Ryder Cup Power Rankings: Does Rory McIlroy or Scottie Scheffler Take the Top Spot?

The boys are ranking all 24 Ryder up participants, discussing some insane finishes to some recent golf tournaments, movement of the PGA Tour Hawaii swing and WTF Wednesday on the latest edition of Big Drive Energy

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Big Drive Energy live on a Wednesday, a wacky Wednesday, a hump day. We’ve got a lot to talk about today. We got a lot to talk about the RDER Cup next weekend. Mitchell lucked his way into some sort of a box for the practice round. So, he’ll be at Beth Page on Wednesday. We’re going to do our pod next week on Thursday is our plan right now. So, if you’re you’re rocking with us normally on a Wednesday, you’ll rock with us live on Thursday. We’ll have Mitchell’s whole take from Beth Paige Black. But today, we got to get to um some football talk. As always, this is a golf podcast, but we got to fill it with some football talk, especially to start the pod. We’ve got some stuff from the Midam this past week. We’ve got Charlie Hull, the Charlie Hull winning a golf tournament. Alex Norin winning some golf tournaments. And then we are going to power rank all 24 RDER Cup participants 1 through 24. It’s going to be electric. And then we’re going to finish it up with what the [ __ ] Wednesday. All right, let’s tee it up. big drive energy Wednesday. And I just got to say, I’m going to go into full Robbie Burger mode. Shout out to the people at Tropical Smoothie Cafe. I mean, a delightful meal I had. Don’t try to do this. Holy [ __ ] A delightful meal I had this morning. They’re running a special right now. They’re running a special. You need to stop. You buy You buy a flatbread. You buy a flatbread and you get a free smoothie. So, I went mango monsoon on the smoothie. Absolute perfection. Then, because it was free, then I get the peanut butter and banana and honey and granola flatbread. And my god, was it the absolute best thing I’ve ever had? That’s it. That was all you got? That does sound No, it actually was pretty good, relatively speaking. You You just just poo pooed it from the start. Kind of really ruined it for me. But yeah, I mean it’s just cringey to me. Uh how is it cringe? The dude is hilarious and he’s so good at delivering and I’m trying to up my delivery. I know. That’s why it’s cringey because you’re trying to imitate him. Honestly though, like a breakfast flatbread. That sounds a little odd cuz I associate flatbread as a pizza. So I’m like you’re having a a pizza with granola and and bananas on it. That’s kind of wild. And then I am out on mango fully. I mean, if you look at me, you can tell I’m not like the hugest fruit connoisseur you’ve ever seen, but mango in general, just the flavor of it, not a fan. I don’t know if I’ve ever actually eaten mango by itself. So, hey, shout out Jeff Spencer. Spencer out of bounds is what it’s more like or Spencer. No, it’s No, this is it. This is it. Spencer Other Fairways. That that flatbread was delightful. Yeah, that’s uh that sounds about right for you. Um but just mango smoothies, like a mango white claw. Well, I just do not like White Claw anymore anyways, but dude, I’ll go I got to cut you off real quick. Mango drinks are just gross to me, which is actually ironic. Well, this is coconut pineapple. Oh, okay. Um, ironically, dude, I am so addicted to Surf Sides and I keep buying other things. Just not intentionally, but like I went to the store to pick up some food. We were cooking on Sunday or Saturday and I went to the store to pick up some food and I needed more drinks. And Surf Sides are not that well known right now. Like they’re in most liquor stores. They’ll have like one or two. Obviously, if you go to Total Wine, they’ll have a good amount of them. Um, but like most smaller liquor stores will have like one variety pack flavor, which is fine by me, but like uh the grocery stores haven’t picked up on this this trend yet. The grocery stores are are slow. And so this King Supers by my house doesn’t have Surf Side. So I got Voodoo Ranger te’s and they they’re not beer tea. They’re just a Voodoo Ranger brand. They’re like a Surfside, same scenario. But they are trash, dude. They taste like soap. I don’t like them. I just want my surf sides. And I I keep doing this where I go somewhere and I’m like, “Oh, this will taste like a Surf Side or this is giving it.” The only thing close is a High Noon tea. High noon tees are very very close to Surf Sides. But but even then they’re like slightly sweeter. Surf sides are just the best. Yeah, they’re surfid sip, eat, and joy or whatever their tagline is. They’re even in on Altitude Radio now that I listen to. They’re everybody’s pushing the Surf Side. So, it’s incredible. I’m telling you, it’s the best canned cocktail out there. Buy it. I’ve been on Surf Sides for going on like 3 years now. That’s all I drink when we’re at the beach. And you know what I actually found out from a liquor rep is that, you know, they can’t advertise caffeine and alcohol together anymore. Like, yeah. Shout out for Loco for my basic $2 can gets me through a whole night. Yeah. Basically killed people. I you know I don’t want to say that on get us cancelled. Well, was it what was the forloo um wasn’t there a wired or like some different um for loco version that like definitely I think hurt people. Wasn’t it like protein and caffeine with malt liquor or some [ __ ] It was like some sort of version of the four loco. I don’t know before Loco ever got in the protein game, but they definitely were mixing malt liquor with serious amounts of caffeine. Oh, right down my alley. So, what I heard is do you know what’s crazy is Surfside the the tea ones naturally have caffeine because tea has caffeine. So, and especially if you do the green tea because green tea has more caffeine than regular tea. They have figured out that if you drink four green tea surfides, that is basically the equivalent caffeine- wise to one fourlooco, but they just can’t advertise it as caffeine and alcohol because that they banned that [ __ ] after four loco took lives of many the many college student. But isn’t that crazy too? Like you’re actually getting caffeine as well. So it’s even maybe a slightly different buzz than you would normally get with any other uh you know seltzer or anything like that. Plus, it’s not carbonated and it tastes great. It’s not super sweet. I can drink eight million of them and that that might be part of the problem. Like, do you think at this point in our lives being 30 and 31, are you better off drinking something that doesn’t taste as good because you drink it slower? Or are you just going for whatever tastes the best even though you feel like you could drink a million of them? I I think I’m still a go for what tastes the best and drink a million of them. I it have to be like bad. Like not that I don’t love the taste. It would have to be terrible for me to not drink it fast. That’s just one of my bigger I’m talking about like like occasionally in a bar if I’m at a nice dinner, I’ll order like a gin martini or I would still slurp that down super fast. Like that’s my problem. You’re not gulping it down. You’re like sipping it. I mean I’ll still drink it in, you know, 20 30 minutes. I’m not milking it for two hours, but I am not chugging it. Like I can legit drink a Surf Side in it and not like trying to chug it. I can drink one in five minutes. I just take a sip here, sip like a gulp here, a gulp there, and it’s gone in five minutes. Like it is so easy to do that I’m almost at the point of should I order something that I don’t love the taste of. And even like scotch feels like kind of a I was talking to my buddy about this and he goes, “Scotch feels kind of like the next step in alcohol drinking like you’re leveling up.” And I’m like, “Dude, I I just don’t like you really got to be a sicko to be into scotch and drink it regularly and and just not get severely hung over. Especially because you’re like smoking a stogy generally if you’re you’re drinking scotch. Not generally, but that at times they go together. And I just think that it like wrecks me. I can do it once a year and other than that, I am out on scotch and and not stogies necessarily, but it just leaves such a rancid taste in my mouth for hours after, maybe days after, you know, I brush my teeth four times and it’s still sitting there. So, I’m just I don’t think I’m ever going to be a scotch guy. Yeah. Well, that’s my problem, too, is even when I have a drink like that, I just am holding it constantly. Like, I don’t set my drinks down very often. So, when like me drinking alcohol straight is a that’s a bad decision. That’s why it’s definitely a crutch in social settings. Like, how awkward do you feel standing around and you don’t have a drink? Having a drink in your hand just automatically makes things seem more chill, more smooth. You’re just standing there with your hands in your pockets. You’re like, “What the [ __ ] are we even doing here? Why am I not sitting on my couch right now? Yeah, my new move is at home when I mix like I have uh I constantly have my mix of uh lemonade and Arnold like an Arnold Palmer basically lemonade and uh like the the powdered drink mixes um and tea raspberry tea. And so I constantly have a picture of that at the house. And when I’m sober, when I’m not drinking for a day, I just drink it by itself in the afternoon evening. But when I’m drinking, I add vodka to it. And the best part about that is I can add about a shot of vodka but add a full um cup like a massive cup either like this bad boy like this thing’s had plenty of vodka in it and but it makes me it’s a huge drink and it’s still alcohol but it makes it takes so much longer to drink that I’m not like refilling it every you know I’ve gotten to the point where when I go away from the fridge like a lot of my TV