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Swing, Swagger, and National Pride: The Ryder Cup Explained

• John Townley • Season 2 • Episode 7

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Prepare for golf's most electrifying event as the Ryder Cup transforms the traditionally genteel sport into what Jack and Grant aptly describe as "a war" between Team USA and Team Europe. This episode breaks down everything you need to know about the unique atmosphere and format that makes the Ryder Cup special, even for casual golf fans.

The brothers dive deep into the 2024 team lineups, with Scottie Scheffler leading the American squad against Rory McIlroy's European contingent. They expertly explain the different match formats across the three-day competition: four-ball (where each player plays their own ball with the best score counting), foursomes (alternate shot with partners), and singles matches that create the Sunday drama.

What truly separates this episode is the fascinating trivia and historical context. Did you know the trophy is just 17 inches tall and was donated by a seed merchant who never played competitive golf? Or that Tiger Woods, arguably the greatest golfer ever, has a disappointing 13-21-3 Ryder Cup record? The brothers share these gems while explaining why home-field advantage has proven decisive in every competition since 2012.

The episode culminates with a friendly "Ryder Cup or Rubbish" quiz testing their knowledge of tournament facts, followed by analysis of the betting odds for those interested in wagering on the outcome. Whether you're a dedicated golf enthusiast or someone who only watches during team competitions, this preview delivers everything you need to appreciate the unique passion and national pride that makes the Ryder Cup appointment viewing.

Ready to experience golf's most intense team battle? Listen now and discover why even non-golf fans get drawn into the red, white, and blue fever of Ryder Cup weekend.

Also, at the end of the episode, you will find the 4th Brotherly Bet for Sunday! We were 4 yards short last week, let's change that! Tune in for the BOLD BET with ZERO REGRETS!

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And the 92070 time? Jack Tony. That was beautiful. If you haven't guessed it, folks, it is Ryder Cup Week. Starts on Friday. What a beautiful time. Now, if you don't watch golf, if you don't play golf, if you're not a fan of golf. You're probably on the wrong podcast and you're looking for the duct tape one. Yeah, but I think I think even if you don't like it, you still tune into this. Like if you don't, like if you're if you live in the States and you love to be here, like dude, like when the Olympics on, you're always pulling for USA. Like anything USA, you're pulling. Like hockey comes around, you're pulling for USA. Like it's, but man, Ryder Cup is just, it's something different. Just like the sport itself, it's it's not golf anymore. It's like a war. It's literally like a war. And I love it. I love it. Red, white, and blue. I'm wearing red, white, and blue all weekend, except on Sunday. I'll be wearing black and yellow. But maybe I'll have red, white, and blue undies. No one will know. Not even my wife. And the neighbors. Neighbors will know. They'll know. He'll be cleaning. I have no, I have no shades on the first floor. So. Why is he bending down? Why is he stretching? Yeah. Why is the flag facing the mailbox? What's he doing? Um, good heavens. Yeah, we're excited. Um I think I'm most excited to see what Keegan Bradley comes out. He's the USA captain this year. Um, I mean, last Ryder Cup, he got the axe. So he's waiting for the call. He wasn't a captain pick that had a hurt. Now he played great golf. He plays, he does a lot of waggles, a lot of shuffle through to get to the ball. But I'm excited to see what he can do. Luke Donald, I mean, like, guy's been around forever. So he's on Europe. We don't care about Europe. Um, even though some of my favorite guys are in Europe, but not this week, Grant. Not this week. Um, those of you that don't follow along, we'll give you some uh the team updates. We got Scottie Sheffer, JJ Spahn, is it Xander? Is it Xander? Xander Shawfley, Russell Henley, Harris English, and Bryson DeChambeau. Yes, Harris English is playing for the USA team. Captain's picks, we got Justin Thomas, Colin Morikawa, Patrick Cantley, Ben Griffin, Cameron Young, Sam Burns. So far, so good. Now for the Europeans. You're a what? Nice. We got Rory McElroy, Robert McIntyre, Tommy Fleetwood. Probably the best head of hair on the team. Probably both teams, if I look back through here. Fair? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. His beard, he's got to keep trimmed up a little bit, but he's English. Justin Rose. Is it is it Rasmus Hogard? Ruzmas Hogard. Hogard. His O has a dash through it. It's a Ho Dasha. It's a Ho dash guard. There's a J in there. Can you imagine his mom? Like him getting in trouble. Rasmus? Yes, mama. Daryl Hatton. I didn't mean to.

