Not the start to the 2025 Ryder Cup that Captain Keegan and TM USA envisioned. TM Europe jumped out to an early 5.5 – 2.5 lead after Day 1 at Bethpage Black. We run down both sessions, are joined by The Pro Max Homa, discuss Player of the Day, provide onsite observations, share new and notable information, tomorrow’s pairings, and more.
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[Applause] [Music] Be a right club. Beat a right club today. Yeah, that’s better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most. [Applause] expect anything different. [Music] [Applause] [Music] They should have taken speed. Nobody wanted to listen to me on this one. I’m just kidding. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up Live Show presented by our friends at High Noon. You guys just cracked yours. I already had mine open cuz it’s well past drinking time. Sie here calling in live from Farmingdale, New York. Hello to the pie man as well. Hello Sie. Great to be with you guys. What a delightful day of of watching some G on the television. I I can’t wait to get into it. I I can’t wait to chop it up with the boys. I have faith that the boys are going to bring it tonight. It’s just it’s going to be a great night. My big proud American friend, a recent convert to the American team. Are you ready to bail on them, Big Randy? Hell yeah, I’m ready to bail. I got there. What did I sign up for? That was gross. is bad. It’s really hard to root for. It’s really It’s uninspiring. Uh I don’t know if you guys have heard, but High Noon has new non-carbonated vodka iced tea flavors. Uh the new vodka iced tea, Lake Pack, introduces two new exciting flavors, green tea and half and half alongside the classic original tea and peach flavors. The Lake Pack brings together real vodka and crisp iced tea pack for maximum flavor to bring wherever your day takes you. Highoonspirits.com to find a pack near you. High noon, suns up. The RDER Cup is also uh this Ryder Cup show is brought to you by our friends at BMW, a worldwide partner of the 2025 RDER Cup. They do such a great job. They set us up with great digs, great transportation, everything we need to effectively cover the RDER Cup, support all of our RDER Cup content leading up into this. Uh as well, uh they’ve they partnered closely with Keegan and Luke Donald to design their own custom RDER Cup editions of the BMW 7 series. You can see those out on site. They got a ton of great activations. They do great stuff in golf. So, eternal shout out uh to our friends at BMW for supporting this show and supporting one of our favorite events in golf. Deej, take me on whatever torture path you want to take me on. Yeah. Well, let’s just let’s just level set. Let’s zoom out as we always do. Let’s just say what happened. Of course, after day one of the RDER Cup, Europe leads 5 and a half to two and a half. Is that bad for the US? Yes, it is. That’s only a point better than it was in Rome. Things are not good. Uh Europe leads they they decimate them in the forsomes three to one. They go two and a half one and a half in the fourball. This is Europe’s first day one lead on US soil since do you guys know 2004 probably 2004 at Oakland Hills. Uh that’s a long time. Uh world number one Scotty Sheffller goes 0 and2 for the US Americans. John Rom goes out in both leadoff matches. Goes 2 and 0 for Europe. Tommy Fleetwood goes two and 0. Bright spot for the for the US. Cameron Young looks great in his debut. We’re going to talk about all of that. Sie, you were out on the grounds. What where do you want to start, my man? What sticks out to you first? Um, it it’s a disastrous day. A lot of ways we could go. Truly a lot of ways we could go with this. Uh, a it really honestly just hit me as I was sitting down here how bad of a day it was for Keegan Bradley. uh sending Bryson and JT out first based essentially solely on vibes, which I was kind of the opinion like you might get away with that at home, man. Like I I get it. I get what you’re after there. Go for it. They shoot you in the face, though. Well, they did shoot him in the face. That worked out horribly. Uh Scotty and Henley, again, a pairing I was expecting and thought made a lot of sense. Uh did not work out at all. uh look like those I didn’t get to see a lot of that match what it sounded like looked like those the first two time uh that it felt like the first two times those guys had ever met each other I was going to say first time they played golf in America it was not it was not good I don’t know who those two guys were but they were not the two guys we were expecting which we can get into some of that as well the Morawa English pairing don’t feel like I’m second guessing that one we called that one out last night as being the worst possible pairing they could have put together and on to be honest that didn’t end up hurting them that bad because it was like the sacrificial lamb pairing I don’t think anybody was beating. Yeah, they got lucky with that one, how bad that one ended up working out. And the one thing that did work out for them in the morning, Xander Can. Uh so of course they’re down 3-1. Now you go into four ball and we just watch Europe scratch out two and a half points despite the US putting up better numbers in the afternoon. They they played better golf overall in the afternoon, but Europe ham ham and egged it better, which is not a coincidence. That’s not like some random thing that happened. They’re just they’re very clearly have a better system in place to get the right pairings to get the most out of everyone on their team. They played their bottom four players in the afternoon and won the session uh because of how well Luke Donald and Dodo Molinari worked out the numbers, the pairings and all the chemistry and everything. It was really really impressive and it’s just I can’t do another show here where we say they just made more putts, man. I don’t get I don’t know. I don’t know how or why they were more prepared to play better go. I don’t know how. It’s just it’s total luck. all these things that it just continues to happen in one direction. What do you What are you chalk italking up to, Randy? They just managed to bullpen better. What was the deal? Yeah, I mean, begrudgingly, the the process, the capital BP process, this was a win for the Europeans today, as Sie said, it it just I I don’t know. I everything that everything that they’re about I have more confidence that they know what they’re doing that what they’re doing matters uh that they have a real game plan that all the guys are aligned with what that game plan is. I it just you watch a day like today and the difference between the the European organization and process and the US organization and process it just becomes very very stark. So, listen, I think some of it too is like the Americans like we just need some dudes to show up. And I’m sick of like calling for that, too. But it it kind of comes down to like, yo, you guys got to play some golf, man. You’re supposedly some of the best in the world. Well, I I don’t have a lot of insight I can lend to that necessarily, but why don’t we talk to uh the guy who was the winningest US player last time we played the RDER Cup, my guy, your guy, everybody’s guy, Max H joining the show. Maximus, how are you, my man? Hey, fellas. Happy just to hang out. Uh that was a long long day of golf watching for me. I don’t think I’ve done that in like high school. How was the viewing experience? I’m really I’m really here just to talk about how much the golf course stunk and the coverage stunk to be completely honest. Well, hell yeah, dude. Welcome to the show. Yeah, dude. I’m a long time. I felt like I could add to the echo chamber. Uh, no. What were what were your big your big takeaways? You know, I was talking to you kind of throughout the day. I know you were pretty locked in on on coverage. First of all, did you get a haircut? You said you were going to make the barber turn on the uh turn on the RDER Cup at when you went to go get a haircut. Yeah, they had a like a one of those like dish satellite things and it’s been raining here in Scots never happened. So, that just cut out. Uh, new conspiracy theory alert is it never went out during the commercials. So, I’m starting to think I’m starting to think uh big golf is has something to do with this. Uh, but no, I mean it was good. It was fun. I I woke up at 5 with my newborn Austin and we just grinded the morning. Missed a bit of it. I had daddy’s day at school today. uh and then came back and watched a lot. Um I don’t know. I didn’t love the course setup. Uh although the rain just that just sucks. Uh do they do anything about that’s what my man I don’t know anything. Last year was the or the the last RER cup was the first time I had understood the power of the course setup thing. I think I don’t know if I mentioned it to you guys, but like they had, you know, you guys all know this, but they had said that we’re better wedge players and every short par4 was like a drivable hole. So, it took a lot of wedges out. Um, and then they said that they had an advantage from 180 to 200. And I write my numbers in my uh on my pin sheet like for, you know, front uh front edge and then pin number. And man, when she started to realize it, I was like, man, I have 180 to 200 like every hole. It was pretty amazing. Uh, so you know, I was, “Wow, this really does play a part.” I’m not I don’t I’m not here to say like the US did anything wrong, but it was kind of fascinating just the morning session how well they putt and it just felt like I don’t know. I thought that it was just for as a viewer just a boring golf course. It just didn’t really matter where I didn’t think anybody was going to make a bogey all day. Granted, they didn’t show very many golf shots, so it’s hard to say if anybody did, but it’s just like, you know, Rom pulled it on 15 maybe and like Se hit it at the bottom of the thing. And granted, Se made a sick putt, but it’s like I never thought in my wildest dreams like Rom wasn’t going to get up and down. I mean, it just looks somewhat basic and you missed the fairway unless you missed it on 15. It just seemed like you whacked it up next to the pin. So, I don’t know. It’s It’s interesting, but uh I I be I always wish like we could talk more to the like you guys having Dodo on was cool. I know nothing about the stats stuff as as far as course setup goes. Well, I think on that front, just picking at what you were saying there and the the idea that you don’t feel like anybody’s going to ever make bogeies. I I almost would go a step further because I feel like we roll our eyes a lot of the times on like they just made more putts. They just made more putts. They just made more putts. And today they did make a lot more putts, especially in that in that foresome session. But I think where that really matters is when you I’m not even saying all the golf course setup is their fault because I got a ton of rain, the greens were soft, all of that. But when you also cut the rough down now, it’s like, okay, well, everybody’s kind of in every hole, right? You can drive it way offline, but the rough’s down, so everybody’s going to get to the green. So then it’s like, well, yeah, flat greens, everybody’s hitting the greens. Like now what matters? Yeah, it’s putting and and that’s what’s crazy to me was in that forsome session seeing guys speed control like especially on the American side was abysmal. Like Russell Henley who who’s a great putter like seemingly having no touch. Uh Patrick Canley who’s a great putter having no touch. Like that stuff didn’t really come around until it’s felt like 145 when those matches were so far over. And pause on that for a second. DJ, what Max just said about like, oh my gosh, they just had us exactly in that advantage spot. The US is better tea to green numbers-wise than Europe. Why are you describing this course as a putting contest? That’s what I’m saying. You were in charge of this setup. Like at a certain point, it gets cut off and a neutral committee takes over TE’s and pins and you can’t decide all that those details. But you own the golf course up until like the week before the tournament and we ended up in a spot where it became a putting contest. That goes back to leadership. I’m sorry. That’s a failure. like it should not it should not come down to that. I did think it was sweet uh considering it’s a public course. How many like short putts were missed because it feels like a very you know like a very uh I don’t know if these greens are all that you know well thought out and you know some pins could be in some funny spots. The one Rory like super horseshoed uh and then the there was another one that broke like felt like it was like 3 feet and it broke like five inches. Uh, so it’s kind of fun getting to watch a golf course that, uh, you know, is the people’s golf course and I felt like, you know, a lot of people actually made it look like that. But yeah, I’m with you. I don’t know. It just I the rain thing I think probably stunk cuz Russell Henley is just a cheat code when and JJ Spawn and not that JJ played great and Russell didn’t have his best day, but like Russell doesn’t hit it very far and you kind of just get worn out. Like I use the blackjack theory with him. It’s like if you keep playing him for a million rounds, like he’s the house is going to get you cuz he’s just going to keep hitting fairways and keep hitting greens and keep hitting fairways and keep hitting greens. It felt like he got because of the rain, it felt like it didn’t give him much of an advantage to be in the fairway with the length he was hitting it versus cuz he doesn’t hit very high. Uh versus like some people were, you know, 25 yards up in the rough and it just didn’t feel I don’t know. Like I said, I’m not dogging the setup, but I think the rain stunk because typically even with somewhat like basic firm stuff. If you’re in the rough, you can’t hold, especially how long that course is, you’re not sticking. I mean, Tommy was like spun it back on 16. I know it wasn’t a long iron, but geez louise, like it was in the rough. So, I think that really hurt some of the guys on our team or like our advantage with just how soft it was. And that that part sucks cuz I I I mean, I’m with you. if I’m doing it. I I I thought that they would make it hard or graduate or whatever you want to do. It just it just uh I just it just like didn’t work out. But again, I’m just here I’m just here to hang out, boys. Uh here to hang out, listen to the takes, firing, and mostly just talk about how I don’t understand how we see so few golf shots. I just don’t At 5:00 a.m. it it hits way different than like 3:00 in the afternoon. 