Fore Play - Riggs Calls In From the Ryder Cup in Paris

Episode Date: September 28, 2018

Riggs calls in from Paris to talk all things Ryder Cup with Frankie and Trent. The guys talk pairings, how to behave in France, media center accommodations across the pond, European fans, Phil/Tiger and a whole lot more.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. I guess this is just au-voir. Is that how you say goodbye in French? Bonjour. Hello. Hello. So I think au-voir is either thank you or goodbye.

So that's what we're going to. I think both applies here. I would look at past all the time and look at, you know, there's stuff that they post. Some of it's like absolutely stupid, but some of it's actually quite amusing. funny stuff like that is what we need to get people to attract people to to the game of golf. Nice to be here, boys. Congratulations on all that you're doing is as mediocre as it is. These newer, younger, hipper platforms like Barstool Sports. Togas had three back surgeries. He's had one fusion. We welcome in from Barstall Sports. Riggs and Trent, guys. Welcome to the play presented by

Barstool Sports. I am talking to you live from France. I am in France. Uh, gentlemen, we're going to, I'm actually, I want to talk about how good I am right now, but I want you guys to ask me. So I'm going to ask you first, how are you guys? Riggs, you're in another country right now. I think we sat in here just about two minutes ago and I looked at Trent and I'm like, we're going to do this podcast. Where's Riggs? Like, he's just, you're just in another part of the world right now and you sound great. You're probably feeling great. Uh, I guess, how are you doing? Boys, let me tell you how I'm doing. I am sitting. on a balcony out here on kind of a roof deck I guess myself and Logan we're out on a roof deck I'm drinking some French wine I got a French red in front of me it's about 9 o'clock at night I'm in France I'm in Guillaencore France which is about 45 minutes outside of

Paris and let me tell you this we have had just a lovely couple days a fantastic couple days a lot to talk about a ton to talk about we got the pairings The pairings have come out. We're going to talk about that. Our travel to the Le Golf National, which, Frankie, you nailed it. Everybody out here says, Le Golf National. I mean, it's rolling right off your tongue right now. It's as if no...

It sounds better that you're saying it in France. Yes. It's almost as if you never heard me say it. It's just coming out of you that way. So one thing I kind of realize is that the French, their teas aren't as enunciated as we announced them. They're almost more like S's. So if you say like leg off national, then it's almost, you have to kind of like present it like you're incapable of making a T sound, but you're trying to. Right.

And you say like, leg off national is kind of how they say it. And then once you get to that point, you're golden. I mean, Riggs, I'm not, I don't want to get past what you're doing. I mean, I'm looking at this picture right now of you, just I guess on this deck that you speak of, you're wearing all Peter Millar gear, you're holding your wine. And you look like, it looks as though a French artist painted the background from behind you. I mean, you have like this little tree and a bunch of rocks that's sitting there for like, I don't even know what that's doing there. Those rooftops in the background really, really finish it off. It looks fantastic.

You look like you stepped out into, you know, into heaven. Oh, it's funny you should mention that, Frankie, because we probably took that photo. Logan probably took that photo, I don't know, an hour ago, maybe 45 minutes ago. And we were hanging out in our beautiful Airbnb here in France. And he said, you've got to come out to the deck. You got to come out to the balcony. The sunset right now is off the charges. It's unlike anything you've ever seen.

So I came out. That's just naturally what I was wearing. I'm like Peter Malarred gear that I was just wearing. It came out and he was like, you should grab a bottle of wine. So we opened a little bottle of wine. I poured myself a glass of red of literally just. us genuine, sincere French red wine. And we took that picture and I put it on the Instagram and let me tell you, Frankie, people are bunched about that picture.

And also, Logan's like a cheat code, right? Logan takes these pictures. Shout out to that guy because he just knows how to, he knows the angles, he knows the color schemes. He took a picture of me once drinking fireball and it's like, I have it hanging in my room. Dude, when he first got here, Kevin started that kicks in the office Instagram account where like people around the office to throw off their shoes. And Kevin was like, all right, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do another one. And Logan's like, no, no, let me do it. Logan took the shoes, took it outside onto the street,

threw the shoes into the air and hit a bunch of pictures. And they are the best pictures on that entire Instagram account. Logan is a wizard with pictures. Yeah, shout out Logan. So Logan was like, well, Riggs, I'm going to put a couple filters on it. Let me touch it up a little bit. And then when he sent it back to me, my phone almost exploded because it was like glowing from how hot the picture was.

that he sent back, and then he went on to say because I started, I started teasing a little bit that the last time that I changed my profile pick on Twitter was two and a half years ago when I was in London with Gaz. And I was like, dude, I might have to make this my new profile pick because it's that hot, it's that good. And then he bragged him as like, if you do that, you'd be like the fifth person at Barstool whose profile pick is a photo that I took. Dude, Nate's Avatar is a picture that Logan took.

Nate was like, I've never even seen myself look like this, and he changed his avatar. So Logan can make anybody look fantastic. They're impressive what they do with the camera. The balcony, I'm on the balcony. The balcony that you see in the photograph that many people are going to source and reference after they hear this. This is exactly where I'm coming to you from. Logan is walking around like a wizard right now, taking all kinds of footage. He's filming everything that happens.

Big shout out to Logan. We landed. So let me give you a little taste of my journey so far. We took the red eye. last time I saw you guys was Tuesday at the office took the red eye to Paris pretty easy gotta be honest it's almost it's almost devilish and like a little too tempting how easy it is to get to Paris especially when you live in New York that we just we just arrived at the airport at like five we took like a seven o'clock flight watched a movie or two fell asleep for like three hours on

the plane woke up and it was like 8 a.m and we were just in Paris just like you can do it so unbelievably easily. We're just in Paris. So we arrive. We're all hyped up. The driving gentlemen in Paris and in France in general is so exponentially easier than it is in Scotland that I was just stunned. In Scotland, I don't know, it's almost like in Scotland they didn't want anybody to come visit. So they just decided to reverse everything to the degree that like you didn't even know fucking which hand your right hand and which hands your left hand in Scotland because you're sitting on the right side of the car, but you're in the left side lane and it's all chaotic. And It's just normal.

The only thing that's different is the language. So when you look up at the street sides, you just can't read anything. You have no clue what anything says. You don't know what any of the street signs mean whatsoever. So it's kind of a total crapshoot. Like when you go through a four-way stop, it's kind of just a total crapshoot. It's like, should I slow down? Should I go straight?

Should I go west? Should I go like, what the fuck should I do? But outside of that, the driving, same side of the road, same side of the car, all that, we got ourselves a nice Mercedes-Benz because all the bends is out here. like in Europe the bends is like the normal car that's like a that's like a Toyota correct so they were like hey it's like seven dollars a day more to upgrade to a Mercedes Ben do you want to do that we're like oh yeah we want to do that so the boys I mean we buy like French red wine we're buzzing around in a bend we got Peter malar head to toe I mean

life is good right now we made our way out to lay golf national yesterday we walked the course The course is, I have to say, the course is one of the most phenomenal venues for an event like this because every hole, it's almost like TBC, sawgrass, if you remember Trent Daddy, all the stadium stuff that they have down there, how every hole is like they just have these elevated hills and stadiums, it's a stadium course, all that stuff. Yep. Le golf national. Leg golf national. Leg golf national is exactly like that, whereas like almost every hole all around the greens,

are these elevated mounds, and it's like they built grandstands in certain spots, but they almost didn't even have to because the whole thing is just perfect reviewing. So it is going to be a fucking scene out here this weekend, a scene. I saw some of the pictures that you were putting up. I was stunned at these already built-in grandstands into the grass, essentially, that you're talking about right now. The water around the greens just look so calm. It's just everything, everything just looks so picture-perfect.

I don't know if it's because you guys, did you guys walk the course a little later in the day? Were you there all day? Did you take the pictures later when it was just like setting? For some reason, everything that I saw just looked like perfect, unless it just is perfect. That's a really good question, Frankie. So what happened was when we arrived, we arrived at like eight or nine in the morning. By the time we got out all the way out here, it was like noonish or so. We got to do the rental car stuff.

We had to figure out where to drop our stuff, all that. So by the time we got out here, it was noon or so. Then we got into the course. It was like 1 o'clock. And by the time we got out on the course, almost all the players had finished because they only did like nine holes. So most of the players were off the course. So most of the pictures we took, they were a combination of nobody was really on the golf course.

And Logan was doing his magician, like photographer, videographer, a crazy-ass shit. So the pictures did come out unbelievably, like, peaceful and calm, largely because nobody was on the course, but also because even if like, if the entire country of France was on the course, Logan would have made those pictures appear unbelievably calm. Oh, man.

So you go around yesterday, is there a buzz there, you know, a couple days before the rider car up even begins? Is there a buzz amongst, you know, the fans there already? So it's kind of weird in that it's in Paris, it's in France, And France, I mean, is not like a golf hub. It's not a Ryder Cup hub outside of Jean Vanderfeld, who obviously surrendered and collapsed as like, that's just what the French do. Like, nobody really knows any French golfer.

