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a well world. This

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is a crowd podcast. Hello,

1:09

everyone, and welcome to Beefs Golf Club.

1:12

It's Rider Cut Week, and we're in Rome.

1:14

It's the most epic event in

1:16

golf, and we're here to keep you up to date

1:18

on everything happening behind the scenes and

1:21

on the golf course. I'm so excited

1:23

to be here, and we'll be bringing you daily

1:25

episodes over the course of this weekend.

1:29

So sit back and enjoy. This

1:31

is Beefs Golf Club at the Rider Cup. Hello,

1:35

everyone. Welcome to Beefs Golf

1:37

Club.

1:38

We are in Rome, and

1:40

I'm here with producer Ryan. We're currently

1:43

sat in our hotel. Well, currently

1:45

sat on his bed. What's

1:48

going on, mate? Is this the most glamorous recording

1:50

setup you've ever seen? I love

1:52

stuff like this. I actually do. I think

1:55

the weirder the place, we can do it the better. The

1:57

more I prefer it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm

1:59

sat on my bed. You're

1:59

sat on the tiniest little sofa ever and

2:02

we've just come back from the course haven't we? And you've

2:04

been here since Monday we're in Rome how's it been?

2:07

Yeah hectic mate it's been busy got in Monday

2:11

evening put the

2:13

put the bags down and went straight into the

2:15

centre of Rome find some food

2:17

been eating a lot here the

2:21

golf course looks absolutely

2:23

stunning the setup's amazing I've

2:25

had a little stroll around the course and

2:28

I can't wait for this to get started now I

2:31

mean at the time of recording the opening ceremony

2:33

has just finished and the parents have been on out so we should

2:35

probably talk about the golf but first I want to ask you

2:37

obviously food is I think

2:40

the number one thing in your life probably above maybe

2:43

equal probably talk to me about the food ketchup

2:46

Pepe is that the one we've gone for normally? Eating

2:48

it already. Where

2:50

did you go? Eating it already?

2:54

We've had we went to really special restaurant on

2:56

Monday night that we booked like

2:58

a fire cook restaurant one of my favorite things ketchup

3:01

Pepe we had two dinners in one night

3:03

yeah because there

3:05

was an amazing pizza place we went to and

3:08

then at a 20 minute walk in and had a bit of pasta

3:11

and to be honest it was a really bad

3:13

idea because I was really fucking uncomfortable.

3:17

How was the how's the pizza is it as good as they say

3:19

it is in Rome? It's a bit of a myth

3:21

here I've asked a few times about pizzas here

3:24

and the locals have shrugged it off

3:26

and said just go down to Naples and get

3:28

your pizza there and I asked again

3:30

and we've been given a few good recommendations pizza

3:33

was fantastic yeah oh

3:35

I can't wait I mean hopefully there's gonna be

3:37

a busy time of golf but hopefully we'll actually get some time to

3:40

eat some pizza speaking of golf then so

3:42

what have you seen who have you bumped

3:44

into tell us everything? I've bumped

3:46

into a few of the players bumped

3:49

into Justin Rose on the putting green

3:52

Huygarden on the putting green just had a

3:54

brief chat they were there in the middle of working

3:56

and practicing with their coach so I kind of stayed

3:58

out of the way Kepcaw

4:01

on the range, he looked like he was hitting

4:03

it really well. Was he? Yeah, he was probably

4:05

hitting a couple six or five irons and

4:08

they were completely flushed. He

4:11

looked in good form from the three

4:13

shots I saw from him and

4:15

had a quick cuddle with Spieth

4:18

himself. Did you? A quick cuddle

4:20

with Spieth. Did he shout, Beef, as he cuddled

4:22

you? That's smart, he told us. He

4:24

just whispered it in my ear. Sort

4:27

of quite strange. No,

4:30

honestly he didn't. He said hi,

4:32

he was walking somewhere, he was busy but it was

4:34

nice just to say hi and just say

4:38

have a good week and good luck and hopefully

4:40

he's on the losing side basically. Well, yeah. Do

4:43

they seem quite chilled when you see them at that point?

4:45

Because it's such a build up, isn't it? Obviously

4:47

the event starts tomorrow in terms of the

4:49

play but they have a few practice rounds right

4:52

and what's the vibe

4:54

in the days building up to it? Because a lot of people arrive

4:56

like I have today on the Thursday. Yeah,

4:58

I think the guys got here quite

5:01

early on Monday, Tuesday and I

5:03

think they've been playing mostly nine holes a day.