watching is down you know in the garage now or even out in the backyard, I bring two drinks because I don’t want to get up again in four minutes and get another one. Or like if if I’ve started, usually I don’t bring two just dry, like two just unopened, unfiltered drinks. If one has been opened and I’ve gone at least like a quarter through it, I’m definitely bringing two out to dinner or out to watch like I’m not doing this walk back and forth scenario. When I sit down, I want to be ready to watch whatever I’m watching. Oh yeah. Um I I definitely agree with you there. You just got to be prepared. It’s just called being prepared. Like you you got to think ahead. And that’s, you know, you’ve become an adult. You’re starting to think a little out into the future and you’re preparing more than 15 minutes ahead of uh of what you had originally planned out. You got some flies buzzing around you. I don’t know what’s going on there, but I know it’s terrible. I’ve seen them in front of the screen. It’s kind of pissing me off. Um let’s talk a little football before we get into I feel like we got a lot of golf to talk about. I don’t know how it’s already been 12 minutes. We’ve just been talking about nonsensical [ __ ] Uh but that I guess is pretty standard. So, anything stick out to you this weekend in football? Uh fantasy football, our pick six was ass. Um which is we went we went one and five again. So, we picked six games against the spread. We went one and five. And I texted Mitchell middle of Sunday evening in my wallowing in my sorrow of the Broncos loss that we’re just going to pick these games like we don’t know anything. And not that we know a lot. Obviously we’re one and five. Clearly it’s not. We haven’t been we we’re one and five backto-back weeks. A total of two and 10 on the year. Ma minor setback for a major comeback. But the like it’s just these obvious games that then you when you on the surface look at it and then we go into, oh well, this team’s a road dog in the division. You know, they’re getting six points, blah blah blah. No, [ __ ] it. This week, we’re going to look at the board. We’re going to say this team is clearly better than this team. I don’t even care what the spread is. They’re going to win and they’re probably going to cover. Like, there was like seven pick sixes this week. I’m like, how these people because they’re they’re literally picking favorites, bro. Like that is the the problem is these first couple weeks it’s just been favorites favorites favorites you get a favorite you get a favorites it’s like Oprah up in this [ __ ] favorites winning favorites winning favorites covering and that is generally not how the NFL rolls so we cannot you know I feel like we’ve definitely tried to get cute with our picks like thinking that we’re we’re a little smarter than everyone else which I kind of feel like we are you know smart not smartest guy in the room but we are balln knowowers I would generally say Um, and that is why a lot of people have made have gotten these pick sixes because they don’t know [ __ ] about football and they’re just like, “Oh, f big favorite cover. Big f like the Ravens completely blowing the tits off the Browns.” That should not have been that bad. It was actually a much closer game throughout than it ended up being. There was I mean a period of time I texted you in you know the kiss of death as I texted you in the third quarter of the morning games being like hey we look pretty good like the Steelers game was tied they lose by two scores we have them you know covering two and a half points at home against [ __ ] Seattle who now apparently is not terrible. Um, Kenneth Walker can get [ __ ] to the moon even though he’s on almost every roster I have because I sat in him week two and then he decides to have a football game. But we were at one point looking like, “Oh, we know balls for sure.” We were definitely looking like we were about to be 4-0 in the morning session. And then guess what? I think they all flipped in like the middle of the third quarter, early in the fourth quarter, and it just never came back. Like, who else did we take against? We took uh against the Rams. Oh, we had the Tennessee Titans. Like, why are you betting on the Tennessee Titans? That’s what I always say after it doesn’t hit. You know, it’s hindsight’s 2020, but you’re like, that’s But that game was so close the entire time as well. Like, and the Rams have actually looked much better than a lot of people have thought they’ve looked. So, maybe I just feel like now I want to get into some games where like a six and a half point favorite is losing outright like that. That is the case. doesn’t happen in the NFL this year or the last year for that matter. Doesn’t even happen anymore. Any any favorites this year are four and a half points or higher or 12-0 straight up. Seven and five against the spread. Absurd. That That’s not the NFL I know and love. That’s not my NFL cuz that’s [ __ ] The NFL is the league of parody. We need parody. We need big wins. We need big losses. I’m sick of teams getting in there mucking it up and winning. Like I don’t know what your take is, but I think these first two weeks of football have been kind of ass. Like there’s been some good games. Oddly enough, the games that should be [ __ ] sometimes good, sometimes maybe [ __ ] The [ __ ] game, the supposed to be [ __ ] games are actually good. Like this Cowboys Giants game was electric. The Giants couldn’t pull it off, of course. They’ve never I don’t think they’ve ever beat Dak. I think Dak is 12-0 against the Giants, which is [ __ ] insane. Like Dak has lost it feels like to almost everyone else in the league, but he somehow has the Giants number, which I guess is not the craziest stat in the world because the Giants have been ass for the better part of a decade to a decade and a half. Two cheeks on the same ass. Doesn’t matter if they’ve got Jackson Dart or Russell Wilson or [ __ ] Daniel Jones. It’s just two cheeks on the same ass. How did that team win a playoff game like two years ago? That’s what’s unbelievable to me, dude. Danny Dimes. I mean, they I think a lot of people, let’s just get this out there as well. I mean, the Colts beating the Broncos was made me absolutely sick. I was screaming into a pillow. Um Missy was annoyed with me for being pissed off. And I’m like, I that’s just a weekly thing. A tale as old as time is the girl getting mad at the guy for being pissed off at a football game. And then everybody’s mad. Just let me be Just let me chill. Yeah, just let me I I went into the bedroom, screamed into a pillow for a good 30 seconds. I walked back out and then I was just sad. Like I just like slumped my shoulders over and I was like, “Are you [ __ ] kidding me?” Like it was like a coping moment where I’m like and I was honestly precoping in the middle of like the third quarter, early fourth. I’m like, “We’re losing this football game.” It just felt like we had chances to put it away. Never put it away. Never put it away. And then the craziest sequence at the end of the game happens absolutely bones the Broncos. Uh but I had kind of precoped. But then to to watch your team win a game and then have it be stripped from you by a late flag and I was in shock. I’m like are you and on top of it it being a 15 yard penalty and then of course their kicker makes a 45 yard when if our kicker would have made a 42 yard the game would have been over. Um, just so much [ __ ] made me absolutely sick about that game. But isn’t what is um Oh, Indiana Jones is Daniel Jones’s nickname. And I think that’s dope as [ __ ] He is such a boring ass dude. Like he has no personality whatsoever, but that might be one of my favorite nicknames in all of the NFL. Yeah, we actually upon further review, we we got better this week. We learned we actually went two and four because we had Bucks Monday Night Football plus two and a half and they won by one. So we had Bucks, we had like you talked about Steelers, we had Detroit, they destroyed Chicago. Cleveland obviously like you said 12 and a half point spread, very close game until the end something. I don’t even know what happened there at the end. And then the other bad beat we had was Jacksonville. Jacksonville’s up seven. Bengals lose Joe Burrow and somehow Jake Browning not only wins the game but they cover four. Like I cannot believe that. And that’s a sucker pick. That’s somebody’s like the [ __ ] Bengals Joe Burrow. They’re going to win by four and they shouldn’t have won that game by four. That’s a [ __ ] joke. Well th this takes us to a different separate issue. this ref show that’s been going on in the NFL where the amount of calls that are happening in every game is getting more and more it feels like the refs are are slowing the game down. They’re taking it out of a rhythm every single time because you had that play with Travis Hunter that they called a phantom PI on that ends up giving the Bengals new life. The Jaguars basically had that game in the bag and the Jag the Bengals get new life with that that dog [ __ ] pass interference call. The Broncos obviously get hosed on that anchoring call or leverage call, whatever the [ __ ] you want to call it. And then there was one other big penalty, wasn’t it, that uh what other big penalty was there that that screwed a team this weekend? Um was it the Oh, it was the Panthers uh Cardinals game. like the the Cardinals Panthers last drive. I think there just on the last drive of the game, I think there was like five or six penalties that kept giving the the Panthers new life and new life and new life and it just ends up being such a a calamity of errors by the these referees and you just wonder it it we’re still talking about the same [ __ ] and I guess you know what else is there to talk about if you if all the refs are good and always make the right call. So, it is just kind of sports