5 a.m. I was like, “Guys, I set a alarm.” Like, I wanted to watch this and I’m just like getting killed. I don’t get it. It’s wild to me. Well, welcome to the Resistance, man. Let me say that first and foremost. Radio, what are you gonna say? Uh, I got a few questions I want to ask you, Max. I’m trying to think of which one I want to ask first. Um, let let me ask a personal question. After having played your first RDER Cup a couple of years ago, what were the just emotions like watching this Rder Cup? I mean, was it was it was it kind of excruciating? Did like what what was going through your head or have you come to kind of peace with you’re obviously not a part of this year’s team? Yeah, I mean it excruciating is probably aggressive but it sucks. Um it’s motivating which is nice. I typically when like something is like self aacing like this or something that I feel like I’m missing out on, I try to like steer into it. So, uh just soak it up. Again, I got a lucky day where I was home a lot, so I got to watch a lot. I didn’t really plan on like grinding all of it um today. But it’s hard, but it is motivating um to want to go play the next one. And uh the those away ones are I mean that’s like the coolest thing in the world. um just from the three teams I played on the away one’s pretty awesome. So, but yeah, it’s it sucks, but it’s also like I it, you know, whoever missed out the year I made the team like I would want them, you know, not that it matters, but I want them to like support and I like really want them to win. Like I I didn’t like when I mean credit to him, but I didn’t like when Rory banged on the table last year and said, “We’re doing this at Beth Page two years prior.” Like it’s just you get this like pride uh for the team and it doesn’t necessarily matter if you’re on it. Like you especially the way the captaincy worked with the vice captains like I’m really close with all those guys. Um so you just want the best for them but it is hard to watch this on your own. I mean I’ve come to peace I wasn’t going to be on the team for a while but you still like sucks you know but it’s uh you still want to root on the boys and it’s still like I don’t know it’s I think it’s the best three days of TV there is. I mean it’s it’s incredible. you you have a bit of perspective. Uh obviously day one in Rome was was not great. I mean what what do you think I’m sorry to like day one here not great for for team USA? Like take us inside. What what what do you think the team room’s going to be like? Is there any panic? Like what what give us a sense of of what it’s going to be like this evening? Yeah, it’s great the guys are on the team who are veterans. Uh because what I would say is it felt like the world was coming down after the first day last time and all the veterans were just like just so you guys know and they like broke it down and wrote it down is like this is how many more points are up for grabs and we’re like not even remotely close to the end of this. So like I I find I mean I would say the mood in the team room is obviously going to be motivated but I don’t even think like super bummed out uh would be close to what they’re feeling cuz you you know singles one is a massive thing tomorrow they could if you get it within two it’s like a almost a I’m not going to say a wash going into singles but it like any truly anything could happen there. Um, and then so like having that veteran presence like Patrick, Justin, obviously even, you know, Keegan coming in, he’ll say something about it. All those guys, Scotty, like they have a good bearing on Xander, like what how the process goes of like let’s not panic, you know, go play your game. I will say that I found a big win and like if if Rory and and Shane had won on that last hole that that one hurt last time uh with Justin Rose um you know making that putt and pointing to everybody right in our grill. I would like it to be known uh that that was for a half not a whole a whole point but that like just stung. So some like I know it sounds stupid but some minor momentum there like without I guess not getting sucked of momentum. So, there was enough good, especially, you know, all day, but especially that last bit that I don’t think it’s killing you and I don’t think anybody’s going to panic. Um, but I I do always find the second day interesting of like does the captain run the same thing out or do you like change it up? I don’t know how that all works, but that’ll be that’s what I’m curious to see what happens tomorrow. And if you run it out again, which I I always like, you know, just go play better golf. Uh, but yeah, that’s that’s the fascinating part of the final day. But I don’t think the guys are freaking out at all. I I mean we’re like truly not close and if we thought we were a million back in Rome like this should feel like damn near tied. Uh so I think everyone will be all right. This is a this is a maybe complicated question and honestly a tough one maybe for you to answer Max just considering you’re obviously knowing all the team guys and the captains and all that stuff. At what point I have I just have questions about Scotty being 0 and2 Scotty playing poorly in Roman. I’m not taking not picking on Scotty just to say like hey their top guns from the jump show up and are ready to play and are prepared and it just seems like we’re making a little bit of excuses for them. All right. The G it became a putting content. It become just always a little something. When in Rome it was ah competitive rust. It’s some jet lag. Oh, there’s some sick. It’s just a kind of always something. I think I know I know you didn’t get to watch a lot of his round. If you watch Scotty this morning especially, I don’t think you’d be making any excuses for him. That was like that’s a different person than we’ve seen for the last five years. But that’s my point. Like I I I as many as of these that I’ve watched, I kind of uh I I’ve I kind of refuse to believe that there’s not something culture related, leadership related about being prepared to play from the jump because Europe is ready like especially under Luke Donald, they’ve been very ready from the jump to start. Is that random variance? Is there something to that? Is there something you got Do you look at what Europe does at all? like their their team culture, their camaraderie, the way they do pairings, any of that, and say like, man, we should be borrowing at least some of this to help with this problem that we’re having getting off the bus in these last couple RDER cups. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I guess like obviously last one was the only one I’ve been on and um I’m sure like again from team to team, I’m sure it’s super different. like just I’ve talked to Keegan quite a bit and and Kizner and Gary so like I feel like there was a a bit of a difference there like a bit of maybe plan stealing in a way or like copycat type stuff. I don’t know if they did it but like you know they they had talked about being more just taking from what happened in Rome and like switching it over like everyone’s everyone’s you know turn over every rock. The Scotty thing’s fascinating to me because I I I don’t think I’ve beaten him like maybe ever and I’m not kidding. Like I know I didn’t beat him this year. I definitely didn’t beat him last year. I got close. I think we tied at BMW or something. So, it’s just like I don’t I don’t What I will say is this with all team events, RDER Cup and President’s Cup, they are not meant to help you prepare. You have no time to practice like at all. You have to beg at times like for 20 more minutes to go putt. I’ve had it at each one. My first one uh or first team event at the President’s Cup, I remember I didn’t know what to say or do, but like I had not hit practice. like we would warm up in the morning and then we go play nine holes and then it would kind of be like eat and it’s like okay cool we’re getting on the bus in 15 and that’s how I and I know that worked for Europe too so I’m not like it’s not like an excuse here but uh I remember my first one I was like kind of frantic cuz I was like wanted to hit and like do my own thing and some of the guys had said like you got to figure out how to do stuff quicker here cuz like it’s not meant to prepare you to play a great golf tournament and I finally it was I was lucky but like I was kind of venting about and Scotty stepped up and was like, “Hey, we’re taking another car back. Like, if you guys want to get on the bus, go ahead, but like we’re going to go practice for a little bit.” And so, you know, the guys who wanted to go hit or whatever it was did. And same same kind of thing happened with putting Rome. So, all that to say is like Scotty’s one of the best. I mean, he’s obviously he’s the best golfer I’ve ever seen. Him and Rom just like as far as longevity goes, are the best just in my age range. But um they Scotty is like the best preparer. Like he is really good at that. And I don’t know if this has something to do with like it also could be random. I mean I I I know what you’re saying DJ. Like I don’t see him pull a pitching wedge ever. But also we have a ridiculously high bar for the guy like absurdly. So um I do think a lot of it’s random. I mean he also seems to get paired against a guy who’s playing great or you know one of you know their top two guys going into it. You know, I’m sure he played amazing. I didn’t get to watch, but like Sunday of Rome and he’s playing against John Rom who like what a battle that is. Um, which leads me to say I feel so robbed of Rom against Scotty on the P2. Oh no, it’s not even a thing. It just as a golf fan, it sucks cuz like god that was fun to watch them go when Scotty got going at the end. You’re like golly and then Scotty at the PJ this year it’s just like against Rom you know it just was like who’s going to outlast the other. So, I don’t know. I’m not here to pick it obviously Scotty, but like it it definitely um the tournament itself is just not meant to make you feel comfortable with your golf game. Like you just you just play like you know everyone has such a different way of preparing for a tournament and in that week you kind of everyone does everything together and it’s uh it’s super unique in that and I I don’t know they the the European team seems to be really good on uh at least in the last couple on that Friday of just being locked. I don’t know what it is, man. It makes no sense because I I both teams are so good. I just don’t get how there’s a a theme to it, but it also like if you look over the last, you know, 10 RDER Cups or whatever, this the split is not nearly like that heavily one-sided. It’s just uh you know, we want to win. So, it’s like you nitpick. Well, I think that there’s also something to the idea that, like you said, I think Keegan, it seems like they’re they’re doing a lot of the the sign stealing and like let’s implement that and let’s implement this and let’s try to do do things differently. Europe’s also been doing that for 20 years now, right? And so I think each generation kind of builds on the last and you know guys are are now doing it for the fifth time instead of the first time. So part of it for me is like it’s probably not all or nothing, right? like it seems like it is moving in the right direction, but at the same time it’s just going to take a while. I think they’re also one round. I mean, one day like we could we could flip this thing tomorrow and and then we’re like it’s easy to arm your quarterback for one day of golf. Um I think you know people have put a lot of pressure on this one. I think again a lot of it just because you know what Rory said last year and he’s right you know winning away RDER Cup’s so hard. Uh so I have all the faith that they’re going to do it. So, it’s easy to sit here and just be like, “Well, why didn’t Scotty play better?” And why, you know, Scotty does this every all the best golfers ever do this a lot. They’ll shoot two under the first day and be