5:06

Yeah. Again, yeah,

5:08

just a bit of practicing, keep things ticking.

5:11

Obviously they've got their coaches there, they can do a little bit of practice.

5:15

The guys have obviously so much media

5:17

stuff to do as well in between and

5:19

dinners every night so I think it's more about

5:22

just keeping the golf ticking and

5:24

getting through all the dinners and all the

5:26

media bit through and now

5:31

it's time it's go time where I think once

5:34

the pairings come out as they've had,

5:37

now it's the real time where probably the

5:39

nerves set in and you realise, all right, this

5:42

is who we're playing tomorrow morning and this is what

5:44

we're going to be up against and I think this is where it gets

5:46

real now. I mean, we'll come

5:48

to those very, very shortly but I want

5:51

to ask you, you've obviously been speaking to me,

5:53

you're doing some commentary on the, was it the All

5:55

Star game you did some for? Yeah,

5:57

they had an All Star Ryder Cup game

5:59

which was... Yeah, which

6:01

was good. Had some good, real

6:03

good sort of other athletes and

6:06

celebrities playing Novak Djokovic,

6:08

Carlos Sainz played. Yeah. And

6:13

it was nice to

6:15

watch them come and hit a few shots, you know. You

6:18

think all these guys are so,

6:20

well, some of the best in their craft,

6:23

right? Yeah. Some of the best players ever.

6:25

You look at Djokovic, you're arguably

6:27

the best tennis player ever. Yeah. And

6:30

now you're watching him out of his comfort zone hitting

6:33

a tee shot off the first in

6:35

front of loads of people and he's more nervous

6:38

than he is when he's serving at Wimbledon. Yeah.

6:41

It's really interesting to see that. Speaking

6:43

of that though, he didn't need, I don't know if he

6:45

was taking a piss or not, but didn't he like tee off

6:47

with a tennis racket from the first? Did you see that video? Yeah,

6:50

I didn't see the video I heard and someone said he's

6:52

going to tee off with a tennis racket and

6:55

they were like, how far should we allow the crowd to

6:57

get near him? And I kind of turned round and

6:59

I said, do you know how good he is

7:01

at tennis? I don't think he's going to hit anyone

7:03

with a crowd with a tennis racket. I'll be more

7:06

concerned about the driver. With the golf

7:08

club. Yeah. Surely he can

7:10

hit a golf ball with a tennis racket further than he can

7:12

with the golf club, but who knows? You

7:14

met him though, didn't you? You saw it, did a bit of film with him, I saw?

7:17

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We

7:19

had to do a couple of sort of on course interviews and walk down one

7:21

of the holes and have a little chat and he was in, he

7:23

was in good spirits and he was just buzzing, playing,

7:26

he loved the atmosphere. He

7:28

hit the green on the driver ball 16th and

7:31

did a Ronaldo series celebration

7:34

thing, which was interesting.

7:36

I wanted to boom, to be honest. Did

7:39

you? No, I didn't fold it. That's

7:41

fair enough. And what's the course like

7:43

then? So what you've seen, I mean, you've obviously played it when

7:46

it's not been set up for a Ryder Cup. Has

7:48

it changed at all since you've played

7:50

here before? Slightly.

7:53

They've definitely brung the rough

7:55

in a little bit and made it a bit more narrow and it's at

7:57

about the 293 hundred yard mark.

8:00

So it stops, well I think the Europeans

8:03

are hoping it stops the Americans bombing it anywhere

8:05

they want and getting the line. The rough is

8:07

really thick, the rough is really

8:10

thick and if you're gonna hit it offline you're

8:12

better off hitting it 20-30 yards

8:14

off the fairway rather than five. I've

8:16

seen some really sort of iffy

8:19

lies and a lot of par fives,

8:21

all the par fives you can hit in too and be really

8:23

aggressive but you've got to be coming off the fairway

8:26

and that's gonna be key so hitting a lot of fairways

8:28

could be really key in this rider cup. Is

8:31

that all they've done because they speak don't they about Europe

8:33

potentially setting it up to favor our team?

8:35

Is there anything else you've seen that they look like they've done? The

8:38

stands by the way from what I've seen are massive

8:40

aren't they? They're a lot closer to the course than I

8:42

thought they'd be. Stands are huge obviously

8:44

they want to get really big and get as many people

8:47

around the groups and try and influence the

8:49

home advantage. The first stand

8:52

is insane, it's so steep. I

8:54

wouldn't want to be sitting right at the top of it.

