WEBVTT - Ryder Cup Predictions... Plus a Little History 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.800 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:04.920 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.320 And when I find my ball in a. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.800 Bride egg Frida egg, the dreaded Frida egg, Frida eggrid 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:11.800 egg bride. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:24.400 Egg Lie, I'm about ready to run off the golf. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.159 Welcome to the Friday Egg Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.600 and the Ryder Cup starts tomorrow. So first up in 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.519 this episode, we have some predictions. I called up some 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.320 familiar voices and asked them to go out on a 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.480 limb and say what they think will happen this week 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.959 in Rome. First you'll hear from Andy Johnson, then from 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.920 Brendan Porath, and finally from Joseph Lamanya. I'll talk to 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.880 each of them for about ten minutes, so quick hits here, 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.520 and after that I'll have a conversation with Shane Ryan 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.680 about the history of the Ryder Cup, so a very 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.680 different subject. Shane is the author of The Cup They 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.759 Couldn't Lose, which is about the twenty twenty one Cup 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.920 at Whistling Straits, but also about the general sweep of 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.759 Ryder Cup history. So I thought this would be an 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.640 interesting time to speak with Shane about how the twenty 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:32.039 twenty three event fits into that history. 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How's it going? 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.080 Huh? You know the red Eye was okay. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.120 The the two and a half hour uber from to 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.520 go like forty miles was that was the tough part. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.760 So yeah, I've been better. I've been better. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.119 That's that's always punch in the gut. That's the unexpected part. 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.400 Is the is the uber ride after, especially in like 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.200 the big cities. I remember one at the US Open 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.800 in LA that was just like unbelievable. So yeah, that's 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.000 that's always the part that gets you. All right. So 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.480 I've got a set of short questions for you meant 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.880 to be answered briefly. So first up, who is going 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.280 to win? And what do you think the final score 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:15.760 is going to be. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.920 I feel I've felt good about Europe, and now that 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.840 I just saw that, like the betting lines are now 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.599 favoring Europe, it makes me like feel worse about Europe. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.080 But I'm still gonna go with Europe, and I'm gonna 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.200 go sixteen twelve Europe. 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.840 So sixteen twelve? Would you characterize that as like a 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.520 close match? I think that's maybe the most interesting question. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:40.800 Is it going to be close or is it going 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.800 to be like another blowout? 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.640 I think this is going to be a close one. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.920 I think that if you I think the top end 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:52.040 talent obviously is biased to the Europeans, but this is 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.000 about depth. You got to play four matches a day 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.800 during the team competition, so you know, it's great that 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.920 Europe has like this unbelievable top three in Hoveland, Ram 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.560 and Rory, But you know, you start to look down 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.760 the sheet and in the US's depth is unbelievable, and 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.279 so I think it's gonna be close. I you know, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.480 if I was gonna say one of my most interested 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:22.400 in the golf course, about is. You know, Trevor Emmlman 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.719 brought up a good point is like there is no 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.520 European of when we talked earlier in the week, there 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.640 is no real European style anymore because all the top 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.000 Europeans play on the PGA Tour. I think that the 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:42.000 home course advantage, even is recently Isle Golf Nationale, is 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:47.120 less mitigated because the European team they're playing characteristics more 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:52.640 resemble twenty twenty one at Whistling Straits the American team 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.159 than that twenty twenty one European team. Like out with 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.320 the old you got new guys in and they're big hitters, 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.799 they are you know, they are kind of more American 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:02.719 style players. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.160 Yeah, maybe Ian Poulter wouldn't have been on this team, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.800 but the fact that Ian Poulter has essentially been replaced 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:13.560 by like Ludvig Gabers and makes the team more you 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.039 know what you would traditionally consider American. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:21.200 Lee Westwoods, say, just replaced by Nikolai Hogart, Like that's 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.839 a different type of player. And Westwood was a you know, 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.200 an unbelievable ball striker, but you know, he wasn't the 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.279 longest hitter out there. He was he was plenty long, 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.200 but you know, hoguard Is is long, you know, and 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.080 a little bit they're they're much more. I think, like, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.039 I think that that that idea of the European American 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.600 style play within the modern era is just becoming the 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.720 modern era style of play. And everybody, you know, it's 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.560 that Xander quote is you know, just hit it far 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:51.680 and go find out. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.880 Yeah exactly. Yeah, Yeah, I think that. I think that's 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.839 a really interesting trend to track. I think that's really 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.279 true that these styles are converging around the one that 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:01.360 everybody's teaching now. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.840 Yeah, and so I think that this like setup talk, 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.159 all the talk about set up American European, that's just 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.560 going to get more and more diminished over the over 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:11.400 the coming years. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.560 Yeah, there still might be a home field advantage in 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.000 the sense of the crowd, but you. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.040 Know, I think the crowd and the familiarity, like the guys, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:20.800 like the Europeans have. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.000 Played this course more. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.160 Yes, they've played it under tournaments and regardless of what 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.520 you say, like especially these guys have won there there 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.000 are like good good feelings, you know, and I don't 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.200 I don't have any analytics behind it. This is never 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.560 good when you start with that, this is all just 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:38.080 you know. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.440 I'm gonna have Joseph on here too, so he'll he'll 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:41.840 bring the analytics presumably. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.120 But like if you play well a tournament, if you 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.080 play well at a golf course and you've won there, 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.720 it's really hard to play bad there later in your 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.840 life because you go there and there's just this you know, 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.040 golf is all about fighting back nervous and nervous energy. 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.160 And if you're familiar, you've won, you've finished high at 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.520 a place, you go back to those courses and that 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.680 nervous energy doesn't exist as much because you're just comfortable there. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.240 And it's you know, especially in a Ryder Cup with 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.160 the with the kind of added team pressure that you know, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.200 the pressure is not letting down eleven other guys. I 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.640 feel like if you talk to any professional golfer, what 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.120 what you know that played a lot of sports? If 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.440 you ask them what drew you to this sport, they 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.200 almost always say like, I didn't have to rely on 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:36.800 anybody else. Like these are people that like chose a 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:40.120 sport that they don't have teammates, and they like that 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.240 aspect about it. When you have these team competitions it 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:49.160 just like illuminates there's just more pressure. You feel worse 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.160 like I It's why caddying is sometimes in a tournament, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.400 sometimes more nerve wracking than playing in a tournament. You 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.160 don't want to mess something up for somebody else. You 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.600 don't want to let somebody else down right. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:06.079 You're willing to take responsibility for your own effect on yourself, 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.360 but when it's somebody else that it brings something else 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.280 into play. All right, let's finish with some quick hitters here, 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.600 most valuable player on either team. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.720 All right, I'm gonna ride. I'm gonna ride the hot hand. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.640 I'm gonna take Victor Hobland. I know he was very 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.640 just I mean two years ago. With the way he's 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:30.360 developed as a player, these aren't the same players, I think, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.720 Like that's one of the interesting things about the Europeans 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:37.240 is Fitzpatrick and Hoveland are like completely different players than 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:43.200 they were at Whistling Straits, like statistically different. So I'm 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.920 gonna take Victor Hoblind there. I just think that this 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:50.160 is a guy that is going to be an outstanding 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:55.880 alternate shot player because of the consistency, the accuracy, and 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:57.920 he's just playing such good golf. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.000 That I'm going to take him for most value. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.120 Yeah, it might be the hottest player in the world 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:06.040 right now, all right, least valuable player again on either 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.319 team least. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.480 I think it's Bob McIntyre. I don't want to uh, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.920 oh my god, you know it was. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.520 It was a cute photo with him and his onesie, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:23.400 his Ryder Cup European Tour onesie. But I think that 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.280 he might not play very much. It looks like it 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.640 looked like on the range he was quite frustrated with 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.440 the driver and I could see maybe this is a 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:38.160 two match session for for Bob McIntyre. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:42.160 Yeah, and potentially an O two and oh record that 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.800 that that wouldn't be Nobody would be shocked by that. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.600 But you know, I think again, he won the Italian 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.400 Open at this course, and so you know who's more 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.160 comfortable here than than big shot up. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.720 I think that's the thing is if if you know 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.960 a guy doesn't have it, you got to play him 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:58.080 as little as possible. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.960 I know that captain are very. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.960 Resistant to not seeing them till signals, but maybe you 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.719 just hide him into one of the best ball formats 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.920 and hope that he makes five birdies when you know 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.400 and you play him there and in one singles match. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.560 All right, let's get a DOP score for Marco Simone. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.800 I haven't been there. I can't get listen. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:27.079 I mean, I'm asking for a prediction here because we're 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.360 gonna see this course all week. We're gonna watch it, 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.520 and I think we're gonna get a sense for for 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:33.320 you know, whether it's any good. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.080 I think the I think the thing about this golf course, 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.800 and I think this is, you know, we're we're living 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.680 in it in a world that's becoming more and more 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.439 black and white, and but in reality, almost situation, every situation, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.800 there are multiple things that can be true. I think 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.000 Marco Simone, from what I've seen I haven't been there, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:54.800 is not a very good golf course. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.439 But I do think it's. 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.400 Got some things that are going to make it an 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.000 exciting Ryder Cup course. 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.360 It's the driveable four part five. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.320 The setup to me is going to be very interesting 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.319 to see what they do, what the rough's like, and 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.920 the way it you know, it can it can reward 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:17.520 just accuracy, right, So like do I do I want 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.040 to fly across the country or fly across the world 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.640 the rome to play Marcos Simoni no. Do I want 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.040 to fly across the world of Rome, Yes, but golf 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.160 wouldn't be high on my list if I flew across 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.000 the country to Rome or across the. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:31.040 World of Rome. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.200 So with that, I just I think that it could 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:39.080 be an exciting golf course to watch, but not necessarily 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:39.560 a good one. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.120 If that if that's possible, if that's allowed. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.600 I think that's allowed. And I think it's also probably 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.760 going to be a very effective Ryder Cup venue in 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:52.120 the sense of, you know, creating a crowd atmosphere. I 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.240 wrote about this for Design Notebook and Club TFE this week. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:01.640 You know, I remember Los Angeles Country Club, great US 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.480 Open course, but was it a good US Open venue? 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.040 Considering it was kind of dead in a lot of 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.920 parts of that course. That's something that Marco Simone is. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:11.720 They're not going to have. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.040 They should bring the first t atmosphere of LACC to 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:16.920 the Ryder Cup exactly. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.800 Just have members and VIPs around around the Marco Simone. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.880 Now, a couple people out there, more than accession, maybe 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.600 three or four people come out to club. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.320 That would be that would be something. All right, Andy, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.480 thank you for stopping by. Have a great week. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:34.520 Thanks Garrett. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.160 All right, Brendan Porath, you are in New York City 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.520 with Andy Johnson right now. How are the accommodations? 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.560 They're fine, They're great. That I have a beef with 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.560 the coffee table not being within reach of the couch. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.920 This is a general, pervasive problem. I shouldn't have to 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.600 move furniture. It's coffee table. I need to be able 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.480 to reach my coffee from the couch. But other than that, 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:56.880 the accommodations are great. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.280 Okay, okay, I mean that that would that does that? 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:01.319 Does dock it? 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:01.600 Though? 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.240 That takes it from an A to a B. If 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.319 it's an A, it's a basive problem given the coffee 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:10.160 table situation. All right, let's dig into some Ryder Cup predictions. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.560 So first off, who do you think is going to win? 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:14.960 And what will the final score be? 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.840 I think the United States is going to win. I 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:24.720 think they're going to win by it whatever adjective comfortable margin. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.840 I think maybe fifteen and a half to twelve and 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.280 a half. Does that even add up? Yeah, fifteen, I 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:35.480 think that's right. I think that the opportunity has never 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.640 been clearer. I think that was the case in France. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:42.440 I think there were some incredibly unique circumstances in France, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.280 given the course setup, I don't think that carries over 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.840 to this particular course setup, given the Tiger and Phil 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.200 element that I don't think is is obviously no longer 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:55.520 a part of this team. The organization's better, the process 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.880 is better, The team is better than it has been 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.640 in these thirty years. It's younger, as Jordan Speeth has 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.560 been quite unequivocal about stating, they played no part in 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.760 any of this thirty years of baggage, you know speed occasionally. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.760 He was there in twenty fourteen as a wide eyed 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:16.000 sort of rookie. So it's just a different team, a 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:21.360 different process. Is the task incredibly difficult, Yes, but I 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.560 think you know, everything is lined up. The opportunity, the motivation, 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.000 the stakes have never been higher, and the talent is 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:27.720 there to match it. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.240 Very well. Said that, I'm almost persuaded. I've been kind 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:36.440 of going with the trend right now, which seems to 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.280 be favoring Europe right But then, I mean when you 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.760 look at these teams, like clearly that sort of middle 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.600 section of the US team is very, very strong, and 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.800 there's been such a minimum of drama on the US 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.040 Ryder Cup team over the past, you know, eight to 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.280 ten years. Even it seems like this process is really 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:58.360 like sort of clicking in. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.760 What's incredible about the Ryder Cup is the amount of 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.840 energy we spend and we're doing that right now, and 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.520 it's not wasted energy, but trying to suss out so 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.440 many like intangible things like who is more motivated, is 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:15.000 the pressure higher or greater on this team or this person, 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.240 and these are critical parts of the competition. It's just 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.440 it's hard to measure and hard to quantify it, hard 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:26.120 to discuss it in very precise terms. For a three 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.560 day event, right, it's twenty eight points. It's the perfect 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.520 and that's why. Honestly, this is part of the charm 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.760 of it too. I'm not suggesting this is a negative thing. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.320 This is why it's becomes this perfect event. We spend 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.720 so much time in golf, at least professional golf, I 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.520 should say, talking about the how things need to be 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.640 changed or fixed or elevated, whether it's the points or 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.800 the PGA Tour schedule, or there's so many few sundays 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.400 where we're not looking for something betweaked or modified for 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.240 the better. And the Ryder Cup, by and large has 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.480 it perfect this format, even after a run of blowouts. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.840 Quite honest, we haven't had a close one since twenty twelve, 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.320 but we still love it and are charmed by it 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.560 so much. For kind of the exercise we're going through 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:11.000 so much through right now. Is this trying to quantify, 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:15.160 trying to understand this such a unique setting where it's 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:16.919 match play and the best in the world are kind 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.400 of putting a different environment. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:23.320 Nobody tries to golf zur the Ryder Cup. That never happens. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.119 Whenever you try to golf z our professional golf, the 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.160 assumption is always we're keeping the Ryder Cup exactly as 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.280 it is because that is working. We're keeping the Masters 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.879 exactly as it is. We're keeping the Open exactly as 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.960 it is. There are these things that work, and the 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:40.960 Ryder Cup is one of those things and you just 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.360 have to appreciate it all right, most valuable player on 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.440 either team, this doesn't have to be US and Europe, 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.560 just across all the players who are involved. 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.480 Across all the players who are involved. This is an 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.320 interesting line. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.119 I'm struck. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.760 Obviously, the European side is incredibly straw at the top. Right, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:06.320 We've heard this several times. The top three players on. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:06.920 The US side. 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.600 I'm struggling to find someone I'm incredibly skeptical of. It's 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.800 it's more about choosing from a lot of great options 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:14.840 who could be the MVP. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:16.960 I think I. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.879 Think I'm gonna go slightly off the board with Max Homa. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:22.280 I don't know how far off the board that is. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.320 He's not the very top rated player on either team. 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.640 We saw him succeed in the President's Cup. We've seen 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.560 him sort of succeed when he's in contention, when these 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.120 stakes are high, when the opportunity is right in front 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:37.280 of him, and match play. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.720 That is obviously there. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.320 It's a fifty to fifty proposition, right, minus a few 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.720 percentage points for ties, and so you start the week 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:46.920 with the at that fifty to fifty deal, you start 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.000 the match with that fifty to fifty deal, not one 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.800 of one to fifty six. And we've seen him when 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.000 those those opportunities are in front of him really go 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.280 and grab it. And I think he's gonna get several, 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.239 you know, play a lot of playing opportunities. I think 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:04.280 he'll probably play maybe four matches, right, So I'm going 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.359 to go with Maxhoma based on what we've seen from 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.320 him the last few years. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.199 It's interesting this is his first Ryder Cup. Obviously, he 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.200 was in the President's Cup as well and did great there. 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.240 But it already seems like Max Homa is kind of 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.040 like a leader of the US team. He's one of 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.800 those guys where it feels like this is his third 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:25.080 or fourth Ryder Cup. But he's really well integrated into 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.960 the kind of social dynamics of the team, and it 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.560 wouldn't be surprising to see him become like a great 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.120 team match play player in this kind of second act 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.880 of his career, all right, least valuable player. 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:40.000 To be fair. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:41.920 I think you know, I was on the other side 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.120 of the room. I heard Andy kind of already laid 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.240 the wood to Bobby mack. I believe it looked like 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:47.120 he was laying the wood. 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:48.840 It sounded like he. 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.960 Was being nice about it. But Bob, Bob McIntyre was his. 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.200 Pick, all right, So he's in the cross hairs. I 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.040 guess the one American I'm a little skeptical of is 0:19:59.080 --> 0:19:59.879 Wyndham Clark. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:01.240 Right, he is a rookie. 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.160 He is being put in the blunder right now of 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.920 having to say his words were taken out of context. 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.359 The euro Press is like a dog with a bone 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.359 right now, because he, you know, deigned to suggest he 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.000 would would like to play the best players in the 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:19.640 world and has confidence in his own abilities. I thought 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.400 his quotes were taken a little too far. But since 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.359 then he's talked about how they could be leaking oil 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.560 because they're tired. I just haven't seen Wyndham Clark ever 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:29.520 in this setting. I know he won a US Open, 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.600 his form has been consistent and strong throughout the year, 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.400 but he is put being put on his back. 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:37.040 Foot right now. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:37.280 Right. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.560 He's not one of these boisterous types he's I don't 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.600 think he's full of this bravado, but he is being 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.720 put on his back foot. It's a new, entirely new 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.679 experience for him. Any kind of team play, right, Nothing 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.840 home away, Presidents, anything like that. So I'm a little 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.240 I guess I wouldn't be surprised if he succeeds, but 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.199 I'm skeptical that he may get few opportunities and not 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:02.720 be ready for the blender he's in. 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:07.080 Yeah, that's a good one. Marco Simone, do you have 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.959 a hole to watch at Marcos somone like something something 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:16.800