LIVE From The Ryder Cup | Friday Recap | Leaders, Course Conditions

LIVE From The Ryder Cup | Friday Recap | Leaders, Course Conditions

Welcome in. This is the second cut. It is live from the RDER Cup and we’ve got Friday in the books. I’m Rick Gaming. Greg Ducharm is here. Greg, it’s good to see you. It’s good to see you too, Rick. Uh, it’s finally here. We’ve been talking about this for two years. Who should be on the team? Who should be off the team? Who should we play together? Uh, and now we got two sessions in the books. As Keegan Bradley said afterwards, it’s only the it’s only the first quarter. Um, but boy, this was a this is quite a quarter. Uh, plenty of blue on the board. We’ll talk about that, but before I do, uh, uh, lots of second cutters out here. All right. Yeah. uh Kyle, Kevin, others who I apologize I never got your name, but yes, it is uh we are out in full force here on Long Island, which is very nice. Well, I’m not surprised because um I know if I know one thing about Second Cutters, they are true and loyal golf fans. That’s right. And you’re not going to miss an event like this. No. Who would you know who else is not going to miss an event like this? the president of the United States who I I’ll tell you what, Greg. They told us that we were going to have to go through TSA style security today. It It was not TSA style. It was TSA. Like TSA was here like, “Wow.” Patting us down, going through the metal detectors. There were Secret Service everywhere. There were snipers. Like it was it was kind of bizarre. Quite awesome. Uh that is intense for a golf event first of all and I totally understand it. I mean you have what 50,000 people were expected there today u on a huge piece of property. Yeah. It’s um I’m sure the Secret Service was like this is this is a big deal. We got to put together a pretty big plan for this. The Secret Service is like uh this is a bad idea. This is like we got to figure this out. Yeah. It was the way they did it is they had so the the grand stand that wraps around 1 and 18 that was basically like the secure zone. So like anytime you went in and out of that you were basically going through TSA security. If you were staying on the rest of the course it was the normal security that you would go through for a regular event. But even that felt very much ramped up and they had dogs out there and stuff that we would we had not seen in in previous days. But that’s the way they did it. I can’t imagine the logistical nightmare that is. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. But, uh, fortunately, it seems like everything went okay. Uh, there were no security issues that I I’m aware of. Um, and everything seemed to work out great. So, what you got in, you got out, and we’re uh, now we got a RDER Cup to talk about. The only security issues were keeping the Europeans off the board. No, that was a security issue. The other the other thing, and I see it in the comments, um I I can’t speak to this. Apparently, the coverage was bad. What was it? What was it? Commercial load, missing shots. Was it actually as bad as the comments are making it out to be? Well, I mean, a couple of things happened that were not ideal. One is Ben Griffin made a 45 foot putt. Yes. uh in a playing through and and Justin Rose answered uh with the 45 foot putt in playing through that’s that kind of thing is just it’s unavoidable. Um you know early on there were some shots that were missed which look this is u it’s difficult to piece all this together. I know there’s only eight a lot of the complaints that I read were there’s there’s only you know eight players out there. How can you miss a shot? From the broadcast perspective, you don’t know when they’re going to hit them and you can’t be in more than one place at once. So, I I do understand it to a degree. At the same time, I understand the frustration. Uh because there there were a lot of commercials and it did feel like all of a sudden somebody’s in the fair, you know, you missed the t-shirt or they’re they’re you know, well, he’s he’s putting to win the hole and they’re already in for par. And, you know, we didn’t see any of that. So, I understand the frustration as well. Okay, fair. I would not recommend anybody do this, but I definitely would not recommend us getting like ExpressVPN as a sponsor and going and and setting your location for London. And I definitely wouldn’t recommend like signing up for a Sky Sports trial. And I definitely wouldn’t recommend watching