So it's not like France is this huge golf hub. So the first couple days out here have been, I mean, there is a buzz in the sense that the grandstands behind the first team are the most outgross. outrageous grandstands I've ever seen in the history of grandstands. I mean, they are, I would describe them as their head tilting. Like, if you approach them, you have to stop and then tilt your head backwards to see the top of them because they're so tall. They're like head tiltingly tall. That's how tall they are.

It's crazy how tall they are. So that is that whole thing. That grandstand is almost like a beacon of like excitement that exists on the course because almost no matter where you are on the course, you can see the grandstands behind the first tee, and you just get this crazy excitement about how packed and loud and just jam-packed this entire thing is going to be. So that does exist. But yesterday afternoon, it was kind of, it was quiet-ish. I mean, we went to a couple like burger spots.

They have like these trucks that they brought up, trucks, pizza places, all that. You saw a little bit from the video today. But when we rolled up to them, there was like nobody in line. line, basically. So it almost feels like a calm before the storm, if you will. People are excited. Don't get me wrong. Tiger, we saw Tiger for a little bit yesterday. And there was a sea of people. People were chanting Tiger's name. He was just walking across the practice street. And the Europeans, they were like, Tiger, Tiger, Tiger. Wow. Listen to that little flare. He just gave that. Man, you are turning into. He might never come back. He's just a French guy now. What's the word now that?

What's the word, the little accents he's putting on these things? What's that word? You're talking about Axon de Guz. Did you hear the way he, a tiger, tiger, tiger. It's like he doesn't weigh better than you and me. It's almost like he's saying it with like a mouth full of water. Like, and he just doesn't want to close his mouth. The golf ball is the only piece of equipment you use on every shot.

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How are your media digs? How is everything in the media center? Pretty bad, to be honest with you. The media accommodations for this, the media accommodations for this. event are so significantly far below the USGA, my close personal friend, and the PGA of America, my new friend, that Logan and I, we vouch to each other after our first meal in the media food accommodation area that we would never, ever again, eat in that media food cafeteria.

Oh, man, that sucks. There's no, like, free ice cream bars or anything, I bet. it's a joke i'm talking the food stinks when you go through they like tag you and then there's like prices and they kind of confuse you on like if you don't order the right meal then they're going to charge you 20 euros or something for this extra caveat to your meal and all that meanwhile when you go to the u.s. opener you go to the pGA championship like you guys know Klondike bars are basically just falling out of the freezers they're like slapping you in the face all that.

We grab a bottle of water and it feels like they're going to tag you for like six euros or something. So it's not great. We basically, like I said, we vouch that we will never step foot in the media cafeteria ever again, the entire time they were here. The media center is, I would say, five times less cool as either media center that we've been into thus far. It's just, I don't know if it's just because we're in Europe and it's right of a company. Europe putting the thing on instead of PGA of America or Rider Cup USA or our close personal friend, USGA or whoever.

But in general, media accommodations nowhere near what I've seen at the USDA or at the PGA of America. And also, I have to point out that we are the furthest away media outlet that has ever been put into a media center. And not only that, but our little, like, booth thing that they gave us in the back is in like this corner and you have to go through a bunch of other media outlet booths to get to it. And so we're basically like all of the heat has for some whatever reason been like pushed into this little corner.

So we're literally in like a four foot by four foot sweatshop in the back of the media center. So don't love that. It honestly sounds like they just took the American media and they gave, like do all the other American media companies have horrible, horrible accommodations? I feel like the Ryder Cup Europe is like. like fuck these guys. Trent daddy, it's a great question. If that were the case, I would respect it. I would totally understand

it. And that's fine. It's U.S. against Europe. That's what we're doing here. That's the whole thing. I don't know. We spent so little time in there because of how disgusted we were by their lack of hospitality that I didn't even have enough time to investigate where the American outlets

were versus the European outlets. I will say that I saw a bunch of like BBC news tags very close to front of the media center. And that's not where Barcelona Sports is. I'll tell you that much. So it is a little bit curious, very curious.

The media centers have these huge, large, you know, TV screens, right? So you can see what's going on. Obviously, you can do your job from in there. And from where Riggs and Barstall Sports's center, a little, you know, our spot is in the picture, it looks smaller than what your... It's his hotel room all over again. TV look. They make, you're so far away that that, like, 80-foot TV looks like an iPhone screen.

Frankie, no joke. I need a pair of binoculars in the media center to see the screen in the media center. I can't even, I don't know what they're putting on there. I can't read it. You legitimately can't read it from where we're sitting. You have to go outside of our sweatshop booth in the back, right? And you have to like walk five rows up to even see what's on the screen. Yeah, I mean, listen, like you said, I would totally respect that you're on their soil.

You want to show up to their place and you want to cover their golf course. They're going to stick you in the sauna. but if they're not doing that, and it's just like they just fucked up and they just didn't, you know, live up to the standards of what we've been accustomed to here in America and with our close personal friend, the USDA and the PGA of America, and like you just said, the amazing amenities, we have Klondike bars, we have snicker ice cream bars. I mean, everywhere you walk, there's like perfect, the Starburst pink ones. There's perfect, you know, grilled chicken, chicken nuggets and chicken fingers.

I was eating salads. I was eating salad. I had tuna fish every day. Yeah, I don't want to make your mouth. Listen, you're in France, all right? I want to stop this actually right here. You're in France. You're sitting on a goddamn balcony, sipping red wine in, like, Versailles.

I think you can take, you know, not the best amenities when you're on the golf course at the Ryder Cup. Let me tell you this. I'll give you a good example. The food is so bad at the media accommodation center that Logan and I just ordered Domino. Oh shit. Yeah. We're legitimately... Rickish shot at Domino's.

We're basically in Versailles, and we just ordered Domino's. Now, you know, frankly, we've gotten into this debate before. I love Domino's. I think Domino's is delicious. However, when you're in a new place, you know, you like to venture out a little bit. You like to dabble, get a little bit of cultural experience, all of that. We're so scarred by our experience at the Ryder Cup, Europe, provided media cafeteria that we just ordered two medium pepperoni and sausage pizza pies from dominoes and we couldn't be more excited about them salivating things about it

yeah not great a look for the for french cuisine no this snails i can't even think of french is french french toast yeah frank yeah i got to ask you i saw that pizza are you from sauce or whatever is that pizza that good I'm not even fucking around with you. I know how suspect that review is. And for people that don't understand, you know, I film Dave Portnoye, eat pizza every single day. We've done 450 reviews. We go to every single place in America, it feels like I'm nonstop. I started my life at a pizzeria with my dad.

Then I finally ventured out. And now I'm still doing pizza. I just can't get away from pizza. So with all that in your mind, you would think that I would know what like pretty decent pizza is, right? I've seen a lot of good ones. I've seen a lot of bad ones. When we came across this new place, sauce pizzeria, and I can't believe how much promotion they're getting.

It honestly seems like they paid us, right? Yeah, it does. When we went to sauce, we just, like, stumbled across this place. Dave got recommended from this restaurant owner of this amazing fish place in the city called Lur. This guy's like, and when you get like a recommendation from a fucking chef in New York City, you know it's going to be the real deal. So we were excited to go there. We go there.

It's raining. We weren't. We didn't know how it was going to be. We always do the reviews. outside it was pouring it only been open for a week it only been open for a week so we're like there's no reviews there no one even knows what the hell the place is called um and man we had this slice of pizza Dave ate at first he gave it a 9.1 I was blown away I you could actually if you if you bumped up the volume you can hear me in the background go whoa like when Dave says a

9.1 I mean we've done really good pizza places like Prince Street pizza is one of my favorite and he rated it like an 8 point something I'm like when I when he said 9.1 my jaw hit the ground I went in there. I had to do the pizza. I had to have a slice of pizza. And I made Dave, for the first time of my life, I'm like, Dave, hold this goddamn camera. I told him, we can't leave until I get on this video. I said, I must tell the people that this isn't, because, you know, the owner came in on the review. He happened to be there. Happened to. I swear to God, he happened to be there. His girlfriend happened to be there. It just seems suspect. Like, we give this new place. People think Dave has like equity in this place, right? Which would actually work. If he, if he owned a place and said it's a 9.

people will be going crazy. For sure. I had this pizza. I told Dave, film me. I swear to God, I don't think I've ever had a better tasting pizza in my entire life. I went home and told my dad, I'm like, this place just dominate. I was like, this is the best pizza I've ever had. I told my dad, he has to come to the city to try it.

It's crazy. That's stunning. I'm moving into the city next week. I told the guy, I will only be ordering pizza from this place. He's like, absolutely. Unbelievable that it was that good. 9-1 is so high. I mean, that is very high.

seen a lot of pizza reviews, Frankie, and I'm watching this one. And then all of a sudden at the end, my guy Frankie appears on the camera. And as I started to review on the pizza, I was like, holy shit. If Frankie's going out of his way to vouch for this place, it must be pretty legitimate. But you're right. I mean, there was, not only was it the owner and the girlfriend were all involved, but the fact that it's only been open since Saturday is like, come on, a place can't have that good of pizza if it's only been over for like two days.

