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It’s funny. Every player we’ve ever had on this show that we’ve asked them, “What’s the most nervous you’ve ever been?” The answer is unequivocally on the first te at the Ryder Cup. I’ve got a great story about that. We get to Madina in 2012. I’m supposed to go off first with Jim Furick as my partner Friday morning, first ball on the air, and we had played all week. Me doing the odds, Jim doing the evens. We get to the golf course about 5:00 a.m. We get there, look over the first tea, and the first te’s lit up. It’s packed. 10,000 people on the stands, not an empty seat in the house. I remember walking back inside the clubhouse thinking I was going to throw up and I go over to Jim and go, “Jim, there’s no way I can hit that first T- shot, man.” So, lo and behold, we get up there and I’m breathing, okay, I’m still about to freak out. And I watch Jim get up there who’s literally the straightest hitter in the history of the game of golf. And I watch him hit this slow snap hook that might have gone 200 yards. And he walks over to me and he goes, “See, we all feel the same thing, man. Good lord.” I was like, “Ah, okay. This is what it’s supposed to be like. I’m okay now. I didn’t know you were feeling like