,525
Nice little segment there around our favorite
golf tournaments from a fan perspective and
782
00:40:48,525 --> 00:40:50,125
from a player perspective.
783
00:40:50,364 --> 00:40:51,164
Love that for us.
784
00:40:51,539 --> 00:40:52,179
All right.
785
00:40:52,179 --> 00:40:54,420
Let's keep this train moving.
786
00:40:55,219 --> 00:41:00,340
I honestly, you know, they did play Goat Hill.
787
00:41:01,140 --> 00:41:02,500
Have you ever played out there?
788
00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:05,885
I haven't, but I've played with about a dozen.
789
00:41:05,885 --> 00:41:09,164
I've seen about a dozen of their players that
all played
790
00:41:09,644 --> 00:41:10,364
Minutes ago.
791
00:41:10,364 --> 00:41:13,005
Or this last event here.
792
00:41:13,005 --> 00:41:14,125
So I talked to a bunch of them.
793
00:41:14,125 --> 00:41:15,164
It was quite interesting.
794
00:41:15,644 --> 00:41:16,445
I'll tell you what.
795
00:41:17,420 --> 00:41:19,260
It's funny because I've been doing the 5 a.m.
796
00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:24,059
comeback training and everything in preparation
for next year's Grass League Open at the
797
00:41:24,059 --> 00:41:25,099
beginning of the year.
798
00:41:25,660 --> 00:41:27,019
And I will say this.
799
00:41:27,019 --> 00:41:29,260
Like, I always see the social media posts.
800
00:41:29,795 --> 00:41:32,355
Like, Todd Dobson does a phenomenal job.
801
00:41:32,355 --> 00:41:38,595
You know, they've got Paige Spiranac, who is
now a part owner I have read, in there, and she
802
00:41:38,595 --> 00:41:40,595
does some of the on-course commentary.
803
00:41:41,075 --> 00:41:47,980
And there's just a lot going on when it comes
to their content that they're putting out.
804
00:41:48,699 --> 00:41:53,579
They're building out all these stories of these
players, and some of these stories are
805
00:41:53,579 --> 00:41:54,300
phenomenal.
806
00:41:54,780 --> 00:42:01,675
Like, it is the grassroots league, in my
opinion, of these phenomenal golf stories of
807
00:42:01,675 --> 00:42:04,715
guys that just didn't make it for whatever
reason.
808
00:42:04,715 --> 00:42:05,195
Right?
809
00:42:05,195 --> 00:42:10,315
Have tremendous amounts of game, but just
didn't have the right platform in order to
810
00:42:10,315 --> 00:42:11,434
showcase it.
811
00:42:11,434 --> 00:42:15,670
And now they do with this, and I think it's
only gonna get bigger and bigger and bigger.
812
00:42:15,670 --> 00:42:20,869
And, of course, it was the Motor City...
813
00:42:21,190 --> 00:42:22,789
hang on a second.
814
00:42:22,789 --> 00:42:27,269
Who was the team with the purple hats?
815
00:42:27,755 --> 00:42:29,035
It was the Detroit team.
816
00:42:29,035 --> 00:42:29,434
Yeah.
817
00:42:29,594 --> 00:42:30,235
Yeah.
818
00:42:30,235 --> 00:42:33,755
Aren't they called the Motor City Something.
819
00:42:36,074 --> 00:42:38,315
Something automobile-esque.
820
00:42:38,315 --> 00:42:39,114
My bad.
821
00:42:39,114 --> 00:42:39,675
My bad.
822
00:42:39,675 --> 00:42:42,910
I will get up on this, but that's the funny
thing.
823
00:42:42,910 --> 00:42:49,309
Like, I don't necessarily wanna be an audience
member for the grass league.
824
00:42:49,309 --> 00:42:50,510
I wanna be a player on it.
825
00:42:50,510 --> 00:42:51,550
So 100%.
826
00:42:51,950 --> 00:42:52,430
Why I don't watch golf.
827
00:42:52,430 --> 00:42:52,829
Yeah.
828
00:42:53,390 --> 00:42:53,950
Yeah.
829
00:42:53,950 --> 00:43:00,405
It's just that's to me, the PGA Tour is a thing
on its own, and that's why I watch it a lot.
830
00:43:00,405 --> 00:43:02,405
And obviously, the Ryder Cup and everything.