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Oh my god.

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We got for the captain's picks, we got Shane Lowry. Love Shane Lowry, but not this week. John Rahm, Sepstrucka, Victor Hovlin, also love Victor Hovlin, but not this week. Ludwig Hoberg. Which his A has some fun symbols on top as well. It's wearing a hat.

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It's proper. Here's a proper A. It's either a Halo or a Yarmica. And Maddie Fitzpatrick. Um they don't have any. I mean, we're recording on a Tuesday. We're dropping this on Friday. We don't have any matchups yet. Um it's always. Do you want to go through day one, day two, day three? Give an idea. Let's do it. Okay. So day one. So it's it's all team play, right? So what is the day one format? What is the day one format? Yeah, that's what I'm asking. And is that one of your questions? Should it be one of my questions? No, I know it. Yeah, I know it. You know, just for you know for the fans out there. So day one is four ball matches. So there's a morning session and an afternoon session, correct? Yes. Okay, so there's two sessions essentially every day until you get the Sunday. Okay, so we have four ball matches, then we have foursome matches. Got more matches than a fireplace. Then you got four ball matches and foursome matches again on Saturday, and then we got Sunday, which is 12 singles, which is just one on one. Now, some of you are going four ball, foursome. What? So let me break it down. Okay. Four ball. Each team has two players, each playing their own ball. The best score of the two players count for the whole. Me and Grant are on the same team. He birdies. I bogey. Our score, birdie. Pretty simple. Okay. Now foursums, which is where it gets You walk into the front door, you put your keys in a bowl, and you see what happens. It's like in the Grinch. They're all just four balls. There's also four balls. Um you got two players per team, but there's only one ball versus with four ball, each player is playing their own. Okay, so for the foursomes, it's an alternate shot. So Grant tees off on odd holes. I tee off on the even holes. After he tees off, I hit the approach, then he putts. If he misses it, then I have to putt to finish the hole. Lower score, wins the hole. Simple? Awesome. Singles, it doesn't get any easier. 12 players, one-on-one. You play your own ball. Each math, each match is worth one point. There's 28 points total. So to win the Ryder Cup, you need 14 and a half. Because if you tie, I believe if you tie, you get a half point. Seems like an odd number to win. Like 28 or 14 and a half. 14 and a half. Yeah. It's kind of like tennis. 15 love. 14 love. Miss 30. Deuce. 30, 40. And then they're like, hey, we don't like the numbers anymore. It's a deuce. Hey, I've been thinking about it. I'm sick of these numbers. What do you got for me? And then deuce. Advantage. You don't win after the. But anyway, we're back. 14 and a half. 14 and a half. Right now, Europe unfortunately holds it from 2023. So if they happen to tie at the end of singles, they retain it due to already having it. Sweet? Let's go over some stuff. Let's go over more stuff. Let's go over a lot of golf stuff. Home teams have won every Writer Cup since 2012. Seems rigged. Yeah, I mean, but if if you watch or if you don't, it's like playing a different sport because in golf, everyone kind of cheers, they're polite. There's we went over this. There's etiquette, right? So if you listen to our other unplugged one, there's etiquette in the game. Ryder Cup, they they don't care. So USA, they come out, they're like not an exit off. We got Scotty Scheffler and Bryson Chambeau. You hear the booze, you hear chance, you they heckle you. Obviously, not when you're over the ball, but when you're hitting the ball, yeah. Yeah. You're getting hit with a pinata. Yeah. It's it's quite aggressive. But I that that's why I love it. It reminds me of um just a couple other tournaments. Live golf's kind of like that, except it kind of just like a big party. But it they're very um the home I I feel like if you're hosting it, if it's over in Europe or it's here, you you have a you have a big advantage. Like obviously, not a lot of Europeans are gonna travel to Beth Page Black to watch the Ryder Cup. Some of them will, but it's a lot easier to get the tickets if it's down the street or even a state over. So yeah. That's it. Got some fun facts for you, Grant, ready to go. Let's do it. The Ryder Cup trophy. Dude, this thing is enormous. Have you ever seen the size of this thing? Smaller than a Gatorade bottle. It's 17 inches tall and weighs just over four pounds. How big is your Gatorade bottle? I think it's referring to a big Gatorade bottle. Like a big Gatorade bottle. Like a like the water bottles that we were talking about last episode. Like the Gatorade cooler. Not like the not like the thing that you get at like a local gas station. Like, hey, two for 350. No, no, no. It's like eight inches tall. Right. I'm talking like a Gatorade bottle. So you stack two gas stations on top of each other. You got yourself a rider cup. But it's only four pounds. I mean, if you think, why why haven't they upgraded this thing? It's pretty cheap, right? Like it's literally, you can put it in your my kid's backpack.