But, you know, you came on. You're pretty convincing, buddy. You're very convincing. Yeah, I dug that. It was funny. The top comment on, like, Facebook was, and now this guy's a millionaire. Like, the owner was just glowing. Yeah.

He's watching himself become successful in front of his time. It looked like he was going to hug Dave when he gave him a 9.1. And I'll end on this. He has this fucking, he has this oven that can change the heat of the crust and also change the heat of the cheese. So he can shoot heat at the crust and also at the cheese. And he can change the heat. I'm like, what are you talking about?

out now, dude. This is the Bryson Dishimbo of pizza, but honestly, it tasted good. So at that point, I threw all that shit out the window and I ate it. Buddy, it looked phenomenal, so I had to ask you about it. All right, so the last thing, well, there's a couple things I want to say about the French before we move on to actually talking about the golf, which is that if you lead with bonjour, then it changes everything about your interaction with the French. So we all have this, we've all been told kind of this, this judgment that the French are assholes. If you go to France and you don't speak French and you're not a French person, they're going to be mean to you.

I have learned through a couple days now of trial and error that if you just lead with a little bit of French, even like any little dosage of French that you possibly know, if you lead with some French, you disarm them. you disarm them from their like fuck this american person to like oh he's trying like he's at least trying to speak french okay i'll be friendly and then you actually learn that most french people are actually incredibly kind and they're actually been unbelievably like hospitable helpful we need directions we went into like a little sandwich shop last night we got sandwiches and pizza and like we we didn't speak obviously we speak basically no french they got I spoke basically no English, but I went in and led with like, oh, bonjour, like pizza, like, oh, that cheeseburger, you know.

And he immediately, he was like, oh, he smiled all that. And then he helped us out. Boom. However, if you go into a French conversation and you just lead with like blockhead English, they will not give you an ounce. They will not give you nothing. They'll give you legitimately nothing and you're just stranded on the island like you're not human. Like they treat you like you're a bug and that you're incapable of like forming thoughts or anything like that. So my number one lesson, my number one tip to anybody out there who goes to France in the future,

or like one or two words of French that you can lead with, like, bonjour, and say merci, merci, merci, beaucoup, drop that shit left and right. And they love it because they sense that you're trying. And as long as you're trying, you disarm them, and boom, they'll be very friendly. That's interesting because I feel like most people would think, that like if you said that to a French person, they'd be like, all right, you're, you're not saying it correctly and it feels like you're mocking us, but it actually works the other way, which is a very good lesson to teach people. It reminds me of National Lampoon's European vacation when they're out there in France and

they're ordering from the French waiter, and he's like talking, and they're just using just very, very, like you're saying, just boneheads, just American words, and the waiter's talking back to them and French being like, obviously you don't speak French, you don't understand a goddamn word I'm saying to you, and he's like nodding very nicely, and he's just giving them everything that they didn't want. That is what I would not want to do. I actually, if I ever do go to France, I'm going to now lead with just bonjour. I'm just going to say bonjour like a hundred times.

I think I'll do great in France too because I just church all the words up. So they'll think that I, they'll think like they're just something. They'll think I'm French, but there's just something wrong with me. Right. Yeah. Why is this guy, why is this French guy wearing USA Ryder Cup stuff? He's French, but he's off. Right.

You guys, Trent Daddy especially, you're absolutely right, and that your first sense, you're nervous to start dropping French words because you don't want to be exposed as someone that doesn't really know what the fuck they're talking about. And that is the sense that I had right out of the gate. That's kind of what, to be honestly, that plagued Logan is that he was like really hesitant to start using French words because he's like

I don't think I I pronounce them the right way. They're going to know that I'm just some clown trying to pretend like I fit in. Turns out it's the opposite. If you just if you show any effort whatsoever to speak their native language, you're trying to like fit in, you're pointing and just like frenchifying words a little bit like you're trying,

they dig that. It totally disarms them and they're way more welcoming and they'll be, they'll be very helpful to you going forward for the most part. We had a couple bad interactions, a couple. But I would say like 80% of people have been more than accommodating once we led with like bonjour and then boom, you're good to go. What's your, what's the vibe or what's the sense you get from? European fans towards just the American, like, Team USA, the golf team itself.

Are they inviting or is there any hostility? What's the feeling like? You know, I would say that it's been surprisingly friendly. And I think, too, that there's a certain degree of the American players are on the whole bigger stars, just in general, across the globe, than the European players. Right. So you definitely get a sense of, they're almost like desperately clinging to this like Euro team pride,

which I can't blame them for because the European team is obviously like, it's not very common for if you're a French, if you're like a huge French golf fan or a huge Spanish golf fan or a huge English golf fan, You typically, like you like to, in the Euro Cup or in the World Cup, you root for England or Spain or France. Now you're pitted into the situation where you root for Europe as a collective thing. And that's not very old. Like the European Union is not very old.

And so it doesn't have kind of this traditional, ruthless, all-in, nationalistic vibe that America has. right like we've been throughout the existence of rider cut we've always been america red white and blue everybody knows what that stands for we might be obnoxious we might be this or that but we are america whereas the european crew like they have to hype themselves up every couple years to get into like oh yeah we're all in on europe now like i might be a spanish guy but i love the english which is not something they do all the time so i do get a sense that that exists. I get a sense that the American stars, especially Tiger, Tiger, and it's probably skewed right now because he's coming off of his win. People are buzzing. Everywhere he goes,

I mean, you saw the opening ceremonies tonight when every other player, Europeans and Americans included, got introduced at the opening ceremonies. Nobody got anything close to what Tiger Woods got, which was a standing ovation that brought tears to my eyes again. And I'm pretty sure Tiger like started crying again as the European crowd. And you can tell it was massively European because they did. They tried to do a, if you are rooting for America, give a this. If you're rooting for Europe, give a that. And it was like 95% European.

So clearly it's like a crazy Euro crowd. And they for Tiger, they started chanting Tiger's name. They were going nuts for Tiger. So it's kind of this weird vibe of they obviously love the Europeans. Logan made a great point that when we rolled into the airport in Paris, there was like a giant billboard for Tommy Fleetwood that was all about like if you want to look like Tommy Fleetwood, do this, which is crazy because that would never fly in the States,

but he's a way bigger star in Europe. So there is a degree of that. But overall, the U.S. guys, especially the Tiger, Phil to a certain extent, are way bigger global stars than almost any of the European guys. So there is kind of this weird feeling of like a lot of the people here are just kind of excited to like see tiger. If you are a social butterfly, Liquid Ivy AIDS recovery after a night out, fuels fast-paced lifestyle, provides quick hydration and relief for families and kids. Liquid IV is a healthy, clean ingredient alternative to sugary sports drinks and is safe for pregnant nursing women and children to consume.

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they don't know how to be appropriate or etiquette. And I feel like there's almost the people in Europe want to be the opposite of that. They want to be inviting. They want to be, they want to seem like they're like more calm and better than the American fans. That's just my sense. Yeah. I mean, I think that absolutely exists. And I think that even when you go to the Open Championship or you hear the comments from J.T.

When he played in the French Open here over the summer, he was like, the fans, they clap on T-shots, all this. There's definitely a certain amount of like they want to be classier and calmer and whatever. They don't want to be seen as the guys that yell into the microphone after somebody hits a T-shot, which I can completely respect. I think that we all kind of like that to a certain. degree. Like we are obviously American. We have a higher tolerance for our people that are loud and they get obnoxiously drunk and all of that. We have a very different tolerance for that. But sure, we can understand how people find it classier, more traditional, whatever, the way that they might do it over here at certain events and all that. So that 100% exists. I will also say

that like our only experience so far has been mostly just a Wednesday at the Ryder Cup, which is still two days out, the pitch, the fever pitch hasn't gained a ton of traction yet. Today we were inside the Airbnb editing all day, trying to get our video up, trying to do like social media stuff, blog, cover this stuff. So we didn't even really make it to the course today. So our only real experience is from Wednesday. And on Wednesday it just, again, the excitement hadn't necessarily built. I think that when we do our follow-up podcast on Monday or Tuesday of next,

week that comes out. I imagine we'll be singing a different tune. People are going to be coming in from all kinds of different places. I learned, we learned on the way here that it's only like a two-hour and 15-minute train from London to Paris, which I just, I didn't even know that was really possible. So I think that there's going to be a ton of rowdy European fans that are going to get, you know, under the skin of certain Americans or certain American fans or whatever. I think that to a certain degree they're going to be just as obnoxious, just as drunk as American fans get and all of that.

So I think it's going to pick up a ton over the weekend. Tomorrow morning I cannot wait for. I'm very excited for us to talk about the pairings and all that. But so far, it's been pretty calm. Okay, yeah. That sounds about right. It's what you're saying. It's going to be the polar opposite the next couple of days.