8:56

It is really high and it's really steep.

8:58

It's so cool when you stand on that first

9:00

tee and you look up around it and

9:03

I'll tell you what tomorrow morning when you see it and

9:05

everyone's cheering and they're gonna be clapping together

9:07

the atmosphere is

9:09

gonna be absolutely amazing and obviously it's

9:12

all geared for the European team you know

9:14

it works both ways. When Europe

9:16

go over to the stage it's the complete opposite.

9:19

I have heard rumors that sometimes

9:22

they've tried to slow the greens down a little bit

9:24

and have a more European pace but to

9:27

be honest these guys have been here since Monday they're

9:29

the best players in the world I don't think it's gonna faze

9:31

them at all. Oh 100% and I mean that atmosphere

9:34

like you say you hear that it's gonna be incredible don't

9:36

you? But when you see like you say the size of that stand and also

9:39

I mean we turn up today and there's

9:41

it's buzzing already right? Like Rome is

9:44

mental you can't get a taxi but actually just people

9:46

there's a real like sort of energy about the place have you felt

9:48

that since Monday? 100% they had the

9:50

junior Ryder Cup today and you could hear

9:52

shouts around the course Europe

9:54

shouts you could hear USA shouts there's quite

9:56

a lot of USA fans here American fans

9:59

here yeah come over and I was actually

10:01

thinking about that. It's

10:03

probably a really good one to go to, you know, the bucket

10:05

list, you're going to tick off Rome and

10:07

ride a cup in the same place. I mean, what a trip.

10:10

Oh mate, 100%. I

10:12

heard rumours that like people like Michael Jordan

10:15

and that like turn up for these sort of ones. Do you think we're

10:17

going to see anyone this week? Maybe,

10:19

maybe. You never know. You never know. He

10:21

has been at a few previous ones

10:23

and I know he's a huge fan of the rider

10:26

cup. So we might see him. If you

10:28

saw him, would you go up to him? Oh, 100%. Yeah.

10:30

Yeah. Yeah. I'll

10:32

just go up to him and slash out in Europe A. That'd

10:34

be Mark Wahlberg Gate part two, wouldn't it? I think.

10:37

Speaking of which, can you imagine if we saw Mark Wahlberg here?

10:40

He saw Will and Good being pied over a WhatsApp.

10:42

Imagine being pied by Michael Jordan live.

10:45

That's going to be great, isn't it, for you guys? Well,

10:48

to be fair, you went up to Gareth Bale, didn't you? And you

10:50

spoke to Gareth Bale? Yeah, we had to

10:52

do, we had to do these interviews and we were standing

10:54

on the 16th tee and he sort of looked

10:56

a bit nervous. So

10:59

I said to him, I said, well, you're going to hit off here and he went, I

11:02

don't want to hit three wood. I hate hitting my three wood.

11:04

And I said, okay. I said, look, it's about 250

11:08

to the front edge. I said, what'd you hit around 250? And

11:10

he went two on. I said, it's perfect. And

11:12

he just kind of giggled and he went, I don't want to hit

11:14

a two on in front of all these people. And

11:17

he was sort of sweating about and I was like, you kind

11:19

of got hit two on. Anyway,

11:22

after the weight, he's teed it up.

11:24

He's pulled the two on out of the bag. Everyone thinks

11:26

he's going to lay up and they started booing him. And

11:29

then he's hit this two on and I mean, he's absolutely

11:33

nuked it. He's hit this thing

11:35

so good. Honestly, it's come so

11:37

fast with the glove face and the flight on it straight

11:40

down the flag. And he's ended up just behind

11:42

on the rough at the back of the green. But

11:45

I mean, it was some golf shot. And I said

11:47

to him, I didn't the question, I was just like, how can you be

11:49

so good at one

11:51

sport and then come across and like obviously he's

11:53

been playing golf a while. But to hit shots

11:55

like that, that's a serious talent. Is

11:58

he, you know, is he borderline? could he be

12:00

professional if he'd been doing it? You

12:02

know if he'd put all his time into it. You

12:05

never know. You never know. If he hadn't played football and

12:07

picked up goals, his mentality,

12:10

yeah, you could never

12:12

write him off for that. Yeah. He wouldn't turn

12:14

pro now after playing a career of football

12:16

but maybe in the past, yeah, 100%.