in 30th and you’re like, “What’s going on?” And then, you know, se six under, then like eight under, and then three under like, “Oh, yeah, he won by four.” So, it’s like it’s super easy in one day um to just nit nitpick at it. Uh but like yeah, I I don’t know. There’s something obviously the Europeans are are on a on a heater just in the the whole thing lately. I mean, Rom’s been on fire in these things. Tommy’s playing unbelievable. Uh, Rory obviously played great. Um, it is a unique golf course in that I feel like it does favor a certain type of person and I feel like we’re all like super evenly matched which is kind of fun, but Rome was different. It was like seemed very tailored to uh any style of golf and it was just like who’s who’s going to make those putts or whatever. Course was kind of wonky. It’s like almost like who’s going to get lucky at times and this one is like you know you stand on those TE’s and you’re like man you go manto man and it’s like this is going to be good if you get the right matchups like you know Rory Rom type people like on that golf course is just if there was a major there this week you would be all about them obviously same with Scotty uh Xander uh you know it’s just it’s it’s a fun golf course in that for the the um competition uh I don’t know if you could really do a whole lot to sway it one way or the other. It’s uh it’s one of those types of golf course is super big and and you just got to you kind of got to just hit it hard and and you know it’s kind of like what we all make fun of with PJ Tour Golf at times is just like smash it and then they cut the rut out and it’s like all right now really smash it. Uh but again I’m s I’m sitting here not thinking that there’s a whole lot to worry about. I think a lot of the recency bias makes everybody freaked out but freaked out. I’m you’ll be all right. I have a very good feeling especially if they I think they’ll come out cleaner tomorrow. Uh we also have a lot like you got to get the nerves out that first day at times and they have the same team from last year and I’m not convinced that Rasmus and Nikolai don’t swap in and out. So I saw Nikolai out there. Max, I’ve been banging that drum. I love that tape. Yeah, you they shouldn’t be allowed on the grounds at the same time. uh you know if Nikolai draws it better or something maybe he hits a T-shot on 15. Um but yeah so I think you you know we get some of the guys you know Harris is obviously a veteran of Ryder Cups but it’s been you know he didn’t play the last he hasn’t like gone on a run of them. Cam Young was amazing today but I’m sure he was super nervous. Uh Ben Griffin’s first team event. You got a lot of those things. What do you do in force tomorrow? Like what what would you what would you run out? I mean this morning was kind of a disaster. Do you semi-panic on it and and change up a lot of things? Do you send Scotty and Henley back out together? Um, what would you who who would be the guys you would you would think about sitting tomorrow morning? The pairings aren’t out yet. We can first guess. I mean, you could kind of go with the thing like I mean Cam Young played so good. It’s probably hard not to play him, but uh I like the pairings. I mean Russell and Scotty are like a Chico dude, so I’m not like bucking off of really a whole lot there. Uh I’d be curious just uh with Scott like or with anybody who played both sessions if you’re if if you run them obviously all back they’re going to play five rounds. I don’t think that’s the biggest deal but I know that’s on people’s minds a lot. It’s just a quick turnaround not a lot of sleep. Um but yeah I I like the pair I mean the pair everything’s felt fine. They just have to we miss so many short putts in the morning. It’s like that thing flips a little bit you know if they just like executed just a shade more. Like I didn’t hate that. But I’d be curious just the the fatigue part. Like I I don’t know how captains look at that. But that you know, you send Scotty out, you have to send him obviously like if you want to come back, you know, you have to play your guy, but it’s like how, you know, dead set are you on not playing somebody five times? I don’t really know that one. Sully, what’s your uh what’s your thoughts on pairings tomorrow? It’s kind of hard to piece together to be honest. Um, I think it’s probably Spawn, Griffin, English sitting. Um, and then you got to figure out between Morawa and Henley who you’re playing of those two. Can Scotty and Morawa play together? Did they practice that at all or is that a total total panic freakout move? Do you run Russ back out there with Scotty? Do you This really hard call like when it doesn’t go your way on day one. If you stick to the plan too much and it really fires against you, then you’re going to get triple guessed. And if you change it up, then you’re gonna say you you deviated too far from the plan. So, I don’t have a great answer. It’s honestly kind of hard to pick out uh exactly. You know, I think Europe can run back the same the same setup tomorrow and and be totally safe. And uh Keegan’s going to have to press some buttons tonight and I don’t know exactly what they are. Yeah, the Henley thing’s weird. That that is God, just talk about a guy that seems like he’s got the highest floor ever and is just is that dud going to show up two days in a row is that that is the thing. You can’t you can’t just sit there unless he comes up to you and goes, “It just doesn’t feel good in my hands.” But you you run again, you run the blackjack. Let’s let him keep playing. Um if he feels, you know, which I’m sure he does, feel good about it. But he had to be nervous too, man. Like morning, the morning is tough. You’re like groggy and then you come out and everyone’s singing and it’s, you know, well, our chants suck, but you come everyone’s yelling, I guess. and uh you know you’re up and it’s like it’s a it’s a roller coaster a bit and you you know alt shots hard man and if you get going it doesn’t necessarily say that you’re like not playing well it just means the rhythm got funky so I like I said I don’t think you ever panic in these things um unless one of your players you know looks or says hey like the putter doesn’t feel great or you know somebody’s like dead honest about it but I like little things you could mix up I’m sure but you know it just I just felt They just didn’t get in a groove. And uh that force that foresomes thing is very groovy, man. Like you got to like the momentum is is huge. You don’t see that often as pros missing short putts back to back, but you stop seeing it go in. You know, even at like at the Zurich, you know, it’s funny how you can feel it. It’s like you miss a few putts, your partner missed a few putts, and then it feels like the whole, you know, got even smaller than normal cuz you saw five putts miss. you only miss, you know, two or three and it’s like but it doesn’t it’s just a weird it’s a weird format. So, you just got to hope if you’re USA you get out tomorrow and you know get going a little bit early like through five have a few more uh you know red flags up there on the board and then uh you just kind of run with that. But there are certain people like you could nitpick like I would like to see Colin play with the in the best ball format a little bit and let him just go especially with how soft it is. I mean, I just feel like he’s going to abuse holes. Um, but you could say that about everybody. So, I think they just go out there and I think it’s just a bit of a I think Keegan will do a good job. Everyone will be loose. Like I said, the the veterans on the team are going to keep everybody. I think it was just great to see like, you know, JJ’s in I don’t think people get how good he is at golf. So, it’s nice to see him come out and like show that and then show himself because I think he’ll come out tomorrow with like that boost of confidence. Same with Cam. Same with all the rookies. So, it’s like you’re going to come out and like have that bit of a boost like, “Okay, I got through.” It’s almost like playing Waste Management 16 the first time. It’s like, “Okay, I didn’t die. Didn’t shank it. I could do this.” Sully, uh, did you get your heart rate up out there today? It did. Uh, there was a lot of heart pumping moments uh, out there. And this reminds me, this episode is brought to you by Whoop, the official fitness wearable of the RDER Cup. 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I am going to bed at a more timely in a timely manner, drinking less later at night. Uh, but also a reminder, you can join the official no langu team on Whoop by inputting code coomml NLU in the community tab of the app. You can also try the allnew Whoop 5.0 for free. Go to join.woop.comnlu for a free 30-day trial today. Thanks to Whoop. Uh, I want to throw it to Randy for a bit. Max, feel free to hang for this because I want to hear your uh, opinion or or go Max. I’m just chilling. I was going to listen to this anyway, so might as well sit here. Uh, and for those for those in the comments, uh, if you’re in line to hear from TC, stay in line. He he will be here shortly. If you’re in line at that point, uh, I asked Randy to to put together some winners and losers from today. Randy, people were absolutely just froing at your uh, your rating system before the week. Who’s a one, who’s a half, and who’s a zero. So, I said, let’s get micro on this. Let’s just let’s just look at today. Who are who are the winners and losers? I think you’ve got a couple dialed up. The floor is yours. Yeah. Um All right. Let’s Well, you want to start losers, winners? You want to go one? Your show, man. You tell me. Uh let’s start with losers. I mean, I’ll get this out of the way. I’m feeling like a loser, right? I was a late switch to Team USA. So, I I just need to acknowledge that. I didn’t even try to recruit you, Randy. I was gonna let you be on the way. You’re a Reds fan. I couldn’t also bring you in on this one with me. Um, it’s actually a very tough weekend on the on the rooting front. Max Max kind of touched on what was, you know, if I go three to one, I have three of each. I I had Beth Paige Black as my third loser today. I I thought one just the interest level of watching match play golf out there. I I just didn’t think it was that interesting, right? Like the greens aren’t terribly interesting. there’s not a ton of like riskreward opportunities necessarily, so we don’t have to spend a lot of time there. I thought the fans even, you know, it was getting chippy late certainly that that Mroy Lowry match, you could start to hear some fans heckling, but I thought for as much buildup as Beth Paige Black in the Ryder Cup and it’s going to be out of control. I thought it was a bit uh tame today. So, I had Beth Paige Black kind of overall as my third loser. I I think on that front, Randy, one of the tough things I was thinking about the the moments where I kind of I was I always go off of, you know, when am I leaning closer to the TV and when am I like looking a little closer when the ball’s in the air and I’m like, today the only time was kind of spin control questions, you know, where it’s like uh even like number one was kind of fun when the greens get really soft and you start jamming some of these pins in the back. Sometimes that can get interesting. Just I remember like Morawa had to go it throw it all the way to that back fringe and then spin it. But then at the same time on the other side of my brain I’m thinking about like uh number 11 in the four balls. Justin Rose drives it way in the left rough and just he has like 105 and it’s just like oh cool just hit it 105 and it’s just going to stick in its pitch mark. It’s not spinning. This is great. And then Ben Griffin and Bryson were both in the middle of the fairway. theoretically should be an advantage and neither could hold the green because they just zipped off the front. And I’m like that sucks actually. This is this kind of stinks. Like that’s way when it’s a harder shot from the fairway than it is from the rough. I don’t know if we’re asking the right questions. So, and listen, you can talk me into Beth Paige as a US Open, you know, proper test. I I’m there. But I I thought as a writer cut venue wasn’t doing it. Uh we’ll keep moving here. My my second biggest loser today, my guy Sam Burns. Listen, anytime you’re picked because you’re supposedly the best putter on the team and you have the worst statistical putting day, my man, you’re not going to you’re not going to miss my loser list. I I’ll tell you that right now. Um that was that was a tough performance especially when one more made putt somewhere that would have mattered would have been a point for the I thought his missine 18 was was the perfect encapsulation of you know see that’s somebody like if I’m captain I don’t know how like the numbers work but like that’s somebody I’d like to send in the morning tomorrow cuz he is like obviously tremendous golfer great putter um and then like see so that you don’t like have him sitting in on his hands waiting for it you know what I like go see like go if the putter gets hot then you let him run the whole day. Uh I would like to that’s the hard part is I think sometimes you you panic and you say ah Sam didn’t play great or whatever. I don’t know what he ended up doing but he or what shooting or