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Did they get it at like a Joanne fabrics? They got it at home. Painted it. It's wood. It's like balsam wood. They're like, alright. Similar to go. It's good to go. Um in 2023, this is one of my favorite ones. Patrick Cantley didn't wear a hat during his matches. So there was a lot of shit rolling around that he was protesting for money and all this stuff. When in fact, if Tom was here, he can appreciate this. His hat didn't fit him properly. So Europe trolled him by waving hats at him all weekend. So here we go again with the home and vantage thing. Tiger Woods. Probably, I mean, one would argue the greatest golfer to play. It's a good argument. Unless you're talking majors and you're talking you're talking Jack. Um but most he's definitely was the most dominant player in his in his time. His Ryder Cup record is shit. 13, 21, and 3. Like that's that's not good from the GOAT. That's pretty poor. That doesn't surprise me though. Because he's he's a single athlete guy. He doesn't want to be team player like, so team stuff doesn't get him juiced. Yeah. I feel like I bet you that 13, 21, and 3, I bet you eight of those wins came later in his career. I I I would need to look that up, but I would bet like the older he got, the more he appreciated the guys around him because he wasn't the player he was anymore. Right. But when like you're at the top for what was he, number one, for 180 something weeks. It was in 16 years, something like that. Yeah, it was it it was rowdy. Um, but yeah, it does, it does make sense. Another fun one. The trophy's named after a guy who never played. Samuel Ryder was a seed merchant who just loved to play golf, never played in the event, didn't really golf competitively. He donated the trophy in the 1920s. And say the guy sold garden seeds, now has a war named after him. Respect, right? It's he was looking just to promote his business, so he's like donated this shitty little trophy, and it's still the trophy that they use. That's so funny. It's a funny in the 20s. He's like, hey, here's a trophy. No one bought it at the garage sale. I need to get rid of it. I made it in my basement. My wife is saying, get rid of this thing. And Sammy Ryder gives it up, and they still have this. You can take it. He tried to get rid of it then, and they still that is hilarious. Gave it away. Gave it away. Um, it was originally USA versus Great Britain, and Great Britain just kept getting smoked. So USA won 18 of those 22 times. So in 1979, they added all of Europe just to make it a little bit more competitive. Which I mean is fair. Like it's if it's just Great Britain, like that's a rather small surface area in terms of what the states are. So whatever. And probably my favorite thing ever, because you'll around this time, if you have any social media, this will pop up if you've been looking at Ryder Cup stuff. During 2016 at Hazel Teen, David Johnson was heckling players on the practice green. So Justin Rose called him out and said, you know what? Come out here and make a putt. Then he buried it, then he chugged a beer. Arguably, I wrote it down, arguably the most clutch putt of the weekend. Like you get called out in front of these professional athletes who are playing for this thing in front of all these people. He's probably buzzed, probably way more buzzed than you think. And he buries a putt, it hit the stick and dropped. So it was coming with some steam. Um says he became an overnight legend. Like, that's just great. He nailed it and then chugged a beer after. So can you imagine like being him? He's like, Hey, remember that time I buried a putt in front of all those people? Yeah. And his coworkers were like, We heard this story yesterday. Like, go back and sell phones out on the floor. Yeah. And he's like, no, you gotta hear it. Go sell that TV. Rosie? Yeah, we're Pels. Yeah. And since we're talking about um home advantage, essentially, so this year, Europe reportedly hired a noise coach to prep players for the crowd. So that's gotta be a sports psychologist, right? Like working on ways to handle heckling, chance, and booing, considering when they play they're not used to that kind of stuff. Is it like a sports psychologist, or is it a really annoying guy like waiting till they swing in and going like neighbor? Just bugging the piss out of you. Just, dude, get away from me. Hey, up ark! Get away from O on top of the hey! Just get away from me, dude. Just get away from me. Grant, what's your I mean, you like golf. You play golf. We talk about golf a lot. How much do you like the weekend? I think it's a fun event to watch. It's different. Um because you don't