12:19

But like some of the shots he hits were, the

12:22

strikes were so good. That's amazing.

12:24

And he seems like a nice guy. Really nice guy.

12:26

Yeah, really nice. He was absolutely loving it. Loving

12:29

the crowd and I was asking

12:32

to him, what's it similar? I said, is it

12:34

similar to taking penalties? And he

12:36

was like 100%, it's like taking dead ball,

12:38

free kick, a penalty and he was like

12:40

lucky enough, I've taken a lot

12:42

of them and that's kind of helped him in that

12:45

situation playing in that all-star match in front

12:47

of the crowd. Amazing. That's brilliant.

12:49

Right, let's have a quick outbreak and then let's talk about these parents.

12:59

Welcome back everyone. Well,

13:02

Ryan, the opening ceremony has just finished

13:05

and the parents have been announced. I think

13:07

we should kind of take a look at them. I think we should. So

13:10

we have absolutely four absolute

13:13

classic games. The first one being

13:15

Scotty Sheffler, Sam Burns versus

13:17

John Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton.

13:19

Wow.

13:20

I mean, some good names in there, right? I mean,

13:22

for an opening game, that's insane. So

13:24

this is Foursomes, right? The first format tomorrow.

13:27

Yes. So the first group is going to be Foursomes tomorrow

13:29

in the morning, which is alternate

13:31

shot. Yeah. And it's an

13:33

absolute blockbuster opening game that

13:36

I mean, Sheffler and Rahm against

13:39

each other in the first thing. I wonder who's going to hit the

13:41

first tee shot. We won't know until

13:43

tomorrow morning. And

13:46

again, like the whole Ryder Cup in this situation,

13:48

it has all the ingredients just to be an

13:50

absolute classic. You

13:52

can't call that game. So we

13:55

knew sort of that Sheffler and Burns might play

13:57

together, right? Because they have done previously. A useful

14:00

surprised to all see Jon Ramm and Tyrell Hatton paired up?

14:02

Is that something you might have predicted? I

14:05

think Hatton's such a steady player.

14:07

Yeah. And

14:10

I think if Ramm, if they get firing, they're

14:12

both kind of fiery characters and Ramm loves

14:14

it. I think he'll drag Tyrell Hatton into that

14:17

real kind of fiery zone and they

14:19

could be a really tough

14:21

pair in that. Yeah. They

14:23

won't give it anything. They will not give anything away

14:25

there. So how do you play that if you're two different

14:28

types of players? If Jon Ramm's quite like aggressive,

14:30

right? And if Tyrell's a bit steadier.

14:32

So is Jon Ramm going to tee off everything

14:36

and then Tyrell sort of keeps it in play? How's that going

14:38

to work as a pairing? I think in foursomes,

14:41

you want players that are going to keep

14:43

the ball in play. Hit a lot of fairways.

14:45

They're both really good drivers of the golf ball. Yeah.

14:48

And I think that is the first

14:51

key in foursomes. Once you put it on the fairway,

14:53

you've got a chance, you know. It's hard to

14:55

gain rhythm in foursomes.

14:58

But if you're hitting good T-shirts and you're

15:00

on the fairway and your ball's in play, it instantly puts

15:02

the other team under pressure straight away. Yeah.

15:05

So I think that's a massive key. And you look at both

15:07

of their driving. I think they're brilliant.

15:09

Obviously solid iron players and Hatton's

15:12

great mid-range putter as well. Yeah. So

15:15

yeah, I think that is such a strong pairing.

15:18

Why are Scheffler and Burns such good pairing then? Scheffler

15:20

probably the best ball striker there

15:24

is at the moment in the game. Sam

15:26

Burns, again, another solid player, great putter

15:29

as well. So I think they'll be looking

15:31

at what holds the tee off, where

15:33

Burns probably going to try and putt more. You

15:36

might see Scheffler take the harder par threes.

15:38

So he could potentially take the

15:41

odd holes, which has seven and 17.

15:45

Yeah. Two sort of long par threes.

15:47

You might see him tee off of them and give Scheffler

15:50

hopefully some – hopefully

15:52

you give Burns some birdie putts.