discourse in general, but at the same time, it feels like the refs have just only gotten worse than they were. They they’ve definitely have not gotten better recently. No. And they’re they’re making the game about them. And I was actually I was listening to the radio on Monday night um driving home from work and they were talking about that and that fact of uh apparently that crew that worked the Broncos game, they didn’t say this outright but kind of said this. They were like Andy Lindall’s like, “Yeah, they like their screen time.” Let’s put it that way. So, yeah. Yeah. It’s just there’s too many games that are like a gamedeciding play and a game defining drive. You know, a first quarter pass interference here, there, whatever. You know that like the fourth quarter it should be like it should be an egregious wish egregious whistle in order for it to even get called in my opinion. Like it’s it’s crazy what you’re whistling on that you wouldn’t call in the first quarter and then you’re calling it in the fourth quarter on a game that literally changes like they don’t call that whistle they don’t blow that whistle on the Broncos and they win the game and it’s it’s a could be a completely different season for them. Could be yeah dictating an outcome of a game by from a referee is just disgusting to me. Um let’s touch on our fantasy teams real quick before I get into some golf. I went three and one this week. kind of made a comeback. This the one loss I had. This guy had uh who was it? Jamar Chase who went off. He had um oh god, what what was the I I don’t even know if I can look it up or what, but Almond Raw. Did he have Almond Raw, too? He had Almond Raw as well. And then he had um I think Puka and Puka had I think he had like those three players had 120 points. He had like 165 points. I’m like, “Well, I’m [ __ ] screwed.” So, I lost that one, but other than that, I kind of feel like I’ve writed the ship slightly. Um, I mean, I had Joe Burrow on one of my teams that now I Do you know who I feel like is in every single league that I’ve looked at that is available and I feel like is going to be have a pretty [ __ ] good year is Jared Goff. Like, he had a bad week one against a very good Packers team, but other than that, he’s been available. I’ve picked him up in a couple leagues. He had 40 points last week. He clearly they still have weapons on the outside. They have a good offensive line. They still have a great running game. They might not be as good of a team as they were last year. Their defense might not be as good. They might not win as many games, but I still see that offense shredding. So like why I know Jared Goff isn’t a dual threat, but like Justin Fields was the first ranked free agent quarterback. And I get it from a running threat perspective, but like what in what world? He had one he’s had one good game. last year, last week was the worst game I think statistically he’s ever had in his career, which is saying something. And other than that, like he’s not really a throwing threat. He’s not going to win you anything. At least Jared Goff, you feel like you kind of know what you’re getting. With Justin Fields, it’s like a [ __ ] shot in the dark. Yeah, I think it’s just due to the fact that he could give you 70 yards on the ground and a touchdown on the ground, which is like a running back’s good day on top of maybe throwing a touchdown or two. Listen, so I think I went I went uh two and three this week in my five teams. Actually, two and four, including the team I shared with Kylie. But this is listen to this matchup where I just got completely defecated on. The other guy’s name is Sut on your face. Courtland Sut in your face. And he did this to me and suffocated me to a pulp. I scored 142 points and I lost by 50. Oh my god. I had Drake May, Christian McAffrey, Hampton, Thomas, Harrison, McBride, McMillan, Jordan Mason, Ravens D. So 142 points. He had 189 and he had Lamar 30, Jonathan Taylor 35, Jama Javvante Williams 30, Malik Neighbors 43, Devonte Adams 26. Like he have Kenneth Walker, Kenneth Walker with 25 on his bench. I mean, he could had a 200 point. I was just like, I can’t do anything. I put I put together a lineup of 142 points which was let me see let me see how high in the league that was. You probably well dude and that’s just the bad beats that beats like that beats ironically we had a a damn high scoring week. We have an extra flex in this league because they they voted to take the kicker out. So we have no kicker but an extra flex. Um 142 would have beat one, two, three, four, five, five teams. So I guess I’m right in the middle of the pack on the scoring, but 189 was by far the high score of the week and not fun when you play that guy that everybody just goes off. Yeah. Oh, 100%. That’s just you run into a buzzsaw from time to time. Um also, I didn’t have on our my bingo card Troy Franklin being the the number one wider. He’s like a top 10 wide receiver in the league right now according to Fantasy Points. Is that like I don’t know if that’s an overreaction or what, but I’ve been dropping Pat Bryan picking up Troy Franklin in in a lot of my leagues and he’s still available, but Pat Bryan I think has one catch in the first two weeks. like third round pick, big big highly touted dude out of Illinois and they’re just [ __ ] Bo’s got a heart on for Troy Franklin, which don’t get me wrong, you know, if he’s open and, you know, knows how to to move with Bo, like that that one throw Bo made down the sideline to Franklin, um, where he ran back out and was outside of the pocket rolling left and threw it across his body like 40 42 43 yards in the air was a [ __ ] sick throw. Um, yeah. I think my biggest miss of the week was just not necessarily in fantasy. I think I have him on two leagues, but Courtland Sutton having one catch for six yards when Chvarius Ward and the Colts top two corners were out. That was borderline that’s borderline jail for Shawn Payeyton and company to not get your number one target the ball more than one time in a game where you scored 28 points and moved the ball. Well, what are we doing here? And then on the other side of that coin, Pat Certan, the number one quarterback in the entire league, is getting thrown at all [ __ ] day and getting picked on. Like, of all people, that’s like, talk about a role reversal. We should be, our top guys should be getting way more touches than their top guys considering who we’re facing. And somehow, you know, Shawn Peyton’s play calling is kind of left something to be desired. It was better this last week, but I still think that at some point, I don’t know if, you know, there needs to be a change of who calls offensive plays. And Shawn Peyton will never give that up because he’s got like the biggest ego in all football. But, um, oh, one other thing before we get to golf. Did you see that Aaron Rogers throw to Pat Fri that was incomplete? No, I did not. He was rolling out to the right and threw probably the sickest ball. He’s 42 years old. He threw it 45 yards in the air like old school Rogers flick of the wrist. Puts it in [ __ ] Fri’s bread basket and Frymouth drops it and it was like the sickest throw. Like it curved probably it had like 10 yards of fade on it. He just flicked it. He across not necessarily across his body. He was rolling right, but he it it went to the right sideline, but it was just falling literally right into Aaron Rogers is still probably the most talented just arm talent guy where I’m like, how’d you make that throw? Like it just feels like he needs no platform. He he could he could be without legs and still be one of the best quarterbacks in the league. Like I don’t know legs. I don’t know how he creates the kind of speed that he does, but it’s [ __ ] wild. Um, and just in general, the Steelers are an odd like team of misfit toys. I feel like with uh who’s that uh Jaylen Ramsay, they’ve got um John Smith, they’ve got DK Metaf. It feels like none of it doesn’t even feel like a team. It feels like a bunch of individuals that just got put together on like a [ __ ] inter mural Saturday football touch football game. You know what I mean? Yeah. And it’s very non-steelers of them. Like that’s not the the old Steeler way where it’s like they just keep their all same. Yeah. They keep their all same the dudes. They run the ball. They play defense. No, they’re like signing free agents and making trades. Yeah. Very unsteelers like of them in 2025. Well, should we get to some golf? I feel like we got a lot to cover. Yeah, let’s do it. Let’s get to some golf and talk about none other than the man, the myth, the legend, Scotty Sheffler, winning again. Wins the Pro Core just another Sunday with Bennett Sheffller holding a trophy. I mean, from fall series events. I Yeah, I saw a tweet that was like, all these guys are out here grinding, trying to keep their career going, and Scotty just shows up and [ __ ] wins again. I mean, yeah. Like on the other side of the coin, Lanto Griffin finished uh solo third and went from like 154th in the FedEx Cup to 98th to keep his job next season to actually keep his card. Um, and he’s like celebrating just keeping a job. And Scotty’s like, “Oh, another another $2 million check. Who gives a shit?” And it was pretty funny. Did you see the trophy? Yeah. Somebody said it looked like a pack of sigs. Yes. It looked like a carton of smokes and it 100% did, dude. Like I kind of miss, you know, that cigarettes cannot advertise anymore. Like you can’t. Yeah, I I kind of figured that judging by the fact that you never see any ads. But also, I bought cigarettes when I was in London two years ago, and it is absurd. They have like pictures of basically dead children on them to like discourage you. And it’s like, no, no. If you’re if you’re buying a pack of smokes, you’re buying a pack of smokes. That’s That’s not doing anything for you. Yeah, exactly. You could