normally see these guys just being friendly with each other, so it's nice to like see their relationships outside of kind of a typical. So I like seeing that. Um I think all these guys are really good. So it's just it's fun seeing them go through the the tough shots and just seeing how they respond. Right. Like the points, I don't know what the points mean. I'm following it, like you win the hole, that's great. But like there's a lot of challenging golf shots that I think are fun, and seeing the dynamic and seeing them get pumped up. Yeah, I loved when Patrick Reed, so Patrick Reed um had had quite a few moments against Rory McElroy. That was fun. They're like waving the finger at each other, not the actual middle finger, but the no no no finger, um, just going shot for shot and blow for blow. And you don't see that in a regular tournament. So even if they're playing the John Deere, right? They're not playing for a major. Like if they make a putt, they'll like salute the crowd a little bit, they'll acknowledge the crowd, and then they pick up their ball and they write in their scorecard and they move on to the next hole. But like here, it's like they bury something, they do something well at the moment, and it's like an explosion. They're either shutting the crowd up, pumping the crowd up, whatever they're doing. It's fun, it's different. And like you said, just the the camaraderie that you see between players is is fun to watch because it only happens every other year. It's not like there's also some players that have a good personality that they'll ramp up the crowd like Brooks. Yeah, he was always doing that, like just annoying the shit out of everyone. Yeah, um, it's gonna be interesting to see Harris English, like the calmest guy. You're like, dude, you're sleeping? Hey, you with me, man? Yeah. Like guys like him, even Rory can get that way. Yeah. Because like they're just like so like beelined on this is what it's gonna be. Yeah. We're like, I want more Tyrrell Hatton. I want you to throw your golf clubs in the lake when you make it bad shots. He's the best. He's better than Henrik Stenson. He should just always have a hot mic. Like he they should just mic him up and then go through the footage and then just drop that stuff that you can, right? Because I'm sure he says some vulgar, vulgar words on the So I think that actually that idea would make the Ryder Cup that much better. You know, put it on a different channel like ESPN 2, like an explicit, and everyone is mic'd up. ESPN, the Ocho. The Ocho, Pate Manning and Eli are gonna be talking about, oh man, that was a bad sand shot. Yeah. Alright, we're gonna move on. I got a little game here for Grant that I I perked up this afternoon. Um, I did it with Tom. We did um Real or Ridiculous, but I called it Ryder Cup or Rubbish. So I'm gonna give you a fact, a quote, something, and you have to decide that's Ryder Cup, like that happened or rubbish, or bullshit. Cool? Ready to go? Let's do it. Alright. Do you a team once lost the Ryder Cup because one of their players almost missed his tea time. I'm sorry, let me reread. He's learning how to read right now. It's tough, dude. It's tough. I just want to make sure I wrote this down correctly. The US team once lost the Ryder Cup because one of the players almost missed his tea time after getting stuck in traffic. They almost lost it. They or they lost it. They did lose it. Almost missed his tea time. Because he was in a different quote unquote time zone. So he was reading his clock wrong, which I think is insane, dude. Because when it happened, like we all had phones and like you. It was recently, right? One person recent enough from Ireland. I don't remember when it was, but didn't he time where it was late and it was like at a course that's down the street, it's where I got my driver fitted. Folks, he's talking about Medina. Yeah. So that would be Rory? Yeah, great. Ryder Cup. That was Rory 2020. He arrived 10 minutes before tea time. That's like us. Just where are you? I'm on the tee. I'm turning on Higgins. Touch your toes a couple times. Go swing. Alright. So you're one for one. A European player once peed behind a tree during a foursomes match and got fined. Ooh. John Rahm has gone to the bathroom a lot. I think we were at the BMW championship and he hit the facilities harder than someone eating Indian food on a road trip. Um, but they got fined for peeing in a bush? And seriously? Well, yeah, that's in decent exposure. Or decent exposure. It wasn't a playground around. I think he had to go, probably. So I'm going to say it was real or rubbish. Ryder cup or rubbish? Ooh. I'm gonna say that's rubbish. It is rubbish.