People are just, as soon as they get into their drinks, it's going to be, it'll look very much like a Ryder Cup feel. I would have. Yeah, I think the opening ceremony really. really gets people going. And those fucking planes were flying over. And tiger, like you're saying, Tiger's getting chanted. Like,

now we're gearing up. Now we're going. Yeah. I mean, that kind of brought, I think you nailed. Like, that brought a whole different feel.

Once I saw those planes, once people were kind of chants and different names, they were in there. It was like, it was a Stanley Cup celebration. Yeah. When they bring it to that final destination and they just look at a sea of people,

that's exactly what it was. It was insane. Unfortunately, Riggs's guy, Bryce and Deschambeau, was the first person we saw come out of the tunnel and he's like walking around and giving people like the thumbs up like hey hey hey like pointing at people like bro

you're not the Beatles just get up there and fucking just sit down in your chair we can't go one podcast without Frankie plus what's freaking about Franks what's the other thing with all the sunglasses they're huge sunglasses crew yeah ever since they got off the plane it's kind of like a night it's like the it's like the plane uh them getting off the plane set the tone they're like we're just going to wear sunglasses the entire time regs is france just a sunglass place what's what the sunglasses I feel like every picture we see these guys, they're all rocking shades.

So I don't know if you guys could hear me chewing there. I was chewing some French cheese, which is just, I can't explain how good their cheese is. French cheese. For the most part, the food is not great. Their cheese and their bread are off the chart. So while you guys were talking there, you're just gnawn on a piece of cheese before the dominoes gets there. I'll just eat a piece of cheese. It was phenomenal.

You should have based of this cheese. I can't get over. It's still on my taste buds on my time. It's crazy how good the cheese is. Good cheese is honestly. I had a cheese platter on the train the other day. Whoa. We sat first class on our way to Boston.

First time I've ever sat first class on a cellar train. Yeah, you did. And they brought me over a cheese plate. And it was delightful. I spent probably, you know, there's nothing better than making cheese last. I was taking little slivers off with this little butter knife. Oh, yeah. Not to be confused with my wedges.

Real nice. Real thin slices. I was taking real thin slices. And I was just like perfectly putting. them on crackers. I asked this lady for crackers seven times. That's how many crackers I had. I must have had 35 crackers. I must have had 35 crackers on this goddamn train. But I got to, I got to agree with you, Riggs. Eating cheese is delightful. That's the only word that you can. It's, it's so astute, a stout. Is that the word I'm looking for? I don't think so. Shit.

Pretty sure it's not. But anyways, Frankie, let me say this. You're talking about the crackers. So we went to the grocery store last night. This is a big time move. too when you're on a big trip. We were exhausted last night. We did the red eye. We walked. We ran around the whole goddamn golf course to film that video. And then we just wanted to go to bed last night, but we forced ourselves to go out,

go to the shopping mall, go to the grocery store, get a bunch of food for the Airbnb. And we went in there. We got a bunch of crackers. We got a bunch of cheese, but we misjudged the cracker to cheese ratio. So we already ate all of the crackers. So I'm literally, the cheese is so good. I'm just eating slices of cheese by itself. And then I'm washing it down with sips of red wine,

French red wine, French cheese, just to give people kind of a sense. All right, all right, I know. It's just funny. Some dominoes driver is about to kick in your door and deliver you two pizzas. Go have a baguette. You're sitting there eating dominoes.

I get mad when people eat dominoes in New York. You should see how many people walk around here. With baguette, it's crazy. I mean, back... You'd think that that would be like stereotypical, right? It's like, oh, what are you eating a baguette? But, like, apparently that's just... That's literally all they eat.

No, I'm not kidding. They walk around that you see people... They're holding a bag like they just got back from the shopping mall. And then you just see, like, half of the long baguette piece of bread sticking out of the top of it. It's great. Shout out to... I mean, Dave... Dave ate a full bagget every single day for, like, five years.

From Panera, yeah. From Panera, yeah. That's why you got fat Dave. No free ads. Sorry. Sorry. What a lunatic. Okay.

So now for the next part of the show, gentlemen, I believe we should talk about the Friday pairings. But we have to preface it by saying that when most people listen to this podcast, almost everybody that listens to this podcast, the pairings, the matchups are already going to be concluded. Right. Because they start at like 2.10 in the morning. And this podcast will be listened to between, like, the matchups. like 6 a.m. and noon, Eastern time by most people. So, you know, we're going to talk about the matchups.

We're going to talk about the pairings and all of that. People have to understand that we, they need to know that we know that what we're saying is being consumed in the future and that the results of what we are talking about are already known to that. Yep. Wow. That was good.

You just talked to people in the future. That's some deep shit, some black mirror stuff. Right. That's an awareness to the situation. That's an awareness to the situation because it's true. It makes sense. I mean, everything they hear, they already happen. True.

It's a weird thing. So I want to go through these. The first matchup, Tony Fee and Allen, Brooks Kevka against Justin Rose and John Robb. I looked on the Vegas bookmakers, and this is actually the only matchup out of the four that the United States is the underdog. You know, I think that makes sense, right?

Justin Rose coming off, you know, FedEx win being the number one golfer. John Rom's a psychopath. Yeah, and Justin Rose can wrangle him. I mean, if John Rom can just be like put in place and just play his golf and not get and not be a head case and, you know, he feels comfortable. He's in a good situation. He's a deadly golfer. I think it could go one way or the other with John Rom and the Ryder Cup.

He's either going to be awful and he's going to be in his own head and frustrated and maybe break Justin Rose's neck? Or he's going to be dominant and he's going to be one of the next like Ryder Cup breakouts from European. But on the other side, you got Tony Feena who finishes in like second in every single goddamn golf tournament.

Shout to Colby. Brooks Kebka who like won two majors. Like I mean, it's actually to me shouldn't be. What were the odds? Was it kind of close, rakes? It was, I believe I saw plus 130 for US like minus 110 for Europe,

which I thought was crazy. I thought that was a crazy line. Brooks Skepka has won three majors in the last two years. Tony Fienow has finished second in every golf tournament since, like, 2014. It is true. The more I said that out, it's like, holy shit, these guys are much better, actually. It's weird. It's very bizarre that their underdogs, now having said that, a lot of people in Vegas included,

and this is probably why Vegas wins a lot, that they literally just go off of world rankings and this I think is like our worst matchup world rankings wise because Rose is like number two or three in the world now he dropped after last week and Rob is like number seven or eight

Kepka is like four or five and then Finaw is 17 or 18 or something like that so I think that Vegas does kind of a pretty strict world rankings thing is how those lines get set and clearly it works because

Vegas always does well and whatnot. So it is kind of weird in that respect. It's bizarre to think that Brooks Kepka and Tony Fee now, I blogged earlier. I pulled up their driving distance stats, and I believe that Brooks Kepka for the year is somewhere around either third or fourth on the entire PGA tour and driving distance average for the year. And Tony Fienow, I think, is eighth. They're both over 300, you know, 313 yards or something.

or the year is where they're at. So they both bomb the golf ball. I think you're going to know how that team's going to do tomorrow morning, like an hour before they tee off on the driving range. If they're hitting their drivers straight, it's over. If they're hitting them a little bit sideways on this golf course, leg off national, then you have absolutely no chance. If you miss fairways here, you have absolutely zero chance.

Right. It may actually come down to more precision as opposed to, you know, distance, right? especially at a golf course like that. But I'm locking in that bet. If it's 130, I'm going to sleep tonight feeling pretty good about making my money when I wake up in the morning because I am going all in on Tony Feeneau and Brooks Kebke, plus 130 against that matchup in the morning four ball. Yeah.

I mean, I think numbers-wise... Value pick. Value pick. Again, I don't want to... I guess we haven't really touched on the golf course too much, but having seen it, the rough is... is brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal. There's water all over the place.

So if you miss a fairway, there's a lot of greens, too, that are either carries, where you have to carry your approach shot to the green or one side of the green is completely covered by water and it's shaved off or it's a little bit of a drop off and you just can't miss on that side, otherwise it's in the water. So, in a lot of areas, it's if you miss the fairway and you're in this rough, you legitimately can't even go for the green or expect to hit the green. So fairways are a premium. That is very, very important.

We talked about it on a couple shows ago, a week or two ago, that the Europeans, whenever it's in Europe, whenever the rider comes in Europe, they set it up to favor European strengths and to hurt a lot. American strengths. That's natural. We do the reverse whenever it's here. And our strengths are not necessarily accurate scalp the tee. It's distance. We bomb the golf ball and we make puts. That's what we do. They are reversing it here. The heroes are trying to say, hey, you have to hit fairways. If you do not, then you're going to have to hit a layup. You're going to have to chip out. You're going to try to hit a wedge close and make par. That way, Jordan Spieth himself said he thinks there's going to be a lot of

This pump pars is what he thought because the golf course is very difficult. There's going to be a lot of instances where guys are going to have 15 or 20 footers for par to have the hole, maybe to win the hole and all that. So it is interesting to see that we led with a group of bombers. I heard Brandl Chambley and the boys on Golf Channel talking about how I think the first, whoever wins the first match of the rider cup has won like 13 of the last 19 rider cups or something crazy like that. Now, granted, Europe has won like that many of the last 19 because they've just been dominating us, I feel like. So I don't know how much legitimacy there is to that. But the Europeans led with their best team, in my opinion, Rose and Wrong are as good as it gets. That's going to be a tough team to beat.

