No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 905 - Presidents Cup Happy Hour

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

The pairings are out for the first day at the Presidents Cup. Join us for Happy Hour - presented by High Noon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Music Be the right club. Be the right club today. Johnny, that's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most! Expect anything different? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in for the final high noon happy hour of the year, President's Cup week. Reacting to our day one pairing, Solly here. Big Randy is here and excited and jolly. Hello, Mr. Big.

Hello guys. Hello. Hello. TC islly. Hello, Mr. Big. Hello, guys. Hello, hello. TC is here. Hello, Mr. TC. Hello, I don't know why I'm wearing this hat. I don't either. I hate the fireballs, but it's a sick logo, so I'm going with it. Team golf, baby.

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The high noon end zone pack is only here for a limited time get it while you can visit high noon spirits Dot-com to find it near you high noon suns up Pairings are out matches are out opening day. We're gonna get to all that. We're gonna look at who's sitting. Maybe some noteworthy Maybe some things to note on that front some questions We got some golf course quotes throughout the course that we week. We've got it up to you on the bridge and the logistics situation. It has not looking great. I know TC's been all over that one.

Yeah, come on, let's let TC cook on that. He was all over that one. We're gonna talk some bold predictions, top point score, low point score. And then we're gonna play a fun game at the end. We're gonna take a President's Cup Sporkle Quiz. We're gonna try to name all of the President's Cup participants from 2000 all the way to 2024. Somebody sent this over earlier in the week. Don't know

if this makes for good podcasting, but we're gonna try it anyways. We're gonna have some fun with it. I've been dying to do this quiz and I figured it'd be best to just do this live. No looking in the chat when we get to that quiz part of today's show if everybody will agree to that. Would never dream of it. Okay. Cody, why don't you come in here? why don't you introduce us to some of these matches. We'll break them down match by match. Of course, President's Cup style is one team goes up first,

puts a team on the board and the other team matches it. I believe the U.S. won the toss and deferred. So the internationals were first to put the opening group out for a four ball session tomorrow morning, 11.35 T time. What's up first? Ooh, up first representing Tron Carter's International Squad, Mr. Jason Day.

I paused my membership. I'm on non-resident status right now. Okay. We've been over that. Well, you're pretty, this is one of those things. We'll get to it. No, let's pause on that because this is what's gonna be so lame. If the internationals Well, you're pretty, this is one of those things. We'll get to it. No, let's pause on that.

Cause this is what's gonna be so lame. If the internationals win, you're gonna celebrate. Like you were always on the team. I picked a tie. I picked a tie, which would mean that the, that the US still retains the cup. No, if you were using your language from two weeks ago, that would mean that they win the cup.

That would be a win for the US. You guys gotta help me out on this. I can't be the only one holding TC accountable here. No, listen, I understand where TC is coming from. He's, he's got some, he's got some issues with standards, perhaps, you know, what's going on inside of his team. He's, he's taken a step back. I think he's still allowed to be happy.

He does not like the joint social media posts with French in it. If the international team were to win, I think he's allowed to be happy. I mean, he does have a lot of equity tied up into it. It's just kind of disappointing that he's temporarily dumping that right now. It's kind of like Solly when we see like some Bitcoin bad news, you know, when troubles around, Solly's like, you know, guys, don't take financial advice for me, but I'm going to kind of stick where we're at. Guys, think of me as like an activist investor. I'm like Elliot management. Okay. And I'm demanding change. This is not financial advice. Anyway, as I said, Jason Day is going to go out with a Ben on.

I like it. I dig it. It's okay. Perfect. Uh, up against the squad of Xander Shafly and the big tone female, the tone. I like that too. That's a great match. This is, this is four ball.

This is four ball. Yep. So, um, a little less analysis going into whose pair with who probably how these teams come up with it is looking at You know who birdies birdie rates on par 3 is par 4 is part trying to separate out one hose Who knows how Jim's it's very? He might be put the figure up to the yeah you too But you know some some traditional pairings will get into all of them here But you know not a lot of traditional stuff we're seeing in that some of this so some different looks

Which is which is interesting. I think it's a good good opening match Jason Day's got a 5 11 and 4 career Presidents Cup record All right It's really not good been on 1 2 & 2 Zander 6 & 3 big tone 3 2 & 3. That's a lot of ties I can't have that big tone but Jason day is kind of where my eyes go with this match of like alright, dude You've been a part of several of these teams. You're supposed to be one of the top players on it You can't have a record that looks like that Big tones Ryder Cup record should should factor in here, too. He's got a he's got a good Ryder Cup record

I think he's do we like been? I don't know the pairings. I intentionally didn't look at him because Cody's going to reveal him to me. I'm just wondering is, is Ben on, does he make a bunch of birdie? Solly? I don't know about, he certainly juiced up. He's a pick hitter. He hits it.

He hits it really far. Uh, yeah, he's definitely gonna be juiced up on that opening opening team, but, uh, dude, I think they're cooking with what they've got, man. It's not the deepest team and you gotta kind of, I mean, it's kind of one of the guys they gotta lean on, right? I empathize, I guess, with the international team captains on that front. And it's kind of, on their bench. We'll get there as McKenzie Hughes and Seewoo Kim are the two guys that are sitting out. So, um, you know, it's not like that.

That's your options to be subbing in here over Ben on. I guess I'm a little confused on, but like when I think tone setters on, well, I guess you do have big tones. So I, maybe he is a perfect tone setter. I just don't see, I guess Xander fits the bill, but I don't see J day Ben on as being like a tone setting group here to send out and match one. But perhaps that wasn't captain weird, especially when they deferred. Right. Right. Yeah.