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Ooh.

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As far as we know, but honestly, it sounds like it can definitely happen. The kit hasn't been the same ever since, but yeah. So in 2023, fans waved hats at Patrick Hantley after rumors he was mad about not getting paid. Ryder Cup. Yep, that happened. That was Hat Gate. At the 2025 Ryder Cup, this year, the one that hasn't happened. Time travel. Time travel. We split the atom. We split the atom. Unrelated problems. But it's a big one. Sorry, I've jumped on to the next one. Sorry. You want to solve world hunger? Give them tomato plants. Okay? That's how you solve it. Give them tomato plants. We split the atom. Alright. At the writer cup, sorry. Oh, that was funny. A New York crowd was banned from booing European players. Oh, that's a um a New York crowd was banned from booing European players. I feel like New Yorkers boo everything. Traffic cabbies. At the Ryder Cup. Is New York relevant at all? Have they played in New York? They've done a Beth Page Black before. I don't know. Is it? I'm gonna say rubbish. It's rubbish. Rubbish. Tiger Woods once played three matches with food poisoning and still outscored his partner. Yes. Rubbish. Oh, but it's it's the name drop, right? So it could have been one of those 13 wins. Or the but you said outscored his partner. So I wasn't sure if, okay, you're playing with a partner and you know he's in the woods. You're playing with Mickelson, he's betting, he can't focus. I got you. Alright. Ian Poulter once said, I was born for this after making a putt and staring down the European crowd. Ryder Cup. Yeah, it's Ryder Cup. And can you imagine the visor with all his pointy hair flying through that? It's like Guy Fury. He he yes, he is the golfer guy. Yeah. A skinny. A skinny. Because he's he's relatively thin now, isn't it? Drivers, butts, and chips. Oh, that was good. Those of you that don't watch diners, drive-ins and dives. Oh man. Alright, why is Ian Poulter hosting? Alright, in 2018, a Ryder Cup spectator was hit by a t-shot and went blind. Ryder cup. Ryder cup. Unfortunately, true, a woman was hit by a Kepka. In in France. John Rahm once chugged a Guinness before a tea time for luck. I could I mean I could see him chugging like a burrito. Maybe. He looks like a chicken finger guy. Yeah, he probably's got a lot of dips. Yeah. Oh, all the dips. You think he licks his fingers? Yeah. Yeah. He seems like a finger person. He probably wipes it on his pants. Because he can just change his pants. Well, yeah. Yeah, he's got a thousand pairs from all his sponsorships. Alright. I'm gonna say rubbish. Rubbish. Because it would have been better if I said once ate a. And he's from Spain. It would have been a cerveza. Once ate a White Castle bucket. You'd be like, oh yeah, he could down a box. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Ryder Cup team once hired a hypnotherapist to boost confidence before matches. It seems like Ryder Cup. It is Ryder Cup. And which team? It seems like an American thing to do. But I could also see it new age European. So I'm going to say Europe. Team Europe. Reportedly brought in mental coaches and hypnotherapists multiple times. Did they win? Then I don't know. I'd have to look up when that happened. I'd have to look up when that happened. Um, John Daly once showed up to the Ryder Cup as a fan and got so drunk he passed out on the 17th fairway. Is the question, is this true or not, or is it like how many times did he do it? How many times has John Ron showed up? Um John Daly. Uh Ryder Cup. It's rubbish. Oh. But it was the 18th of the year. I had to, and it's completely flake. Well, it's probably I wrote down it's spiritually true. Sorry. It's definitely something that I can I can see happening. And I think if it was in the United States, the fans would want to see it too. Because everyone is a is a John Daly fan. Especially now with him jumping on YouTube, going on some of these channels. Um, you just see that the dude's a unit, the kid's a unit. So that's my game. You did pretty good. You did pretty good. My reading, I need to I need to pick up reading again. It's hard with a baby. I'm tired. It's hard. Yeah. I'm tired all that. The two older kids are suffering. Alright. Um I'm gonna give you one little thing to think about, G. Now. You just you just joined the degenerate club where you have a app on your phone which now allows you to gamble a little bit.