15:54

And that's the way you kind of have to work this foursome's

15:57

game out. Everyone will be looking at

15:59

all the tee – shots where they're gonna hit

16:01

it can you hit par fives in two

16:03

yeah so can the player put

16:05

it on and you're gonna have the best iron player

16:08

out the two trying to hit into the par

16:10

fives yeah where can you hopefully if

16:12

the plan goes together where it

16:15

where can we give the best part of more putts and

16:17

that's how it all comes down to sort

16:19

of working that out and what holds the tee off so

16:21

it's really important and all this

16:24

weekend when they did the recce on

16:26

the golf course couple weeks before that's exactly

16:28

what they'll be looking at in their pairs what

16:30

tee shots do they like there might be a tee

16:33

shot out there where where

16:35

Burns or Scheffler goes it's not my favorite tee

16:37

shot here I don't like it so

16:39

they know they'll okay okay we'll take we'll

16:42

take the odds we'll take the evens and work that out

16:44

so yeah everything from the like the

16:47

last little bit of detail

16:49

will be going into that and do you think from

16:51

the captain's point of view they're obviously sending out Scheffler

16:53

and Ram to the strongest players in the world out

16:55

first what's the thinking there do you think you've

16:58

got people want to see blue blue

17:01

on that scoreboard early it's the home advantage

17:03

let's get the crowd going let's

17:05

do them up if Ram and Hatton they they

17:08

love John Ram Europe loved on Ram how good was

17:10

he in the last Ryder Cup he's gonna

17:12

go out there he's gonna be sort of fist

17:15

pumping getting the crowd going they want that

17:17

you want as much atmosphere as possible you've got

17:19

to send someone out like that first absolutely

17:22

I can't wait for that one that first tee like we said

17:24

earlier is gonna be absolutely amazing also did you see Sam

17:26

Burns haircut they had done for for

17:28

it yeah yeah yeah you know

17:30

what it's horrible but I get it is really cool

17:33

for anyone who hasn't seen he has he's got like it's like

17:35

a mullet isn't it and then he's got the USA so like shaved

17:38

into the side of his head I'll put money on

17:40

it it's shaved off before he flies back

17:43

Sunday night or Monday morning where the

17:45

fly that thing that thing will be gone before

17:47

he gets home so after

17:49

that first game we have the second

17:51

game with Max Hohmann Brian

17:54

Harmon against Victor Hovland and Ludwig

17:56

Eberg John called it Hovberg

17:59

together of Burks together he's absolutely

18:01

nailed it yeah. What

18:04

do we make of that pair in them? I'm not surprised Harmon's

18:07

playing in the foursomes we all knew

18:09

what he's like he's again a great driver

18:11

of the golf ball absolute gritty

18:14

performer won't sort of buckle

18:16

under pressure you saw what he did at the Open this

18:18

year the way you played around a difficult

18:20

golf course where you've got to keep the ball in play

18:22

got hit fairways and

18:25

some of the shots he hit under pressure in

18:28

that tournament as well really

18:30

showed like the character and how good he is at golf

18:33

yeah along with Max

18:36

Homer to again another really solid

18:38

player that's

18:40

a really gritty team that is that's a that's

18:42

a top top pairing that

18:44

to be honest I

18:46

kind of I didn't I didn't see it coming because I think

18:49

Homer and Morikawa I remember

18:51

you saying that yeah I think I think they're really

18:53

good friends but I kind of I kind of

18:55

get it I kind of get it it's really hard

18:57

to leave Harmon out of this the

19:00

foursomes I already do I think he's gonna be

19:02

a real force in the foursomes and

19:04

again against Hovland

19:06

and Eberg we know everything about

19:08

Hovland how well he's been playing and

19:13

yeah and Eberg being being

19:15

put straight into the fire here straight

19:17

into the fire I mean I still whenever

19:20

someone says you know turn pro four months ago whatever

19:22

it is I still can't believe that but you

19:24

know first day of a Ryder Cup second second

19:27

matchup with one of the world's best that's gonna be pressure

19:29

right it's gonna be pressure

19:32

I had Rory speaking about a burg and

19:34

about his game when they played together around

19:36

the Monday of Wentworth when they come over

19:38

and come over to Italy and played and

19:42

if you've got Rory McIlroy saying his

19:45

ball striking is superb from

19:47

Rory you know you know

19:50

it's superb high praise and

19:52

I think again there you've got you've got two

19:54

guys who just absolutely hammer the

19:57

golf ball two brilliant

19:59

players And it's again, bit

20:01

unknown quantity, how Aberg's going to handle it,

20:03

the way he's looked, he's going to handle it just fine.

