Early 2025 Ryder Cup Talk
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Even as we're right in the middle of major season, the Ryder Cup looms. Not only will it be the biggest event of the fall, but performance now still has a massive effect on who qualifies to play for Teams Europe and USA. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg discuss the intriguing prospect of Keegan as a playing captain, the role of chemistry in team golf, and the lack of inspiration in American sports chants.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's have a little talk of the Ryder Cup that's coming this year. |
| 0:04.2 | It's going to be exciting. |
| 0:05.6 | USA, USA. |
| 0:09.0 | The teams are, as always, it's early to know where the teams will settle. |
| 0:15.0 | Obviously, both teams have more picks nowadays than they used to. |
| 0:19.1 | That's quite a dated comment, because I think it's been this way for a bit now, |
| 0:21.9 | but as in, I remember when it was two picks and now, what is it, four or six picks even now? |
| 0:27.1 | Is it six picks? And just a slight interesting question that's bubbling up and might not come to |
| 0:33.2 | anything is playing captains. And with that, I'm going to talk about Keegan Bradley. Team |
| 0:39.1 | Shrexham player, yes, please. He at the moment, he has just moved up five spots and he is |
| 0:43.7 | 17th in the standing. So give it some context. The players at the moment, Schaeffler, Zander, |
| 0:51.2 | Bryson, Justin Thomas, Colin Marikauer and Russell Henley are the top six at the moment. |
| 0:57.0 | And obviously that could jostle. |
| 0:58.7 | You got Harris English at seventh. |
| 1:01.6 | You know, you've got big names all coming down. |
| 1:05.0 | But down at 17th, going at 5. |
| 1:06.7 | Keegan Bradley, let's pretend. |
| 1:10.2 | For one, for my first question, is if he was to qualify, |
| 1:14.8 | which I don't even know what the realms of that possibility are, |
| 1:18.1 | I guess if he wins the major coming soon or one of the next two majors, |
| 1:22.4 | he would automatically qualify, I guess, in the point system. |
| 1:26.2 | And he is perfectly capable of winning a major. If he was to qualify, I guess, in the point system. And he is perfectly capable of winning a major. |
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