Welcome in. This is 300 yards to unknown. I'm Rick Gaiman. That right there, Skyler

Hoke, who is going to help us continue our ongoing Rider Cup series.

Kyle Porter in a previous episode picked the United States team and Sky.

I couldn't think of anyone better to bring on to just hand over the keys to the European

squad to you, my friend.

Welcome.

Well, I appreciate it, Rick.

It's an honor to be on, you know, your podcast

here. Kyle left some, some balls out there to play with. I'm excited. No Brooks, no Bryson. Okay.

I'm ready for that line to start shifting my way. No underdog. We'll see. But no, I'm excited.

The Rider Cup years are always the best. So I'm glad they can get to it. Yeah, only a couple of weeks away at this point. It's going to get here before we know it.

It's whistling straits. It's on American soil. But the European squad, they have just, whatever the formula is, and I don't know what it is, they have seemed to figure it out because they just seem to win more of these than they should.

Absolutely.

I mean, if you look at exactly what played out, I mean, the last time we saw the Rider Cup,

that since I've been into the golf space into the golf world,

you know, we saw the big bad Americans seemingly

could not be beat, you know, for the months leading in. And then by the time the, you know,

day two rolled around, it was like there wasn't a chance. It was, um, unbelievable what they

displayed. I mean, the course, I think that's ultimately going to be a big factor this year. I mean,

playing in France like they did the LaGolf National. You know, that was set up as perfectly as it could be to take away the

American's biggest weapons. Whistling Straits, I'd imagine, is not going to be that same style.

So I think there does have to be a little bit. Maybe that is the dynamic is the European team does a little bit better from a course fit perspective.

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