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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the first t Andy Everett, Here we go. It's golf
time on this Saturday morning in the midst of football
season and soon to be basketball season. We're still talking
golf as we have for the last twenty nine years
at this time of the day, and lots to get
to on the program over the next hour. I'm Andy Everett.
Joe Caruso. Joe Caruso Golf Academy out at San Pedro
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Driving Range in Part three is with us and I
trust that every time I go by there, there's about
ten thousand cars, it seems like in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So you guys are doing something. Well, it's so busy
over there, like last nine was crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And there's a little nip, a little chill in the
air this morning. It's kind of like the fall thing
that you get that other people get in September. We
don't get it till October. But we're getting some cooler tempts.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It feels a lot better in the morning, that's for sure.
With all the heat that we had last this summer,
this feels pretty good. All right.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Let's get to the nitty gritty of all of this,
and of course the topic of golf has been and
will be for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The Ryder Cup, and.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm sure you have some thoughts on that, just your
overall opinions on us losing again to Europe.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We need to pick guys that want to play, I
mean that truly know how to play match play, and
obviously I firmly believe that Keton Bradley should have played.
He had a great year. He's one of those fiery
type guys. He's not afraid to make the pot. We
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had a lot of guys out there that were afraid
to make the pot, you know, and there were World
rankings mean anything to me anymore much, and that's.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Because Roman needs to be in the world golf ranking.
He's a top ten player in the world or not
not top five.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, you got rom your hat and hat on that side,
and then we only get take one in Bryson. You
know the other one and I know it. This is
not a pick that people would like. But if you're
nine two and one as Patrick Creed, who wants to
win on the tap play, and you look at his
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match play record NCAA Championships match play, he's tough, he's
he's playing great right now. You know, it's just, you know,
we just don't have to. I don't know, it's just
hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
In your days of playing, did you ever play alternate shot?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes? How frustrating is it? I don't know if as
much frustrating as nerve wracking, because a lot of times
you're in an area that you wouldn't be in and
because the way you try to play the game. And
that's what we see in Scotti. He like he's the
first day, the first round. You know his his partner
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hits it left, all right, and he's in the way
over there in the rough and hitting it from one
hundred yards while the other guys are chipping. So I
imagine the trying to find the right partner that kind
of plays the way you did, Like I thought English
should have played with him.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Here's yeah, Well the English Marakawa fors him. According to
the analytics, is the worst combination that you get to
put out there. But I think I may, I may
make too big of a deal about this, But I
see this all the time with amateur golf, and I
harp on the golf ball a lot because I see
amateur I see amateur golfers switching golf balls every hole
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and then can't figure out why they can't stop it
near the hole because you don't know what you because
the golf ball is going to react differently. And if
you look at Rory and Shane Lowry played together in
four ball, they could play their own ball. Rory plays
the Tailor made and Shane plays the strix On, but
in alternate shot it was him and Fleetwood because they
play the same golf ball. And I think that's the
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most the one thing that's in play on every whole,
no matter what club you use, it's golf ball, and
we're changing it on alternate shot. And I know it's
a very subtle difference, but for those guys, two yards.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Matters, well, the chipping matters. Every one of those golf
balls feels different. If you haven't tried at try it
one time. They all feel different, they all react different
to the green. The Titleist ball reacts different than the
Callawai Callaway reacts different than that TP five X, and
the Strixon's way different than all the other ones. So
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it's like, I, you're right, Andy, that's a big, big deal,
And maybe that's the way things were picked in this thing.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well, I saw, you know, I saw guys that were
I think like more Kaway Shoffley for example, our friends.
But they play a different golf ball and I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Remember who what.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I think Shaffley was paired with somebody and they're switching
golf ball so that the guy that drives plays the
other guy's golf ball. Well, okay, so the guy that
drives the golf ball because you wanted the guy to
hit the second shot. So I drive your golf ball
and I somehow get it in play. But then you
think that then you hit a bad shot. Now I'm
chipping with a golf ball I've never chipped with, and
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to me, that's the that's the number one thing right there.
If you're going to practice your chipping, you practice your
chipping with the golf ball you play.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
With all the time. It totally reacts different off the
face totally reacts.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
To where you land.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It's green. There's a big difference, I think, you know,
and I could be wrong Andy on this, but the
what I was, what I've been reading is the lack
of preparation of our players in comparison to the Europeans.