what what strokes gain or whatever but like I would like to go run that back in the morning uh and get him back out there. I mean, and then just see what’s going on instead of, you know, having them have to sit there and watch the golf. But obviously, a lot of things have to work out to make sure that that happen. But like that seems like a person you would want to help warm the putter up cuz he’s not only a great I mean he’s a great putter. He’s really obviously good at everything else, but like you want to go you want to go get that thing hot and like not you know not not ice it I guess with uh having to sit and watch golf for however many hours tomorrow. But that’s just a theory. Yeah. Um, my number one loser today, don’t say me. No, I kind of want to I kind of want to tie this into just the whole US operation, but I had a real problem with the US uniforms today. And I thought those they’re fine. Really? I mean, they were f Yeah, they were they were a half if you’re going with your your grading scale. Well, let me tell you why I didn’t like them. I thought the gray hats I can’t get over the USA script is is awful. the the gray hats. No one’s wearing that gray hat anywhere outside of on the course today. The five channel hats are bad, too. Yeah. You’re just not wearing that. Yeah. And then my my big issue was the the golf polos having the zipper instead of the buttons. I’m sorry. I I’m Maybe that’s a thing. I’m It’s not and will never be a thing for me. I I absolutely hate that look. Here. Here. I I Because you need a ridiculously long zipper. Well, that could be. But let me just tie this into the wider operation. You know, I I think we were all robbed in hindsight. Like, how much better would today and tomorrow and this weekend be if if Keegan were playing? And, you know, don’t change a single result right now. We we spent so much time willy, willy. Like Sully, I know we were we were striving for like something’s going to feel new and different with the strategy and Keegan’s young and man, everything just feels exactly the same as it always feels on the US side. So, I feel very bummed that he was not out there playing because at least that’s something different. Yeah. I I’m not willing to declare this yet, but but wouldn’t it be funny if uh for all of the uh he simply can’t play because he’s got to focus on captaining. What if he’s a worse captain or if he’s worse for the team as a captain than he would be as a player? Like that’s that’s wild. Again, I don’t think we’re I don’t think we’re there yet. But this is why I flagged this like eight months ago of like, dude, just focus on being the captain and don’t make this a story and don’t be distracted by anything else and like get to know your players really really really well and get and start thinking about your pairings and get ahead of all this stuff and you come out lay this egg in round one. It’s really hard not to be like, “All right, dude.” Like it’s it’s hard not to wear that. I’m sorry. It is really hard. Randy, can we put a break? Friday coach coach, you had the home field advantage. you punted it back on day one. Like that’s coaches get paid their biggest bucks and especially if you look at basketball or baseball on the adjustments. So like let’s like at least give them till tomorrow. Like the adjustments are what’s fun about coaching if they come back and win. Sure. I mean we won’t we won’t remember this as an all time bag fumble. But as we’re sitting here right now, it looks like an all-time bag fumble. To lose on home soil is it’s going to be it’s it’s unreoverable. Are they the first first home team to lose forsome since in like nine RDER cups or something like that since 04 you said right? Uh well that was like day one lead but I think I heard that too. The first team to lose forsomes uh in the last nine Ryder Cups or something like first year I bet on them to win forsomes as well which is really that is you got to wear that a little bit. Can I give two one winner one loser really quick? I don’t know how I’m going to phrase a loser, but really fast cuz my phone’s 5%. Winner uh Ryder Cup simply because man, for someone who hates Twitter as much as I do, made me really want to get back on just to complain about commercials. Yeah, anything. I don’t even I just wanted to read uh my barber had the funniest thing. I was telling him about Seep Straa. He’s like, “Where’s he from?” I said, “Fucking Valdasta.” And and he told me he goes, “Dude, uh the uh guy from Mean Girls who’s like, “You don’t even go here.” Yeah, I was like this is it was like a verbal tweet. Uh I don’t know how to like frame the loser, but I called DJ about this because it hit me like a ton of bricks when we played our RDER Cup. We It was sick. We got uh shoes for Michael Jordan. It’s coolest thing ever. Say Romero on the bottom. Uh it was awesome. And I was like, “Man, it would be so cool. You always see him at the tournaments like to get have Michael Jordan around.” I realized today watching on TV thinking to myself, I would be more nervous if he was at the event watching me play golf. And I’m not his friend. You know, Keegan’s his boy, JT’s his boy, all these guys are his boy, but like some of the guys who aren’t, like I would [ __ ] my pants. So like I’m not saying it’s a loser thing, but like that’s got to [ __ ] be kind of intimidating. Like I don’t know if that’s a net good thing for us. I always want Michael Jordan there, but like I I was on TV thinking that’s heavy, man. Like that’s most like everybody’s like childhood hero. What if you uh instead of Michael Michael Jordan who also was there uh it was also just a pane of bulletproof glass and the president of the United States standing right behind you as you were as you were doing that. I was I was watching that as like they’re coming out of the tunnel. Ben Griffin maybe he knows maybe he’s met the president. I don’t know. But the first thing he sees when he walks in is just like a I’m about to play my first Ryder Cup. There’s the president. Bryson’s now Bryson’s like off yucking it up with him. Like what what is going on? That just had to be a little bit of sensory blitz creek there, I would imagine. But well, we might we might run into an issue here right now. I got two Maxes. Okay. Okay, there we go. We got a flash flood warning. Scottdale, Arizona. And somehow my phone turned off. Max, we got to uh before we get to the winners, I think uh a quick break in the action, I think, to bring in our guy TC because I I just Cody, if if you’ll please. TC looks like he’s at a little league night. Chopping up some gum. Big league chew probably. Yeah, we got the range right here. People grinding out here tonight. Uh and then we got the little league over there. Let’s see this guy’s move right here. All right, there we go. Yeah, Goosey’s two for two so far tonight. Nice situational hitting kind of like Fleetwood. Top of the third. Top of the third. So Max, I I thought we were cool, man. I thought we were cool. Not this week, dude. I can’t stand your rider coach today. So annoying. TC, how are you feeling? DJ’s on the squad. DJ, how you feeling, man? You’re on the Euro squad with me. I feel good. I I put something on Instagram. I felt like Billy Zayn sneaking into that last lifeboat off the Titanic, but I was like, uh, you know, you asked me on the preview show. What team you rooting for? I’m like, I’m going to I got to sneak in with TC in the last game. Get this European vote. We got the White Socks. We got Team USA. Any other teams you want to bail on just for the winning teams that Well, Dodgers are getting Yeah, Dodgers are getting their bullpen back. I might take a look at them. Uh, yeah. No, I as I said, if you parse my words carefully, I I don’t know that I’m rooting like, oh, I really love Team Europe. It’s just like I would like to see them win away Rder Cup. That would be sick. That’s that’s what I’m rooting for. I’m rooting for history. I’m rooting for the game really more than anything. So, I think DJ, you’re also rooting for Just wait two more years, you bum. Yeah. I just don’t I also think you’re rooting for you were doing a lot of heavy lifting with that rogue team, Max. I’m being honest with you. That was my thing today. Like where’ the dogs go? I know JT’s a little bit of a dog, but like Max speak those are the those are the dogs. And I think I think Burns might be a dog, but you can’t have Burns on the bench and think he’s a dog and then not have him out there Friday morning, right? I think I think we thought Benny Booms was a dog and he didn’t look good at the dog park when he when you actually brought him out there with the bigger dogs were scaring him a lot. Yeah, I think JJ might be a dog. I want to see more JJ. Yeah, I agree 100%. Let me just give a quick quick thing about dogs real quick. It is very very possible and more likely than not that that people who are not dogs come out don’t play good on Friday and then and then they they tell their dog owners I don’t want to go back to that dog park. You have to again you you have to measure the dog by how they respond on Saturday. Again, one of my theories why I want Sam to go out in the morning and go, you know, bark his way around Beth Page, but like you can’t measure dog in one day. That is not fair. So like let’s just like give it a second because there were some Well, it should be less than one day because it’s seven years for every one year. So their time even moves faster back. So I don’t know. I’m not a math guy here. Uh I I don’t know. We I I thought JT bounced back after the morning was not good and he played awesome to start and then played incredible. Yeah. Uh so I’d like to see what everybody else does. JJ’s super I mean everyone’s so good. So we want to go see who comes out tomorrow with that that fire and can get in their ass a little bit. The problem right now that’s so annoying if you’re American uh on that team is just like you’re you’ve just now had you have a lot of just like watching Justin Rose point at the crowd type things like that’s or his team I guess that’s that [ __ ] is uh team hopefully they take that in in a in the best way and and have him stop doing that. So that would be good for us. TC I feel like we’ve talked a lot about the US team. We have not talked a ton about the team that is winning uh the competition. What what stuck out to you the most? Who are you most proud of? Who Who’s your absolute boy today? Uh on the opposite end of that, I think Vic. We got to get Vic figured out, but I think Rom Max said it earlier. I missed I missed watching him just battle. He’s He’s so good today. He He’s a dude. Putter was awesome. The I think that three-wood he hit from like 267 or something that landed like a nine iron. That was insane. Well, everything landed like a 9. Yeah, that’s true, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, no, I think you know, Tommy, Tommy played great. I knew Rosie was going to come off the bench. I think Tommy kind of carried him a little bit there. Um, who are you worried about, TC? I told you Vic. Vic I think Vic is uh he’s the only guy. I mean, I think Bob’s a different player than he was two years ago. Um, Levig played great. I don’t know what happened this afternoon. I’ll have to dig into some of the some of the data, some of the analysis and all of that. Uh, maybe Keegan should dig into the data, too. They lost like five and four, six and five. And you’re just like, “Yeah, I’m not sure. He he played good.” No, I said he played He played well this morning, set the tone, went out with the rookie this afternoon, and we’ll we’ll listen. We got to go watch the tape, Max. We got We We can’t just make five and four. It’s not a fair comparison. For those that missed it, those two were not great. They were two easily uh Yeah. two of the three worst European players in the afternoon. both minus two on the strokes gained uh on the strokes gained category. Levik looked so free this morning in that Forsomes match. He looked like silky and then yeah kind of I don’t know if he was tired carrying Rasmus or what. I don’t know what the deal was. I think Levik’s been flashing for the last like week and a half basically. Uh he made nine nine birdies in an eagle in one of the like the pre rounds last week and uh like even like pre pre-practice rounds. Um, I mean, can we talk about Well, yeah, obviously carried it over though, at least to the first round. Uh, can we talk about like Colin and Colin and Harris going out as the 13? Like, can we just pose that to the data boy, Sally? Like, what’s going on with the [ __ ] data, man? Are they not using the data? I’m at 1% and uh I’m gonna let TC have my chair, but love you guys for having on. Yeah, have a mediocre night, TC. T, you’ll be proud to know we open the show questioning that. So, believe me, it’s it’s been addressed and covered. Uh, it’s insane to me. And just Keegan looks defeated already. He looks worse than than uh ZJ did at this point in the proceedings. And like he just looks like he got hit by a train. And and again, people wanted him to do this and play and play. People wanted both of these things. He can’t even do one of them. Or he should have just the best way said, “Hey, I’m not gonna be a good captain.” I don’t know. I’m just I’m so excited for for when Tommy’s a captain, for when Team Rose is a captain. We got this whole lineage cooked up. And uh man, I I like I think this is the beginning of something great, not necessarily the end of something great. Uh as somebody who said some regrettable things in an RV, TC, I just don’t I just don’t want to get too carried away. You never know what can happen over the next decade. Things can change faster than you realize. TC, let me let me jump in here. This this was on my winners list. This was actually my my number one winners. I think I think we have I I identified three great men of Europe today. And I think I I I gotta I gotta give Tommy all his flowers. The guy’s a [ __ ] killer in Ryder Cup. Thank you. There’s there’s nothing else to say. I I don’t think he’s ever lost a a match in pairs play. Like there there should be four killers on this list too, Randy, by the way, for Europe. But do great men. Five. Five. Man, the these are great men. So I I’m anointing Tommy. A great man. Uh I got I got Let me ask you. Sorry, real quick. You didn’t feel anything while you’re watching Tommy today. I’m going just go back to what she said the other day. I don’t feel anything about this guy. There was a little Yeah, there was a little. It had to flutter a little bit, right? Yeah. Yeah. It was fun seeing him make putts and and and really be lagging it. I’m just spread collar. The flow I listen, you know what? I see why people like these guys. The collars were spread because they’re not welld designigned. They’re like they’re bad collars. Yeah, I was gonna ask you about that, TC. Yeah. Didn’t like the collars. Randy, I need to hear the rest of these great men. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Well, I just want to Tommy, you you you you earned it today, buddy. John Ro, listen. I know we got some stats here, the guy’s 83 and three now in Ryder Cups, but uh in his last three, you know, he went one and two in 2018 and since then my guy’s 71 and three. This is a great man. Okay, this is a great man that Europe can count on in the RDER Cup. Kudos to him. That and I know how hard that is for you to say. Great man because my number one is Rory. I got to give Rory the credit. This this guy [ __ ] delivered today. All right. I I’m a little sorry that putt on 18 to win that match this afternoon did not all. That would have been a crazy celebration because he didn’t unccork it on 17. Like when he made the putt on 17, he was like, “No, I’m going to wait to go absolutely batshit crazy on 18 and then he didn’t make it on 18.” Especially because he needed to get it inside of Burns there. Here’s what I’ll say about Rory. And I I I was so impressed today. You know, obviously we’ve seen the clip him calling out winning on the road in a Ryder Cup at the end of 2023. The guy went out there and delivered. Like that’s a [ __ ] leader. And I was very impressed with with Rory and his play. And these three great men. This is what Team USA is lacking. The the US has no great men on its team. And I think that’s a big problem in all honesty. I know you only played one match, but you’re leaving out fits as well today. Fitz was good today. I’m not ready to anoint anoint great. This is like a lifetime achievement award. This is these guys are great men. Yeah. No, I I think I think Fitz is chomping at the bit to to come back out tomorrow morning. I think Fitz probably plays two sessions tomorrow, too. Like you’ve got Se gotten Sap out there. You’ve gotten gotten Rasmus out there. Like let’s let’s rock. Let’s let’s let’s play the best guys. Leig’s only played what 26 27 holes. Fresh. Yeah. So far, I mean, you could play him all five sessions and not even worry about it. No hidden innings for him, right? For Europe like all day tomorrow. You think anyone sits for Europe all day? Rasmus maybe Seth or Rasmus, right? Or Seth, which even Se was Se was like uh Seb like he he felt like how I played matches sometimes. It’s like shoot 91, make three birdies at the right time. Birdies. Yeah. That was good stuff. I like see that. But like again, I go back like that’s just not there’s there’s zero chance that’s accident, right? Like that they how do they squeeze every last drop out of these pairings every time? It’s like there just a massive credit to and that goes to the A players, the great men you’re describing, Randy, like they carried 14 of these holes and they get the four contributions they need from somebody like Se and somebody like Lowry today who did not have their best stuff. Not even close to their best stuff, but like got them the shots they needed. Like that’s that’s where you you again like numbers wise in four ball US outgainained Europe and they lost the session because they did the all the things wrong. You had their two best players playing together which is a nightmare. That’s exactly what odds and evens for Scotty and Henley was so sick. That was so [ __ ] sick. Like everybody I talked to said that they were just befuddled by that. It was incredible. For people that didn’t get in the nitty-gritty what was the what was the issue? It’s not even nitty-gritty. It’s like it’s it’s as basic as you can get. It’s like your longer hitter should go off the oddsole odd holes. Like that’s just how the math would play out on both with driver demand and the irons that are going to be left on all the other holes blah blah blah blah. And not only like when you don’t do that, you are punting the other team’s going to do it. So you’ve just clearly punted the distance advantage uh right off the bat and like that’s not the reason they lost, but it’s just a you can’t punt every little 2% thing to the other team and expect to win. That’s why our Reds are a game out right now, Randy. to keep punting these little tiny advantages that don’t win out over 162. Like this just like basic math stuff. You don’t [ __ ] around with that stuff. I get you got to make some gut decisions at times, but you don’t just punt. Like I’m hearing that there’s there is even more divide between the stats guys and Keegan and a lot more. Listen, if you’re going to put out the 132nd ranked pairing, I don’t think that should be shocking news to the two of you guys. Do the stats are the stats guys not endearing enough? Are they not persuasive enough? Do they have the captain’s phone number? Are they dealing with a massive ego as a captain? Making it to the captain. A problem that they’re dealing with right now. God. I mean, Sully, I I just think too like you make those gut decisions on Friday afternoon or Saturday afternoon, not like Friday morning. Hey, we’re going to lead it off with this massive massive wild card of this guy that like probably shouldn’t have been on the team if we’re being honest. like doesn’t provide any energy even when the guys aren’t playing well like you can tell Europe like sticks together and they go and like embrace each other and get closer and the US guys go the opposite direction from one another. I heard there was a lot of that from Bryson this afternoon who was just like off on his own and like not doing anything to carry Ben Griffin along in any way which like again is a big ask but the great men Ry’s great big three strong great men are doing exactly that and did it in Rome like exactly that. That’s I think that’s the problem. You have Bryson and Scotty as I would like look to as should be the leaders of this team and Scotty just doesn’t seem to have that personality right. I I don’t think he is a Rder Cup leader and Bryson like you’re Yeah, he’s not going to get guys to follow him. I I I think they lack that guy that they can go follow and and Europe’s they got him in spades. That’s culture, man. I don’t think that happens by accident on the European side. Like that speaks to their culture, man. That’s credit to them. Speaking of a great man, a guy I would follow. A guy I would follow anyway. Turn it up. AI Zav Maria. We want a little action in here, boys. Come on. Hear Randy talking about great men when I walked in. Love that. Love that, Randy. Of course, that’s the voice of Neil Icarto Schuster. Uh just fresh off the shuttle. Uh Neil, what’d you see today? What do you got? Oh, man. I got a lot. Um I’m tired. I’m hurt. I’m sweaty. Uh some guy just uh exploded a packet of uh yellow mustard all over the back of my shirt. It was a It was a tough one out there, boys. You look like you’re dressed to go bowling. Are you going bowling after this? It’s a red shirt. We’re gonna go watch your Reds win. I got Kingpin in the bottom right of my screen. Uh, no. I I followed uh the Six Sense pairing. Haley Joel and Bruce Willis out there. Scotty and and Spawn. They just I mean ghosts, man. I’m seeing ghosts. Scotty can’t make a putt. I mean, Rahm, the butcher’s back, fesoning his bed chambers with their corpses. It’s unbelievable stuff. He took down the top dogs on the US one after the next morning and then, yeah, give me Scotty in the afternoon. I got this, guys. I was so impressed with John Ro. That was probably the highlight of the day was just like, man, I don’t get to see Rahm play a lot of golf anymore. Still got it. Pretty cool to see. He was doing it. He was doing it. He was an absolute stud today. Uh, we haven’t really talked a ton about the crowds, Neil. I know that was like uh, you know, it’s kind of your beat this week a little bit. What’s what what are the people saying? What’s what’s you got your ear to the ground there? Uh, I did. So, I was following that first group which was an interesting vibe because it felt like the crowd was on edge. You know, I roll into 8 9 10 11 12 like that middle stretch. People haven’t seen much. They’ve been drinking a lot in the afternoon. It’s hot out there. I was kind of like out in front of that group. So, I’m one of the first people I see and they just start yelling stuff at me. It’s like, who are you? Why are you inside the ropes? You know, just kind of like hostile. Uh, and it felt like if somebody dropped the Mentos in the cola and shut the top, like they were ready to go nuts, but nobody gave them anything to go nuts about. So, it was a little bit um it got pretty rowdy on 14. And then um I wouldn’t say they were there wasn’t anything outrageous said. I think a lot of like Rahm was catching it for Liv like you’re a goddamn sellout Johnny’s you know a lot of that a lot of ompic chants ever I heard some Ozmpic stuff um not the strongest ground to stand on as Americans trying to think of any uh his name’s Sip Struck he’s got a small cocka that was another one I heard which didn’t you know it’s like okay whatever that’s classless that’s it is but the the the fans they don’t the one thing they do well is they they’re not saying anything clever. They just say it with such conviction and so directly like they don’t they don’t like it’s not passive. It’s like and then they add like a Johnny, you know, it’s like you’re a [ __ ] sellout Johnny and they like point at him, you know? It’s like it’s like oh okay well some Karate Kid stuff. Yeah. Really really serious. Um they’re there to cheer more than cheer for sure. Definitely. And that’s not just because of the the the action didn’t go their way. Like they’re they are they were there to heckle the Europeans. Yeah. got a good Aruzion journey. A lot of jerseys out there. Um, a lot of guys sound like Mike Rouion. I play for USA. Um, the first te was I don’t know, a little underwhelming, I would say. Massively underwhelming. It just got really they they messed up. They had this woman, Heather. She was like, “I’m here to get you pumped up.” She lasted like 15 seconds. She got booed out of there. And guys, Susie Susie Why cannot be the first the first tea announcer. Tell tell everybody to quiet that. You know, no offense to Heather, but she just wasn’t ready for the job. She was like, “What do you say, USA, boo?” It was like, and then it just was like dead silent. It was like, “Okay, cool, man.” Uh, the DJ clearly didn’t play golf. He didn’t know what he was what he was up to. Um, I Yeah, I don’t think the US team just didn’t give them anything to to cheer for. Uh, lot lot more olays going on. You know, it’s it’s it’s a bummer with uh US culture that we don’t have a we don’t have a rolodex of um of cheers outside of, you know, USA and you know, Scotty Sheffler. It’s just like that’s that’s it, man. Wells drive the bag. USA. That’s it. That’s that’s all we got. And that only came out whenever there was an Olay chant. Like just they there was no like origination of it. That was only coming out when they had something they needed to drown out. It was Guys, guys, I’m going to drop. But, uh, I do want to hear an answer to if things don’t go well tomorrow morning and then they don’t and then they get off to the wrong foot on Saturday afternoon, will this crowd turn on the US team? Yes. And what will that look like? So, you’re talking about the crowd on the ground. You’re not talking about this podcast. Yes. Yeah. I I think they would, TC, can you imagine booing little Colin? Oh, like I I don’t have to imagine it, Randy. TC’s got on his VR headset at home. Call him bad as you guys were making him out to be today. By the way, he was not good. He’s your boy, Randy, before you get out of here as uh as you know, your the the assistant captain here of team Europe. Who would be your two guys that you would send out first thing tomorrow? Um, honestly, I would just send Ramen Hatton back out first again. probably pursue, but but they are