it that way where there’s very limited commercials and they don’t miss a thing. I definitely would not recommend that. So, we’re just going to have to we’re just going to have to go. It’s gonna be fine, Greg. We’re just gonna have to be okay with it, I think. Yeah, I I saw some people say the coverage was vastly different. Um, but again, I I would not recommend that either. Okay, fair enough. No recommendations being made here. Let’s get into this. The uh emotional team of Bryson Dshambo and Justin Thomas were out in full force this morning at 7 o’lock on the first T. Bryson Dshambo arm in arm with Justin Thomas and American flag around their backs. Dshambo ripping one over the corner of the dog leg on number one and they make birdie out of the gate on Terrell Hatton and John Rom. Greg the place was lit. The only problem was that uh that was the only hole they won for the rest of the match. They end up losing four and three. Okay, they make two more birdies. one at number four, one at 14. Um, the Europeans made five and became very difficult to beat. We knew this team, Tiro Hatton and John Rom would be difficult to beat. We knew that. Um, but I look at it this way. Why would you put Bryson and Justin Thomas together first? If you were a captain, why would they be your first out, Rick? Um, I I would say for the emotion of it, for the the juice of it, I would totally agree. Okay. And it seems to me that the American strategy was to um play into the emotion of a New York crowd and get a New York crowd going. But I can’t for the life of me figure out why if if that’s the strategy why we would start with forsome play where first of all there’s way less birdies made. Yes. Second of all we tend to struggle in uh for some play. It’s a really hard format for us and it it just felt like a setup for a let down. Then I mean you can question whether JT and Bryson uh are ideal for some partners. You can question that up and down. I mean I know if you look at optimal pairings, statistically optimized pairings, uh the Europeans had all eight of those players out there mostly together and the Americans had none. In fact, three of their optimal players are sitting on the bench. And I know like only one rookie plays, the last man picked sits. Three rookies and the last man pick sits. This feels like, hey, you know, um, we’re making our decisions based on emotion as well. And the Europeans are making their decisions based on data. Mostly on data. Yeah. Imagine know like e everything we do everything these professional golfers do and and what mostly what we do in our lives is try to optimize things. You know this like you go get fit for a driver and they tell you that this is the best driver for you. You are going to play with some confidence at least early on. Uh you get the best putter for you. it. You were going to make some putts early on, but we don’t look at our parents that way. We just look at it and say, “Who’s your buddy? Who do you want to play with?” Uh, it’s this might work. This might work. Yeah. Hope. Hope is the strategy out of the American team room. Uh, John Rom and Terrell Hatton now 3-0 in alternate shot in forsomes. John Rom, we’ll get to it, I think, was the MVP of the day. uh looked like a big time alpha off to a slow start. They didn’t win their first hole until the seventh, but they won the seventh and the eighth and there was no looking back after that. No, the add birdies at 12, 13 and 14 and then you go ahead and win the 15th as well. They were just simply tough to beat and and while they weren’t hot early, they made JT and Bryson make birdies to beat them and those were unfortunately few and far between. Bryson and JT, their iron play was not was was expected. Justin Thomas didn’t play very well in the morning. Um and and if in that pairing, you’re kind of relying on JT to answer Bryson’s drives. You know that that’s how this should go, right? JT Bryson hits a T-shot. JT knocks it close. Bryson makes the putt. That’s that’s what you’re thinking when you make that pair. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work out that way. And I don’t think the Europeans try to like build a perfect golfer. Seems like we try to build a perfect golfer. Four and three in the first group out. That’s one point for the Europeans. Well, don’t have no fear, Greg, because Sky Sheper, number one player in the world, is going out. In the second group, he’s going out with Russell Henley. They are the biggest favorites on the United States sides. They’re like minus 180 against Ludvig Oberg and Matt Fitzpatrick. Ludvig’s only in his second uh RDER Cup. Memphis Patrick’s one and seven in his career. What could possibly go wrong except for everything. Uh only two holes won by the Americans. Uh Scotty Shuffler and Russell Henley get drubbed five and three by Lou Big and Fitz. Well, this is one when you look at it on paper, you expect Scotty and Henley to go win. Um, but the odd thing here, again, going back to the data, you got Russell Henley teeing off on the odd holes when data suggests the longer hitter starts on the uh your longer hitter starts on the odd holes. That’s that’s an odd thing for me. Um, that, you know, number one is such a easy hole. Um, but that’s because all the long hitters are hitting the T- shots and they’re hitting it up there to 30 yards, right? Scotty Shuffler’s in the rough with a full wedge in there and they’re not able to make birdie. They get down early. Um, and and then I mean on the other side of it, while they didn’t play very well, Henley or Scotty, uh, Russell Henley or I’m sorry, Ludvig Goldberg and Matt Fitzpatrick get on a absolute tear. Yep. They go on a they they start shredding and they make seven birdies in for some play. That’s tough to beat no matter what. Uh we’ll talk about Scotty Sheffller and Russell Henley and what you do with them more, but that’s now point number two in very decisive fashion for the Europeans. And to you know the common thread here appears to be almost self-inflicted wounds. You know the we sat here on uh what would that have been Thursday night last night and looked at this column or Kaha Harris English pairing and said what like this doesn’t make any sense. Are they are they smarter than us? Do they know something that we don’t know that this just these guys are going to get absolutely destroyed. Uh they go up against Rory Mroy and Tommy Fleetwood and like the entire world saw coming. Rory and Tommy smoked them five and four. I I don’t get it. I still don’t get it. They were never competitive in this match whatsoever. They were in their pocket for most of it. It w I don’t know what happened. This is now 3 nothing Europe. Yeah, I mean they they played really well, Rory and Fleetwood, right? They make five birdies in their first eight holes. uh that’s tough to hang with in forsome play but at the same time you send out the Americans send out their statistically worst possible pairing. Now, look, I’m not saying you should do go 100% statistics here, but when you start putting these pieces together and you have three of the um eight optimal players for forsome sitting on the bench and your worst possible pairing out there, you know, if there was an advantage to be had for the Americans, we gave it away before the tournament even started. Uh and and that’s really disappointing to me. I understand losing to a team making five birdies in the first eight holes in forms. I I get that. But we got to put up a fight and there’s no fight here and no chance of it. I mean Colin Marawa is struggling coming in. He’s one of the guys with a big question mark. And we’ll get to this when we talk about fourball play, but if when the Europeans have questions about one of their players, they have a totally different strategy on how to handle them uh than than we do. So that that’ll come up again a little bit later on. Uh we are on the verge of a clean sweep for the Europeans. The final group, the final match, Xander Schoffley and Patrick Kentlay revive their great partnership and they go up against a new one in Victor Havlin and Robert McIntyre. This is tied going to the 17th hole. Kentlay and Schoffley win the 17th to uh guarantee the half a point and they win the 18th to secure the full point. So that dynamic duo does indeed get the job done. But a session that ends 3 to one for the Europeans this morning. Uh thank goodness for Patrick Kentlay and Xander Schoffley. Uh you know they are great players. They’re a great team, a team that we very clearly need and they had read on the board all this entire match. Uh which we needed badly. Now we were they were three up through 11. It looked like this first session there was going to be a nice long lunch break for these guys because uh the matches the the first three matches barely got across the road. Um but the the by the way so if you don’t know yours so at that stage after the first hole you go across the road and holes two through 14 are on the other side of the road before you come