Is Team Europe Even Team Europe Anymore?
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 489 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's Ryder Cup week! In previous years, the Ryder Cup represented not just a clash of continents, but a clash of Tours: the PGA Tour and (what is now) the DP World Tour. But this year, almost no one on Team Europe plays regularly in Europe. Does this matter? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg address this question. Is it just nostalgia to want a strong European Tour? Would Greg have left Australia if he could have played there for the same purses? Is the rivalry weaker with a Tour element?
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| 0:00.0 | Question. Is team Europe really team Europe? As most of the players don't actually really play in |
| 0:08.9 | Europe. Now, that is not my opinion. That is an opinion I've seen flying around. Lou and |
| 0:15.5 | Greg on the Hacking Out Golf Podcast with myself, Mark Crossfield. We're going to just discuss that idea. |
| 0:21.9 | I do understand why some people might ask that question, |
| 0:25.7 | as in a huge percentage of the players on Team Europe, |
| 0:29.4 | are pretty committed to the PGA tour. |
| 0:33.2 | Now, do we have to just accept that? |
| 0:35.1 | And that's the lie of the land and so on. |
| 0:37.4 | Or is there actually a discussion that it could be more of a tour base? Now do we have to just accept that? And that's the lie of the land and so on. |
| 0:44.7 | Or is there actually a discussion that it could be more of a tour-based tournament, which is kind of what it was originally set up for where now, because it's a different world that |
| 0:50.6 | we live in and it's much more of a you know people are crossing oceans easier and |
| 0:56.9 | cheaper and or in private jets not cheaper um so you can play on both tools and those kind of ideas |
| 1:04.0 | it definitely does make you wonder for the dp world tour again for me, like it's future when not many of the players |
| 1:16.4 | playing are really committed to playing on the DP World Tour. |
| 1:19.4 | Who wants to kick this one off? |
| 1:20.8 | Greg, do you have a feeling about this? |
| 1:22.0 | You're the neutral. |
| 1:22.8 | You're not from either continent. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, look, it's a product of the growth of the PGA tour in the last sort of 20 years |
| 1:31.6 | that, you know, there was a time when there was quite a bit of parity, meaning if you played |
| 1:37.1 | on the European tour in the sort of mid-90s, going over to America to play their full-time |
| 1:42.5 | from a financial standpoint, really it was |
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