“Team USA Needs To Take A Look In The Mirror” | 2025 Ryder Cup

“Team USA Needs To Take A Look In The Mirror” | 2025 Ryder Cup

Final score says 15 to13. Does that tell the story of this RDER Cup? No, it doesn’t. Because when we look back at the history, this is just going to say 1513. Yeah, but uh look, I I think ultimately it’s a really good question, Rick, because I I think the the United States needs to take a real look in the mirror and and try to we need to develop a plan going forward. We need to develop a program that can be that that we can, you know, develop on and tweak and improve. Um, we need clearer strategies so that the players know that what they’re doing is right and and we just get outpaced in these team competitions. What you saw today is why this is so concerning to American golf fans. It’s not because we lose, it’s because we’re the better team and lose. And so now you start bringing in questions of effort. Like somebody commented last night in our chat, you can’t make somebody care when we were talking about Scotty Sheoffller, you know, like that is just wrong. It’s wrong. He does care, but he’s 0 and4 and it’s like what gives? So that’s why these things come out because it’s a a better team that should win and it doesn’t win. We’ve lost 11 of the last 15 Ryder Cup, 16 Ryder Cups. You know, it’s it’s not like I hope we don’t look at it like they just made all the putts this week, you know, and that’s what happens. It’s like, no, we need to do things differently and it will be, oh, well, it was it was 1513 and we rallied late and that’s what that’s really what we what we should have done. Uh, you know, that that’s that’s what we should have done all week. Everything is fine. No, no, no. Yeah. burn it down and let’s start over. Um I have a thought on who the next captain should be. Okay, not a great one, but um but before I get to that, I just I wanted to also add that um it’s almost like the worst thing that could have happened losing this way. But I also want to give credit to Keegan Bradley who was hired um I I think in all likelihood because of his emotion, right? And the emotion that we saw on Netflix, which is a crazy thing to say, but I really think that’s why he was hired. Uh because he got snubbed last time, so we make him captain this time. And and the reason is because he loves the Ryder Cup so much. It was clear and his passion and energy u his enthusiasm for it was the reason he got this job. His strategy was based on emotion. I think there’s a lot more to it than that and he probably realizes that as well. But the emotion came through and it worked and his players played great for him. So, you know, we can look at all the data that we want to and we will and we will talk about it, but ultimately what Keegan wanted to do ended up working. The things that he said he was going to do ended up working to a degree. It’s just the problem is that it’s just not enough, right? It’s just not enough. I think the details go overlooked quite a bit. Um but yes, yes, this is I I’m very interested to see how this will get spun uh you know in the next four, five, six months how this will be reflected. But I think this was basically a disaster for the United States and a total disaster. Yes, the score will say they lost by two and the envelope was a half of that point and blah blah blah. This was an utter disaster and they have now so so by the time we get to uh a dare matter, the last time that the United States is going to have led after any session is going to be like six years prior to that because they did not lead after any session this year and they did not lead after any session in a row. Yeah. because things are very wrong. Like this is another stretch where we’re gonna lose three in a row again, right? It happens like it’s like a pattern. Three in a row, we win. Oh, great. We lose three in a row. Like Paul Azinger cracks the code. We got the pod system. He’s never a part of the Ryder Cup again. And we lose the next three. and then we form a task force uh and win and then lose the X3. It’s like it’s just in insanity and we need to level up our game. Who who is the who is the captain? Who is the It’s the only guy I can think of that makes sense. Now there could somebody else could come out. They could make they could announce somebody else and I’d say, “Yeah, that’s great.” But the guy that I would I I think our best chance is Brandt Snedker. I know you’d never see that coming. I did not see that coming. I’m going to need to know why. Um well, I have reasons, but let me do this. Okay. Do you think Tiger Woods will be a Ryder Cup captain? I do. Yeah. Okay. Now, this is the real kicker. Should he be? And like I I think most people would say yes. Oh, Tiger’s got to be a captain. Yeah. My my question to that is why. I don’t know. So So right, you asked me, do I think he will be? Yes. I I don’t know why because that’s because that’s what they’ve always been doing. That’s right. That’s the point. He will be the captain because he’s one of the greatest players to ever live, if not the greatest. uh he’s American and great players end up being captains of the RDER Cup, you know, but that doesn’t do anything to help you win the RDER Cups. So, it it’s like this. We put so much into winning the RDER Cup and if it weren’t for this single session today, Keegan Bradley was going to be like and may still be smeared for decisions and which is so unfair to Keegan, right? And and it’d be unfair to Tiger to to rip him for it. There’s just no continuity. So, how is a rook rookie captain supposed to like figure it all out? Uh, it’s a rare thing. What Paul Lasinger did is like a miracle, you know? It’s not what should happen. It’s not the standard. Europe’s totally different story. So, I Why do I say Bran Senker? He’s a vice captain on this team. Hopefully he learns from some of the very clear mistakes that were made. Hopefully he doesn’t say to himself, I don’t care what he says in the public, but hopefully to himself he’s not saying, “Well, they made all the putts.” Right. Uh and he’s also the next he’s next year’s President’s Cup captain. Yes. Right. So now you have this opportunity to say, “Hey, I’d say I’d tell him right now, Brandt. You’re going to be the RDER Cup captain. Start working on this now. You have a President’s Cup that is like this is not to be taken lightly. you are preparing for the RDER Cup in the President’s Cup and you’re going to go you’re going to take that team, run them out against the internationals somewhere in the US. I don’t know where it is. And then you’re going to go over to Ireland right after the next year. Do you want the job? And we got to use this advantage we have. We have a President’s Cup. We play a very against a a good team in the Internationals every year. And that’s crazy. Yeah. They’re like two separate entities. We do this every year. They only do this every two years and they seem better at it than we are. Yeah. We have better players. Like I was looking Rick at the There’s been so much talk about optimal pairings. I’m looking at them and they we’re we have a lot of opportunity to be the favorites in every match. You know, we gave a couple away and forsomes at least. There’s a couple close ones, but it’s like we we have the opportunity to flip the script if we do things right. Um but you just we we give away too much. We we give away something and then there’s a little bit of fortune there on their side and the two combined turns it into 3-1 where in reality the fortune on their side should make it 2-2 at the end of a at the end of a session. That’s kind of the way that I that I look at these mistakes. The 2026 President’s Cup is at Madina, just to put a bow on that conversation.

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