back. So the only holes that are on this side of the road are one 15 16 17 and 18. So Greg is referring to the fact that these matches are barely getting to the 15. Yeah. I mean the we saw this was the first match we saw the 16th hole. Um and and by the time it was on 16 we’re we’re tied. We were three up through 11. All of a sudden it’s tied. Havlin and McIntyre showed some fight and it was looking like it was going to be a sweep. So fortunately uh there was great resolve by Xander Schoffley and Patrick Canlay. We get out of here 3 to one. Um and now we go into our stronger session. You know those players that were left on the bench are now going to have an opportunity to come out in the afternoon and get us back into this thing. We saw this before in Paris. The Americans led 3-1 after the first session and then there was a sweep in the second session for the Europeans, hoping on on US soil we could do the same in the afternoon. Yeah, this is not the end of the world. Uh three to one, you know, you don’t get bonus points for winning five and four, winning one up, right? I mean, it might be emotionally, but it it’s still one point in in your quest towards 14 or 14 and a half. And a three to one in a in a format that you’re not particularly great at it. It’s not the end of the world. You just have to go out and win in four ball. So, we turn our attention to four ball. And now we get a couple of these new pairs, guys that sat in the morning coming out and playing. We’re seeing some more rookies. And we’re seeing the number one player in the world, Scotty Sheffller, go out first. This time alongside JJ Spawn. And for the second consecutive session, it’s John Rom, who is going to lead the way for the Europeans. This time, it’s Rahm and Sephra. Sheffller, Spawn, Rom Straa, similar story, Greg. I mean, this is I could just run this right back. Spawn birdies the first hole. The Americans go one up. They do not win another hole. And Sea and John Rom beat Sheffller and Spawn three and two. A lot of attention. It seems like we put a lot of attention on the first hole, right? Like this is going to be the key to the whole thing. Could we win number one? It’s really not a pivotal hole at all. It’s the first of all the farthest from the clubhouse, not in distance, but in time. And and it’s a an easy hole and you’re not quite going to drive the green like we saw from Bryson. So, you don’t really have that big of an opportunity to separate. While we played it well and JJ Spawn got off to a good start, thank goodness. Uh Scotty Sheoffller was nowhere to be found, which I think was a little disappointing early on in this match. So all of a sudden, you get to number 13. Um on 13T, we’re three down. We make a birdie. Uh Scotty makes his first birdie of the day at 13. His first birdie of the session at number 13. And it’s only good enough for a half. Uh then JJ Spawn makes uh his third birdie of the day at number 14. That’s only good enough for a half. Sheffller bird’s 15. John Rom answers with a birdie. Only good enough for a half. Uh on 16. Sheffler makes birdie again. He’s kind of coming alive. Makes up no ground and the match ends and it’s three and two. We we birdied as a team the last four holes and won zero of them. Yeah. the definition of too little, too late. John Rom, I’ I’ve mentioned this before. I did not cover Tiger in his prime. John Rom is the most intense golfer I’ve ever seen in person. He just stares a hole through you. He is, you know, Rory is is much more um, you know, he’s looking around in the crowd. He knows what’s going on. It’s got his chef shufflers, of course, more jovial, more laid-back. John Rob’s most intense golfer I’ve ever seen in person. and that was on full display for basically 12 straight hours today. He is 2 and 0. There’s only two guys that got out of here uh with two full points. It’s it’s John Rom and somebody we’ll get to here in just a few minutes, but Rahm to me was the best player at Beth Page and I’m not sure it was close. I I think that’s a really fair assessment. Um and this is what I love. This is now getting back to the European strategy. Okay, so John Rom, the best player on the property so far this week, gets paired with Seb Straa, a guy who had a premature baby, hasn’t been playing very well over the last couple of months leading into this. He’s a guy you got a lot of question marks if you’re if you’re Luke Donald. So, let’s put him in fourball with the best player, John Rom, and go contribute, right? Go