All right. Take us match to a Foley is going to have been on so fired up tomorrow morning, nothing, nothing to worry about. Also one of my side group chats, somebody was like, I kind of made the same comment that you guys did about like, oh yeah, like Ben on and like J.D. doesn't really get me fired up in the morning.

They're like, what are you talking about, man? Didn't you see that cool video that's going on right now? I'm like, that was Sanjay. But anyway, continuing on, next match is gonna be Colin Moore, Kawa, Sahif Tagala, up against Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee. I think Morikawa and Sahif is great. I think that is an interesting, it'd be really interesting

in foursomes, I think with the accuracy tendency of both those guys off the tee, but that's a great, great. I mean, Morikawa seems to be such a Swiss army knife in all of these events. I don't know if there would be a I mean, Morikawa seems to be such a Swiss army knife in all of these events. I don't know if there would be a bad pairing for Morikawa, but I'm pretty pumped up about this one. Sahith in President's Cup, second match out. So the U.S. put up this team. So how it alternates is, you know, if the U.S. got to match in match one, they have to put the first team out in match two. So this is who they put up in match two. Morikawa went two and one in the last president's cup.

Sahe's obviously a rookie. This is the juice, baby. I like this one. This is Adam Scott and Minwu Lee kind of fighting fire with fire with Adam Scott and Morikawa are kind of similar games. You can be playing from the fairway and then Sahe and Minwoo were both kind of unstable,

unstable, those two in a match is great. Like thunder and lightning with each one. Uh, the more I think about the J day, Ben on thing, the more I like it to Ben on just like, like his thing, like he, he just can't putt, right? Yeah. It's kind of his deal. Couldn't make any puns. He's, he's really good off the T he's, he's a decent, he's a above average, slightly above average iron player and he just can't putt and chip I think which you know, we'll see maybe maybe ride a hot putter. But yeah, I think the like that match too is like that gets us back into team golf like all right, you know what, like we should on the president's couple lot at some point, you tee it up on on the first hole and hey and like that's a fun match. I'm getting

into it. I know. I just love to the Adam Scott. I mean, what is the 1825 and six all time in the president's cup, just all the experience in the world with a rookie like Min Wu. That's very intriguing to me. I feel like this week, I don't know if it will be but it could be a min woo Lee coming out party of sorts And if it is it would it would start right here tomorrow morning So this this back-to-back these two and three on the international side is they're gonna they're gonna need to win both these matches I think if they're gonna have a chance to win this week, which we'll get to match three here

You're saying they need to win both of these matches on Thursday to have a chance to win? Sure. The whole competition. Why not? If one, I mean, they don't, they're gonna have to really go to the whip on these four guys that are, that are in these back-to-back two and three matches. Okay. I think that's right. I'm just, yeah, go ahead, Cody. Sorry. Next match match match three is As Sally said international team now able to call their shots sung J. M and young Tom Kim The US put up number one Scotty Scheffler and big Russ Henley This is a great match. This is a really freaking good match

Have to wonder if if furik was just waiting to deploy this one once he got one of Sungjae and Tom Kim. I think we're probably the top two players on, on the international side and seeing them both together. Separating out Scotty and Sam Burns think that's a good thing, both for narratives and just for each of them. Like that's a really freaking stout, uh, US team. And I wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of that pairing this week, I, my only request, can we run this back as a foursomes match as well? I feel like this would be an awesome foursomes match too. Uh, Tom Kim's going to be exhausted by tomorrow with all

the social media he's doing. And I just, I begging the TGAs for it. I hate that we're even talking about this, TC. You know, it's just, we have to talk about it. I do too, Solly. We have to. We have to do it. They're forcing our hand.

You know, he's doing the whole Ricky thing, like the only single guy up there. Most innocent possible post ever, TC's at our slack. This guy's so fucking thirsty, man. This could have been a more innocent moment. He's all worried him in me We want to want a match in one of the practice rounds and you know, you would have thought like it's just there Oh, they're having just a lot. No, I don't know. He see I usually am like I am riding shotgun with you on all of this

Stuff. I just can't get there with Tom Kim. I don't find them I don't find them as unlikable or annoying, I don't think, as you do. Don't make him go down the list of all the reasons why. Let's move on to the next match. Sungjae is 5-3-2. Tom Kim went 2-3 last year in his breakout campaign. Scotty, unbelievably, went 0-3-1 at Quill Hollow, and Russell Henley is, of course, a rookie. So worth noting all the- Is it possible? All the pairings- With the 1 at Quill Hollow and Russell Henley is of course a rookie so worth noting all the possible all the

pairings and his partner played really well. All the pairings on the international side they're all brand new. None of them, none of these teams have played together in any president's cups. I think they definitely didn't play together in 2022 but I didn't go back farther than that because it's mostly new guys since then. But for new new data i guess they're working with their selling match for windham clark and keegan bradley up against taylor pendreth and christian behazen hoot bazaid bazaid and hot uh knowing nbc this is the match they're gonna pick to follow and it's like the all-amer. Oh my God, you're right. The least intriguing match. Yeah, I'm gonna abstain from analyzing this one or saying anything about it.