you could have to [ __ ] walk across cut glass to get a pack of smokes and be like, I I need a heater right now. I’m three pints deep outside of the pub. Um, but it was just funny cuz I was watching, not to sidetrack it here, I was watching uh the Bills for 30 for30 and they were showing one of the plays at the old Bills stadium and the biggest logo is this Marbor Red like huge cowboy advertisement. And I’m like that. Talk about like Americana. I want that [ __ ] I want a t-shirt with just a big ass Marbor Red logo on it. I think that [ __ ] like why is marketing so good for cigarettes? They did such a good job that it just like I if I was 50 years ago, I’d be ripping down heaters right now myself. Like they can’t even advertise and they’re still a popular thing. Um but yeah, the the trophy definitely looked like a pack of a [ __ ] carton of smokes. On the other one more thing, do you know how much a pack of cigarettes costs now? Probably close to 10 beans, I would guess. I think it’s like 10 or 11 a pack. It is [ __ ] insane. Like imagine being a chain smoker that smokes two packs a day. I think our dad smoked three packs a day back in the day. Crazy. He’d be spending basically a tank of gas on cigarettes every single day. Like that’s a thousand bucks a month. That’s [ __ ] insane. It’s It is bananas and people just continue to pay for them. Um they they tried to get me to buy I think cigarettes or chew the other day at the local Circle K because I was in there buying my Zins and they were like, you know, if you buy a tobacco product, you get a free can of Zins. I’m like, what are you trying to tell me? You want me to buy a pack of Marbor Reds so I can get a free can of Zins? You trying to push me? You trying to double up my addiction? You trying to push me into getting uh addicted to tobacco? That’s [ __ ] up. That could You could [ __ ] sue them, I’m sure. Be like, “This Circle K made me addicted to cigarettes.” That probably would hold up in court. Um but back to back to the Procore. Uh Ben Griffin three-wax it on 18 to miss the playoff. Scotty Sheffller, typical Anaconda style Scotty. He’s he’s lurking Friday, lurking Saturday, goes out and fires a number on Sunday. Ben Griffin kind of was in the driver’s seat most of the day and then needed to two putt on 18 on a par five. He hit it on the green and two, three whacks it ultimately. Um, and Ben Griffin just is, did you hear what he said after uh when he he ran into Scotty after the round and he goes, “Thank God I don’t have to play against you in two weeks. Like I am so so done playing against you. I want to play with you. So, that was pretty cool. But Ben Griffin is just such a uh good dude that it’s almost annoying how good of a dude he is. Like, he just three-wacked to lose a tournament. He takes his hat off. He waves to the fans. He shakes everyone’s hand. Like, and and you know, he’s had a great year. He’s probably made seven, eight, nine, 10 million. But you can’t tell me, especially, you know, Scotty’s got 20 some wins. Ben Griffin has two. you you can’t tell me that even it being a smaller fall series event, it didn’t mean something to Ben Griffin to lose that tournament. But on the other side of that, he’s in good form heading into the RDER Cup. So, I feel good about that. And we’ll rank these guys later, but Ben Griffin might be like the [ __ ] second or third best player on on the US RDER Cup team, which will not bode well for the red, white, and blue. Let me just put it that way. Well, let me pose this question to you. If you took out the majors, so we’re just talking PGA Tour events this season. You take out the majors and you take out Scotty Sheffler. Is did Ben Griffin have the best season on the PGA Tour this year? Was he the most consistent best player on the PGA Tour this year? Like I think that answer is maybe yes. Yeah, I would probably agree with you. I know Harrison Russell Henley had a good year as well, but just from a wins perspective and a top 10’s perspective, I think um you know, winning twice and the coolest part is Ben Griffin virtually kind of came out of nowhere. He just had a very very good season and I hope that he can continue like Andrew Novak was on that trajectory and then kind of fell off towards the end of the year. But there’s always that one guy that kind of comes out of left field and and has a really good year. But you just don’t expect it to be a guy like Ben Griffin who’s, you know, in his early 30s. Uh but that is the beauty of golf is there could be a guy Jimmy Walker I’ve brought up a few times. He I don’t think he won on the PJ tour until he was like 35 and then he ended up winning a handful of times and winning the PJ championship years ago, but he was on the mini tours basically all of his 20s into his early 30s. So, you never really know when somebody’s going to come out of nowhere and uh burst onto the scene on the PJ tour, which makes it fun. Yeah. Let’s transition to a little bit uh more amateur golf in the midam that’s going on. So, this is going being played down at Trune in Scottsdale. um rough scoring average the first couple of days in between 75 and 76. Um there’s so here’s some of the midame golfers jobs. We got a dentist, construction company owner, professor, high school teacher, our friend friend of the program, Colin Prader, science teacher. We’ve had him on. Great great interview there that we had with him after his little blow up or glow up I will I will say at the uh US Open a couple years ago. But what uh explain to me I mean I mean the people the mid am like what that cons is that like because there is the USA am but why is it mid is it I got to say y’all our team’s just really mid right now. It’s it’s simply an age thing. I think you have to be over 25 to be able to be to qualify for the mid AM which they used to have the pub links as well where you had to like be playing from a public golf course. You could not be a country club kid. Um, but basically that’s electric. I love that. I know. I tried to qualify and I [ __ ] withdrew halfway through the second round because I didn’t want to be there anymore. Tiger. Yeah. Oh yeah. I like back I fake twisted my ankle and walked off like five holes into the second round for sure. Um, but the mid am is strictly an age thing. So it’s just a bunch of middle-aged full-time worker dudes that uh that are really good at golf. And I just I thought it was interesting because Lou Stagner, also another friend of the program, tweeted that um the the yardages at Trun are only around 7,000 yards. And even at Scottsdale, that’s about, you know, 12-,500 feet of elevation. That’s probably 68 6,900 yards at sea level. And these scoring averages were three to four or five over par for those two days. So it just it posed a question because I personally think that desert golf is actually harder than typical Parkland style golf. And you could, you know, I just wanted to get your thoughts on it. But personally speaking, I think the hardest golf course I’ve ever played was Desert Forest in North Scottsdale. Technically Carefree. You got to stop looking at these flies, bro. You’re just they’re buzzing around you and all you’re doing. I just You have the [ __ ] You have the attention span of a fly cuz dude, they’re buzzing your lock in. I I’m trying to lock in you. You’re [ __ ] looking around like somebody’s coming after you and it’s just a couple of flies. Um but Desert Four is probably the hardest golf course I’ve ever played there and Bear Creek in Colorado. Shout out Men’s Only Clubs. Last one in Colorado. Um that is probably the other hardest golf course. And they both rate probably somewhere in the 76 to 77 range from the tips. So basically, if you’re a scratch golfer, a good day for you is shooting five or six over par. uh which is pretty wild when you think about it. But uh desert golf to me is just there’s so many ways to make it hard because your ball can just disappear generally and you know parkland style you can have a lot of trees this and that but a lot of times you have options where your favorite move is to hit into an opposite fairway you know one fairway over here one fairway over there but so many times in desert golf that there’s a hole and then there’s desert surrounding it like cactus trees all of this to where you have no bailout like you got to [ __ ] hit it and play. You know what I mean? So that that would be the only reason I would maybe say Desert Golf is tougher and just the contours and how how firm and fast they can really make a desert golf course. Like they, you know, they can really really firm it up. The Greens can get lightning quick. The the course can play really firm. So that that seems to be the reason in my opinion why the the scores are high. But I just love seeing like higher scores. I love watching dudes struggle. That’s, you know, every golf fan loves doing that [ __ ] They don’t want to see somebody fired 12 under for two days. They want to see 74 or 75. They want to see even par make it through to match play at the midam. So, yeah. Well, and it’s kind of electric these all of these guys that are just mid30s, early 40s playing really good golf and then they’re not even on the same level of trajectory as like a a mini tour player who’s then a cornfairy tour player who’s then probably a DP World Tour player than a, you know, like the levels of it, which we’ve talked about a ton is hilarious, but also all of these guys and everybody playing in this is better than every single person at their club and probably within a 10 mile radius of them like they’re the best player in that area. So, it’s insane to see that the amount of talent and the the work that guys put in still. Like I could pro I don’t know. I I don’t even know if I could remotely commit myself to being that committed to golf when I it’s not my only thing, you know? Like when it’s not my only job, like I can’t imagine