play a role. You’re John Rom is going to carry this team. There’s no questions about it. You sprinkle in a birdie here and a birdie there and and you’re going to win a point for team Europe. It’s brilliant by Luke Donald. And what happens? Well, I mean, in those last four holes, Substra made two of the birdies. Yeah, he made birdie of 14 and 16 to to make sure that Scotty Shuffler didn’t get to play another hole. So, um, just absolutely brilliant by Luke Donald and you’re going to see this theme continue through the rest of the European parents. Yeah, somebody just said it like, um, the the the math problem is it’s not even a math problem. The strategy is this. You get your, uh, the four swims are you get your four best pairings. That’s that’s what you get. your eight best guys, your four best pairings, and then in the afternoon, you get the four guys who played the best and the guys who sat in the in the morning. And it’s like rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. We do not need to overthink this. Yeah, it’s it’s not hard to figure out, right? You and again, I think in four sums because look, the Americans had a similar strategy in four ball, right? You got Sheffler, world number one. I I know he didn’t win, but you’re not going to sit him. you play him with a a rookie and a guy who sat. Uh Bryson played some pretty good golf in the in the morning. Um not great, not good enough, but you’re going to play him again. He gets a rookie. Ben Griffin, Justin Thomas played in the morning. He’s a veteran. You rely on him. You put him with a rookie who sat in the morning in Cameron Young. Uh and then Patrick Kentlay, you put with a not a rookie, but another guy who sat in the morning in Sam Burns. the the Americans had a similar strategy in the afternoon. The problem is the first part, take your eight best guys and you make your four best pairings with them. And and that’s what Europe does time and time and time again. And turns out fourball tends to be pretty even. Yeah, you’re you’re right. And I’m going to jump ahead to match number three here because this uh ended very early and did not get back across the road. Greg, that was Cam Young and Justin Thomas absolutely demolishing Lud Viggoberg and Raspard. In fact, the Europeans did not win a single hole. Cam Young looked great. Justin Thomas looked good and JT was uh chief cheerleader and crowd pumper uper around Beth Paige. This was uh by far the most decisive victory, by far the loudest uh United States uh crowd and juice and just this this is this is what you hope to get when you’re the Americans playing four ball. Yeah. And when you look at if you look through previous matches in four ball, you got to make it’s like seven birdies to win. Takes usually seven birdies to win. They made eight and 13 holes. Uh now they’re they play Ludvig Oberg and Rasmus Hygar. They only make two birdies between them. That’s why it ends up being a route, but there’s clearly the firepower there. Cam Young makes five five of those birdies. He he makes the makes putts. He drives it great. He’s very comfortable with the course. Uh and was unafraid of the moment. So I I was so impressed with him. Uh and and Justin Thomas hit some sensational shots, too. The one at number five, that’s the Justin Thomas kind of iron shot you expect to see in a Ryder Cup. Right up over the tree. Brad Faxton thought he pulled it and it ends up, you know, a foot right of it, right? Um it it was fantastic and kind of vintage JT. And that’s just the the little sprinkle in there to add on to what Cam Young is doing because he was he was a big boy running hot. Big boy was running hot. Yeah. Save some of those holes, Jens. You could have spread those rounds. uh a little bit to your teammates. So that is the first full point for the United States in the afternoon and then it will end up spoiler alert being the only full point for the United States in the afternoon. Match number two, we get uh the beefy ones, the Benny Booms, Ben Griffin and Bryson Dshambo going up against Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose. This was the group that brought uh a lot of emotion. We saw Ben Griffin just going, you know, he gets excited. He gets everybody all fired up. And of course, we know what Bryson Dshambo is going to do. This goes the distance, Greg. This was a very, very competitive match. We saw, you mentioned this earlier, Ben Griffin makes a bomb uh for a birdie and a Justin Rose drops one right on top of him. It was a