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Right. So since we last spoke about it, we were, I think we were talking about whether or not she was going to be in Paris with Dustin. There was a bet. There was the bet. Vegas put it out. Will she be there? The odds were, I can't,

the odds in favor of her not being there or being there. I believe the odds were in favor of her not being there. I can't exactly remember. But it turns out she was there or she is there. She took a bunch of pictures on Instagram with Jenna Sims, who was Brooks Keppka's girlfriend. So things were looking like they were heading in the right direction. But then yesterday, if you see the group pictures of them,

they look miserable. They look absolutely completely miserable. There's no, everyone else in the picture. is smiling and they're the only ones who are just dead straight looking at the camera and then the pictures of course came out of Dustin taking pictures of Paulina like trying to be the good boyfriend trying to get out of the doghouse so it's and then there was another picture also where she really just looked miserable maybe you caught her at the wrong moment or whatever but it's not looking great for Dustin and Pauline I despite her being there and by his side and being at

the opening ceremony I don't think things are going as well as they appear to be no and and that was one of the points that I said that she was would be there is because she's got to get that Insta up. And God damn did she get that Insta up because, I mean, like, she literally has, like, Dustin Johnson, who's in the second pairing at the fucking Rider Cup, taking pictures of her at, like, the Palace of Versailles and, like, making sure, like, you know, it looks all good with her boomerang and shit. Like, are we kidding me right now?

The first picture of her that went up was her in front of the Eiffel Tower. So it's like she's in Paris to take pictures of her in South of Paris. She is what they call. She is flaunting on that Insta. Yeah. That Insta is on fire right now. I guarantee a conversation between Dustin and it happened where she was, Like, I hate you right now. You're the worst person ever.

I don't want to be together, but I'm not missing photo opportunities in Paris. I'm just not doing it. So that's sort of the vibe that we're getting that she's there. That doesn't instill a ton of confidence in Dustin Johnson, in my opinion. Her face 100% screams. I'm only here because the Ryder Cup is in Paris. That's 100% what her face screams. Like if this was 2016, she would be nowhere to be found.

Correct. No chance. No chance. If this is in bum fuck, Minnesota, Paulina gone. We might not see her over six months or something like that. The fact that this thing is in Paris, she's there. It screamed that on her face. They looked, like you said, miserable. There was not a smile in sight. Dustin doing everything he can possibly do, clinging, clinging to some love from Paulina by taking pictures. Babe, what do you want? Vertical. Horon Zawkeran. You want a boomerang. He's like clinging, trying to get back into her good graces. She's walking around like queen. Queen, yeah, yeah, she's like walking

into the palace of fucking Versailles, all that. So, you know, we talked about it on the last show that we were debating. Like there's on one side, her jealousy Instagrams and all that stuff. There's no way she shows up with Dustin on the other side. She is

literally an Instagram star. I mean, she is a star. We saw her in first person at the U.S. Open at Shinnock. We were mesmerized by her. She's magnetic. She draws a crowd. She is a star. She knows she's a star. There's no way a star like that misses an opportunity where your boyfriend, who you have two children with, is in the second pairing of the Ryder Cup, and it's in Paris. You just don't miss that opportunity. She didn't. She's there. She's there. You can see it on her face. Like, I'm only here because this is in Paris, which I respect.

It kind of, we said it wouldn't happen. We were wrong. Obviously, we were wrong. Of course, Paulino Karecki showed up to Paris. This is the number one golf in the world we're talking about. This is the guy on the American squad who has the highest ranking. He is the highest ranking in the world. So to have this stuff going behind the scenes, I will say it can go one of two ways.

He can be pissed and depressed and he's going to play like shit. Or he can be like, I'm going to play super well. and maybe she will like me again. This is a weird matchup to go into if you're going to like bet it or if you're going to be rooting for one side of the other. Yep. Deciding on who's going to win, right? Because Dustin Johnson's coming off of this just ridiculous, just public bullshit with his girlfriend, right?

And we all know what we just said. And Rory is coming off of just having one of the worst rounds of golf I've ever seen in my entire life against Tiger Woods. It's almost like he forgot how to play golf. So now you have these two guys that are going at it that, you know, I wouldn't be able to say who's going to do better than the other base. off of like what's been going on in their lives for the past week or so. And then Ricky versus Olson, I mean, for me, I would be like a coin flip.

So I really wouldn't be able to decide on who I want, who I would think is going to win this matchup. What about you, Riggs? Do you have, you know, do you have any input on who you think is the favorite in this? So weird matchup. So it's very clear to me that the, that Thomas Bjorn and the Euros came up with this strategy of, look, we have, I think they have five rookies. and the rookies are what everybody's talking about.

We had Notre Begay on the show on Tuesday, and he, in his opinion, he thought the Ryder Cup would come down to the European rookies. If they could come out 500, he thinks Europe can win. And so clearly Europe has a rookie issue, a rookie situation. And they decided to just face that head on. They put a rookie in every single, there is a rookie in every single, matchup. Now, Rory playing with Olson is crazy to

me because they have on their bench the healthy scratches. Shout out to your guys hockey show, Frankie. Oh, yeah. That shit. They have Ian Poulter, Henrik Stetson, Sergio Garcia, and Alex Noren are the five healthy

scratches in the morning. That means that Olson made his way into Rory's matchup beating out those other four guys. The only reason that he made his way in, is clearly because Bjorn was like, look, we can only win if our rookies perform, and the only way they're going to be able to perform is not if they sit on the bench and get nervous and get skittish and watch all this drama build up and all that.

The only way that we can win is if our rookies get their feet wet, jump right in and get some wins. So that's he's kind of taking this, this battle. Like, where are you on? to fight your battles. And instead of kind of giving Rory a polter or a stenton, like some surgical,

reliable veteran to lead on, he's giving Rory a rookie like Olison and saying, hey man, you either bring this guy up to a winning mentality and to victory or not. And that's where this rider club is going to be won or lost. So

I kind of respect this shit out of the move by Euro captain Thomas Bjorn by doing that. I think it's risky, but I do think it's kind of the right move that like, hey, dude, you either throw your rookies into the fire or you don't, and that's kind of what he's done. And I like it. I don't, you know, I like it. I think it's a smart move.

I think that it's shocking. I'm surprised that Rory's not playing with, again, a Sergio, a Stenson, a polter, somebody like that would be such a no-brainer. However, I think Bjorn's kind of gone outside the box a little bit, come up with a strategy. and to be honest of the American guy rooting for America I think DJ and Ricky

are still going to win this match but I respect a move by Thomas Peor Yeah and it didn't if I recall correctly Rory was matched up with Thomas Peters in 2016 and that worked out pretty well So Rory is obviously he's pretty good at taking these young guys and maybe

getting them accustomed to what a rider cup is going to be like That's a great point I even think about that Thomas Peters had an unbelievable record in the last rider cup Unfortunately, very sad for him. He didn't make it to this Rider Cup. And then he made comments about how Europe only lost because, like,

Phil was able to make 40-foot putts or something crazy like that. And then he bitched and said that American fans, they lost because the American fans don't know how to drink. Yeah, Thomas was being a little sad. He was being a little sad boy. He was being a little bitch. Yeah, you don't like to see stuff like that. Like, you just didn't play good enough golf to make the fucking team.

You got five rookies on there, and they're all better than you. It'd be a real shame if Thomas Peters made the 2024 team that had to play at Bethpage Black. And then people at Beth Page Black, who are New Yorkers mostly, who tend to remember things, let him hear that they remember that he said that. That'd be a real shame. But you're right. He said that him and Rory had a good record in 2016. He had a great rookie showing. So I think that's obviously a really interesting match.

The fact that we have DJ and Ricky when all of us were thinking we were going to have a DJ Brooks Kepka and then like a Ricky JT type thing is very, very, very interesting, which leads us into Justin Thomas and Jordan Speeth against Paul Casey and Terrell Hatton, which is, in my opinion, the biggest layup that we have going. This is a bloodbath. It's a bloodbath. It has to be a bloodbath. has to be. If Paul Casey and how did you say that first name? Tyrell. Terrell?

You went real soft on that. Terrell? That's because I don't. So I think, to be honestly, I think Phil Nicholson at one point this year, literally asked him on the first T how you say his first name. And so I don't know exactly. I think it's like Tyrell. You keep doing it.

Tyrell. I don't know. So Ty. I thought it was TRL. Yeah, like TRL. This is a domination. I mean, Justin Thomas, Justin Thomas and Jordan Spath are going to absolutely,

I mean, I actually feel bad for Paul Casey in Hatton. I mean, these two guys are just playing. They just play well together. You know that they do, Speeth and Thomas. You know their boys. They've been boys for like two decades. Shout out what the hell is. Shout out Smiley Kaufman.