the commitment of I’m not saying it’s harder to be a great amateur player than it is a PGA Tour player, for sure. like the but just the commitment of it when you know like Colin Prader’s teaching and granted in the summer he’s got summers off so he probably has a little bit more free time but overall just having a full-time job and then [ __ ] trying to go out and grind after you worked a 9 to5 all day in your office like no thank you dude no absolutely no thank you absolut yeah yeah 100% and think about the guy that’s a dentist how are you how do you have a dental practice first of all like you know the kid’s got to be a silver spooner cuz nobody that gets through dental school and has hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt is playing that much golf. So, you got to know that mom and dad were paying for the dental school to get him through because otherwise, you know, you don’t just drop golf for six years while you’re going to school and then pick it back up and you’re this good. Like, he was he was probably doing dental school as a side thing and working for mom and dad in the summertime. I have no idea. Yeah, I don’t want to slander the guy randomly, but that just definitely gave off uh a little silver spoon vibes. I wonder why our our boy um Hegastad wasn’t there. I mean, he’s clearly or is he there? I don’t know. Maybe he’s too old. Maybe he’s past the the the midam stat. He’s now in the senior AM portion of it. Yeah, exactly. Well, let’s get to uh uh the Well, let’s talk about real quick Paul Mitell losing his match in the midam because his caddy took a ride in a cart from one green to 2T. Like, what are we doing here? That’s that’s a leverage call on a 60ard field goal level of [ __ ] right there. 100%. Dude, that is the biggest joke of a a ruling. And just the fact that like who even offered him that ride knowing that he couldn’t take that ride? Like that is just the biggest croc of horseshit. A caddy taking a ride in a cart. What does that that is just one of those old school golf rules that has no relevancy whatsoever um in the actual game. And just the fact that it was such a good match that went to extra holes and then he ends up losing not even being able to hit a shot on the second playoff hole. Like talk about devastating. And if that’s my buddy, I’m giving him the silent treatment for months. I’m like, you [ __ ] find your way home and don’t hit me up for the rest of summer cuz I would be [ __ ] heated over that. Yeah, that would that would set me off. Um, let’s do let’s talk about a little LPGA. So, uh, Charlie Hull won this week, but it wasn’t really a win for Charlie Hull. It was more of a loss for Gino Theakool. How’d I do there? I don’t know if I I can’t judge you because I don’t even I think it’s Thidical. That’s how I would pronounce it, but um Thinkle uh had an absolute meltdown on the 72nd hole. She four putted to lose. Is it was it lose by one? So a three putt would have been a playoff or a two putt needed to be a playoff. Um well, so she was up by one and Charlie Hull made birdie. So, I think she needed to two putt in order to or no, I’m sorry. The putt was for Eagles. So, I think she just needed to three putt and she ended up four putting to lose the event. Like, talk about an all-time devastating thing. And it just goes to show you I looked up the stats. Stats on the LPJ tour a little harder to find. No surprise there. But she is a top 10 putter on the LPJ tour and average putts per green. Yeah, I thought she was they said on on that clip you sent me that she was like the best putter on the PGA Tour, LPJ tour, excuse me, or or one of the top five putters on the LPGA tour. That’s like Denny McCarthy going out and four-whacking. You know, Denny McCarthy loses tournaments by uh chili dipping a wedge into the [ __ ] water at the Valero, not not for putting on a green. Like, when you have a strength, you got to lean on it. And for putting on the 72nd is not leaning on your on your strength. 100%. But it kind of raises a point that I always make to my students of when you have a three to four or five footer. I I’m not telling you to dye it in like on the last roll, but Finn ended up four putting there because she was trying to take breakout and hammer it and she hit the the second one, you know, five, six feet by and it’s like, why are you hitting it so hard? I understand, you know, if you want to take a little breakout, but the softer you hit those short putts, the more it opens up the hole. Like she burned the edge on the second putt and the third putt, which is kind of funny to say. Um, but she’s burning edges because her pace was just so aggressive. And it’s like just hit those short putts a little bit softer and it really, for lack of a better term, opens up the hole a little bit and allows, you know, putts that aren’t right in the center to possibly fall in as opposed to, you know, if you don’t hit it right in the center when you have three foot, four foot by pace, then you’re missing that putt. So that is kind of something I always hammer home with my amateur students. But, you know, bull in the or man in the arena. I was going to say bull in a china shop, but that doesn’t make any sense. uh man in the arena at the time. She’s not thinking like, “Oh, I’m gonna four-whack this.” It’s not even something I’m sure that crossed her mind. So then it’s one of those where you’re looking back and you’re like, “How did I just do that?” Like there’s so many rounds. Everybody has them no matter what level you are, but you’ll hit three to four shots during a round of golf where it is just like shocking how bad it is. And that’s just kind of, you know, that’s what you live with. That is the game of golf. Yeah. Well, I will say to piggyback on your putting point, I tend to think some of I mean a lot of people that I play with, even the 12 to 15 handicaps, are better putters than I am, generally speaking. But it does give me serious golf anxiety when I see somebody hammering three to four footers and being like, I’m just taking the break out of this and hitting it in the middle. I do not like that strategy at all. And I don’t think, you know, maybe it works for some people, but it definitely doesn’t work for me because it’s I I hammer it and then I pull it and then I have another six-footer coming back. Yes, 10,000%. I I uh I generally I wouldn’t say I dye them in, but I’m trying to lag those six-footers in there. And that’s why I like fast screens because you you feel like you don’t have to hit it hard and the putt’s still going to get to the hole. So that is uh that’s my take. But feel bad for for Gino Thinkle. I hopefully we’re not just absolutely butchering her name, which is a good possibility. But uh Charlie Hull, you know who’s going to hate on her winning? It’s And actually Yeah, exactly. She talk about a cigarette advertisement. But uh I think Finn is number one in the race to the CME Globe, which is the the FedEx, you know, the LPJ version of the FedEx Cup. She’s the number one player in the world. So, obviously it hurts, but I think uh she’s gonna do just fine. Yeah, that’s something you could see Scotty Sheffller legitimately doing is or doing that’s where his Achilles heel is. Oh, for sure. And actually, I think I saw this. I think there’s been like 15 or 20. I don’t think there’s been a two-time winner on the LPJ tour this year. And that does not in that doesn’t include all over the place. Yeah. I think Nelly Nelly Corda hasn’t won. I don’t know if Lydia Co’s won. There’s been a few big names as well that have not won and then every other week it’s been a different winner. So, pretty wild [ __ ] Yeah. Um, well, let’s talk about a guy that’s won twice in the last month. Alex Norin. He’s won the Bet Fred British Masters and the BMW PGA PGA Championship. Is that right? BMW PGA Championship. The European version of there’s like eight BMW PJ or eight BMW championships. I don’t know. Got it. Okay. how they keep them all straight. But Alex Norin is on a tear right now and he I don’t think he had won like two or three years previous and then he goes and wins twice in two weeks like or three weeks right after uh the Rder Cup picks are announced. Like we’ll get into these rankings because I think we we probably got to get there if we want to finish in an hour and a half. Um but I would have him above a few of the guys on the European Rder Cup team right now. And obviously it’s easy to say hindsight’s 2020 now. He’s won twice. But uh he’s on some sort of tear. And Alex Norn, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is the dude who’s super famous for doing the super hardcore like dry repetitions of really like holding off the club face and opening up his body to try to hit a big fade. And I think he still draws it, but that’s what he’s known for on social media is is just the repetitions. And you should see Alex Norn’s hands. Like I don’t know if there’s a harder worker on either tour than Alex Norin. His hands look like boxing gloves. Like they’re [ __ ] he hits thousands of balls almost every not every day, but he is probably one of the biggest range rats out on the PGA or DP World Tour. So I was happy to see him get a couple W’s cuz he’s just one of those dudes in his like late 40s that has continued I almost consider I I would say him and Paul Casey feel somewhat similar to me. Paul Casey, I think, is slightly younger, but just a couple European dudes that just are really, really good ball strikers. Didn’t have crazy good careers, but when they put it all together, it just feels like they uh they they’re really really tough to beat. So, and honestly, I got to mention these last few weeks over in on the DP World Tour, these fields have been stacked. Like, those fields make the Procore Championship look like a [ __ ] uh a slap and tickle. Like that’s well if the Procore Championship wasn’t decided by the Rder Cup team