big big moment. It feels like Rose has the ability to just kind of snatch victory or snatch a half a point from from defeat. And this was a very compelling match that that went all 18, but the the Europeans did solidify it at the end. Um, yes, it was a good match. And Bryson played very well. Ben Griffin wasn’t great. He had a tough stretch in the middle there. Um, you know, from like four to 12, he only hit two greens. One of them led to the big moment at number seven, uh, with the with the really big fist bump. Um but then at the very next hole at number eight, he hit it like 40 yards right of the flag up on top of the hill. Um so that that was a little disappointing. He didn’t have his best stuff. Uh came up big with a couple birdies on the par fives which were only good enough for halves but important for the team. Um you know Bryson was solid and intense and clearly wanted it but it was just too little too late. know like Justin Ro look this pairing’s wonderful as well. Last time around Justin Rose was kind of shephering around rookies and young guys. This was a this was a different animal because they only have one rookie. Yeah. And it’s it’s Rasmus. It’s Rasmus who we may not see again. Yeah. You got it you got him out there today with some cushion with other with three other really strong pairings around him. You had a question mark about Justin Rose who’s been very boomer bust this year. Uh well, what do you do with him in four ball play? Well, well, you stick him with your second or third best player who is also they’re great friends and great mates and um Tommy Fleetwood’s playing as good a golf as anybody. You stick those two together and now you got a great team. And and it’s just like the Ram Manhattan match. Fleetwood makes five birdies and Justin Rose sprinkles three on top of them. Uh, including a birdie at the at the 18th and and including the the putty made at seven to answer Ben Griffin. You know th those are the kind of moments where that’s what you need from your veteran here. Yes. Fill a role. He I was I was describing this to Patrick at some point today. Justin Rose will like well he will not be all that good for the vast majority of the match but he will hit three or four shots that decide holes whether they win holes or he gets a half and just like he will find those shots and he can summon those magic beans and it’s and it’s all good and he goes alongside Tommy Fleetwood who I I mentioned this earlier uh there’s only two guys with two full points John Rom is one Tommy Fleetwood is the other great Yeah And um it it’s not hard to see why, right? He he has one of his best seasons ever on the PGA Tour. He’s been for his career a great RDER Cup player, but he’s only gotten better. He’s clearly taken another step. And you start to look around this team room in Europe and you see the leaders and you have a collection of them with Rory Mroy and John Rom and Tommy Fleetwood. When you have those three guys, you have a in every session, you are very tough to beat cuz Europe will play all I mean, they I don’t know if they’ll have to, but they’re not afraid of playing those guys five times. They’re all on their game. They’re all focused and on a mission. They will all do whatever it takes to win. Um, and you give him an opportunistic partner like Justin Rose. Um, you give Rahm a guy like Seap Straa who becomes opportunistic today. And you give uh you give Rory Mroy his best friend Shane Lowry. All all of a sudden you got four teams in every session, at least three teams in every session where it’s like I don’t I don’t know how we beat them. Well, that’s a perfect segue into the main event of the afternoon. Patrick Kentlay alongside Sam Burns, new pairing there, and Rory Maroy and Shane Lowry. And this was phenomenal. We walked this group in from 14. Uh the American squad was two down. They birdie both, excuse me, they win both 12 and 13 to square this match. And then it was nothing but tied holes the rest of the way. But don’t don’t mistake that for boring golf. We saw Sam Burns hit a couple of great shots, make a couple of putts. We saw Rory Mroy make a couple of very big putts. And then uh just when you thought you were going to get another big moment on 18, Greg, we got three very good looks for Birdie from Lowry, from Mroy, and from Burns that all went begging for the full point, and they end up each getting a half. Um we didn’t Sam Burns didn’t make a play until he absolutely needed to at 17. That was a huge shot, a