Patrick Reed Slams Ryder Cup Payouts: Pride or Paycheck? 🇺🇸⛳

The money debate around the Ryder Cup is heating up again—and this time, Patrick Reed is weighing in. Captain America himself says players should get zero for competing, calling it one of the few events where money should never enter the equation.

In this video, the crew breaks down:

– Patrick Reed’s take vs Rory McIlroy’s agreement with Europe’s stance

– The new Ryder Cup system: $500K per player ($300K to charity, $200K stipend)

– Whether corporate profits and massive TV rights should filter back to players

– Is the Ryder Cup like the Olympics—about pride, not pay?

– Do you think players deserve a bigger cut, or should the Ryder Cup always stay money-free? 👇

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The controversy over money around the RDER Cup is is a conversation that still goes on this year. And uh, of course, the Captain America, as they call him, Mr. Patrick Reed, had a chance to weigh in on this because he was out playing at the DP World Tour event this last weekend and uh, he disagrees with it. He thinks that there is no money should be exchanged whatsoever for uh, the players playing in the RDER Cup. Uh here’s my question to you guys. Some people equate this to like the Olympics. It’s for like pride of your country or your continent or area or whatever they call Europe. Um, and you know, do you guys feel like all of the money that’s generated, thousand tickets to be a spectator standing in the grass, a merch tent that’s the size of like an Amazon warehouse, all of that money is generated around 24 of the best players in the world. Do you think they should get any of it? Well, how much do they get? So the new So historically they got zero with like a small travel stipen. Okay. And I say small it’s probably like any one of ours annual wages. You know what I mean? Um but either way they after this topic came up um they came up with a new solution. The new rider cut payment is $500,000 per player. Of the 500,000 300,000 must go to charity charity of their choice and the remaining 200,000 is a personal stipend. So, they’re essentially getting $200,000 for themselves for a tournament. I don’t think Scotty has swung a club for under4.1 million in the last four years, right? See, my my thing with this is like, you look at the Olympics, you know, there’s not a lot of I mean, there are some countries that pay their uh athletes for the Olympics, but I feel like I feel like this is something money shouldn’t be involved with. I mean, here’s my thing, and I love P Reed, so I’m not going to try to shade P Reed here, even though he is shading our country. However, this reeks of jealousy to me, because I mean, it isn’t my money that’s going to them, and 60% of it’s going to charity for the record. Yeah, it isn’t my 200,000 that’s going to them. It isn’t P Reed’s 200,000. Why do we care who’s paying this money and that they’re getting 200,000 for showing up? I don’t understand that. TV rights alone is going to be how many hundreds of millions of dollars, right? Let’s let all the corporate Let’s let corporate get it and not give it to the golfers. That makes sense. I think that that’s where my issue lies is it’s like on one hand, I get it. Like the Olympics competing for your country, it’s it’s not about money. It’s about doing something incredible for the place you call home or whatever. But even in the Olympics, if you do good, like some countries pay them millions of dollars for every gold they get. Well, right. And not every sport has like multi multi-millionaires competing week in and out. You get guys like, you know, doing like Olympic shuffle board who are like, “Hey, it’d be nice to get my Southwest flight covered here or something.” You know what I mean? Or that uh that shooter. Forget what country he was from. Oh, the dude who’s just like one hand, you know, with his glasses and you see everyone else in like high-tech gear. He’s like in jeans. Yeah. Like that dude pocket. He’s done some covert op uh operations. Thank you. Um, yeah, that I think I think that’s kind of like the weird thing about it is it’s like who is like could you like take like PGA of America, you know what I mean? Behind the, you know, the half of behind this entire thing where they’re like, “Oh, come on guys, do it for pride. Like, what are we talking about?” Like, you know, this means a lot for your your homeland. Meanwhile, where’s it all going? Right. Now, I do get it. Like PG of America, like it it’s a nonprofit organization. It’s all about growing the game of golf. Yes. And you know, they put money towards like, you know, golf schools for youth getting into the game. So, I do understand that like the money isn’t hopefully I, you know, just being stuffed in like a couple of handful of guys pockets at the top. But at the same time, like you said, there’s going to be hundreds of millions of dollars generated in economic impact from these 24 guys showing up. How much in merch sales alone? Oh, it’s it’s it’s it’s scientifically impossible to know. I mean, it’s it’s insane. So, that’s the other part for me, though, is I go both ways. I understand doing it for pride and for glory and the whole thing, but at the same time, it’s like, yeah, but that is a mountain of money you’re asking them to say, “Hey, you should ignore this cuz legacy and it’s important.” I don’t know. Patrick Ree firmly is firmly against paying players for competing in the Ryder Cup. He believes it’s one of the few events where money should never enter the equation. It’s one of the, this is his quote, he says, “It’s one of those that I really think is unnecessary to be honest with you. If you’re going to give money to players, have it all go to their charity or something like that.” Now, here’s the thing. That’s also what the uh European team’s take on this is. So, is it jealousy or is it like treasonous? You know, both the other side siding with the blue and yellow team, specifically Rory. I think he said that he agrees with Rory specifically, which All right. Uh I can’t imagine Rory’s the biggest Patrick Reevenge. Maybe he’s got like a hat. He’s got a uh um a four aces hat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know. But what like like you just said, there’s so much money going around. Not to hand them some to make it cost them money to go. That doesn’t make any sense at all. No, I also do agree. Like they’re probably not booking their room on orbits. You know what I mean? Like Yeah, but on a on a normal given weekend, they are. I mean, it’s very true. But it’s not like costing them money to go. I would imagine prior to any of this, you know, like that the the giant jumbo jet, they all flying together, they’re probably not kicking in on that, venting each other. Is is that giant jumbo jet going from state to state picking them all up? Cuz they’re not all just playing from South Florida. That is a really good point. That is a good point. Like, you know what? So, and then they got to be gone for the entire week. If are they all getting different houses? Are they all getting same houses? You know, like their their Verbo bill’s got to be up there. Yeah. He doesn’t have a jacuzzi. I can’t stay here. I assume team team USA is paying for that. There’s no way that they’re paying their own way for this, right? Which interesting point though. So then who is Team USA like in terms of who is that? is that PG of America themselves who probably like have you know they’re taking all the money but you know put a little bit back