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Mm-hmm.

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Okay. Are you gonna touch any of the Ryder Cup bats? I haven't even looked at them yet. That wasn't the question. But I was gonna get. I'll be Bill Cosby. I'll touch some up. Too soon. Too soon? Too soon. Okay. Next. Bibbity bobbity. Yeah. Puddin pop. Puddin' screen again.

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Bibbidi bobbity bubbly.

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Alright, um, I'm gonna give you some lines. Uh I know you don't know what it means, but I know what a line is. Um I haven't done any have asthma. I will help you. Uh unrelated line. Um USA is favored, and I think they're only favorited because they're at home. So they're sitting minus 150 to win. Europe is sitting at plus 170, and a tie is plus 1000. When when was the last time there was a tie? Do you know that? I I can look that up because our computers are amazing. When was the last tie in the Ryder Cup? Don't mind me typing on my I'm a heavy typer. The last time the Ryder Cup ended in a tie was in 1989 at the Belfry in England. Europe and the US finished 14-14. But since Europe was the defending champion, they retained the cup. That massive four-pound cup. It's massive. I don't know. I mean, I think I hate here's what I hate about because I touched the Ryder Cup two years ago, and you do a coup I do a couple. I don't go crazy. I I I strictly do all my stupid gambling stuff on the NFL. I'll do a little bit of MLB. NHL I love. Yeah. I but I only love it around the playoffs. I think it's I think it's fun. It makes it even more exciting. They don't have any player props up yet. They have, you know, who's gonna score the most points. I hate doing that because then you're just like staring at these players. Right. Um, but I mean they got some like You also don't know who's playing yet in what matchups. Right. Right? So like and uh it's also like I like you're looking at I can do individual points, I can go, you know, over under one and a half, but I'm like, dude, are they gonna get benched? Like it's hard when do they get pulled? Like they think Bryson DeChambeau, his two and a half points is or over, is minus 125. Like that's favorited to happen. Right. But I'm like, I've seen him fall apart. So it's wild. Hole in one. Hole in one is plus four hundred for a yes, which I think is insane. These are professional athletes, yes, they've been playing this course for A week, week and a half. Like they can move the ball in any direction, but it's still like it takes one gust, it takes one bad bounce, it takes one groove up to face. It does feel like every golf tournament, there's at least one hole in one. But there's a lot more golfers. Correct. Right. So I can see why it's plus 400. Like, we didn't name that many players on the team. No. So if you had to go straight up, like we're in Belgium right now. Belgium. We're not French. Belgium. USA. I do the Belgium dip. Yeah. Hello. You were living next to the Obergs in the Huguen. You know, we got a woodhouse, smoke coming up the top. Got a couple lama on the side of the hill. Who are you going with? What team? I mean, I think I'm taking the USA team just because they're at home. But also, like, dude, you look at you look at Europe's team and it's like there's a bunch of studs on there. Like Tommy Fleetwood won won the tournament at the end of the year. Like Burry McElroy won't won a jacket. Like with the exception of, I'm gonna say this. I actually think this could be the year that USA breaks the streak of home teams. Because you look at the if you look at the USA team, like yeah, they have a bunch of big names. Scotty is the by far best one. Cantley kind of had an average year, in my opinion. He didn't know. Isn't it crazy that he had an average year? And he f he finished super high. Yeah. But you never saw him on the first page. So I think Europe actually has the overall better team. And one might think all these guys are European, they're used to playing in USA. So they're used to the crowd. They know what they're gonna do. One might say they have an edge. Versus, last year in France, they're eating freaking biscuits for breakfast in Brooks last year. He's like, I have bacon and eggs. I'm not used to this, right? Like, what's a crumpet? Yeah, a crumpet. He's like, no, I smoke cigarettes, not these little things with the flutes on the end of it. Yeah, I I mean. But it's crazy that like captain's picks is John Ron. Right. Ober, he was in he was in every tournament, I feel like. Every tournament that I watched, especially like the big ones, he was playing close to last on Sunday, which means he was in contention a lot. Fitzpatrick is his own unit. Justin Rose, I feel like rises up to the occasion all the time. I don't know. But then it's like if I throw money down, do I really want to bet against the US? And I'm like pulling for Europe. If it's a good bet. That's why they call it a gamble. That's why it's a gamble. That's why we don't know. I I don't know. But I mean it's it's just like crazy. I still can't believe the fact that a hole in one in the tournament of they play two on Friday, two on Saturday, one on Sunday. So 12 players are playing on Sunday. Right. That's plus 400. That's insane. That's insane. It should be in the thousands. Like, that is one of the hardest things to do. What's the parlay for hole in one and Europe to win? Hole and I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do it. Sometimes it doesn't let me put stuff together. 1250. Plus 1250. So like Welcome to Kalahari. We're going to the Dells! Going to the Dells. It's I don't even know. I think that would be a great When was the last Hole in one during a rider cup? Once again, folks, don't mind me typing. These are things I should have thought of, but we got kids. The most recent hole in one was in 2006.