huge birdie. Um to kind of play a role for Patrick Canle who made five birdies on his own ball and it should have been six. He missed a three and a half foot putt at 14 to win the hole and he gave one to the Americans there after he birdied 12 and 13 and 10. So birdie par birdie birdie and he hits it to three and a half feet on 14. Things are rolling. Patty Ice is on fire and and he misses it and it kind of took the wind out of our sales. Um but fortunately Canlay made another typical Patrick Can putt at 16. Yeah. Rory answered and then uh and then on 17 Rory rang the bell again and uh Can makes or Burns hits the shot I that I just mentioned. Okay, this is hot off the presses. I do not think you have seen this just yet, Greg. So, uh Mina, don’t show it yet because I’m gonna make Greg guess with this. So, long story short, we are five and a half, two and a half at mo literally moments ago. The uh forsomes for uh Saturday morning are out. Greg, just I’m not going to make you guess on all of these, but what what do you think we might get more of the same? Are we going to get a little bit of chaos? Are we going to get these guys sticking to their plans? I I think you gota I I think the Europeans will stick to their plan. Um, I I think you have to mix things up if you’re the Americans. I I wouldn’t go too drastic. I mean, if it were me, I would put Bryson and Cam Young together. I would put Scotty and Henley together again and reverse the holes. Uh, I’d put Schoffley and Canlay together, obviously. Okay. And I’d put um I think I’d put Mora out there with Spawn. All right. Well, listen, you’re you’re uh you’re about to be the RDER Cup cap. At least you should be because I think you nailed nearly every single one of these. So show it, Mina. Here we go. So the Europeans, as Greg mentioned, are running it completely back uh in a different order, but these are the same exact forsomes. Fitzpatrick and Ludvig now going out first. Remember they beat Scotty Sheffler and Russell Henley five and three. Rory Mroy and Tommy Fleetwood going out again together. They’re going out in group number two. John Rom and Terrell Hatton who led off on Friday. They are in the third match together on Saturday. And then Robert McIntyre and Victor Havlin are anchoring again. So absolutely right, Greg. The Europeans have done nothing but the same. Also absolutely right, Greg. And Bryson D. Shambo is going to be the emotional leader out of the gate this time alongside Cam Young. Um Xander Schoffley and Patrick Canley are together. We’ve got Victor uh we’ve got Russell Henley and Scotty Sheffler back together. And we’ve got Colin Morawa, but you do not get your wish. Uh it is Colin Morau and Harris English. As I look over this, this is except this is a swap of Justin of Cam Young for Justin Thomas and everything else is exactly the same. Yes, Cam Young for Justin Thomas. Everything else is the same. It’s the only change. Um, look, I I if you believe in your plan coming in, then I totally understand it. you know, I was a little worried that this situation was setting up for panic. Um, but for Keegan Bradley, he he believes in his guys, and I think that’s the message. Hey, we believe in our plan, and um I I certainly understand that. It’s really good to get Cameron Young out there. He’s He like I I said Morawa and Spawn, I I don’t think JJ Spawn demanded a spot today. Um I I don’t think Sam Burns demanded a spot in forsome. I I don’t think any of the guys on the bench um demanded a spot in forsomes, but I do think Cameron Young did. So that makes sense. And given this situation, which is dire, I I get this, but boy, these matchups don’t look great. So if you’re if you’re you’re Captain Gregor’s and you’re in the team room tonight, that that is that the message? Hey, we we believe in our plan. We we are going to trust the plan. Cam Young earned his way into this into this lineup for tomorrow and we are just going to do to them what they did to us. That is the message. I’m saying, “Hey, Scotty Sheffller, you’re the number one player in the world. Go play like it tomorrow, please.” Uh, I’m saying to Colin Morawa, it we need you to step up here, Harris. It’s time to go make a play. There’s no there’s no question about it’s just it it is now time to go and play and prove why you made this team. And Bryson and Cam Young, go light the place on fire right away. So again, doesn’t doesn’t this feel like Yes. Yeah. This is the plan. But if the plan is bad, what we’re doing is we’re just