I think it's, I mean, I guess Pendriot and Zadenhut, like they're, I don't know, but Zadenhut's terrible off the tee, right? It's not long. But so yeah, little yin and yang I guess with that pairing It's hard to like we need to see this golf course for a day to understand what it's really emphasizing, right? I'm kind of getting mixed reviews on you know You can talk yourself into a narrow golf course with thick rough being good for accuracy and you can talk it in yourself into it Being not important for accuracy at all

So I feel like I'll feel strong more strongly about after having seen some play on this golf course. But, uh, key, yeah. Windham and Keegan. Yeah. We'll see. Can I just say, I see a pairing of Taylor Penderith and Christian Bezadenhout and I'm just like, guys, we got to do something about the president

stuff, like let's change up some, how do we get to this point? It is like, you see that and you're like, we got five live something about the president's cup. Like, let's change up something. How do we get to this point? It is like you see that you're like, we got five live shows this week. Like, we've been all weeks around this event. We have to have five matches in a session, right? Like, why do we have to do that? Like, you know, let's send this one and a Taylor Pendriot that went oh, and four at Quill Hollow. I thought about this a lot today, Randy. The only thing that the opposite side of that, I guess would be like, if they do, the internationals do manage to make this close

or make it interesting, the dynamic of like, does it really matter who is on your team versus how you actually put it together and execute it is certainly an interesting thing to follow. Now, if it's a blowout, it's not gonna be even remotely interesting to follow that, but I am keen to see if we can work some magic. We're in team, Trevor's still there, all the shield implementation stuff that has maybe been underplayed going into this week is still there so it's just worth noting that. That's why I still have my

membership, it's just on pause right?? Like the, you know, the infrastructure is still there. It's, it's still the same, same team. There's just, there's just a bad figure head in my opinion. Okay. Final match. Does it surprise you? Sorry, does it surprise you? We're not seeing a Canadian until match four. I guess that's something else. Like if you're trying to get the crowd behind you, get people jacked up, I feel like you'd want to put at least one or two Canadians out a little earlier. Yeah, a little bit. I think so. Yeah.

But it's also like, all right, you only have like, I can see that being a conscious thing if they were, if they were playing two matches in the same day on Thursday and Friday, but it's not like you have to worry about petering a guy out early too. They're only playing 18 holes. So yeah, like I think that makes it extra surprising, Randy. Yeah. Last month match is going to be match five, a Decky and Corey Connors up against Patrick Cantley and Sam Burns. I love, I love the Hideki, Corey Connors match.

I mean, Hideki's gonna have to play like a dog this week and Corey Connors is gonna have to play like, oh, and four Corey Connors is gonna have to play like a dog too, you know, so yeah. And then Cantlay and Burns, cool, whatever. Well, I like that the internationals are not like following other than Sungjae and Tom Kim are not just like I guess Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee as well but I would say not not just defaulting to nationality for four ball

pairings right Rich everybody's playing their own ball like it it's kind of more of a mathematical equation there of how you would would group these guys but I'm I'm just I'm honestly kind of glad they didn't just do like a Canadian pairing kind of gimmicky, right? Of, you know, that might get the crowd. You know, that's, you know, that's coming in, in the four some probably. Yeah, that can always go one of two ways where if they played poorly,

it's a total dud. And you're like, ah, that was stupid. But if, if they like play well and they get the crowd, like I feel like that can be a big boost We need something like that. We need some juice early sunjays bringing the juice the gangnam style video Try to try not to smile and laugh through that one randy that one that was fun. I know i'm just with Yeah, we we need we need the internationals to win at least Two of those first four and then you know what randy where this fifth match goes fuck you you can go fuck yourself and you can quote me on that okay sorry captain fury so sitting is max homer Brian Harmon McKenzie Hughes and see who Kim

so the pro is sitting Tom Stenner Evans ass seems weird to pick the pro and then not play him in four balls driving is the worst part of his game. So now that's not ideal for foursomes. You guys surprised to see Max and Harmon sitting? Where you put them on the you put them on the par three holes all for the par threes or yeah are what odds? Yeah. And then and then you get, you know, and then it kind of takes driver out of his hands for a lot of it. So, you know, I don't necessarily think like there may be more, more to like it's it's not a typical foursomes setup with all four of the par three is being being the same player. Right. It is it is interesting. I mean, for for how poorly he's played coming into it to then also sit first session You know, I could there's a heck of a lot of information We don't have how he's playing this week how he's hitting it going into it how we know what this means downstream effect, but

Could we have a situation where he's sitting more sessions than we'd like to think or maybe he's only playing in foursomes for for that and playing those Those holes that you mentioned where he'd be on par threes on all of those. So To be to be decided, I think it is, we had questions when this decision was made or how this team came together in general, right? Of bypassing some guys that were in better form and have a lot of experience in the event for certain guys and yeah, two of his captains picked

sitting in the opening session is certainly noteworthy, but it's a long event. We'll see. Just going down the list is fine. I mean, that's just how it worked out, right? They weren't actually captains picked. They were 11 and 12. I'm just not sure what all Furek's doing.

I just don't see him playing chess this week. Like the Max decision, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. It is just funny. Look at the team photo. It's like, Furek, Brandt Snedeker, Stu Sink, Justin Leonard. Uh, just like Kevin Kizner. How about Furek's black shoes in the picture? You see that?