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Okay.

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Plus 400 feels pretty good. But like plus four like that you can look at it and you're like, well, it's due. You're like you're due for one. It says the internet. If you meant during a practice round, no, I don't I don't get well, that doesn't help me. It's crazy though. Paul Casey aced the Par 314th during Saturdays for Songs matches. Then Scott Verplank hit his ace on the same hole the following day on Sunday during singles. So two of them in 2006. Okay. That's the time to place the bet. But I mean, once again, that how many of you have a hole in one? What's the closest you've ever been to a hole in one? Two inches. Didn't go in. You know, you're two like it I know.

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Yeah. Still thinking about it.

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Yeah, so I don't know. I I'm not telling the millions and millions of listeners w what to bet for the Ryder Cup. There's gotta be a hundred thousand out there that would take it though. So yeah, we're talking to you out of the million. Yeah, out of the million. I don't know. USA, but there's some fun stuff. Like you can do Scheffler to be the highest point score, and Rory McEroy to be the same. So you're two studs. Yeah. That's plus eleven hundred. That's fun. Um to be the top point scorer. Scotty's sitting at plus three hundred. I still think the hole-on one is insane. Um so Europe also has one rookie on the team, US has four.

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As a side note. Yeah, I don't know. Just saying. Yeah, it's just like I I feel like golf is so weird. But like on a Sunday, if the guy's got a two-stroke lead going into Sunday, he's still unless it's Scotty, because Scotty sits there, he can be six back this year, and you're looking at his odds, and it's like minus 200 to win. And I'm like, really, dude? He's one ball out of bounds for being eight back. So I don't know. You got anything else? No. I'm looking forward to it. I mean, Friday, Sunday's great though. I mean, when you see all those numbers, all those reds and blues, like it's it's if it's close, it's close, it's if it's a blowout, it's like, oh boy, I'm turning on TLC. I feel like every year, at least from the years that I can remember, after day one, US is down. Like it's almost guaranteed that they are trailing after the foursoms in four wall. Like it it's it's crazy. It's like after Friday, it's like, oh, it's six to two, you know. What what the hell happened? Yeah. But yeah, over three days, you got 28 total matches. So we're looking forward to it. This episode will drop on Friday. What day is Friday? The 26th? It is the 26th. Nice, nailed it. Of September. September. Um Pass shoot score. Anything else? Drive. But drivers and butters and chips. All right. Have fun. Bet cash, go to the Dells. Yeah. Um, hammer USA. USA. Or Europe if you want to win. Oh, yeah. Or Europe in a hole in one if you want that plus 1250. All right. Pretty good bet. We're getting out of here. Uh, we're your wholesome, Jack. Hey, we know I'm getting grant. Let's hit it. And later, Gators. All right, everybody, we promised you a brotherly bet at the end of this episode. And here it comes for Sunday. Chargers, minus two and a half. James Cook, 60 plus rushing yards, and over 36 and a half points for the Titans and Texans game. Let's go.