Oh, yeah. He's been in that crew. And, you know, we haven't seen him. And I don't know why he just popped up in my head. We haven't seen the likes of Smiley Kaufman. Is he a lot? Well, you got, on this list, you got, we were just talking about Fowler, Thomas, and Spee. That probably would put it in your head.

Well, God damn. I mean, the last time we saw them, they were at someone's wedding. Was it his wedding? It was Smiley's, yeah. Jesus. I mean, you know, God, I hope that guy's okay. Last time I saw him was at that, uh, that muffler shop in Augusta National when all his friends were just minus.

All his friends. He was, uh, he was playing four. the green jacket the year before. That was his big breakout. Yeah. And the next year he's at this muffler shop, Midas, shout out Midas. We're all playing cornhole with just with Smiley Coffin and his friends are just winning

the Masters. Frankie goes, I hope that I sure hope he's okay. But yeah, I mean, it's a buzzsaw. Thomas and Speeth is a buzzsaw. To put a cherry on the top of that, that one's a lock. I mean, I can't imagine what the odds are on that one. That's got to be, you know, minus 200 type

shit. Speaking of Jordan Spath, did you guys see this DM? Did I send you this DM? I got from this guy? No. No.

So there's a guy in, where is this? I can't see exactly where the location is. It cuts off his business card. Oh, what is the French sun, like, glaring off, you know, oh, now it's night, right? So is it like the stars and the moon that's probably, like, closer in France and beautiful? Because everyone, like, it's married there?

Is the starry night like shining on your phone so you can't see the DM correctly? Is that what's going on? Let me tell you something, Frank. Actually, I wasn't even thinking about it in that context. And now that you said that, I just looked at my right and you, no joke, I'm not being mean, you should see the sun right now or the moon. The moon is, because it's nighttime here, the moon is the brightest, most spectacular color I've ever seen in my entire life. I mean, they show that in the movies, right?

People go to France, they're sitting on their balconies, they're looking at the Apple Tower. It's like the most romantic city of the world. And the moon just like comes. I think there's like an old, old school movie where the guys are like, I'm going to go get that moon for you. And you like, Bruce Almighty, no? Well, no, that's like the new shit. I'm talking like old school.

Oh, it's, uh, of all the gin joints in the world. Some shit like that. It's a black and white movie in the moon. It brings it in, whatever. That's what I'm thinking of you. Now, say the DM. I'm sorry to keep us off track. it's okay frankie so the dm is this guy sent me a dm and it's a it's a picture of a business card and it's all

the guy's dm says the real jordan speth and the guy's name on his business card is jordan s p a et P.H. Spath. Spath. He's your trusted advisor, wherever this town is. It says, personalized service

with a professional touch, your trusted advisor, Jordan Spatt. What a world, man. So that one came off differently because sometimes when we say Spith in the Spath way we say it real soft,

but you said it the way it's pronounced and the way it's spelled. You said that. strongly that that was the funniest way I think I've ever heard. Jordan Spath. That's just, that's just his name. It's Jordan Spath. One of the best of them ever got. I laughed out loud for like 10 minutes straight. And I kept reading it like, did he Photoshop this? And no, it just says Jordan Spath. And it's just, it's amazing. So, anyways, Jordan Spath and Justin Thomas. Yeah, I mean,

You know, the biggest thing to take away from this is that Spath and Patrick Reed have been separated. I don't, I actually don't think that that's that crazy. If you really remember back to the last couple of Rider Cups, especially in 2016, Spath wasn't even playing his greatest golf. Reed was just holling out. I mean, he was holding out in the middle of fairways and shit. Oh, yeah, Reed was carried him. Reid carried him a long way in that 2016 one. Right.

I mean, he was dominant. He ended up beating Rory and probably the most famous Riter Cup match of the last generation, of the last 10, 15 years with all the shushes going on, putting their fingers up to their mouths. Reed taken down Rory, who was their number one, of course, all of that. So on one end, it's a little bit crazy because, everybody looks at this this Reed

Spanth pairing as like kind of the new age American Rider Cup dominant team but when you look at it on the other hand Spanth really hasn't performed that much within that group he hasn't been that important and Patrick Reed is going to do whatever the fuck Patrick

Reed wants no matter what so putting him with Tiger putting him with spats putting him with whoever the fuck you want to put him with I don't think really matters that much so I kind of like the fact that Jimmy Fearer just separated him and didn't really give a fuck about it. Yeah, and it's, you get, now we get Reed and Tiger, which is so fucking interesting. I love that they're the last group.

It would have been wild if they had, like, put them in the first match just to, like, get things started. Tiger's probably a little old for that. He needs to be like, it needs to warm up a little bit on the golf course. But having Reed and Tiger together is like, it's almost like Jimmy Furrick was like, I'm going to give these fans the most badass matchup I can get just to know that we're not fucking around. on this Ryder Cup. Sorry, I'm eating cheese again. Just crushing.

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Frankie just gave an absolutely passionate pitch for this. So go do it right now. Now! You're right. I think you're absolutely right. Which leads us to Tiger, Woods, and Patrick Reed against Molinari. and Fleetwood. This is another one.

So I think the first matchup, which is Finao, Kepka, Rose, Rahm, and the final matchup, which are Tiger, Reed, Molinari, Fleetwood, are the two kind of toss-ups. I think the two in the middle we're going to win. That's my belief. That's my guess.

I think number one and number four are our toughest matchup. People got to remember, Tommy Fleetwood won the frickin' French Open on this golf course. at my golf national and francesco molanari played with tiger woods in the final group of the british open championship at garnoesty and won the damn tournament so those two guys against our two guys here patrick reed and tiger woods are about the best possible thing that europe could have imagined in making this pairing uh we are still the favorite our two guys are the favorite tiger is probably the hottest player on earth right now he obviously

just won the Tour Championship. I went back and I didn't really realize how good his stretch has been for the last eight tournaments because we're so focused on Tiger winning that we kept coming up a little bit short and being sad and disappointed. However, I went through and looked at the stats.

Tiger has five top six finishes in his last eight starts and one of those is a win. So Tiger is literally the best player on the planet right now. that's ever since the U.S. Open. So ever since the United States Open finished, he missed the cut of the U.S. Open.

I believe he started an eight tournament since, and he's finished top six and five of them, one of which he won, another one, the PGA Championship, which is a major. He finished second solo. So Tiger is the hottest player on the planet right now. Patrick Reed, I think he's like six, one, and two in his Ryder Cup career. So he is absolutely on Fuego when it comes to the Ryder Cup.

and then like we already kind of introduced Molinari in Fleetwood. This is obviously going to be the finale match tomorrow or today whenever people listen to this. And this is going to be probably the match that people catch the most of, right? Like if you're in the U.S., like you guys are in the East Coast time zone, you're probably like, okay, maybe I'll get up at five or I'll get up at six, and I'll catch the end of these matches. You'll probably catch the back nine or something. So a lot of people are going to see this match,

and I think this is going to be the best match of the four. Yeah, you bring up a good point with the Molinari. Molinari is seeing Tiger in a showdown setting where he's had to, you know, keep Tiger Woods like kind of just in his place as he's roaring up the golf course and, you know, running up the leaderboard and Francesca Molanari was just nails. I mean, that's all we talked about after the open was how he didn't give a fuck about who Tiger Woods was. He just kept playing his game and he's just like, I'm going to win because I shouldn't even be here. I'm an Italian waiter.

That's all he cares about. I mean, did you see the picture? The picture of them at the Palace of Versailles. Yep. He looks like a little short man, right? Chalza. And not that he's not a grown-ass man. I've made that mistake on this year podcast.

I'm just waiting for you to just bury yourself here. Well, I'm not going to. You know, he looks as though he was the one that, you know. Is this going to be a Frankie situation where you just... No, I was just going to say Francesco Molinaari looked as though he let everyone out of a really long limousine. And he just happened to slip into the picture. Like, they were just like, whole... Holy shit. The limo guys still, the Italian limo drivers in the picture.

I mean, that's exactly, look at the picture. Look at the picture that I'm talking about. We have to pull it up here. I mean, hold on. Okay. So it just looks like he just snuck into the picture. What? Frankie, it's important to note that you are not making disparaging comments because you yourself are an Italian waiter. I'm literally an Italian waiter. You all that's airelli. I've been an Italian waiter for, since I was like 15.

I don't even think I was allowed to be a waiter when I was 15, but I still was. Yep. I was running around, bringing people. I was opening up doors for people. I was parking cars. I was a valet guy. I was a delivery boy. I was a waiter.

I was a bartender. I've been in the Italian business forever. And Francesca Molonari looks like my cousin. I can't find the picture. But he's just, I think that's why I always go back to this because Francesco Molanari is, like, in my family. Like, I know who Francesco Molinari is. Right. I know exactly where he's been.

I know where he will be. I know, like, everything about him. I know his family. I know his cousins. I know what his kids look like. And I don't even have to know what they look like. But I know what they look like. Yep.