That's white on. Yeah. So I give, can you refresh me or can somebody refresh me? I have Solheim Cups still on the brain a little bit where everybody has to play at least one session before singles. Is there a rule like that in the President's Cup? Do you know if people hat like could max sit tomorrow too conceivably? I don't remember the rule to be honest, Randy,

because I just did a bunch of research into the old ones where that was the case when it was Friday, Saturday, Sunday event, everybody had to play every day. I know that. So I'm getting that a little confused with with what currently stands. I don't think that I don't think there would be a rule. Maybe Saturday everybody has to play at least once. But obviously, when they broke it out, the first two sessions into Thursday, Friday, kind of got rid of everybody's got to play every day or something like that. So I think there's something in there. I don't think you can sit all the way till singles in this event. Okay.

At least based on how this event was founded was like the idea was more matches, you know, more points available, less sitting, we don't want to have to strategize too much around that. But I know it's kind of evolved a little bit to try to make it closer, taking some points away, you know, from, you know, try kind of evolved a little bit to try to make it closer, taking some points away, you know, from, you know, try to get the internationals to be able to bring it closer and whatnot, but anyways. All right, still a lot to talk about. There's a reason also we talk about Roeback so much. I'm absolutely amped for some of their fall offerings.

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code NLU get you a 20% off for the first order through the end of this week that's R-H-O-B-A-C-K dot com. 20% off bottoms, Q-zips, hoodies, and more with code N-L-U. Golf course, we learned a little bit about it this week. Gonna read a couple strong endorsement quotes from a couple of players on this. I could have copy and pasted pretty much everyone's answer, but just two guys on the US side. Scotty Scheffler said,ler said definitely a little bit of an understanding of where to be and where not to Be it's a pretty simple golf course for the most part

We played the first time and it wasn't like there were many holes where guys were discussing what to hit off the tee or what? Line to take there wasn't a lot of confusing stuff The golf course kind of presents itself to you and you just have to go out there and execute Saw hit Tagala would say the front nine, I would, I wouldn't call it forgettable, but a little more in front of you, uh, and, and almost boring, but it's boring in a good way. It requires good shots. You have to place your ball.

You have to hit the shot. So it's rewarding for good golf and punishing for bad golf. But the back nine is so I love the back nine. The greens are all dissected by these ridges and you can tuck pins There's water in almost every hole and it feels like a match play back nine I hope they move 14 up, but it's a sweet track All right, I like that more. Yeah, so I think they could do I will credit the PGA tour They've done a great job with pin positions in this event What they did with quail was like a look at quail that we've never really seen before

Some pins closer on ridges and just some different quadrants of greens. When you're not thinking about getting, you know, however many guys through a field in a stroke play event, they, it did feel like they flexed some different muscles with Quail, which is a tall, as much as we see Quail hollow, that was a tall task. And President's Cup at Royal Melbourne was a genius setup,

both in how firm they got the greens and where they were putting those pins and how much the strategy differed from hole to hole and from day to day on those specific holes. That I say with, the comments about this course are the big slopes from back to front and the different quadrants that do exist in them make me think they will probably do a very good job

of creating interesting pin positions for match play. Don't call them funnels, whatever you want to do, but like shots that are going to promote exciting style of golf rather than playing the center of greens is kind of what I'm going for with that, Randy. No, I dig. I dig. Listen, if we can just get through the front nine,

we're going to be in and day with commercials. Hopefully the matches are close. And then if the back nine is exciting, they can tuck some pins. There's some interesting shots. That's great. That'll be very good viewing. It sounds like Ian Andrew was posting some stuff, the Canadian golf course architect, who's got some exciting stuff in the works. It sounds like with some renovations, but he was posting some original Dick Wilson pictures when it was under construction back in the early 60s. It looked a lot cooler, like the bunkers looked really jagged and stuff.

I guess they brought in Randy's guy, Reese Jones in the early 2000s. And then they also had what's the pedigree of the course is kind of up for debate, but they brought in Harry Cole to kind of assess things. And I guess they stripped all of that out over the last 25, 30 years as well. So very, very cool. It sounds like it's a, it's a really forward. Hey, it's a match play venue.

You know, we're not going to obsess over the architecture this week. Hopefully, well, hopefully the fans stack the place. But I think that it sounds like that might be a little bit of an issue, TC. You were all over this in the preview pod about the bridge being a potential log jam. The reports have not been good about people trying to get on the island.

Yeah, the tour or the president's cup, you know, they sent out a tweet this morning, kind of giving people very specific directions because you can only take a right turn under the bridge. You can't go straight under the bridge. You can only take a right turn under the bridge. So you have to go this circuitous route and all that. I guess it's a total disaster getting

out there. However, there's also a ferry that I think is pretty cheap to take and it takes you right nearby the course there. So maybe that's the play, but I don't know where that ferry leaves from. So if only this stuff could have been prevented. And then there's all sorts of stuff about the subsidy that the provincial government gave to the PGA Tour. I guess it was $6 million plus. I don't know if that's... I think that's Canadian, $6 million to kind of build out certain infrastructure and all of that to bring the tour there. Hate to you know, the province is already in the red. A lot of the opposition governments not happy about that. Sally heard yesterday that the housekeeping food and beverage employees at the Host Hotel went on strike, walked off the job on Tuesday. So we got

that going on. I need you chasing that story this week. I need you keeping tabs on that. It just sounds like the French Canadians are doing French Canadian stuff and being just, you know, kind of just edgy and kind of bitchy, which I really respect. And I, you know, I'm all about it. I think the, uh, the other thing is like, it's all the president's cup tweets, everything coming from the president's cup account also has to be in French. It's all the President's Cup tweets, everything coming from the President's Cup account also has to be in French. It's like the provincial law that all announcements and everything have to be in both English and French. So on a character limited platform, it seems like kind of a tough, tough law. Not even more. Not if you're verified, you can drop as many characters up as you want in

that one. Yeah. Today was my 725th straight day doing French lessons on Duolingo. So that'll be a good practice for me to read those tweets this weekend. We. Data Golf has the US with a 64% chance, likelihood, I guess, of winning, 7% chance of a tie, 29% chance for the internationals, which that's relatively high

for the internationals, honestly relatively high for the internationals honestly like basically almost one out of three times that they would win with this setup seems like a relatively high chance but let's get into some predictions. We're going to go around the horn I'm going to ask for one bold prediction from each person we're each going to pick the top point scorer for each team and also the low point score for each team. I'm very curious to see where our answers go with this one. TC, what's your one bold prediction for this week? One.