to go play as a group and tune up for Beth Paige that would have been a complete disaster of a field. Oh yeah. It would have been an absolute snoozer cuz honestly the uh the series I think it’s the Rolex series um over on the DP World Tour they play like the best golf courses in in all of England. They play Wentworth. They play all these different spots that are just awesome. I think there’s a lot of Americans. Aaron Ry, not American, but uh was over there playing, you know, he’s mostly a PGA Tour guy. So, a lot of American players were overplaying in the DP World Tour. And Patrick Reed this last week had a a third place finish beat everybody on the European Rder Cup team. So, there’s been some live uh truthers banging the table for Pat Reed to uh get that RDER Cup spot, which obviously he did not. So, yeah. Well, let’s get into our RDER Cup rankings. So, um, we’re going to power rank every single participant in the Ryder Cub from one 24 to one or one to 24. We’re probably going to start at the bottom. All right, let’s do this here. Sharing my screen. Here we go. Okay, dude. I might have to take a bathroom break at this point. Holy cow. Holy cow. This is not the best podcasting in the world. If you’re watching on the YouTube, Spencer’s pulling up a very official graphic that he made in Photoshop. Um, is now proficient in Photoshop. All right, let’s start with I’m not proficient. I’m I’m uh less than proficient, but passing grade. All right. Would you put it on the job application? No, probably not. No, I’m good at copying and pasting and moving things around. So, these are our writer cut power rankings. Let’s start with number 24. I have a pretty clear. So, we’re going to decide these together as a group or as well. Let’s preface it by saying this is the guys that we would take right now like just strictly on form and past performance, but who we’re taking right now head-to-head like where we see them as players overall. Correct. Yep. Correct. Exactly. Um number number 24. I’ve got a I’ve got a guy in mind. Do you have a guy in mind as well? It’s on the European team. I do. It’s between actually two guys that I have in mind. Um I would Yes, I would say Rasmus Hoygard has got to be 24. Um is it Rasmus or is it Nikolai? It’s Nikolai. Okay, it’s okay. So wrong Hoygard. Um but yes, I would put Hoygard at 24. I mean, he’s like 23 years old, so you know, very very young, super talented guy, but I just think he’s got a lot more ahead of him um than he does behind him at this point. So, yeah, I agree with that. All right, number 23. Um, I could go a couple different directions here. I’m going Straa. I personally think that Se is probably he had a good beginning of the season, but later in the year he just completely fell off. I honestly thought he had a good chance of missing the team. Um, but I would put Seap at 23. I don’t know what your thoughts are. What about Harris English at 23? Harris English has been good this year, dude. He uh I would take him I I think he’s in the mid teens. Okay. All right. We’ll move I’ll uh I’ll defer to you on this one. We’re going to put Sebstro at 23. Okay. All right. Number 22. Um when I look at this board, I know where I’m going and it’s on the American team. Is it here? Yes, it is. I think Sam Burns is number 22. I He has not been good these last few years. He was more of a Scotty Sheffller’s emotional support dog type of pick and he’s I mean, he’s had a couple of decent finishes, but when all you do is choke away leads, it doesn’t bode well for for playing well at an international stage. So, I could be wrong and I hope I’m wrong, but I see Bernzie having a rough stretch for sure. Yep. All right. Uh, coming up next, dude, I don’t JJ Spawn’s been playing some good golf. Like, is that is the next spot for Cam Young? Like, I don’t Yeah, it’s hard, dude. Maybe even Patrick Klay. I I would say Patrick Can honestly. Yeah, Pat because other than Patrick Klay’s like just resurgence. Yeah. lucky finish at the uh at his home tournament, the BMW, where he wins or you know, almost wins every single year. If it wasn’t if he wasn’t a BMW merchant, he’d be probably 24 at this point. For sure. For sure. Um I think uh let’s see, dude. I don’t like I feel like this guy Yeah, I would say Matt. I would agree with that. No dog. We’re going to absolutely zero dog in him. There you I was going to say I can’t really fit his name in there. Um, this is going to make a fire graphic when we post this on our social media later. Uh, but Matt Fitzpatrick at 20. I agree. He actually started to round into forum. He is a major champion which you know can’t be said for Kantlay, Burn, Straa, or Hoygard. All four of these guys on this list. Um, so I gota Yeah, I I mean Fitzpatrick’s a solid player though. That is truly the problem is I just feel like the depth of the the European team is much stronger. Um, okay. I think we got to go back to the to the American side. I would say that at this point you need to stop [ __ ] with this graphic. Uh, I would say Harris English and 19 is a pretty fair fair choice. Um, do you do you agree or disagree? Yeah, I I mean I was gonna have Harris English at 24. So I think English he he’s actually been very solid like if you look at his total career and he had a very good year this year somewhat of a resurgence. So I like English at 19. Um dude I think and now it gets a little it gets a little sketchy. I would say it’s between the two young guys. This guy for me or this guy. Oh yeah. Um like his his year has just been nothing good and he’s young and he’s played he played Did he play in the last Ryder Cup or was that the president? Yes, he did. And I Are we basing this off of like future trajectory as well? Cuz then I No, no. This is just ranking. No, because that he’s one of the highest on this list. of its future career. Like this is just how they’re going to perform or how we think they go they rank going into the RDER Cup this year. Okay. Yeah. I I don’t hate that one then. For sure. Yeah. I mean, is it It’s Wait, wait, wait. I I feel like I feel like Russell Henley’s got to go behind him. Feel like Dude, Russell Henley’s You just talked about how great of a year he’s had. He said he’s almost the best PGA Tour player on the on the tour this year. Not not named Scotty Sheffller, but it from a consistency standpoint, not necessarily. He has he’s no he has no major wins. He hasn’t won this year or maybe he won once this year. Um but what do you you tell me what you think. I’ll give you this call. I I think we go I think it’s it’s like this. I think we’re going here. Okay. And then here. I think Russell at 16, Ludvig at 17, Cam Young at 18 is about where it fits in. Okay. I think that’s fair. Um, now I I know this is going to ruffle some feathers, but I think Shane Lowry needs to be brought up in this this mid- teen range. Yeah, he’s he’s right there with this guy for me. Yeah, I would say him and Morawa very good past performances. Um, but just haven’t found a way to win recently. I I would go and I mean even you know Justin Thomas kind of falls into that same very he had a little resurgent at the end of the year though very good past player already been in Ryder Cups and his his form isn’t great but it’s not it’s not bad it’s not Sebstraka bad right now I mean if we’re talking about just current current form then Xander Schoffley should already probably been put on this list. Yeah actually that’s a good point. We should probably just pencil him in there at 15. Yeah, I would. Okay. Yeah, I like Shalay at 15. Um, and this is just going to piss so many people off when we post this. It’s going to be great. Uh, but Shalay right now, I mean, nothing. I watched him hit every single golf shot during the second round of the FedEx Cup and I was disgusted. He looks like complete and utter dog [ __ ] Uh, not to say he didn’t have one of the best years of the last decade last year winning two majors, but [ __ ] sake, Sha has just gotten off the rails. Um, now I think we go You got to stop messing with the I’m making it look clean, dude. Yes, it does. It looks super clean. It looks fine. Um, where what direction you think we we’re going next? You want to go Morawa or here? I think I would take Morawa over Lowry. So I I would go Lowry 14. Oddly enough, look at how this has worked out. The whole left column is Americans. The whole center column is uh Europeans and then only one guy in the right is European. I don’t know. That’s not really a trend. Um I’m just maybe slightly autistic. Uh so now we’re going Morawa at 13. I like that. Okay, now it gets even hairier. Uh, I would probably go maybe Justin Thomas next. I think it’s between him or Robert McIntyre. What do you think? Yeah, I think I think if you’re going just those two against each other, I think I think Bobby Mack I think I’d put Thomas just above Bobby Mack. Yeah. And I I think partially on past performance, I think Bobby M’s probably at 12. Yeah. Honestly, dude, we’re forgetting somebody that’s in I don’t know what their form is, but John Rom can’t be much higher on this list. Yeah, but he’s still such a force, dude. I I think the whole live narrative is definitely um you know obviously not gone very well for him um just with not really being in the spotlight but I still think he is a you know one of the leaders of that European team and he’s on his best day he’s still you know a top three guy on that European team. So um now I would probably have to go be JT. Yeah, I would say Justin at 11. I would agree. So now we’ve got six uh Europeans left and four Americans, which seems I feel like we’re we’re on the right side of history here just looking back at what we’ve done thus far. Um now I I cannot see Oh my god, I’m such an idiot. I thought that that bar on the right was covering up the names, but the names are right there. Uh, so now I would have to say probably I think it’s either between