831
00:43:02,405 --> 00:43:06,724
I think we can all agree that even if you don't
like watching golf, the Ryder Cup is one that
832
00:43:06,724 --> 00:43:07,364
you're gonna watch.
833
00:43:07,364 --> 00:43:07,525
Right?
834
00:43:08,329 --> 00:43:08,969
Yeah.
835
00:43:08,969 --> 00:43:10,730
Presidents Cup, Ryder Cup, I'm in.
836
00:43:11,050 --> 00:43:14,890
It's kinda like soccer where the World Cup
comes around.
837
00:43:15,530 --> 00:43:20,809
The US is playing in that, and all of a sudden,
everybody in the United States that's a sports
838
00:43:20,809 --> 00:43:23,875
fan is going nuts at an Irish pub.
839
00:43:23,875 --> 00:43:24,514
Like, yep.
840
00:43:24,594 --> 00:43:26,034
It's just what happens.
841
00:43:26,355 --> 00:43:28,514
So same thing happens with the Ryder Cup.
842
00:43:28,514 --> 00:43:33,155
People that aren't even that interested in golf
all of a sudden are USA, USA.
843
00:43:33,650 --> 00:43:36,449
So we're gonna be getting behind the U.S.
844
00:43:36,449 --> 00:43:38,690
team for sure, with this.
845
00:43:38,690 --> 00:43:44,369
And it's been an interesting take from you
around the European team having that stronger
846
00:43:44,369 --> 00:43:49,275
team as well as the fact that you think that
the European team is going to take it this year
847
00:43:49,275 --> 00:43:49,835
on U.S.
848
00:43:49,835 --> 00:43:53,835
soil, which my goodness gracious, if that
happens
849
00:43:54,155 --> 00:43:55,035
Medinah.
850
00:43:55,755 --> 00:44:03,650
The story that could potentially come from
that, can Tiger Woods be the savior to coach
851
00:44:03,650 --> 00:44:04,929
and captain the U.S.
852
00:44:04,929 --> 00:44:07,329
team on foreign soil?
853
00:44:07,650 --> 00:44:09,329
No chance.
854
00:44:09,329 --> 00:44:10,530
Just you wait.
855
00:44:10,530 --> 00:44:11,969
Just you wait.
856
00:44:12,625 --> 00:44:14,945
Know it's coming, but it's it's rain already.
857
00:44:14,945 --> 00:44:16,545
I'm sure.
858
00:44:16,545 --> 00:44:17,025
Yeah.
859
00:44:17,025 --> 00:44:18,785
That's that's one of the funniest things.
860
00:44:18,785 --> 00:44:19,105
Right?
861
00:44:19,105 --> 00:44:24,704
It's like, you think about everything that has
happened with like, you look at the players
862
00:44:24,704 --> 00:44:29,019
that are on the council for the board, and you
kinda look at how they kinda get talked about
863
00:44:29,019 --> 00:44:31,900
and how they play and all this other stuff.
864
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:38,699
And you just wonder, like, okay, so Xander,
Collin, Trick, like, got all these guys.
865
00:44:38,699 --> 00:44:41,255
You're kinda like, man, alright.
866
00:44:41,255 --> 00:44:43,175
Like, top players, whatever.
867
00:44:43,175 --> 00:44:44,215
Like, cool.
868
00:44:44,215 --> 00:44:46,135
Like, they should be just fine.
869
00:44:46,135 --> 00:44:49,894
And then all of a sudden, like, they'll get
into they'll get into these events, they're
870
00:44:49,894 --> 00:44:51,974
just kinda like, yeah.
871
00:44:51,974 --> 00:44:52,615
Okay.
872
00:44:52,775 --> 00:44:54,855
Well, that's underwhelming.
873
00:44:55,430 --> 00:44:56,150
Well, the U.S.
874
00:44:56,150 --> 00:45:00,710
was always, like, known as being the
individualistic team.
875
00:45:00,789 --> 00:45:06,950
Team of egos, the team of, hey, I'm the best
individual player in the world, where the
876
00:45:06,950 --> 00:45:12,535
Europeans were always the band of brothers, the
guys who really went to bat for each other and
877
00:45:12,535 --> 00:45:15,255
understood camaraderie and team golf.
878
00:45:15,655 --> 00:45:19,015
And that really hasn't changed that much, I
don't think.
879
00:45:19,015 --> 00:45:22,055
Like, you kinda still have remember the pods?