My one bold prediction, I'm changing my pick. The internationals are gonna win. Changing it. As Cody prepares the graphic in the green room that shows- Cody, bring up the graphic. Bring up the graphic. You've room that shows. Cody bring up the graphic, bring up the graphic. You've had so much time to do this. You started this show.

Talking myself into it. This is a true TC special. Weren't you on international membership, TC? What does this mean? We're back full fledged or what? No, I'm still an out of town member, but I'm supporting my club still. You know, I'm just out of town.

I'm gonna go, you know, I'm gonna an out of town member, but I'm supporting my club still, you know, I'm just out of town. I'm going to go, you know, I'm going to go internationals when US comes in, just sleepwalking. Xander's quotes said a lot about just not wanting to, you know, like the last thing I want to do is play golf right now. Once I get back out with the boys, that's cool. Like I feel like the internationals are jacked up. I can't let that paraphrasing of that quote stand. That is not what Sanders said. He said he was walking off the course at tour championship like here, Joel Beale tweeted this out.

He said, I'm so spoiled to be able to do, to be on a lot of these teams since my pro career. Definitely something I cherish. It's something I look forward. I get giddy about just being out here with the guys. It's a ton of fun. Three weeks ago, we were playing at Eastlake and I couldn't have been more over golf at that point. Walking off the 18th green, just wanting to not touch clubs for a month and knowing I needed to compete and get in shape for this. It was a bit of a drag coming back, but as soon as I started

golfing again, as soon as our group chats got going and all those things. And then you get out on the grounds with the boys. It's so fun. It's really a fun experience. Something I never really imagined when I wanted to be a pro golfer. So that's the act. I mean, it sounds like he's glossing over being exhausted. Exactly. It's like it doesn't, and knowing that these guys are all, you know, they kind of do their own thing anyway as well. It's, I'm feeling like he's glossing over some low energy here. So, you know, we'll see, we'll see what happens there. Okay.

Randy, what's your bold prediction? Well, you know, TC and I are kind of fishing in some similar ponds, but I, although I did officially predict a U S victory by three points, I think, I think we're going to see a good tight president's cup. I think this is going to be good golf. And I only say that's like bold because certainly doesn't happen every year. Um, but I think maybe the U S team coming in a little, you know, a little happy with themselves, a little share of themselves. And I want the international team coming in a little, you know, a little happy with themselves, a little share of themselves.

And I want the international team to show up and get off the bus and, and bring it to them. So we have a dramatic Sunday singles. We will see. My bold prediction is that Colin Moore Kawa does not lose a match this week. Zero losses, 0.0 losses. I don't even know if that's old. I mean, not a lot of guys go undefeated in these events. Usually, he's gonna play a lot at least four times,

I would think, and doesn't lose a single one. I think that's kind of a bold. So I'm getting word that I'm going back to my tie prediction. Oh my God. Going back to the tie prediction. Oh my God, cut this. Final answer.

Cut this. Oh, you should have predicted Scottie Scheffler would not win a point again in this president We haven't gotten to our who I think is gonna be the low point total on each side All right I'm gonna plow through mine because I know I will really want to get to this quiz US top point scorer is gonna be Xander Shafley. That doesn't feel that bold International top point score is gonna be sung JM

the US low point score is gonna to be Sung J. M. The US low point score is going to be Brian Harmon and the low point score on the international side is going to be Christian Bezadenhout. Those are my calls. Brandy, what do you got? God, doing my guy best like that. That was for Patty. No particular order, not very high on Taylor Pendreth. Give me him for low point score on international.

I just feel like Max Homa. God, if he's got some driver yips going, he might not play that much. I'm going to take him for low U.S. point score on the flip side. I'm kind of with you on more. A call. I'm surprised more. I was going to go undefeated, but he's not going to be the top point score for Team USA is, is crazy.

That's bold. See that's bold, Randy. Come on. I'll take more Akawa and then on the international side, give me the old head Adam Scott. Um, I feel like, you know, maybe this won't be his last, but it's, it's getting down there for him. And you might find some juice with men, men wooly in the, uh, in the pairings. Do you see, I'm very, uh, very hesitant to ask for this, but what do you know? Uh, you asked top point score. I'm going to go, I'm going to get weird here. I'm going to go with the blow pig.

Okay. I don't know why. I think, I don't know. I think he's starting to trend on these cold weather grasses. I didn't know why I think I don't know. I think he's starting to trend. Cold weather grasses and TC remember? Well, no, we talked about the blow pig talking about how he wanted to get more prepared coming into an event like this. It's interesting and he was going out and playing the Napa event. Yeah, I like that pic.