Ben Griffin, uh, JJ Spawn. No. Uh, maybe Ben Griffin and John Rom. Would you agree with that? Yeah, I would say Griffin. I’ I’d still put Rohm. I don’t No, I I don’t I think Ben Griffin’s got a better shot than JJ Spawn does. like the next American those two next to Scotty had the the best years of any American like Yeah, let’s let’s slate Ramen at 10. I think that makes sense. That’s going to be triggering. Um yeah, I like that. And then I think maybe I think we got to go Griffin. Like for him just to be so new, like this is very much recency bias because of current form, but overall he’s had one good PJ tour season. Like we could end up looking like absolute fools for putting Griffin at nine here. Yeah. Or we could look like geniuses. But I mean, he is in very very good form. I I just hope that moonfaced [ __ ] aviator wearing [ __ ] can pull through for us. Um, so now I I think Tier’s got to be, you know, Tier and Spawn to me are like the same guy. Just spawn with a little less fire. Yeah, I would I would go Tier or And even Rose at this point. I was going to say Rose is Rose is I think, dude, I think Tier I think I think if I’m taking Rose or Tier right now, I think I’m taking Rose. So I think that makes Tier fit in right here at eight. Okay. I don’t hate that. So, we got Tier Hatton at eight now. Um, now, so we’ve got three Americans left. We’ve got four Brits or Europeans. Um, I think at this point between I think it’s between Havlin, Rose, and Spawn. Am I off base there, do you think? No. No. And if you’re not watching this, go watch on the YouTube because it’s makes it a makes what we’re saying make a little bit more sense. Or come check our social media out. We’ll post this on the socials. Let’s see. I think Spawn Yeah, I think Spawn, Havlin, and Rose are the next three off the board. I would probably go That’s hard, man. I would probably go Havlin next. I He didn’t have a great year. I like Havlin at seven. Um, now now I think it’s between Spawn and Rose. Who are you taking? I mean, they were in a playoff. Justin Rose did beat him, but but JJ Spawn had a phenomenal year. Hot. We got We got to give We got to give Rosie for beating him in a playoff. We got to give Rosie the Okay, go there. Okay. So then Rosie goes to five, which God, dude, this could this could look real bad. And this is going to be rage bait for a lot of uh a lot of European Rder Cup fans and Americans alike. I I feel like everyone’s going to be equally pissed because it’s it’s hard to do, man. It’s uh now I I think it’s here. Yeah, I think I think I think I’d take Tommy Fleetwood over Bryson right now. I I agree. Um, and Bryson, it’s just another one of those live things, but you just don’t know what kind of form he’s in. Like, we haven’t really heard from him. He had a few decent finishes in in the majors this year, but nothing to write home about. So, I would uh I would concur with Dashambo at four. And then I I mean I think you know I don’t want to buck the uh or jump the gun here, but I think we know who number one is now. It’s just figuring out two or three. Yeah, we can just slate Scotty in at numero uno. He’s just a world beater right now. Um I think I would honestly take Fle Roy just means a lot to the the RDER Cup team, but Flewood’s in better form right now. Yeah. Well, I mean, Rory did just win the Irish Open. I think this is what makes the most sense, but I think it is crazy to see that we have him at in the top three. And I mean, even just the fact that Fleetwood is number three, I I honestly might flip Fleetwood into Shambo. I I would take Fleetwood over Dshambo right now. Yeah, it’s still it’s one win against 30 guys. Like if let’s just remove let’s have a little constructive conversation. If we remove Fleetwood’s one victory, where is he on this list? He’s probably eight or nine, I would say. But the other thing is his one victory was also so recent that that’s what to me like when you’re signifying current form like he finally won and he had multiple top fives even in that span in that span of like oh he can’t win again he can’t win again he can’t win again and then he wins and then it was recent so that’s where I feel like yeah I feel pretty good about this list there’s definitely you know up for a discussion, but this will be fun to post on our social medias and get some sort of reaction. I I just want to read through it for everybody that uh is not watching on the YouTube. So, from back to front, ranking 24 to one or I I’ll go front to back on this one. Now, Spencer’s just totally messing with the graphic here and [ __ ] me up. Um so, number one, we’ve got Sheffler. Two is Mroy. Three is Tommy Fleetwood. Four is Deambo. Five is Justin Rose. Six is Spawn. Seven is Havlin. Eight is Hatton. Spencer keeps [ __ ] with this graphic. Uh, nine is Ben Griffin. 10 is John Rom. John Rom at 10 is pretty wild. Like I I think that could be one that we come back and we’re like, what the [ __ ] were we thinking hindsight? Kind of 2020. Um Justin Thomas at 11, Bobby McIntyre at 12, Morawa at 13, Lowry at 14, Xander Schoff 15, Henley 16, Oair 17, Cam Young 18, Harris English 19, Matt Fitzpatrick 20, Patrick Canley 21, Sam Burns 22, Seraa 23, and uh Nikolai Hoyard 24. So, this would be fun to post on the graphic. Let’s see how many guys in the top 10. So, let’s see. Top 10. The Europeans have one, two, three, four, five, six. We have four. They have six. So, I think that uh kind of makes sense. And just in general, I mean, we’ll obviously get to it next week, but I am pretty uh scared of this US uh or this European Rder Cup team. I think that they are are a force. Like Bobby McIntyre, it it it’s almost a patriotic thing for me as well. Like I feel like McIntyre is so proud to be from, you know, to be representing his country. I feel like, you know, Tiroll Hatton is kind of the same. Tommy Fleetwood, Rory Maroy, a lot of them. It feels like it means more to the Europeans than it does to the Americans. I don’t know what your take is on that, but uh it it could let’s just put it this way. If I was betting and maybe another hindsight’s 2020 thing, maybe I’ll look back on this and be like, it’s the US team on home soil. Like the US team is going to win this, but I personally, as of right now, I feel better about the uh Yeah, Moonface. I I love that [ __ ] Um, I feel better about the European team than I feel about the US team in my opinion. Yeah, I definitely think that this is this is like this could be a a series, you know, if you call the RDER Cup a series over time. This could be a series defining win or loss because the US hasn’t lost on US soil in so long. But the the teams clearly are a little bit lopsided right now when you when you combine the history of you know there’s really one player on the European team in you know Hoygard who got our lowest ranking that like is he’s a wild card but he’s like doesn’t have there’s there’s more wild cards on the United States team like you have no clue how JJ Spawn’s going to react to this. You have no clue Ben Griffin’s going to react to this. And then all the players that on the United States team that are good and and seasoned and played in the RDER cups, other than Scotty Sheffller, not a lot of them are playing that great. So, it’s like it’s a very up in the air. And if the United States can somehow pull out this win, it’s going to be huge for them, I think, overall. Um, but the and then the same thing with the European team comes to Beth Paige and wins, it’s going to be like, “Holy [ __ ] we need some soularching on the United States.” Yeah, we we got to overhaul this whole [ __ ] situation. Did you see what Justin Rose had to say about the team aspect of it? Um kind of dogging the American team. He said the the team aspect for uh the Europeans feels less forced than with the Americans. The the Americans are much more every man for themselves. And he goes the the team aspect feels pretty natural for us Europeans. So, I mean, there there’s that aspect to it as well where, you know, the Europeans feel more like that scrappy team with a lot of a lot of very good players, not a lot of great players, where the US is kind of got a hodgepodge of more like a super team feel to it. You know what I mean? Where Colin Morawa in his own right is, you know, James Harden and washed up, but he’s still on his best day pretty good. There’s a few different ways this [ __ ] could go, but uh it will I would agree with you. I think that this could it could definitely define the RDER Cup for the European team if they win this. For the US, there’s more pressure on the US because it’s on US soil and if we can’t get this done, then when are we ever going to get it done in Europe? Yeah, 100%. Yeah. And then it goes into you go into the next one, you’re like, well, they already have the leg up with the home home field advantage and then, you know, who knows in two years where this team’s going to be. But I I would imagine the United States team looks a lot like the eur the European team, you’re probably like, “Oh, that might look the exact same with maybe two changes in 2020. What would that be? Seven.” But the United States team, it’s like, is Scotty still going to be there? Yes, probably. But everybody else is kind of like, I don’t know, up in the air. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s wrap this pot up with a little what the [ __ ] Wednesday. I’ll start. Um, mine happened about two hours ago. I took my son on a walk to the park. I get home and one of the parking car like the parking meter guys pulls up next to my truck parked in front of my house and it was [ __ ] street sweeping day. So I’m watching him give me a $50 ticket for being parked on the street on a Wednesday from 8 to 5:00 on the third Wednesday of the month and I was literally like standing right there with my kid and I’m like is this guy really going to give me a ticket? I was like gonna yell at him. I’ll move it. But I thought I was getting another ticket for my plates being expired, which has happened to me once already uh on another car. And so then I walked behind it and I was like, “Oh, my plates are not expired.” So that’s good. I got another month until that happens. But then I was like, “What did I get a ticket for?” Because yesterday, literally yesterday when we got out of the car after Sawyer’s haircut, um Kylie looks at me and goes, “Hey, we should check the street sweeping signs.” cuz there was one, you know, we live on a corner, so there’s one on one street and one on apparently on the other street that we actually live on. And on the other street down on the corner, it was every other or every third Friday. So I was like, “Okay, cool. I’m going to move my, you know, my DNVR Tundra that I’ve got at the house right now on Friday before so I don’t get a ticket there.” I didn’t check the street that I was parked the that I parked the actual truck on that I’m driving right now, my truck. And so I’m watching this guy just [ __ ] he’s driving on the right side. He [ __ ] rolls up to me, looks at my plate, types in the [ __ ] [ __ ] slips that thing in my handle, and $50, 50 beans out the window on You’ve gotten so many tickets. Like I got one really big ticket a few years ago, but other than that, I’m pretty clean. You’re you’re just getting nickel and dime by the city of Denver. Like I am. They’re just there. You should have you should have [ __ ] equity in the city at this point considering how much money you’ve paid them in tickets. Also, you got a ticket in my car like a year and a half ago and never paid it. Um, but it was like one of those parking lot tickets where it’s not a official city of Denver. Like it wasn’t a cop, it was just some [ __ ] So, you’re like, “Oh, [ __ ] this thing.” And occasionally I get those spam text messages about a ticket not being paid until I realize it’s spam. I’m like, this [ __ ] like my credit score has probably gone down 200 points because of this $50 ticket, but no, it’s fine. I I know it’s all in line. My uh what the [ __ ] Wednesday is going to be uh I was at the gym yesterday and there was a dude sitting there inside of the gym with his shoes off like just airing out his dogs. And I just personally think that nobody should be taking their shoes off inside of a gym unless you’re in the locker room. But if you’re out like and it was an older guy with like the long white socks on. I’m like, “Brother, you got to put those dogs away. Like you’re there’s not enough ventilation in this place for you to be taking your shoes off.” And just some people like work out with no shoes on. It’s such a weird thing. Like shoes are just it’s [ __ ] Yeah. I I I mean I guess I actually listen to M. Collins talk about it and there is some science behind like your feet and like how your equilibrium as a person which is just absolutely wild to me. But we we definitely grew up with uh I would call it more sensitive feet. We always had shoes on outside where we had some friends who were running around like [ __ ] like wild animal. Yeah. No shoes on like running across gravel. I’m like ah uhh. I was just we were soft at least from a shoe perspective. growing up as kids. So, I’m always like I’m putting shoes on, not showing my toes for the most part, unless I’m near a body of water. The to the dogs are not out. So, I just I don’t get where people get off getting so comfortable just taking their shoes off in public like Well, yeah, that and dude, there’s this guy at my gym, the new one that I go to, and every morning I after my workout, I go sit in the sauna for like five minutes. And every day he’s there and he’s not in the sauna. He’s maybe out of the pool. I don’t see where he comes from, but he’s just sitting in the one of the like beach chairs that’s next to not even a hot tub. It’s just in the middle of the room, like as tile, and there’s a steam room in a sauna. And he just sits there and he’s reading his Kindle in like a towel. And I’m like, that’s kind of like a kind of a bizarre 5:45 in the morning activity to just like you can do that at home. You can read at home most likely, I guess, unless he’s got a kid. And you know, right when I go home, I see my son. How old of a guy is he? Probably early 40s. Oh, okay. Yeah, that’s an even weirder move. I figured it’d be like some guy in their 60s, but uh yeah, like go it maybe go do that in your car. How This is funny. How many people do you see just sitting in their car at the gym? Like that is one of the toughest things to get out of the [ __ ] car for. I’ve sat in the car in front of the gym for like 30 minutes before. Like really see I love it. Like I get there and I like almost forget to lock my car. I’m so excited to get in and get to work. Get the hands dirty. I mean, I respect that you’re a grinder. I’m like, “Oh, I got to go [ __ ] do 20 minutes of cardio and like two like [ __ ] three different circuits and then I’m done.” Like, I usually work out for about 45 minutes. I feel like that’s fair. Anyone that spends an hour and a half at the gym is fooling themselves. Like, they’re Nobody’s doing an hour and a half worth of [ __ ] You’re sitting there for a good half hour. Like, I’m barely Yeah. After 45 minutes, do my [ __ ] and get out. After 45 minutes to an hour, there just becomes a lot of it’s the same workout. You’re just prolonging it by talking or going to get water or sitting down, you know, like there’s 45 minutes to an hour is about a a solid time and then any more than that, you’re just kind of you’re just playing with it at that point. Yeah. Yeah. You’re you need to put your [ __ ] away. There is one guy at my gym, last thing before we end this [ __ ] there’s one dude at the gym I go to who is there almost every single time I’m there and he is always there when I get there and he’s there when I leave. Like he spends and he’s pretty rip, don’t get me wrong, but he is the the absolute [ __ ] dude at the gym who talks to everybody. And I’ve never talked to him, thank God, but he’s the guy that has to be friends with [ __ ] everyone. He’s talking to the ladies that are cleaning the equipment. He’s talking to new friends by the [ __ ] the free weights. I’m like, dude, what? And I honestly, part of me is jealous because I’m like, good for you on just getting out there and making friends because I’m not taking my AirPods out. If somebody makes eye contact with me, I’m like giving them the middle finger. I don’t want to talk to anybody. But this guy is just chatting everyone up and it blows my mind that somebody I guess it’s you know I if you don’t have a hobby like golf or something where you can go out and meet people and make friends gym is kind of that place but it’s just talking to people at the gym is just like off limits for me. I you know obviously females we’re both in relationships but I even when I was single I would never approaching women at the gym is the biggest [ __ ] ick. When I see a dude, I’m like, “Oh, do not talk to her, bro. That this is not going to go well for you.” But even to But then on the other side of that, you know, pause talking to dudes, same thing. I’m like, “Why would I, dude? Do I need to at the gym? I don’t need some [ __ ] playdate here. We’re all here to do thing.” And that’s got to be less fat. Like, that’s all or try to maintain. Like, I want to work out so I can eat a few carbs tonight and have a few drinks and not feel like dog [ __ ] about it. Yeah, pretty much. There you go. So, we eat, we eat to live. We don’t live to eat. We work out to eat to live to We’re gonna end this podcast. Appreciate everybody tuning in to Big Drive Energy Live. Make sure you’re following us on all socials at Big Driveen Energy, Big Drive Energy on Instagram. Hop on there and let us know your comments on our power rankings once we post those later today. Uh we appreciate you all tuning in. We’ll be back next Thursday after Mitchell gets to go see Beth Paige for himself. Hopefully he doesn’t have too many drinks in that box and can actually give us some good reporting on what’s going down there for the ride. Free booze and free food. I’m gonna be I’m Well, and real quick, so I guess there’s celebrity matches. Like it’s a practice round, but there’s celebrity matches in the morning and then the guy the players come out and actually practice in the afternoon. So Oh, sweet. Yeah, you’re gonna have to do get on the Twitter fingers and the Instagram story fingers for that one. That’ll be sick. They They’ll probably be zero service like everywhere else. [ __ ] I won’t be able to tweet [ __ ] I won’t be able to post anything, but I will definitely get some footage and and I’m definitely This is one thing I will buy merch from. I will couple hund beans ready. I’m buying no bar stool [ __ ] No dog ass. You’ll we’ll have to do Okay, we’ll do them merch report then on Thursday. Bring it all to the your podcasting area and we’ll do a little little fashion show. Maybe we’ll have you part shirt on. [ __ ] yeah. Oh. Oh, I’m not popping my top. I it will be held up. I will put a hat on. That’s that’s even [ __ ] a bit of a stretch taking my hat off. But I I can just see you [ __ ] Oh, you [ __ ] [ __ ] But but I will be buying some sort of merch. I’m not a real like buy a polo. Like where am I going to wear a polo? I don’t give a [ __ ] Like I might buy a hoodie or a hat or both or maybe a flag or something, but other than that I’m not, you know me, I’m not huge spend $1,200 on merch type of guy. So, oh, 100%. Just so you can say you went to the Ryder Cup, which you technically aren’t even going to. Um, but technically are. [ __ ] you, dude. Yeah. All right. Well, everybody, if I’m there, it counts. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Everybody, have a great weekend. We will talk to you next Thursday on Big Drive Energy. Peace. Peace.