We didn't play as MANI practice rounds they did ten
to twelve, eighteen hole.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
There were three European tournaments right after the fed X Cup,
and most of those guys played in all of them.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah. I just think that, Uh, I mean, we got
it going there obviously the last round, but uh, you know,
we our guys are good, obviously, they're PGA Tour.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
To me, it's the forsomes thing that where we lose
the tournament.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Because the ball. Yeah, I mean correct, because.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
In twenty three we were one and seven in foursomes
and this year we were two and six. I do
you know we won? Yeah, yeah, I thought we were
owing eight. So I mean that's the way it feels like.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I think that we need to stop, you know, and
if you really want to win, pick the players that
need to be picked, right, And there's no reason why
keingon Bradley shouldn't have played. I really don't. I mean
I think we would have with him playing with all
the spirit that he has. What's he going to do
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called time out? Marka wa? Sit?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You know who's sitting on the bench over here? You
come on it, right? I mean, there's nothing a captain's
going to do during a round of golf. Okay, So it's.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Like, I know, there's a lot of things that lead
up to the tournament that take away from your preparation,
but the players all have to do the same thing
the captain does.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
He got it. How many assistants as many if you want,
you had. He's been doing this all his life. It
seems like why is an?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Why is an a singer involved? He's the last one
that knows how to do this and put the pod
system together.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
All their old guys are out there, Olathopos out there,
and if Sergio was allowed, he'd be out there. And
they had all these European guys out there that have
captain teams, Thomas Bjorn, those guys, and none of our
successful captains in the past are within one hundred miles
of there.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, well, I don't see anything different coming in two years? Uh,
do you want Tiger to captain the team with that matter? No,
it won't matter. My concern about Tiger.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Is that with the TGL, his whatever commitment he had
as to the PGA Tour and their battle with Live
and the litigation that's going on with that, his other enterprises,
his golf course designs, possibly playing on the Champions Tour
eight times a year, playing the four majors. When's he
got time for this? And is he going to actually
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put time into this?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I don't think so. And what's the difference between him
being the captain? I mean, you hear Brandalls say organizational skills,
what you see in meetings and so on? Are you
kidding me? All right? These are professional They don't need
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a raw, raw speech to go out and win. These
guys want to win, period. That's the reason why they're there.
There's only two hundred and forty guys that play for
a living, all right, So it's like they're the best
of the best. They don't need some raw, raw speech
to run out there and play golf. The people you
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got to good guys so know how to win match play.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
The last time that the Americans won on the Road
was at the Belfry in nineteen ninety three, so we're
over since then and likely over the next two years
from now at Dear manor the irony of all this
and what was brought up, I think by Brandle and
it's not we have to, it's we get to, but
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we get to or we have to play the President's
Club up in the years, and so it's another fault
that the players that one off don't get off. And
there's a responsibility that becomes with being one of the
top twenty players in the world. You're going to be
put on international Cup teams. The people want to see
you play, the sponsors that put these events together want
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to watch you. And so, okay, the FedEx Cup is over.
I'd like to take three weeks off and then go
on vacation and maybe play a couple of false tournaments
and some silly season events and then then we're done.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And I got it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Every year I got to go play in some other
place and play in a team event that I really
don't want to be in.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
YEP. I think it'd be interesting to see how much
longer the President's Cup lasts, all.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Right, because because the team international and President's Cup doesn't
really doesn't really work. The guy from Australia doesn't really
care about the guy from Canada, and the.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Guy from Canada care less about the whole region of Asia.
Of Asia.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah right, Matsuyama and and Corey Connors have zero in.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Common, don't even speak the language. Yeah, I mean, so
it's like the I don't the President's Cup.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well and yeah, well, and I here's the thing. I
think Team America needs something to galvanize them because since
nineteen seventy nine, when Great Britain and Ireland allowed the
rest of Europe to join their team, the most important
figure I think in the history of the Ryder Cup
with Seve Baalisteros and Seve walked in that room and said,
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what are you guys doing. We're gonna play this tournament.
We're gonna get our rins kicked again because they always
beat us. He's like, uh, We're not playing that game anymore.
There's a new sheriff in town. I'm going to lead
this team and that and he passed the torch to
ose Maria, and he passed the torch to Sergio and
to ram and that Spanish contingent of golfers. Every time
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they get ready for a tournament, they point up to
this guy and say, let's do this for Seve. And
the story that one of them told the other day
was in twenty I think it was Rory. He said,
I didn't think the Ryder Cup was that big a deal.
And in twenty ten, we're playing I think they played
at the K Club, maybe in twenty ten, and he said,
we're all in a team meeting and we get this
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video call from Seve and he's laying in a hospice
care he's near death. He's got tubes coming out of
every one of his arms, he can barely speak, and
everybody in the room but me was crying, and I
was like, Okay, this matters. And since then he's taken
it more seriously and the European golfers do that. And
there is no savvy on the American team.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm gonna say it again, there is one, but nobody
likes him. And I'm looking at the board right now
in the DP Tour and he's one stroke off the leaded.
You know, you don't call him pack, you know, American America.
He loves it. He's like he he loves every minute
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of it, loves everything about the Ryder Cup and obviously
he plays for lives, so that's basically out unless major, right, Yeah,
and we keep sticking these other guys in there, and
and it's just not I don't know, but I don't
see I don't see us winning overseas. Maybe even four
years when they come by.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Brandall had a great light. He said, how in the
world can Fred Couples never be the President's Cup captain.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Because he never won the PGA. Yes, and that's the
you know, it's the PGA of America, it's the PGA
Tour and.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The PG of America PG Tour have kind of had
that little there. They like each other, but they want
to keep their distance. Well, those people don't know that's separation.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
When Nicholas and Palmer pulled right away from the PGA
of America, that made the PGA Tour. But the I
think that you may be your next captain captain is
Justin Leonard. That could be a good one. But I
kind of get the saame old guys.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, you got to you gotta do something, You got
to figure out something.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You have the number one player in the world who
doesn't know how to play match play, it seems like
and it looked like Roy gave him the match right
and it's singles and it's like he got demolished. What
are you in close? All right?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
We got a bunch of tips to get with Joe
to help you out with your golf game. Speaking of
Patrick Reid, live is hemorrhaging. We'll tell you how much?
And could this be the end of liv We've got
the corn Ferry Tour Championship going on where Johnny Keeper
is trying to finish off a great year, and we've
got the Skins game coming back. All that to talk
about in the next forty five minutes. It's the Golf
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