I think there's a matter of you know he wants to wants to feel like he's earned earned his place on this team. Let's see the low point score for the US. That's a tough one. I'll go as I'll go with Sam Burns, Bermuda Burns is the opposite of Bermuda. You know, this word we're not in, not in Louisiana anymore. Big boy word word. We're in, we're in Quebec. All right. Yeah, those are my two US ones.

And then Ameri are the both places love French food. I mean, he could feel like that's true. For fur trading perhaps up to Mississippi. Home game models. I'm gonna go with low point score for the internationals. Tom Kim. Oh god, that's a blind hatred. It just and I'm gonna go high point score Corey Connors. I think Corey Connors has a week.

Thank you TC remember that we. We are gonna get our FanDuel picks of the weekend before we start our quiz. This is of course, odds of course subject to change but using the FanDuel sportsbook do you guys have a favorite pick Cody? What is our order that you want to go in today? We'll go with you today. I'm gonna go first. I think the US team gets off the bus and I think they are up three and a half to one and a half to end tomorrow. That is plus 470 on the FanDuel Sportsbook. That feels back and forth between that and three to two and I think that the internationals get one win and a

half and I love that. Plus 470 that's my pick. Who's next? Mr. Big. Yeah, my pick was, uh, listen, the last two times the president's cups been on international soil. The U S has won by a 16 14 score at, at Royal Melbourne and then 15 and a half, 14 and a half back in South Korea in 2015. So my bet is the US to win by anywhere between one to three points come Sunday evening at plus 380. I like that. That's a very, very good bet. TC. I got a, I got a, a tasty, tasty four way coming up just for you, Randy. No beans on this one. Just onions. Cody, we flash it up there.

Because he doesn't remember. Exactly. All right. I knew the first leg. I just wanted to get the point totals right here. I think I'm with you, Sally. I think so. We're back on the internet. Oh, sorry. Day two winner. I'm sorry. Day two winner. Let me. I think the international, I think Oh, sorry, day two winner. I'm sorry. A two winner. Let me I think the international I think us gets off the bus plays well. I think the internationals recover in day two, they win day two, that's plus 210. Like

that's that's pretty good value there. Tc. Question for you real quick. Is there you said the US is going to get off the bus, but they're not riding a bus or actually all taking private cars. Concerns there. That also has to factor in and make you feel a little bit better, right? Maybe they should have a ferry. Maybe they should just ride the ferry over, you know, or helicopter or something.

So, you know, we'll see what happens there. And then we've got, I got the Bengals minus four and a half over Los Panthers. It's in Charlotte, but no worries there. And then surely nobody beats the Bengals four straight weeks. No way. And then Los Cowboys, a get right game against Los Gigantes in the Meadowlands, but minus five and a half there. I think they're going to have an answer for Vanilla Vic. And then we're parlaying this with a Tommy Fleetwood win at the Spanish Open there in Madrid, plus 900. It's basically like him and Ram in the field this week. So all that totals up to plus

All that totals up to plus 11,454. So ride with me people. Oh, in relation to the willing. You do have to respect, he is doing it. He is doing it. He's out there doing it. All right, let's get to the main event here. Keep in mind, that was TC's favorite play this week. That was the second, the fan duel play of the week.

I love where your head's at TC. I thought about sprinkling in like a Gino Titicum or else or somebody in the three day event down down in Arkansas for the LPGA. Just one, just one pick. That's all that's all we're asking for. And we are ready, ready to move on one play, ready to move on. All right. So here's the game. This is a Sporkle quiz and it's up on the screen if you're watching this on YouTube, hopefully. We are gonna try to name the president squad both.

So they do give us the country with each year, right? So we have- That's so helpful. There's 288 players that have played in the president or that are in total. And so if you enter a name and it, they've played in multiple, you'll get like six of them if they've played in six of them.

So we're gonna, I think we should throw as many names out as possible to start, no comments in the chat. We're not looking at the chat. Throw as many names out and then we'll have to get in country by country, year by year and see how many we can do. I'm very, what's a good number do you think?

Oh God. I think like 240 out of 288 would be. That'd be a lot, yeah. I was gonna say, do you wanna take turns throwing out names so it's not complete chaos? Who's doing the typing for us? Cody. Thank you, thank you.

I feel like we're gonna make a ton of progress for a while and then we're just gonna hit a brick wall basically. I'll pause for the podcast listeners every now and then and say, you know, we're looking for 2006 Argentinian or whatever it is. So, all right, 16. No, it can't take two hours. This is gonna take 16 minutes.

That's all we got. It cannot take two hours. All right, I'll go first and we'll just pound out name. Woods. Mickelson. Woody Austin Austin Spieth Eurek we're just doing us or we're doing both right now you do anything okay if F-U-R-Y-K. Jason Day. Adam Scott. Oh God, I'm already out of names. L's.

Singh. B. We said him, Thomas, sorry, Justin Thomas. Shofley. Singh. There's an E after, there's an E in there. S, nope. S nope. S-C-H-A-U-F-F-E-L.

Nope. Just one L. Got it. Okay. Vijay Singh. Mmm. God, Cody's, Cody's spelling is getting put on. Andres Romero. Wow. Argentinian mama Nope evidently not You said emelman nope put an emelman in there we could do why yang next

Vagigas woman did it take a moment or no? I don't think we spelled it right. I M M E L M A N. There we go. We're that we do. We're well, we can just pound through the one. Yeah. How tongue Lee, Eli Lee, uh, Kim Smith Cam Smith. Um, pendrith. We could do all the ones from from this like we're we just did we're looking at the Vegas.