20:06

I mean, you can't, you cannot go

20:08

into Switzerland thinking, if I win this,

20:10

I'm going to get into the Ryder Cup and turn up and win

20:12

it. I mean, it's outrageous. Got

20:15

no right. It's just outrageous to perform

20:17

when you need to perform in

20:19

golf, where it's so hard to peak for a

20:22

certain way. It's so impressive. And

20:24

everyone says so impressive. So again,

20:28

it's just another absolute cracker of a game.

20:30

And speaking of impressive, did you see Victor

20:32

Hovland's hole in one on the par

20:35

four, not a par three, a par four? I

20:38

was just saying in my head, not today. Not

20:40

today's the wrong day, but at least he's got

20:42

the right club for that hole. I mean, what did he

20:44

take to do that? I'm not sure what, I'm not

20:47

sure what he hit. Was it either right? No, it was three-word.

20:49

It was three-word or a five-word. I'm not sure because

20:51

they've pushed the T right forward on five. So when

20:53

we played it in the tournament, you

20:56

couldn't reach that green. So you would hit like

20:58

a four iron off the T and then a wedge

21:00

in. So now they've pushed it up. So

21:02

yeah, it's probably about 290 yards. Wow.

21:06

I mean, what a moment if that happens during the actual

21:08

game. But yeah, I mean, I watched the video earlier. It was brilliant.

21:10

Talking of this, I'm going to make a prediction as well

21:12

on here before it starts. I might as well get it

21:15

out. There will be a hole in one on 13. Okay.

21:18

There will. Short par three, but 130 yards. There's

21:21

going to be a hole in one there. I

21:23

would absolutely love it if that came true and you've

21:25

predicted that. So watch out for

21:27

that one, members. Right. After that,

21:30

putting my neck on the line for a hole in one. We

21:34

have Ricky Fowler and

21:37

Colin Morikawa versus Shane Lowry

21:39

and Sepp Strachka. Again, bit

21:42

of a mouthwatering pairing right there. I think

21:45

Ricky Fowler is really versatile player. I was

21:47

speaking to the Cobra

21:49

club fit of Ben. Yeah. He's out

21:52

here looking after Ricky and

21:54

he was like, he's happy to play with anyone. He's

21:56

a great, great ball striker. It's

21:59

great to see him back. as well playing well after a

22:01

tough year before and see him get back

22:03

in the team. And he's sort

22:05

of a person you could kind of pair with anyone. He'll

22:07

go with anyone, he's pretty chilled out. And

22:11

he has that kind of nature where I think if

22:13

Zach Johnson turns around and says to him, oh

22:15

you're going to be playing with someone, he's like yeah cool.

22:18

I think he's that type of character

22:20

and obviously a great ball striker and great player

22:22

with the steady Morikara

22:24

as well. The iron player and you can

22:26

see why they've been paired together against

22:31

the gritty Shane Lowry. I was going to

22:33

say. He was great in the last Ryder Cup

22:35

with him straight. Getting stuck in some

22:38

of the putzy hold under pressure away

22:40

from home. He's absolutely going to relish

22:42

this being with the home crowd. I think

22:45

he's going to be brilliant and I think he'll be one

22:47

of the players to sort of look out for this week.

22:49

I think he's absolutely going to love it and he's going to have a great

22:52

week. And you were surprised, weren't you, that there

22:54

was even any controversy

22:56

about his, or people complaining about

22:58

his pick, weren't they?

22:59

Some of them.