going back out there. I have the pairings. I don’t know if you want to stick around. I would love to stick around. Yeah, I’m sticking around. So, uh I got I got Freddy here, too. Hey, Freddy. Hey, Freddy. Uh match number one, Levik and Fitz going out against Bryson. Whoa. And Cam Young. Very excited about that. Okay, I like that. Why why did Cam not sit Why did Why did Cam not play this morning? We don’t know. The answer is that one. Well, yeah. I think uh Randy, I know you like whiplash the movie. I think Fitz is getting absolutely whiplashed right now. I think he it’s just like, “Nope, sorry, man. I know you’re the best player this morning. Not not quite good enough. Not quite my tempo. You’re going to be sitting this you’re going to be sitting this morning.” I think he’s gonna be frothing ready to go again tomorrow morning. I I love that first pairing for I like that match is great. That’s gonna be that’s gonna be good stuff. Match number two, guys. Uh talked a lot about them. Rory and Tommy Lad going out. They’re going to be taking on, let me guess, Scotty. I think Scotty and Henley again. No. Uh responsible decision. Uh H and Morawa. We’re running it back. We’re running it back. Your boys, Randy, your boys back in. Wow. That is all time. Victory. What do you say to those guys, though? To me, that comes off a little brash. Uh, a little cocky. Oh my god. I mean, it can’t get worse, I guess, is kind of the maybe the cool thought. Th This is your problem you had, though. You’re not going to use Cam Young to be your A player off of odds, which I would have thought would have been a tool you wanted to use from the jump, but you’re going to have to put somebody that’s not a bomber to to to tee off one of your teams, but whatever. What the [ __ ] Who cares? It wasn’t just one with Henley. It was It was such a noticeable disadvantage when Henley teed off on nine. It was like, what are what are we doing with that this morning? It’s so sick. Match number. Let me hold on. Let me hold if I may. Sie, knowing that Cam and Bryson are off first, who what would you have done to combat the Tommy Rory pairing tomorrow morning? Um, I pro I mean, you don’t know this when you go, you know, set the order, but I would I would want Scotty going up against that one with I I don’t if I I would say Henley, but I wouldn’t want to do the same order of holes. So, I would play with probably I don’t know. Well, I think you keep throwing Klay at Rory any way you can. You know, Kantlay Xander off second. Those two are solid, man. They played good this morning. I think on time, man. He is a dog. I know he’s not scared, but I think he’s on borrowed time. Like that shot he on 18. I just I think he’s That swing’s not looking good. They They probably can’t put him out second because he’s so slow. It got really really slow this morning. They were two and a half holes behind. I know. It was noticeable as a being on the ground. Bob’s not quick either. Very slow. That might be where the Beth Page is coming out. Oh no. Hold on. These guys I see these guys at this tea time. You guys get out before them. Yeah. Now we got to get you close. [ __ ] You need to get going. They’re they’re the like older guys in the players club. Yeah. They’re good guys, but they’re they’re slow. You guys They should send the assistant captains out in a biker game. All four of you guys here. All four of you guys here. Yeah. Can we get Keegan versus Norin? Like we should we should get that in singles. We might need to if it ends, you know, that celebrity match to keep the fans entertained on Sunday. We know we’ve got We know we’ve got Xander and Kantlay. Yeah, Xander and we know we’ve got Scotty going somewhere. Okay, they put out third. So, they’re match three. Okay. Against TC. Who Who you putting up next for Europe? This feels like I think Bob I think Bob probably goes out or uh or Ramen Hatton. Ramen Hatton. Yeah. Oh, that’s a fun one. This This is a wall that Team Euro is building tomorrow for real. Let me try to end. These are these are fire roll these are firewalls against US momentum. And that leaves us with match four. It will be Scotty Sheffler and Russ Henley going against Big Bob and Vic. Man, Sully, if if Scotty plays if Scotty plays the off the evens again, he’s going to they what I’m doing right now. Drink. I’m drinking. Seemed like the plan was all about the first hole and and then they didn’t think about anything beyond the first hole. The momentum on the first on the first hole because Henley shouldn’t tee off on that hole. Correct. No, I know. That’s what I boy. He shouldn’t be off on like it’s the most insane plan. They’ve had 18 months to think about this and figure out who Sheffller’s going to play with and all of that and just abject failure on the US side. It’s incredible. The quote he was asked specifically, this is from Brody Miller uh on Twitter asked specifically about the Morawa English pairing and the analytic suggesting it was a poor pairing. Bradley said, quote, “We have a plan.” Um and he said, “And Europe just beat them today and they’ll try to beat them tomorrow.” Uh, well, I saw I saw a post from Shane Ryan before I hopped on. He said, “You should pair Scotty with Bryson. He’s the only guy that Skye’s won won Ryder Cup uh matches with, you know, just take it back to Whistling Straits.” Yeah. I I’m I mean, I’m surprised honestly they’re not going back to JT in the morning. I I I would have been surprised if he’d have gone five sessions, but JT played really good golf in the afternoon. Maybe you’re just saying, “All right, you’re you’re a fourball player for us here, but you didn’t have eight. You’re you’re behind by three and you didn’t have you don’t you don’t have too many. This is not your your eigh eight best players this tomorrow morning.” Like you’re No Burns either. That was the guy that that was the guy that Max was calling for the ball like you know. No Burns. I would like to see Spawn in the hell I would have sent Spawn and Griffin out instead of English and Morocawa. Just give me two guys that won it. Just show me a little. He didn’t play good, man. I watched him all day. He was It was boring. Like it it, you know, it just wasn’t any good and they couldn’t Can any can anybody see anything out there? Uh, no. I’ve decided my take on if you’re attending a Ryder Cup, you need to treat it like a picnic in the park. You need to go post up, find a tree where you can get some shade, and there’s a big screen across. Uh there’s a great spot uh left of Seven Green is a good spot for this where you can you’re basically going to watch TV all day. You can get a bunch of Italian sausages for free. Get your money’s worth on the Italian sausages. Lot of Rice Krispie treats, some pretzels, anything non-alcoholic and you just hang out in the trees and and then you can watch all four groups. Occasionally a player comes through occasionally and then you if you’re lucky you’ll see a couple golf shots. Um but it’s it’s a it’s a you know it’s a picnic. I think the best place to watch golf TC I was I was right last night. Number eight is great. You can get up on these hills. There’s no corporate hospitality. You can watch the entire hole unfold and then you can watch them tee off on nine. That’s where you’re going to maximize golf shots. So you see I have a different answer for you about if they if they send Henley off the first te. Uh you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to get as close as I can to that pairing. I’m going to say visit www.stacksystem.com stacksystem.com uh and and use code nolaying up and you can get 10% off your stack bundle to increase your swing speed. 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I was going to look up Saturday afternoon, but I mean if they do have that firewall built and they build up a fivepoint lead, six-point lead or something like I think then you can sit. So I think it’s almost like you know didn’t Rahm sit Saturday afternoon at Rome because they had such a big lead and he kind of had like he did sit built the the cushion for it. But I think they’re all committed to probably going all five. You know, it’s like it’s almost like the there if you need it but hopefully you don’t sort of situation. They only had two guys go all five in Rome, Rory and Vic. Um, that felt like a stronger team though, like in that in that kind of middle pack. Um, I think Bloodvig and Havlin are bigger question marks. Stronger form. I would I would have you change your words because it’s literally same. Yes. I I I think that um yeah, I I would be nervous to do that if I was them because it if you’re kind of sending out the middle of the pack and the bottom four again in the afternoon like they had their top four going this afternoon and the US was in better like should have won the back like they they were favored in in those matches like that fell out really well for the US and should have been wins for the US. If you sit one or two of those guys and bring those bottom four back in, you are leaving the door open for a three three and a half point session. pretty like that just would let them right back in the match. So, I think they’re uh they’re prepared uh to to gas pedal and send these guys for a lot of lot of holes. One thing I I would say this is purely eye test from from what I saw like Scotty didn’t hit the ball all that bad. It was a lot he missed putts on two, three, like he didn’t he didn’t he’s not playing well. Brahm made all of those putts. I mean just dagger the putt he made on three was unreal. like 25-footer. Uh just he he just did it throughout the round. I wonder if that flips like do the numbers flip. Do they start making putts? Because that that it wasn’t like oh man they’re just like all over the map off the tea. It just felt like they’re just not making putts. Scotty let so many opportunities slip away. So that would be if if I was going to stop myself from overreacting that would be it. Scotty could have been hit putting to those co raised cups though and would not have made any more birdies. Like he wasn’t touching the hole. It wasn’t like they were lipping. They weren’t lipping out. It It feels like they were overreading most of the putts. Per Day to golf, eight of the top 11 putting performances were European today. Love seeing you getting the stats right now. The stats don’t matter, Randy. I was just yelled at on the everything. Yeah, the the US horrible horrible putting. He’s got his reds button down on. He’s going to put on his accounting like green visor. Complete the look. get the get the data going. I’d love it. Well, Sy Neil, I know you guys didn’t watch a lot of the the broadcast. Max Max led with this, so I feel like we need to circle back here. Randy, uh, any thoughts on the the television product today? Uh, listen, I’m going to be completely honest. I was not up at 5:00 a.m. local time for the first te Randy. Neither was I, brother. Yeah, you were up at 459 when I called 459. That’s true. barely barely up at 4:15. I breezed. I caught up and went through a bunch of commercials in the morning. I So, let me just say I will clear out. I know there were issues this morning if you were watching live. I actually thought late afternoon I didn’t mind it. I I wasn’t overwhelmed by the the hashtag load. Um so I I don’t Yeah, I thought they had uh I thought they had a tough a tough morning. Some of the audio stuff was really tough and that’s kind of the whole point of watching the RDER Cup is hearing people yell and I get it. It’s very very very hard. I know they’ve got some changes going on in the booth. It’s not a not a shot at anybody just calling it as it was. A lot of mistimed audio. A lot of just like totally silent balls landing close to the hole. A lot of that stuff that’s just like oh man I kind of was I would love to get excited about that. Where’s the I feel like I’m missing one of my senses here. And then I wanted to ask about the partisan booth. Uh that was something they’re, you know, we’ll start here. Compliment sandwich. They’re trying something new. I like that. That’s great. What was this? Uh the whole the whole point was they were like just we’re taking the restrictor plate off these guys. You know, we’re we’re having a basically a US a US fan and a a British fan or a European fan in the booth. And so it started out with not was the US fan noted Ryder Cup hero. Not be gay. the another great man on Ry’s list. Again, not his fault. Not his fault. I don’t even mind all that much. Just guy put in a tough spot there against Faldo who’s played I don’t know 45 RDER Cups. And for as much as people wanted to [ __ ] on Faldo who was who was bad at times. Uh I weirdly I found it a little comforting to just hear him back in there. I I don’t know why. I I just have heard so much of him in the booth and was like, “Ah, that was a kind of nonsensical thing he was saying.” But at least he was like, “When I played in the RDER Cup, this happened.” And I was like, “Oh, that’s that’s useful. I would love to hear more about that.” So that was tough. Or that was good. The thing that was tough was, you know, it was almost like they had a producer in their ear constantly reminding them like, “No, no, no, be partisan. Be partisan. Come on.” And it was just like, “Oh, here’s JT. We really need this one. Come on, JT.” And it it was just so forced, really tough. And then