He just happens to be really good at golf. Yeah. Molinari, Borrelli, we're family. You fam. Cousins. But yeah, I saw that picture. I legitimately laughed out loud when I saw that picture. I mean, he's like on a lower step than everyone.

He has his hat off. He has a bad tan line. And he's just sitting there with that literally with that waiter, with that waiter stance. Like his hands are in front and he's got his chest way up high. Like, welcome to Borrellis. And it's just like, holy shit. You come on in here. And that's my uncle.

That's my cousin. That's Francesco. I love him. I love Francesco Mollinar. I fucking love the guy. I got to be honest with you. Francesco Mollonari is a man of the people. He might be my favorite guy on the rider cups seat.

Oh, man. He's just so unbelievable. He's like he's funny and he's not even trying to be funny. He's awesome. He's just a good golfer. The way after he won the open, the way he laughed and like smiled. He just looked like, I don't even. think I didn't like him after the open because Tiger had a chance to win.

I think I was like really just like down on Francesco Molinari. But as I've had time to just, you know, Tiger's got his W under his belt and I've been able to just go back and I've really, like I've actually moved on from Patrick Reed hate a little bit after he was wearing the red. And, you know, and I like just didn't like him for a time. The red and black. Yes. I didn't like him for a time.

And now that Ty, once Tiger just starts to become Tiger Woods, I'm able to like, all the hate starting to go a little bit away from. from the stuff that was anti-Tiger at the time. Molinari was definitely anti-Tiger during the open, but now I'm just, I'm all in on Francesco Molinari. I actually hate that he's playing against Tiger Woods because I would actually like to root for him. Yeah, I agree.

I mean, he's, I love everything about it. He's a man of the people, clearly. He's not in any way could he be misconstrued as being, like, above the people. He's just a very normal guy that Francesco Molanari. So it's going to be, look, it's going to be a great match. Tiger does not have a great Ryder Cup. record. Patrick Reed does. I like the fact that Tiger Woods, instead of being placed with someone who Tiger would be looked at as to carry the guy, Tiger has actually been placed with a guy

who everyone's expecting to just go crazy. Everyone's expecting Patrick Reed the second that he tees off of the Ryder Cup to just turn into, like he goes from Clark Kent to Superman, right? That's just what he does. He becomes Captain America. The second that the Rider Cup starts, I think that pairing Tiger Woods with that kind of guy right out of the gate is an incredibly smart move. Get him some confidence because despite Tiger Woods' record as the greatest golfer that ever existed on planet Earth, despite the fact that he just won for the first time in five plus years,

despite the fact that he's finished top six and five of his last eight tournaments, he does not have the great Ryder Cup records. So you have to factor those things in. clearly Jim Furik has. He put him with Patrick Reed, who is a savage in the Rider Cup. So Tiger doesn't have to lead on himself. Tiger doesn't have to worry about carrying anybody. Tiger Woods can go out there and play his game, do his thing,

and know that Patrick Reed as well is going to play his game and do his own fucking thing. And I think that Tiger Woods and Patrick Reed are both built as guys that they don't rely and they don't lead on other guys. They do their own fucking things. And putting the two of them in the same group together, I think, will work really well. Love it. Totally agree.

Totally agree with all that. Absolutely love it. So our healthy scratches that we have on the U.S., it's Phil, it's Bryson, it's Webb, and it's Bubba. To be honest with you, I love that. I think that's, if you had to ask me yesterday, which four guys would I leave out, it would be those four guys. Yeah, I mean, absolutely.

And seeing the pictures, too, of Phil, doesn't Phil just look a little bit older? What's going on? I look at Phil. He's so much hair. Yeah, that's it. That's it. His hair is way too long. Way too long.

When he walked out on the opening ceremony today, I was like, that's Phil, but it's also like someone who kind of looks like Phil. It's midlife crisis, Phil. I think it is. He might be completely fucked up over this Tiger thing. Like, he's like, I thought this dude was gone. I thought Tiger was back surgery. I didn't think he was going to be able to get out of bed in the morning.

And then he comes out of the casket, like, whatever that wrestler's name is, I'm going to get killed for not knowing what that wrestler's name is. Undertaker. And then it's just like, Phil, I think Phil's all right. You've painted a goddamn good picture, right? Phil Mickelson has been number two to Tiger Woods his entire goddamn life, right? This guy, Tygoor, Phil Mickelson, in his own right, could have been one of the best golfers of all time, right? I mean, he still is one of the best golfers because, you know, five majors and all the whole thing. But without Tiger Woods, Phil could have won a ton more majors.

He could have been the guy. He could have been Tiger Woods. So, you know, he goes his whole entire career with this guy just dominant. He's dominating him day after day in Tiger Woods. He's playing unbelievable golf himself, but he's just losing. And then Tiger just disappears. He's gone. No more Tiger Woods. He's just like he can't swing the golf club anymore.

Phil wins for the time being, right? Phil's just out there playing. He's walking down the golf course himself. He's smiling. Everybody loves them. He doesn't have a huge scandal. He doesn't have a huge scandal until like the whole thing with the money and stuff, but no one really talks about that.

And then, you know, life's going great. great. Phil's like just feeling great. He's looking fit, right? Everyone was talking about how Phil just looks young. Everyone was saying, Phil, you're glowing. And then Tiger Woods comes up like the Undertaker and he's just back in his life. He's he's like deading him $10 million. Hey, Phil, I bet you $10 million I fucking dominate you, bro. I can't fucking back, dude. I'm coming all the way back. Tiger is like Phil's boogeyman. Like Phil thinks he can go to sleep and everything's going to be fine. But then fucking here. Here comes fucking Tiger in his nightmares and in real life.

That's why Phil looks like he is, like, going through it because he is going through it. Phil's growing his hair out. He's like, I don't know what to do. This guy's swinging, this guy's swinging 122 miles an hour. He's driving the ball longer than everyone. What do I got to do? I'm in these commercials and everyone's looking at me. They're laughing at me.

I'm like, I'm trying to be cool guy, Phil, but I got to get back. I got to get back to my shit because this guy's winning golf tournaments. I'm plus 15. He's winning. This is insane. No joke. No joke. The best thing that ever happened to Tiger Woods

might have been Phil winning earlier this year on the PGA 4. Yes. Because I can just see Tiger sitting there in his little Tiger layer being like, if that fat fuck wins again at 48 years old, I swear to God, me with my new back, I'm fused, I'm a machine, I am fucking winning again on 4. There's no chance I'm going out without winning when this fat fucking clown is out there winning tournament.

I guarantee you, Tiger thought of it. that. So it's really it's Phil's fault. Like if Bill, Bill, buddy, if you would have just won the British Open in 2013, you would have gone quietly into the night. Nobody would have noticed. You could have been like this heroic kind of captain, father figure on the Ryder Cup team forever task force. Do your task force thing. That's cute. That's great. When you decided to win again earlier this year, Tiger Woods rose up from the fucking grave like the, like Undertaker. And just was like, buddy, if you're winning again, I'm winning again.

And that's pretty much what happened. Tiger legitimately got a new back because he didn't want Phil to have a victory after him. Like he didn't want Phil to have that. He doesn't want Phil to have any sort of step up on Tiger because that's just not how Tiger operates. Tiger only operates by just pushing Phil down. He got three back surgeries. None of them worked. And then he's like, just fucking fuse all that stuff together so I can get out of bed and win tournaments instead of Phil.

Yeah. Oh, that's so good. Oh, my God. It's a beautiful sight. Honestly, I love it. Okay, so people, when you people are listening to this show, you are going to know the outcome of everything that we just talked about. We're conjecturing, we're planning, we're getting excited. The beauty of it is that even though if we were wrong, if we were right, which we're probably right, about everything that we've said, there are still four sessions of Ryder Cup stuff.

We've got afternoon matches on Friday. We've got two sets of matches on Saturday, and then we've got singles all day, Sunday. So there's endless Rider Cup stuff. Talk about the pairings. Are they going to mix it up? Are they going to mix it match? I was kind of burnt up there on French wine and cheese and all that stuff.

Are they going to church it up? Are they going to mix up the combos? Are we going to see a speed read combo? Are we going to see Tiger get into it? with Bryson, are we going to see? Are Philip Bryson going to play Friday afternoon? All this shit remains to be seen. Gentlemen, let me ask you guys this.

How are you treating it in the States? Because here, you know, we're just going to be up at like six in the morning. We're going to go to the course. The tee off at 8. I'm going to see everything. It's going to be great. Back in the States, you got a weird time zone to deal with. What are you guys?

What's your plan? I was actually going to, that was the next thing I was going to bring up. I was going to ask Frankie what your plan is because I still don't have one. I don't have one either, especially, you know, it sucks is we're so busy here at work that I have such a busy Thursday and Friday. I don't know if I can physically do it to be able to wake up at 2 a.m. I just don't know. I may be able to wake up because I'm going to be here until like Fridays are impossibly busy for me, right? So I'm here until like 2 a.m. editing this college football show. So I just like don't know if I'll be able to physically do it.