doing the same exact thing that we lost three and one three to one today. This is why it’s so important to be optimal early because you can’t predict Matt Fitzpatrick and Ludvig Goldberg being a total buzzsaw like like thing crazy things happen and and so you have to put your four best there can be no sacrificial lamb unfortunately with Morau in English it feels like one that’s the that’s the issue they they are also hitting Mroy and Fleetwood again. Yes, that’s the same. That is the same. You know the outcome of that already. Yeah. The rest are different, right? Yes. The rest are the rest are have swapped. But we Right. And now you’re second best team or the only team that won in the morning gets Rob Manhattan. There’s no there’s just nowhere to hide against these Europeans. Dude, tough spot. This is a tough spot. Well, you gotta get out of here 22. Yeah. Yeah. Well, our friends in the desert uh have now, as you can imagine, installed team Europe as the favorite to win uh to win the RDER Cup. Minus 165 to the United States plus 190. Let me see if I can get these have probably not been updated because I don’t see matchups out yet, but um the US is a slight favorite to win for some tomorrow. That might change when these matchups get factored in. But yeah, you cannot I mean if you lose if you lose if you lose in for some smart this is effectively over, right? H I mean if Well, let’s say you won four ball 40. Yeah, you don’t want to lean on that, but that would give you six and a half points and then what are you going to get? Can you one and a half? So you you could win for if you got four points tomorrow, you’d be at six and a half, which you’ve won from 106 before. Yeah. So you probably need to come away with five points tomorrow. Yeah. Get to seven and a half. That would be what? 53. It’d be eight and a half, seven and a half. And you’d have a chance. Got to get five points tomorrow. Gotta get five points tomorrow. doing the same thing you did today to get you got to get twice as many points doing the same thing and maybe in a worse situation. Switch Sw switch Scotty and Henley in their order and that team can come alive. Yeah, that again I think there were probably like three self-inflicted wounds that just didn’t make any sense and that could have been a and that’s if that’s worth a point and a half, which it might be. They’re still the favorites to win this. Yeah. Yeah. And you just can’t. The Europeans don’t make the they they have the screws tightened down and you have to match them with you have to match them with the data on the computer before the match starts. And if you do that, you have a chance. If you don’t, uh, you better hope that the New York crowd just goes crazy. like so so I don’t even want to talk about the fans. They’re they’re great. You do not make decisions to get the fans involved. If you win matches, if you win holes, the fans are going to cheer. Doesn’t matter who it is. The difference between a Bryson roar and a Patrick Can roar in a Ryder Cup is unnoticeable to me. unnoticeable to me. So I I think it’s a big mistake to make decisions based on emotion. Well, Gregor, this time tomorrow, we’ll have a clearer picture of what is going to happen uh for the final result of this 45th RDER Cup. But are there any final thoughts? Anything that we missed tonight before I sign off and go to the media shuttle and sit in traffic for the next two hours? No, you go sit in traffic and think about what we’ve done. Okay. Okay. All right. I’ll do just that. I appreciate I will spare you. But it’s uh Look, I I get where we are. I don’t get the reasoning, but hopefully they can turn the tide tomorrow some way, somehow. Eight more matches uh on Saturday. We’ll have a clearer picture. Big thanks to Bruce Mina. She does all the hard work behind the scenes. Grade to charm is available at the real GFD. You can find me at Rick Reng good. This is second cut. Catch you next time. [Music]

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SHOW INDEX
0:00 Intro
1:15 Bethpage Security and Attendance
3:02 TV Coverage
5:02 DECHAMBEAU/THOMAS vs. RAHM/HATTON
9:45 SCHEFFLER/HENLEY vs. FITZPATRICK/ABERG
11:45 MORIKAWA/ENGLISH vs. MCILROY/FLEETWOOD
13:50 SCHAUFFELE/CANTLAY vs. HOVLAND/MACINTYRE
16:40 SCHEFFLER/SPAUN vs. RAHM/STRAKA
22:05 YOUNG/THOMAS vs. ABERG/HOJGAARD
24:10 GRIFFIN/DECHAMBEAU vs. FLEETWOOD/ROSE
28:48 BURNS/CANTLAY vs. MCILROY/LOWRY
30:55 Saturday Morning Foursomes
39:09 Outro

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