880
00:45:22,215 --> 00:45:24,135
Were you too young for the pods?
881
00:45:24,135 --> 00:45:25,095
Oh, I remember.
882
00:45:25,175 --> 00:45:25,575
Yeah.
883
00:45:25,789 --> 00:45:30,349
When all of a sudden that was a brilliant idea,
the U.S., we're gonna have pods where you're
884
00:45:30,349 --> 00:45:34,750
gonna have your little clique and you're just
gonna play with that clique in all four days.
885
00:45:34,750 --> 00:45:40,269
And all of a sudden it's like, oh my gosh, you
just literally, like, you turned it into high
886
00:45:40,269 --> 00:45:46,925
school where you've got cliques of people
within the same team that don't even hang out.
887
00:45:46,925 --> 00:45:47,405
Yeah.
888
00:45:47,565 --> 00:45:48,445
They don't hang out.
889
00:45:48,445 --> 00:45:49,724
They don't like each other.
890
00:45:50,045 --> 00:45:55,159
They don't they don't they couldn't care less
because they're not getting paid.
891
00:45:55,159 --> 00:45:57,799
Like, that's that's that's what this all comes
down to.
892
00:45:57,799 --> 00:45:58,599
They don't get paid.
893
00:45:58,599 --> 00:45:59,079
They don't care.
894
00:45:59,079 --> 00:46:03,639
I mean, David Duval got a bad rep for his
comments around the Ryder Cup.
895
00:46:03,639 --> 00:46:09,614
You know, Patrick Cantlay not wanting to wear
the cap over there, internationally because he
896
00:46:09,614 --> 00:46:11,135
wasn't being paid for it.
897
00:46:11,135 --> 00:46:12,494
Really made a stink about it.
898
00:46:12,494 --> 00:46:14,015
And then everybody's waving their caps.
899
00:46:14,015 --> 00:46:18,015
And then that led to Joe LaCava and Rory
McIlroy's beef.
900
00:46:18,015 --> 00:46:22,175
So we've got a lot to look forward to with this
Ryder Cup.
901
00:46:22,414 --> 00:46:27,260
I don't the one the one negative that I will
bring up here at the end.
902
00:46:27,260 --> 00:46:31,820
I don't love closing out shows with negatives,
but the one negative thing did you see the
903
00:46:31,820 --> 00:46:33,739
ticket prices for this Ryder Cup?
904
00:46:33,739 --> 00:46:35,500
Just outrageous.
905
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:38,219
I think we talked about this a few months ago.
906
00:46:38,414 --> 00:46:39,054
We did.
907
00:46:39,054 --> 00:46:40,655
Because we touched on it.
908
00:46:40,655 --> 00:46:46,894
And I think I almost blew, like, I literally
almost lost my mind.
909
00:46:46,974 --> 00:46:50,815
Actually, I'm pretty sure I actually did lose
my mind, and then I just didn't say anything.
910
00:46:51,135 --> 00:46:57,940
But wasn't it like it had—I think the base was
like in the thousands, wasn't it?
911
00:46:57,940 --> 00:47:02,659
Fifteen hundred was, yeah, kind of the starting
main ticket, I guess.
912
00:47:02,659 --> 00:47:03,539
In New York.
913
00:47:04,019 --> 00:47:05,139
Well, that's why.
914
00:47:05,315 --> 00:47:12,675
Because they knew that they could sell the
tickets to all these corporate groups and get
915
00:47:12,914 --> 00:47:16,114
corporate people out there.
916
00:47:16,114 --> 00:47:20,860
I mean, and it made it tough for the general
fan to be able to afford and go out there.
917
00:47:20,860 --> 00:47:28,140
And notable New York—I mean, listen, I'm not a
massive fan of any of the politics in the
918
00:47:28,140 --> 00:47:28,940
Northeast.
919
00:47:29,099 --> 00:47:36,695
However, the general blue-collar, hard New
Yorker is not the type of person that's gonna
920
00:47:36,695 --> 00:47:40,535
shut up when a European Tour player is gonna
hit.
921
00:47:40,535 --> 00:47:49,175
I mean, the Sergio Garcia, Bethpage Black, I
think it was like 2002 or something like that,
922
00:47:49,500 --> 00:47:57,660
where he re-gripped 15 times and the guy says,
all that for that, and he flips them off.