So I'm planning on like, you know, waking up. I'm going to set an alarm for like 3 a.m. I'm going to like keep one eye open. I'm going to try and stay up. I'm going to watch golf for like two hours, try and go back to sleep for two hours, and then wake up and then just like scroll my phone and see what else happen. I'm going to try. I think I'm going to end up getting hooked and I'm just going to stay up. It's going to kind of suck, but it's also going to be awesome, especially if we see Tiger just like lighting it up and that fourth pairing.

But I think that's my plan. It's just going to be like wake up, see if you can stay awake. If not, just keep the lights off. I'll tell you that. I'm not going to make it easy for me to stay up. I think I'm going to, my plan maybe is I'm going to try to lay down at like 9 o'clock tonight. See, I can't do that. Right, right, right.

So, that's the thing. Like, tonight I'll be editing. So I can't do that. So it is tough out here, Regs. It's a battle. It's literally, it's a grind. It's fucking crazy. And everything's just over by one o'clock.

Like, everything like... You know what's amazing, though? What? That's Sunday. Yes. Right? That Sunday, you wake up at like 6 a.m. I think it's a later, right?

It is, yeah. You wake up at 6 a.m. And you just watch the golf all the way up until football. Right. And then you just watch all day long football. Sunday is perfect. It's the Thursday. It's the Thursday.

the Fridays where it starts at 2 a.m. That's fucking brutal. So that's kind of what we're juggling here. Obviously, you can just like, you're just living in normal life. You're just like go to the golf course at the more, like, their team off at 8.50, and you can just like go there and just watch it. No joke. I'm going to, as soon as I hang up with this podcast, I'm going to eat my entire Domino's pizza, finish this bottle of wine, go to bed. I'm going to wake up at like 6 a.m.

We're going to drive to the golf course, and then we're just going to go watch golf the entire day. So that's pretty much my plan. tomorrow. I fully understand where you guys are coming from. I've been there on the U.S. side. I get it. I will say that the Sunday move that Frankie was describing is perfect because you can drink while you watch Saturday golf while you watch Saturday football. You get to bed at a decent hour because you've been drinking all day, right? You drink yourself into like a drunken stupor. You pass out at like 8 or 9 p.m. You wake up at 5 or 6, 7, and then boom. Sunday singles are on all day until one, two o'clock, whatever it is. And then once Sunday singles are done, you've got the conclusion of the first round of football game.

And then you've got the afternoon round. Then you've got Sunday night football. Next thing you know, you've had like the best Sunday of all time. So I do think it's awesome in the United States. But I have it better because I'm just here. And I'm going to be literally, when you guys are watching tomorrow, when you're watching the highlights and all that stuff, I'm going to be standing on the first team within like 40 feet of Tiger Woods.

watching him tee off on the first tee in the rider. It is incredible. I can't imagine what that first tee is going to be like when Tiger shows up. I can't imagine. I cannot imagine with that fucking huge stadium seating first tea area, what they do. Did we lose rigs? We might have lost Riggs. I think that would be a time to just end this fucking thing.

Okay. Riggs, you're not there. I guess this is just au revoir. Is that how you say goodbye in French? It was bonjour. No, bonjourge's how you say hello, but I think auvoir is either thank you or goodbye. So that's what we're going to, I think both applies here. Okay.

Ovoa. Ovoa. Hello. Oh, shit. Riggs. Well, you know what? He's back from the dead. Yeah, we, so you, your phone cut out and Frankie and I just said, all right, that's it.

O'clock. And then we kind of, but now you're back. You're just there. You jump up. That may be just some of that little French, you know, magic. Something's going on out there. There's just, there's something. Something's a foot in France.

with you. I just saw a new picture from Logan, like, of you podcasting right now with us. I guess this is just the way you look right now as we speak to you. And there's just like this glow off the camera. Oh, I'm sorry, off the laptop. That's like you're, you look like an angel. You're like, you're glowing. I'll be the first to say, bonjour. Great to see you again. Is bonjour both hello and goodbye? Now, goodbye is au revoir. Oh, I was right. You were right. You were correct. I thought it was both. I'm an idiot. Now, I also, I saw online that au revoir also could mean like until we meet again, which sounded a little aggressive. Okay. I actually like that. I think I'm going to start.

I think I'm, I think that's going to be my like closing statements from now on. You're getting on the elevator at Barco. Until we meet again. Ovoa? No, I'm going to say the English term. That's way too aggressive. Until we meet again. No, I think you're right, right. I think the English version of or what, just saying to people, like, until we meet again would be awesome. I'm going to say that the day the next time I see you. Like, he's going to get off, he's going to get off the elevator. He's going to get on the elevator. I'm going to turn around from my seat.

It's going to be closing. I'm going to be like, until we meet again. And then I think he may actually, if I know him correctly, I think he may stop the elevator from closing and just be like, what the fuck did you just say? That is what happened. I'm sorry. I don't know. Something just like blurted out. I'm just being stupid.

I'm just digging myself in a hole. See you later. be like French rigs like trip up my brain I don't know I'm sorry yeah all right boys so the next time that you talk to me

will be when I'm back in the United States of America do you have do you have any last words that you would like to say to me before the Ryder Cup starts I wish you the best of luck I hope that you have the swiftness and the luck that I had in Augustine National

where everywhere you are the stuff is happening I like to wish that upon people that are going to the tournaments because I think I had the best experience of all time and I want you to have the same. That's just a little dig I'm getting in at you because I know that you're at a place that I want to be right now if you didn't pick up on that. And number two, just let us know.

I want you to take mental pictures as well as regular pictures or just Tiger Woods. I want to know. Yeah, that was what I was going to say. I just want to know what it's like to be around Tiger Woods in this setting right now with him being back and him just like the aura of Tiger Woods. I just want you to like bottle that up and bring it back. here. And if you can just like meet them and tell him I said hi. Yeah, that I agree with. Yeah, definitely try to sneak in some sort of picture with him. I don't care what line you have to cross.

I don't care what sort of trouble you have to get in, just somehow get to him and be like, Riggs, Frankie, and Trent, we just all love you. Okay. I very much appreciate you guys' words of kindness. So I'm going to respond by saying this. First of all, I had heard from every PGA of America. official that I could talk to, every Ryder Cup, Europe official that I could talk to, that the players are exclusively off limits this week. You'll never get any time with them, all that.

I will say, I'm not making any promises, but I have a hunch. I have a feeling that this week I will produce a photograph with Tiger Woods. I think that's going to happen. I think that's going to exist. I don't know in what context. I don't know if it's going to be always in passing,

during, you know, going from the 18th green to the locker room. Maybe it's in the party scene Sunday night when we win the Rider Cup. I have no clue. Maybe it's on the practice screen in the practice range. I don't know. It might not happen, but I have a hunch that I'm going to have a photograph. My first ever meeting with Tyler Woods this week, I just have a hunch. The second thing I'm going to say.

I have a little something. It's not called a hunch. He's got a little boner? Yeah, a little bump, maybe. You're excited? Just the fact that you are going into this week knowing that you may meet Tiger Woods in any capacity, like just not looking through thousands and thousands of people, just like being up against him. I know that you had that little running with him at Belariv, right?

When you like almost like you guys did a little fucking back and forth and you almost made him trip. Yeah, I mean, that was different. That was like I was just a, I was a pylon in that moment. Yeah. This is huge, though. This would be huge. And I am, I can't wait to see that notification pop up. It's like Briggs.

I'm here. Me and my best friend, just at the ride of cup, Tiger Woods. Yeah, look, you know, again, I don't know if it's, I would say it's probably unlikely. However, I have a hunch, I have a feeling, I have a belief that it's going to happen. I'm prepared for what I'm going to say. You guys know, I've talked to you guys about this many times. I am of the belief that Tiger Woods is to a certain degree a stoolie. I think Tiger Woods knows Barstool.

I think our type of humor is right up his out. from everything that I've heard about them, from everything that we do, all of that. You know, you guys know that I'm of the belief that Tiger Woods knows that he knows what we do. He's aware, all of that. So, factor everything in. I think there's a chance I meet Tiger this week. Regardless, I'm not here to meet Tiger. I'm here to bring home a W.

I'm here to get a win for the United States of America. I feel great about it. We start tomorrow morning when people listen to this. It's going to our already mostly. happened the first round, the first session, all that. Huge week, right of a cup week, probably the biggest week in golf. I am jacked up. Jans, do you have any final thoughts?

No, I think that's... Best of luck and go USA. Yeah, I was going to say, bring back a win. That'd be great. I think that's it. Go USA, hit it hard, boys. Hit it hard. Hit it hard.

Rough, I've seen these ups and downs. Somehow I just keep on playing through. So all you critics pull up. chair at the winter circle soon I'll be there with a high five and a smile for you for people trying to tell me how to live my life these lawyers and strings spending money like my ex-wives sure I gamble and a drink and smoke three packs a day hell ain't country music supposed to be this way it's from the hard man I hit it hard man I hit it hard man I hit it hard, I hit it hard.