No, it's V I L L E G E G A S. A S you got it. Scheffler, Burns. Matsuyama. Yeah, does it, sorry, does this include this year's team? It includes this year, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. So little Corey Connors.

He's on a couple of them. Matsuyama. Kim. You know, any any Kim. There are all sorts of Kims. Do we do him? Him. Got that in their had when. Allen be there you go. Who'swin. Allen B. There you go. Who's who's our

EY. Appleby. Oh, Graham DeLay. DeLay. Yeah, L A E T. Yep. There you go.

Minwoo Lee. Anho There you go. Um, Minwoo Lee, just Lee and Hill Cabrera. Oh, and got some Danny Lee's in there too. Yeah. Cool. Cabrera. Yeah. We're gonna have to get in our U S Oost hazen and Schwarzl who stays in. Can Cody do this oh st ui z eo h isn't there an H in there The SCHW AR zel. Retief. Yeah, T. Yep. Goosen Yep. Yep. Nick Price playing on in the in the in the in the as I'm sure

that was Yeah, I got that layman Tom layman leh man. How Johnson, Zach Johnson. Yep. Well, that's got a couple of Duffner, Bill Haas. Just one F and Duffner. Might we even get a J Haas with that? We will actually Fred funk play in one of these, I think. Yep. Um, you guys want me to start earlier or later? I mean, we should we got to get

focused on. Let's just get. Should we? Yeah. OK. I know me to prayer is in there. That's going to be a nightmare to spell. Was Peter Lonnard on one of these? Sure. TC. Greg Chalmers. What about Aaron Battley?

Greggy Ames. Yeah. B a D D E L Y. There we go. It was not below on any of these in the two thousands and OB I L L. I know he was in the early ones, but I L O. Paraguayay Carlos Franco.

Do Japanese guy. Zaki. It might have been jump Ozaki's brother. Thousand Joe Joe. Acons brother. Alright, now this is going to start getting hard when it shouldn't be. Alright, the thing about it. All right.

So like Justin Leonard, he's definitely one. Brendan DeYoung. D-E space J-O. N-G-E. N-G-E. Brendan Grace as well. Tim Clark. Yeah.

Yeah. Who's the Japanese guy on the couples to 2001? Who was the who was the hat guy? He always got out to a lead at the master. Shingo Katayama or Davis. A.A.T.A.A.A.T.A.Y. I was always getting eagle crystalware at Augusta. Hey, one more A.

I think it's Shigeki Maruyama then. Oh, it is, you're right. M-A-R-U-Y-M-A. Yep. Maruyama. Got it. There we go. Got it.

Go back to the recent one. Let's get the, we can get checked out for the most recent. Dustin Johnson. We need him in there. Kepka burger Fowler. B E R G R G. Dude Johnson, Kepka read. the the the the the

the the the the the the the the the You're messing with us. I'm trying to type so fast. So read Lahiri.

Course they. Joaquin Neiman N I E M A N N M N I E M. What is going on? You guys don't realize how many voices I have in my head right now. We did not get Neiman. We needed to get that one. Oh, it didn't take it?

No, you've added an extra N in there. Jeez. Spelling it TC? It's walk, it's N-I-E-M-A E N M. No M N I E M as in mother a N N. No, it's going to be so good on the podcast. I am out of there. There's too many. There's no Neenman. It's not Neenman. All right. We got it. It's exactly how I was smelling it. Lahiri. Did we get him?

Bay. What about Pan? Yeah, he played one. Yeah. Yeah. Good call. Lahiri is L-H-I. L-A-H-I. L-A-H-I-R-I.

No, no, no. Oh, God. L A H. He's sad. R I. Is this on purpose? No, you guys, it's reverberating in my head. So every time I laugh, I'm shy. J I D J A I D E E.

Did the barn rat playing one? Oh, we're not trying that right now. D E E. Did the barn rat playing one? Oh, we're not trying that right now. Are you kidding me? We enjoy KJ Choi. CHOI. Do Homer. Harmon. Oh, Clark, we've got Clark already.

Gone under 100 left. Did you get Troy Bradley? Do to Gala T H E G A L A. I'm not seeing Troy. A L A. Joy. C H O I. It's in there. All right. Okay.

Well, we have more. So we have Hughes. But on a N. Sing. Who's South Africa Zayden how good luck with that. Be Be Z you I D. South Africa Zayden how good luck with that be be z u i d e n h o u t first try let's go that's a good one Davis Vegas Davis yeah Cameron Davis we have a lot of US guys from this for this team.

Do we have Mito Pereira? Yeah, we do. I P E R E I R a I believe. Got it. We've crossed 200. We work out 201 of 288. Henley? Burn. Oh, Burn is in there, sorry.

We got a lot of internationals. What's Mexico? That's answer, A-N-C-E-R. 2019. I really low gr I L L O for Argentina. We got teen international Australia. That was bugging me to Randy do Hoffman Charlie Hoffman and also chapel. I think it's double P double L. Kisner, this one.

Yeah, he's on a couple of them. Horschel was on the recent US one. CSH. So we have gotten 214 out of 288. We have four and a half minutes. I'm sorry for everyone listening to the podcast if this is not what you're looking for. 2019, Woodland was on that team.

Also Bryson. We have Bryson, yeah. Oh man. B-E-A-U, you got it. Do we have Cantlay? We do not have Cantlay. Oh, we do. Fina. That's a pick off of you. play. We do not. Yes. Oh, we do. Yeah. Fee now.