23:00

It's difficult. Maybe his form's

23:02

not the greatest but you look back on

23:05

his experience, the tournaments he's

23:07

won, the big pressure moments, he's

23:09

handled them so well. And going into

23:12

the last Ryder Cup, the way he handled himself

23:14

and I think that's what a lot

23:16

of captains will look for. Everyone

23:19

is going to sort of not fall

23:21

into their own shell in

23:24

this. You've got to stay really bold and

23:26

perform and it's the hardest thing to do. And

23:28

when you've got a player who does that in that environment,

23:31

it's very hard not to pick. And

23:33

he's with Sep Stryker. I mean, what do you know about

23:35

him and what's his sort of playing style? How are they

23:37

going to complement each other? Again, I

23:39

think he's a very steady player. To

23:41

be brutally honest, I don't know too much about him. He's

23:43

played, obviously, PJ Toor. If you're playing with

23:45

PJ Toor, you're a great player. I think

23:47

he can make a hell of a lot of birdies and he's a

23:50

really good putter as well. So

23:52

again, foursomes, keeping it in

23:54

play. You might

23:56

not hit it close all the time, but if you

23:58

knock in a couple of mid-range putts... to

24:00

win holes and put the other team under pressure. That's

24:03

what it's all about. And Forsom is about being

24:05

steady, looking at maybe

24:07

a pin that's tight on the left

24:09

side, tight to the right side and going, you

24:12

put this in the middle of the green, 20 foot away, we're

24:15

in a good spot here. And if you can do that a lot in Forsom,

24:18

you don't have to do anything really

24:20

special and make a load of Eagles and birdies.

24:23

It's all about being in every hole and

24:25

getting into a rhythm with your partner. And

24:28

then we've got to round it up.

24:31

The last Forsoms of the morning is

24:35

Anna Schafel and Patrick Catlett, which we

24:38

pretty much knew. They play together a lot, right? Yeah,

24:40

known each other, great friends, play each other,

24:43

presidents cups. In

24:45

the presidents cup before, that was pretty

24:47

obvious. Against Rory

24:50

McElroy, Tommy Fleetwood. Wow. This

24:52

is a game. That's a game, isn't it? This

24:55

is a game. How are we judging that one? This

24:58

is an incredible game. It really is.

25:03

Xander and Patrick are so steady. They're

25:05

such steady players, such

25:09

tough competitors. You've seen

25:11

it. There was, can they, when you beat Bryson

25:13

in a playoff and some of the shots

25:15

they play and some of the parts they hold in that situation

25:18

where it went to three, four holes in a playoff.

25:20

And I remember Bryson hitting some

25:23

shots close. Can they hit

25:25

inside him, put him under

25:27

pressure, that's exactly what you want. I

25:29

mean, same as Schafel. I mean,

25:31

it's an unbelievable pair in that. Against

25:35

Rory, who's arguably the best

25:38

ball striker I've ever seen and

25:40

Tommy Fleetwood not far behind it as well. I

25:43

mean, it's just an absolute, absolute

25:46

blockbuster of a game, this. What's the thinking

25:48

of putting Rory with Tommy Fleetwood?

25:50

Because you said before, I think, that you thought

25:53

you'd put Lowry with

25:54

Rory, right?

25:55

That was my guess. Yeah, that

25:58

was my guess. I think Rory and I are against Rory. on

26:00

really well but I think the whole European

26:02

team again get on really well.

26:05

There's no real kind of favourites

26:08

who you're going to be paired with like

26:11

the American team. I just had a gut feeling

26:13

that they were going to be paired together but

26:16

you look at that, you look at Rory

26:18

and Fleetwood and I mean that

26:20

is some pairing there. I mean if they get going

26:23

they're two players where, I'm saying

26:26

Forsen was about being steady but that group

26:29

there could be a few birdies, a few

26:31

eagles in that group and

26:34

I think you'll see some really aggressive golf for

26:36

Forsen's golf there. I think they're going to take

26:38

on pretty much everything with

26:40

the drivable par fours. I think if

26:43

they get it on fairways you're going to see some cracky shots

26:46

into the par fives and I just think that

26:48

is going to be an absolute heavy weight fight that is.

26:51

I mean it's exciting Baeith. Before

26:53

we wrap up we've got a quick question from Tim

26:55

Bryant who says, hi Baeith, I have

26:57

a question that I'm sure many other people have. How

27:00

are the teams paired on each day? What I

27:02

mean is, do the pairings from each side have any

27:04

knowledge of the order in which they'll go out for each

27:06

session so they can match teams against teams

27:09

or is it pot luck due to the order that each

27:11

side's picked? I think that's a really good question

27:13

because I wondered something similar. Will they have known

27:15

that Scheffler and Burns are going to go up against Ramanhan

27:18

or do they send their pairings out in

27:20

the order and then it just whoever the

27:22

other team has sent out? Yeah, so

27:25

they won't know who they're going to be playing against.

27:28

So it's going to come out and for the captains,

27:30

for Zach Johnson and Luke Donald, it's

27:34

not so much a guessing game but there is

27:36

a bit of tactics and

27:38

mind games behind this. Mostly

27:40

when it comes into the singles so all

27:42

the players are going to know who they're going to be playing and when they're

27:45

going to be playing pretty much this first session

27:48

and then when they draw it they've got no idea

27:50

who they're going to be playing against until it's announced.