it was Mcinley and uh Thaxton in the afternoon which I thought was a little better. But it was uh which is so funny because Hunter Mayan’s on the world feed and he’s so natural at it. It’s so like it’s not in your face but he’s just like you tell he’s like under his breath like come on we need this one and it comes off so natural and they probably Yeah, I didn’t get to watch it but I fa it sounds like they failed in their endeavor. Well, it’s the ultimate just like again nobody’s fault. This is just how it works out. But this is like uh you know who would have been good at that? Kizner. Uh, and un unfortunately it’s the one week he’s not there, you know. Also RID cup RDER Cup stalwart. Uh, yeah, but I mean he’s Yeah. Well, also I did see uh I saw Zinger out there uh walking also would have been good on 17. I was like, Zinger, we got to get we got to get these guys fighter. I know, man. It’s not going well, man. I know. Zing was hurt. He couldn’t even spit. I could tell he had dry mouth. He had chapped lips. Uh guys, I ran a poll on on the uh the Everything app of just, hey, check it in. What do you guys think of the TV coverage, good or bad? It may have been skewed a little bit. Um not in the way you’re thinking because I didn’t clarify that I met NBC and there were some there were Sky Sports people voting for good. Uh and good did get 7.9% of the votes while bad got 92.1%. I honestly I you could put up like a picture and be like, “Hey, is this of a like a blue square?” Be like, “Is this blue?” People would be and and more than 7% would say no to that question. Like the the one thing that is unifying this country is that we can all agree that NBC is terrible at covering golf. And it like honestly bummed me out cuz I was watching the world feed in the the media center. I was gripped. I could not get up to go to the bathroom. They were cutting from match to match, hole to hole. I was so invested in those matches and I was just like reading my uh when Betty Booms made the putt and everybody I was like guy I got 30 replies right away. Why is this? It’s like oh it happened on playing through. I’m like dude they’re literally going to like just ruin golf for a generation of golf fans. Like it it it’s that miser. It was making headlines all over the sports world today of how bad the coverage was and I was even watching it and it just infuriates me man because it’s like the one event that is special and should elevate golf and they just abuse it. And I think the PJ of America is not blameless here either. Like I think this is a a package deal for sure. How about the PJ of America trottting uh Derek Sprag out there just like first thing on your first cup of coffee in the morning just like yeah man this is what we’re looking for. This is why I got up early. Derek Sprag and Heather just holding court. That’s tough. I feel bad for Heather. I got to hear a tough spot. It’s just not the right not the right tool for the for the I mean part of I’ll tell you what the perverted thing is and part of why you won’t see me getting up at 5:00 a.m. is because when when the real golf sickos one like are watching right like at 5:00 a.m. or 7 a.m. right they they frontload the commercials and so they they they actively kick like your hardest core audience in the nuts over and over. It doesn’t matter what the event is. Like the early coverage is going to be the worst coverage and I think that’s totally backwards. They do lead in with some SVU for those sickos. And they go out with it too. When I was pulling up on my phone, it’s like SVU special victims unit as the US was down five and a half. SVU is a just full rules full stop. Big SVU was a lot. Talk about something I wasn’t expecting before my first cup of coffee. It’s just the tail end of one of those episodes which is Whoa. What’ you guys get into over the last hour? All right. I’m glad they caught him. [Music] Can I say something that I I I’m I’ve kind of come around on. I’m in on the uh flyovers are [ __ ] awesome, dude. I mean, when those jets go over, man, hair on my arms up. Like just shout out to the fighter jets and and pilots up there. It’s awesome. I I get I get hyp. And they timed it up. the toot time on target. I know Cody loves that [ __ ] Uh right on time as the guys finishing the national anthem in the afternoon. It was just it was it was good stuff. So I just want to put that out there. I don’t I don’t care if the Euros think it’s jingoistic. First of all, I agree with you and I stand by the the flyovers, but I always think about the Simpsons line uh sideshow Bob’s talking about country fried rubes singing rock you like a hurricane at a at an air show. And that’s that’s what it do like this one. when when Rom buried that putt, then Scotty had a chance to answer and and did not and it was uh break on through by the doors was just blaring and it’s third green so you could kind of hear and it’s like try to run try and it’s like Scotty just misses this doesn’t have a chance. I was like break through it. I don’t know just it was a moment for me. I was very well was right after the golf ended when they start blasting Bruce right out of the 183 by three. This is just it’s been a very very safe soundtrack alltopian stuff. Uh all right. What what else we got to what else we got to get to here? I I feel like we we’re all over the place, but we’ve we’ve also kind of gotten to a lot of it here. So, uh Sully, how how are you feeling about tomorrow? Like rolling out those pairings again. Should we I I’d honestly be curious. Uh I don’t know if we have a live look in at the odds. uh if the if the if setting the uh setting the the same pairings out move the odds at all. Uh if we are going to look into the odds at this time, all odds are courtesy of the FanDuel sports book. Go ahead. Yeah. Uh Europe is minus 190, US is plus 230 at the moment. And uh have a lot to Who’s riding for the Who’s riding for the ties on on the happy hour? I heard somebody riding for the ties. I was that was that has moved to plus 950. Neil, if you have a horse in that race, I just think rooting for a tie is psychotic and also like a hint of sick. It uh the of course the FanDuel sports book, official sports book, and no laying up. They have plenty of RDER Cup action to choose from. Uh they got head-to-head matchups. They got player points, day winners, uh who to lift the cup, all that stuff. FanDuel.com or the FanDuel app. It’s fantastic. It’s been great to be uh in a state that I can use my FanDuel app. They got all the odds for tomorrow morning as well. So, let’s go through those. Bryson and Cam Young are plus 100 with Fitzpatrick and uh Oberg plus 135. These have have ties in all them. The ties are around plus 600, plus 650, whatever that may be. Oh my god. Mroy and Fleetwood are minus 200. English and Morau are plus 270. That’s I think the biggest you’re ever going to see in a Well, 18 home. FanDuel must not have heard the uh Keegan’s presser where he said they had a plan. So, um I don’t know if that moved the odds at all when when those comments came out. I He’s the plan could be to punt. He’s got a fiveyear plan. True. Play field position. Uh Ramen Hatton are minus 110. Schoffley and Canlay are plus 155. Uh Sheffler and Henley are minus 130. McIntyre and Havland are plus 180. Um yeah, I don’t know, man. It’s really not good. Day two winner US is minus 110. Europe plus 170. So the odds odds makers are expecting a little bit of a comeback uh from the US. Day2 Forsomes US is still favored plus 120 against Europe plus 185. Man, I was kind of I think I was with them expecting a little bit of a comeback too until the the pairings were rolled out. And I just don’t re I don’t really love any of those. I I don’t know. So uninspiring. Cam Young. Yeah. And Xander and Kentlay. Those are solid pairings. I was with them until again Sheffler and Henley is like again I don’t think we’re going to see Henley that well I Yeah, then I got to raise my hand and hit a Maya because I that was my boat race of the week yesterday. I I felt [ __ ] stupid sign up for the Beluga Special is back. Oh man, Scotty and Russ, they’re never going to lose. We didn’t get to see the real pairing though. Like they flipped the holes. Yeah, that’s true. I I would not have paired them that way. So that’s my out. That’s right. You shouldn’t have to pay out on those deal. Yeah, that’s a different pairing. That’s that’s truly that’s a different golfer. It’s 100% a different golfer if you flip the flip the holes on that. Uh yeah, I just laugh at your comment, DJ. Like I was feeling a US comeback until I read the list of people that are on the US team that are playing. Uh and then that hurt my Well, I think that’s what initially was fueling my my Europe pick to start the week was like it it is weird. It’s you see each of the each one of these individual people and you’re just like, “Yeah, yeah, okay. That guy makes sense for the team. Yeah, of course that guy makes sense.” And then you do start putting together some of these pairings. You’re like, “Man, I don’t what the hell am I supposed to do with all these Legos? These don’t even fit together.” What’s the What’s the You can say Keigan if you want, but what what’s the fix? What was the change though to be like, “Oh, they should have taken this guy over this guy and US would be in a better spot right now.” I don’t I personally don’t think there’s a lot of that going on right now because Scotty and Bryson went 0 and2 both today. Like that’s where I think you’re right. Yeah, I No, I think you’re right. And I mean that was kind of the other that was I know you’re other than speed. That’s right. And Novak. Uh that was your block coming into the week, right? Is like I mean Europe they just do it over and over. Rory and Rom and you know Tommy and the the dogs are going to play well. And it’s like if you don’t get that with the US side, it’s just it’s not going to go well. Yeah. And some of it is you just got to play. You got to make some putts, man. That’s what I’m seeing. I saw good shots from the US team. I did not see many putts fall today. I I do think Bryson played pretty fairly well. I know he missed a couple coming down the stretch, but down at 17 made a great birdie there, but bad partners today. He had bad partners. He was kind of playing with one hand tie behind his back. Let me ask, did you follow You followed a lot of him this morning with JT? Yep. Is the golf ball a thing at all? Because I was asking JT looked like a different person as well. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah, I was asking some people close to the situation. it was almost a complete non-factor um in terms of again if you you can put whatever ball you want in play. So you’re going to put the ball in play of the guy a guy that’s going to be hitting the approach shot. Um and apparently the spin profiles on the golf balls aren’t that different. At least that’s what the person close to the situation told me about it. Um, so yeah, I I I’d be hardressed to like blame I think it’s an easy copout to blame JT’s poor play this morning on golf ball change when in reality he lost 2.36 shots on the greens. Uh, that was almost the entirety of like his, you know, he didn’t drive it great and didn’t hit great approach shots. But like I I can’t be like, “Oh, JT’s playing the wrong ball. Bryson’s playing the wrong ball.” And that like cost them in any real way. Uh, just JT stunk, man. He was really bad this morning. He hit a he missed a great opportunity on two. Uh hit a hit I I I I ended up writing it down at one point how uh how many spots he missed him. He had a very mid chip on one. Bryson bailed him out with a made putt. Missed birdie on two. Missed a good birdie on six. Gagged seven away. Missed a short putt and chunked hooked one from the fairway. Missed a green on nine from the middle of the fairway. Like he was really bad. Um redeemed himself in the afternoon. But I I I just I’m really surprised at how how big of an egg he laid this morning. Sie just pulled up the stats. I didn’t I hand up I didn’t realize how good Fitzpatrick played. Yeah. Yeah. He was like Yeah. He was very Well, because and that’s I mean D you maybe relate to this. There’s a big feeling of like like I don’t know stress and FOMO when you’re out there like um with the wrong group. You don’t know what’s going on. And so it’s like I didn’t see any of Fitzpatrick play today really. And it’s like oh so he gained 4.2 strokes on the field today. Oh. Do they have radio? They they don’t have like radio. They do. I do. I just didn’t have one on. Yeah, that’s what you got to grab that. I I Yeah, I was uh scrambling this morning, Randy. Forgot Sunday. That’s right. Sorry. Speaking of uh speaking of watching all the shots, one more guy that wanted wanted to come back in. And another thing uh go Tron. And another thing, Carter, I I believe wanted to pop back in here. Guys, you are so You’re treating NBC USA characters welcome with kid gloves. They were What? They were. I just said they’re ruining golf for an entire generation. I thought S went pretty hard. No, I don’t think that’s strong enough. Sie, they were awful this morning until until the changeover. Uh the the the Sans the Sans not Faldo thing. Like I forgot Faldo is is somehow worse than ever. And it felt like a bad dream for about three or four hours this morning. I TC I just Hold on. The lighting in your office right now just like story time with TC. Like gather around, gang. Ghost bedtime story right here. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it feels like a ghost story, right? And F is the ghost. He’s scaring everybody. Uh it was awful. And then they tried to do the Whoop thing and and Zanzi’s like, “Oh, look at JT’s heart rate. It’s 120.” And Nota goes, “Actually, that’s not high at all. That’s in like that’s in zone two. That’s not even in zone three.” Like it was it was incredible. There was just no chemistry. No no no I mean the sound was awful. You got on that deed. But just generally speaking even beyond the commercials there’s just no tact or taste. They’re [ __ ] rudderless. It’s awful. And then it did get better as it got into Fax and Mcinley and Hicks and those guys coming on. I’m not a huge Hicks guy, but it improved this afternoon. So I’ll give him that. But um but man, I just wanted to to come in over the top rope and and make sure we made that clear because I think FO legitimately thinks that he’s like auditioning for all for the for the NBC role of like oh like Kisner’s got one foot in one foot out. Maybe maybe NBC needs a needs a you know a lead a lead analyst. Also though they might. Yeah, but also like don’t hire FAO. He’s awful. He’s got says on his resume here. He’s got a lot of experience. Yeah. Got a lot of references. You don’t get fired bringing in IBM. Exactly. Guy called the Masters, man. Also, I’m just pulling up his plague record. You see all the guy won six majors. You believe that [ __ ] I mean, you win, Nota. Anyway, I just wanted to I just wanted to offer that. Thank you. Till I want to know who your great man who your who your top sightings were out there. the the top people you ran into, people you saw, people you were surprised to. Uh, I mean, honestly, namerop Michael Jordan. Yeah. The guy is talked to Michael Jordan. I did not talk to him, but I was within the like kind of uncomfy zone with MJ, you know, within I talked to Michael a little bit. The 10 foot circle. Did you? I did like couple sentences. Oh, that’s nice. I didn’t. I was. But when he’s around, you just know you’re like, “Oh, [ __ ] That’s that’s MJ.” I don’t think there’s a lot of people that are are in that uh you know pantheon a little bit feel it. Everyone’s like, “Holy [ __ ] there he is. He’s wearing a stupid hat.” Of course, he like got down on one shirt and got up. He’s like, “Oh, lot hard going down. A lot harder getting up these days.” And I was like, “Yeah, I feel you there, man.” That was the extent of our conversation. I saw Zinger. Great dude. Hey, Zinger. Um, no. I I think there was a um a footballer that I was I’ve been walking with like all day. Didn’t realize it. And then he started gettingounded for selfies. I was like, “Oh, this guy must be somebody.” I don’t know who that was. We don’t have a name. There was getting reports on the ground. There was a footballer on site. There was a footballer. Guy seemed like he played some footy. That That’s what I was picking up. Unconfirmed report. There was a footballer spotted on site. No, I I didn’t. Honestly, I didn’t. You got a lot of celebs. I had a a massive one for me. Sean McKiel uh was out there I think doing radio of some kind. That’s just very much like a Nobody knows that guy won a major. Nobody like nobody is paying attention. That guy won a major. Saw Steu Sink. I I would would say I didn’t see my guy unfinished business. Uh I saw Zack Brown, not the band, but the uh from McLaren. Zack Brown. Zack Brown was out there. Tony Cooach uh as well. Played in the celebrity unit. Um did not literally see the cubes, but I’m queuing it up for the last one. Last name drop I will give. Audrey, one more. Uh, Super Chef Bobby Fle. Super Chef Bobby Fle. Literally saw Super Chef Bobby. I actually did talk to chef uh world kitchens guy Jose Andreas Andreas. Yes, on the fourth hole. Uh, him and Ramy. Delightful, delightful human being. Yeah. Tell me you went to Argentina. I did. No, he didn’t get that far. Uh, he was he was talking to a guy I was with and I was like, “Oh, hey, I’m a big fan.” Uh guys, who’s who’s uh should we do some score predictions at the end of the day tomorrow and I think we get out of here. That sounds good. It’s been a long day. Thank you for your service. Mexican again. Yeah. Yeah, we got to go to that Mexican joint. Nine and a half six and a half Europe. Okay. Hey, hold the line. Maintain. I’m going to I’m going to second you there. I think that is a very responsible call. 2222 I think tomorrow. Two, two, two, two. Uh, I’ll go I’ll go four and a half three and a half team USA. So nice. Whatever that makes the seven 97. Can I get one one? Like so I after I’ll ride with Randy. Sorry. You give me You got to give me the last word. You’re [ __ ] just trying to erase me. Well, he’s just trying to get us out of here. And I got I got one final thing. I just It’s It’s a hard thing to I I got to think the US makes up a little bit of ground. Like show some spine, guys. Will the dogs come out? Will anyone let the dogs out tomorrow? The The first team was a major bummer this morning. They can’t They do not have the mix of music figured out. Hazeline had it great. They would play a song maybe like Golf Channel was down there. They had like a hype man going. They would put people on camera and everybody would go nuts, wave towels, sing songs. If they were in commercial, they’d play a song, but it’d be like, “All right, we’re coming back. Let’s get fired up again.” And people did it. And the last two have been totally dead. And I was like, I was bummed leaving the first TE. And then got to the first green. And when Bryson walked in that putt, I mean, there’s people like up on the road there. You there’s like a road behind one green. There’s just so many people down by that green. And it was every hair on my body was standing straight up. I I’m serious. my legs and my arms. The hair was standing straight up of just let’s go Bryson USA. You had they that they were vibing off the jump. Walking to that next tea, everybody’s screaming at them as they went through the tunnel. Like it was a a welcome to the Ryder Cup moment. It put me back into like, all right, this event isn’t a dud. Like, this is really fun. Because I was really buming out after that first tea setting. Granted, it went downhill from there, but there was at least one moment today that was like, [ __ ] yeah, let’s go. Like that’s why Bryson’s going off first. It almost worked. It almost worked. Like it it it worked in terms of getting people excited. It just like didn’t trickle down the board for the US. Can I give a half-hearted, half-baked theory on that? I I think I think everybody’s brain is cooked by cell phones. I don’t think anybody can sit with I don’t think anybody can sit with just like there’s an hour now. Like I What do you mean we just sit here? That’s right. And we like What do we do? commune with each other and sing songs and volley one from that side of the bleachers to that. No, I’ll just kind of sit here and just look at my phone, see what’s going on, post some photos. Can’t believe I’m here, you know? I I think everybody’s just toast. It was quite a surreal And on that note, God, I can’t wait for tomorrow. Yeah, it was quite a surreal scene. US down three nothing with Air Force One flying over like with one match out on the golf course like it was it did a fly over the course before. It was the pavarati we needed though. Turn it up. He’s coming. Uh Cody, what do you got? Nothing. Happy uh good show, guys. Good guess. Oh, thanks. I don’t know. Do you guys have any closing thoughts? I know the boys are hungry. They need to get to get I will uh on behalf of Neil’s beloved pro shop. I will say the to the the NLU and Titist uh players bags are in the in the shop, right? Do have golf bags in the shop. Yes. Uh I also just There we go. My refresh. The players for golf bag now on sale. number one item people have been asking for on our yearly census. How can I sir sir, how can I get a no langu golf bag? Now you can. They’re they’re in the pro shop. Yeah. You go to store.nollayingup.com and then you just uh navigate over to the bag category. Yeah. How about that? No adventure. No adventure. No, just right up there on the navigation bar right there. Boom. Just pay your money and one click away. Yeah. Uh they’re they’re an awesome bag. Same bag I use. Super light. Super duper light. The official bag of DJ Pie. You can print that. That you can print. Uh guys, this was great. I’m so glad you guys had a fun day out there. Long day, I know. Go enjoy that Mexican food. Randy, winners and losers were electric. I love I love hearing it. Might need to get you to send in some just uh you know, from afar tomorrow. Uh if you survive this Red’s game tonight, I’ll say final prediction for tonight’s game. Uh I think the Reds get it. We’ll say five to two. Brewers are scuffling a little bit. This is a clincher. No, just we need to stay alive. It doesn’t matter to the Brewers. That’s why I’m going to I’m getting ready to bet on the Brewers right now. Well, big big fantasy match up in the finals here. The Seons is Brewers skins. Brewers are minus 205 tonight and they don’t even have any good players. It’s crazy. They just win every day. It’s nuts. Uh guys, this was great. Cody, thanks for everything behind the scenes. Jordan, thanks for everything behind the scenes. Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks to Max Homa, the pro for calling in as well as TC. Uh, I can’t wait to do it again tomorrow, guys. We will see you then. Crack on. Cheers. Cheers.
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I hit it 5 yards behind Henley off the tee
Scottie sucks
DJ talking about how our brain are fried bc of phones and that’s why the Ryder cup sucks is maybe the best thing I have ever heard on a pod. Truly couldn’t be more right.
The US suck as a team.
It’s too early to give victory to Europe
MORE MAX.
Jon Rahm the 80th ranked player in the world.
Can't deny. Reed, DJ, Gooch and Brooks would have been better
Love the show guy! Watching from the UK!
Max hits the nail on the head when discussing preparation. In Europe we are used to doing things together and as a team, it's in our DNA as people. Where as Max describes USA players possibly needing to do their own preparation and a little uncomfortable with noy being able to that.
DJ is always good, but he was great on this one. "Glad they caught that guy" and "What, not die?" were particularly memorable moments.
One more thing. I hate to be negative but…….. the U S fans, pretty basic chants and shouts, it's so cringe!
Fan from the UK here… love max homa’s insight . Such a shame hes not playing well enough to be out there this time . Luke Donald has dog walked Keegan so far . And will be more of the same today
Max loves to talk 😂😂😂
Great chat. Incidentally, here in the UK, we saw every single shot on the coverage.
Love all the arguments. None of it matters though. This was the worst golf watching experience I think I have ever had. NBC is awful. I watch it on delay so I can FF through them a little, but it still sucks having to be ready to do that every 2 minutes.
3-1 to Europe again this morning .
Max sat through enough tv adverts today and then you make him sit through a Whoop Ad read. 😂 Brutal
Yesterday made me fall back in love with golf. The draw hasnt gone americas way for day 2 foursomes. This could be over quick. Great show boys. Team Europe. Get in
It’s the same old problem for the US – the individual players are seen as too big for the captain to manage and impose a full game plan. Bradley looks like he has had to work around the egos of the players whereas no one is in any doubt that the European Captain and his VCs are completely in control of all aspects of what the players do to deliver their strategy. It is The Borg vs McEnroe all the way.
No shout out to the best chant yesterday!? "THIS IS A LIBRARY"
Good to see Soly shouting out Fitz – unbelievable ball striking in the morning session and expect him in both Saturday sessions.
For me, watching Justin Thomas and several of the other USA players waving their hands around to try and excite the crowds, while the European players are walking to the next tee actually talking to each other seems like a big part of why the score is what it is.
Woke up at 4:00 am pacific time. The ads woke me up, it was awful
Can we get US fans to sing college fight songs of the American players alma mater? Singing Mr brightside in between groups. Give me some life out there!
Seeing Ben Griffin fist pumping in silence while ANOTHER Michelob ad played was hilarious and a signal for me to get off the couch
Morikawa STINKS…but Keegan has a plan. A bad plan, but a plan.
Soly is the type of guy who thinks he’s smarter than NFL coaches because he has a good fantasy team
Commercial load is excruciating! Keegan « I trust my analytics-free plan » Bradley is AWFUL. His PR is arrogant and he reminds me of Damian in the original « OMEN. » Can US come back in the singles on Sunday despite their captain?
Luke Donald, E. Molinari and European team camaraderie and culture are making a mockery of USA Ryder Cup preparation! Soly has spent months prepping for this catastrophe! What a waste.
This one isn’t even close!
A travesty.
I like no American golfers