That's a pick off of you. 22 who are. So we need one more for stricker. We need stricker. Yeah. We have burns. Yes, we got burns. 22. We got three minutes 50 seconds left. This is hard. This is harder than it looks. 2015.

Chris Kirk was on 2015 team. I know that. Another Aussie in the South. Do we have Sang Moon Bay? B-A-E? No. Good call. Yeah.

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We have a lot of people. We have a lot of people. We have a lot of people. We have a lot of people. And it's not the base. Do we have same Moon Bay B.A.E. No. Oh, good call. Love that. Who's that Australian guy? I mean, as Hoes made a team.

Right. No, Tom. Sure. Yes. Twenty twenty. All right. Let's scroll up. I think we got to go for more bulk plays for the the 2000s to get to to tick off some here. We've got Fred couples in there. A lot of any Chris Riley. R I L E Y or was he just Ryder Cup? I don't know. It's good. It's a good thing. We get John Daly was on. Oh, that was in the nineties. I think. Yeah. Sorry.

What about Peter Loneard? Oh, love that. Randy L O N A R D. Two of them. How about that? Love that. Is there a, I think it's about there.

Ready to do. It's Hal Sutton. Nice. How many? Did we get Charles Howell? Curtis Strange? No, he would have been done by then. Omira.

E-A-R-A. It may want us to do the apostrophe after the O. I don't know if he would have been in the 2000s. That's mean-spirited. I feel like we if he would have been in the 2000s spirited. I feel like we're missing a lot of Aussies from Lucas Glover. He's got old things with nice one. Do vol. Oh yeah. Do we have to Marna?

DeMarco. The I. See how you got it 237 out of 288 we have two minutes left you got sink okay that's sinking there Kutcher oh that's gonna be a huge one TC nope okay you see a are Yeah, K U C H A R. There we go. Think I'm trying to think of who else is assistant captains throughout the course of the years. 2009 Anthony Kim, we have Where these Australians were missing. Do we get Chalmers?

Is he one? No one We're missing. Do we get Chalmers? Is he one? No, one. Ames, Stephen Ames, did he? That's a good one. Yes. A.M. Yes. Nothing. Wow. Not not on one. Two thousand and eleven US. Oh, TAS.

Why is this? We have felt we have Ricky, right? Yeah. Yeah. Do we have a decky on here? I'm not seeing him. I think he started to type it earlier. I think that's too early.

Yeah, we have him. Yeah, we're done. Okay. Okay. So we have 45 to go with 30 seconds remaining. How are we missing one from 22? I can't think of us side that us side is. Let's not get bogged with that because we need some that are going to be multiples up to the top. There's got to be more South African and Australian. There's got to be somebody that played on multiple teams.

God, this is harder than it looks. For three, one, sorry, Campbell. All right, we may have had Webb Simpson. Oh, he said, Sturn worse. J.P. Holmes, Jimmy Walker, Jimmy Walker, Bubba, Cam Young. We missed from 2022. Jeff Ogilvy. Cody, that's your boy. You should call Charles.

How we said that one, didn't we? Oh, what an experience. Harry Greg Norman, third leg Greg Michael Campbell, Mark Hensby. Shout out to Roebuck. I haven't checked the comments. Page for the comments are just people. I feel like the Sporkle quiz is going to be a staple. Oh, and Robert's Paul Aizinger and Kirk Trev. Paris English. Oh, God. What a world. What an experience. Never helping us. Thank you. Or you're welcome. Or I'm sorry for that segment. I don't know.

Cody. Cody's getting lit up in the comments here. We lost 50 seconds in cost typing. No, we gained it back in content though, guys. We're just trying to stretch it out to an hour. You don't understand the game. You what? The good thing is we got Anthony Kim as one because of all of our other Kim's that was helpful Nicko Hearn Michael Kim. That was fun. All right, that was that was worthwhile Cup other news and notes full swing viewing way down from 53 million hours to 28 million hours in season 2 over the same time Period as per Josh Carpenter and Austin carp things. Things are not trending great in golf guys it's not good. Liv Team Championship got 128,000 viewers on Sunday, 176,000 on Saturday of 19 aired broadcasts that I could find numbers for so some of the

broadcasts are so low they don't actually register on any radars, but for the 19 I could find the average 182,000 viewers per day this year, so Kind of sweet and I guess it's just you know when you hosted on Sunday during football season. It's a It's tough. Yeah, I'm sure the presence comes gonna absolutely smash this week Presence comes gonna absolutely smash this week Lpj got 127 K on Sunday on Golf Channel BMW championship the European a tour event only got 119,000 on Sunday on Golf Channel, so So yeah, that should have gotten all the viewers on Sunday. I really should have that was kind of I mean, yeah

European tour rating doesn't do great on the golf channel I'm sure but that was surprisingly low as well, but are on to football. Are we gonna get a bunch of crisis actors this week up in Montreal? I think that's should let me flip that around TC are we gonna get a bunch of crisis actors? Probably I mean I'm sure the fanatics are out there. I haven't seen any fanatics. Compensated by the tour to show up. So we'll see. That's always a staple at various international presidents cups. T.C. had to get that one in. That is gonna wrap it for today's show. We will be back all week as soon as play wraps.

I think play wraps around 6 p.m. Eastern every single day. We'll be live shortly after all of those. And yeah, we'll see you there. We will be there. High Noon will be'll see you there we will be there high noon will be there row back will be there we greatly appreciate everybody appreciate everybody watching Cody rather the ones and twos for TC and Randy see you back here tomorrow crack on