923
00:47:57,820 --> 00:48:04,224
You can't tell me that that same gentleman is
not still alive, I hope he is, and is gonna be
924
00:48:04,224 --> 00:48:06,945
there on the first tee saying that exact same
thing.
925
00:48:07,184 --> 00:48:08,945
That's what made the U.S.
926
00:48:08,945 --> 00:48:15,985
Open so wild and amazing at Bethpage Black, was
because you could go buy a ticket for an
927
00:48:15,985 --> 00:48:19,160
inexpensive amount of money to go to the U.S.
928
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:19,880
Open.
929
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:25,320
And by the way, Bethpage is a huge property, so
you could fit so many people at Bethpage.
930
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:29,559
I really hope that the fans show up and show
out for the U.S.
931
00:48:29,559 --> 00:48:35,224
team in such a big way, but that also might
have been part of their strategy in jacking up
932
00:48:35,224 --> 00:48:38,664
the ticket prices, hoping that it wouldn't get
too rowdy.
933
00:48:38,744 --> 00:48:42,105
Because New Yorkers, we can get a little bit
too rowdy at times.
934
00:48:42,105 --> 00:48:43,625
Same with Boston folks.
935
00:48:43,625 --> 00:48:44,264
So yeah.
936
00:48:44,664 --> 00:48:48,380
You know, we will see what ends up coming from
the Ryder Cup.
937
00:48:48,380 --> 00:48:53,739
But nonetheless, as a guy who grew up in
Upstate New York and lived in the city, I will
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tell you what.
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Now being out in Arizona, I'm looking at this
Ryder Cup, and I'm a little bit shocked that a
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00:49:00,755 --> 00:49:05,154
lot of people have talked about that have been
to multiple Ryder Cups saying that it's the
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00:49:05,154 --> 00:49:08,594
worst event to be at in person.
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I'm kind of like, I was kicking myself about
not buying a ticket or anything, but hearing
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that from multiple people that have been to
several, like, been to majors.
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00:49:21,010 --> 00:49:22,369
They've been to the Masters.
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00:49:22,369 --> 00:49:27,424
They have been to several different types of
events and will travel from time to time to go
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00:49:27,424 --> 00:49:28,144
to events.
947
00:49:28,304 --> 00:49:34,944
They all said because of the massive crowds at
the Ryder Cup that it's very difficult to see
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00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,800
if all of a sudden you're in a good spot and
you see one shot.
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00:49:39,119 --> 00:49:39,679
Guess what?
950
00:49:39,679 --> 00:49:43,679
Everybody's moving, and you gotta all of a
sudden get to the next because there's only so
951
00:49:43,679 --> 00:49:46,640
many groups that are playing at a given time.
952
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:50,079
So it's very difficult to get a good viewing
experience.
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00:49:50,525 --> 00:49:57,485
But for those of you that are going to the
Ryder Cup at Bethpage, I hope you have an
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00:49:57,485 --> 00:49:58,285
absolute blast.
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00:49:58,285 --> 00:50:00,285
I hope you have an awesome time.
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00:50:00,765 --> 00:50:05,940
And I want to thank, first of all, Brent,
because you've been having a very busy
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00:50:05,940 --> 00:50:06,500
schedule.
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00:50:06,500 --> 00:50:08,500
You are getting ready for Q School.
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00:50:08,820 --> 00:50:11,300
And, yeah, you got a countdown going on.
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So make sure folks to go follow Mr.
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Brent Grant.
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00:50:14,659 --> 00:50:16,980
And I believe it's Brent underscore Grant golf.
963
00:50:16,980 --> 00:50:17,539
Is that right?
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00:50:17,539 --> 00:50:17,780
Mhmm.
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00:50:17,974 --> 00:50:18,614
Think so.
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00:50:18,614 --> 00:50:18,934
Let me just
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On Instagram.
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I believe that's it.
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00:50:20,775 --> 00:50:22,934
Feel like I've tagged you enough in content.
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Probably.
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So, folks, go check out Brent's Instagram page.
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00:50:27,894 --> 00:50:33,590
Keep up with his Instagram stories as he
prepares for Q School.
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00:50:33,590 --> 00:50:37,910
We hope you make it back, Brent, and we'll be
having you back on, but obviously before then,
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00:50:38,150 --> 00:50:38,950
hopefully.
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Until next time folks, peace out.
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A-Town down.