27:53

Then as they're playing, Luke Donald

27:56

and Zach Johnson are going to have to get their teams

27:58

in for the afternoon as well. and it will

28:00

go through the same process. So they won't necessarily

28:03

know who you're going to play with until

28:06

the morning foursome's nearly finished. And

28:10

that is going to happen. And I think it can

28:12

have a lot of the mind games

28:15

really come into it, into the singles, because

28:17

now you have 12 games. Everyone's got to play

28:19

in the 12 games. And you've seen in

28:21

the past where if

28:23

you need to, if you're behind three or four

28:26

points,

28:27

someone might stack it really heavy at the

28:29

top and you might see European

28:31

side turn up with Rob, Rory,

28:34

Fleetwood, Hovland, Aberg

28:36

at the top. Yeah. To try

28:38

and get some points and try and change momentum.

28:41

And Zach Johnston might know that. So he'll be like, what's Luke

28:43

Donald going to do? Exactly. And

28:45

yeah, that's really interesting. So there's no knowledge

28:47

of the matchups. That's really, really interesting. Yeah. Good question

28:49

from Tim. I also had no idea about that. Yeah,

28:51

it's a very good question and it does play

28:54

a part. Like I'm looking at that, that

28:56

first pairing of John Rahm and

28:59

in my head, I'm thinking Luke

29:01

Donald sending him out there to get

29:04

the crowd going, get the buzz, you know, the

29:06

first game. Let's get all the crowd on

29:08

site. Let's get it going. Because everyone loves loves

29:10

that and they love John Rahm. And I

29:12

think you can see that. And then he's also

29:15

gone. They love Rory.

29:17

So, you know what, let's stick him at the back, maybe

29:19

to bring it in. So now you've

29:21

got these two guys at front and back and you're going to be

29:23

hearing cheers from the front, cheers

29:26

from the back. Yeah. And everyone's

29:28

going to be sort of enjoying it in between as well.

29:30

So there's definitely there's definitely a lot of thought

29:32

that goes into where these guys

29:35

are playing. Brilliant. Well,

29:38

obviously, last week, Team Europe

29:40

retained the Solheim Cup in Spain. Some

29:43

massive moments in that. Obviously, there was a big fight

29:45

back because they were four nil down against the

29:47

US. There was a hole in one there like you predicted

29:50

for this. But Emily Pederson got a hole in one,

29:52

which is absolutely epic. I think it was the only one, only

29:54

the second one that's ever been done in the Solheim Cup.

29:57

And obviously on the last day, massive

29:59

sort of. some huge games and

30:01

Seganda cinched it on, I think it

30:03

was the 17th hole, beaten Nelly Corder to

30:06

tie. So it was obviously 14 all. So

30:08

now big pressure on Team Europe this

30:10

weekend to bring the Ryder Cup back. What's

30:12

your predictions then? Can they do it as well? Yeah, 100%.

30:16

I think they've really got to get off to a good start

30:18

in this and

30:21

get ahead early. Because again, I

30:23

think Fatigue is going to play a big part in this. The

30:26

course is quite hilly. It's hot

30:28

out there. It's going to be tiring.

30:31

And I think if you're

30:33

ahead Saturday going into the Saturday

30:36

afternoon pairings, it

30:38

might have to force someone's hand to

30:41

play a few players they might necessarily want

30:43

and have to play five games. And

30:46

you want to be that team where you're

30:48

not searching for that and thinking and sort of

30:50

questioning yourself, can

30:53

we put them out again? Can you play

30:56

five rounds here? Can you play it and force

30:58

that? So it's going to be really interesting. I

31:00

mean the celebrations when Europe won the Solheim

31:02

Cup were amazing. And I was just thinking, oh, it'd be so

31:05

good to be there. So if we're there and

31:07

Europe do it in the next couple of days, that's

31:09

going to be good, isn't it?

31:12

Final score prediction. Go on, put your neck on the line. 15-13

31:15

Europe. Oh,

31:17

it's good. Okay. Okay. 15-13

31:19

Europe. You heard it here. Let's

31:22

get on with it. I can't wait. Yes, mate. As

31:24

I said, I'm so excited for all of this

31:26

to kick off tomorrow morning. Remember, everyone,

31:30

you can go back and check out our Ryder Cup

31:32

guide with Jon and our team previews with

31:34

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31:36

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31:39

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