Is Team Europe Even Team Europe Anymore?

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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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? To get the best discount off your NordVPN plan - go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nordvpn.com/hackitout⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Our link will also give you 4 extra months on the 2-year plan. There's no risk with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	slash UK slash AI for people. Question. Is Team Europe really Team Europe, as most of the players don't
0:36.6	actually really play in Europe.
0:40.5	Now, that is not my opinion.
0:42.2	That is an opinion I've seen flying around.
0:45.3	Lou and Greg on the Hacking Out Golf Podcast with myself, Mark Crossfield.
0:48.8	We're going to just discuss that idea.
0:52.0	I do understand why some people might ask that question, as in a huge
0:56.9	percentage of the players on Team Europe are pretty committed to the PGA tour. Now, do we have to
1:04.3	just accept that? And that's the lie of the land and so on. Or is there actually a discussion that
1:09.6	it could be more of a tour-based tournament,
1:14.5	which is kind of what it was originally set up for, where now, because it's a different world
1:20.5	that we live in, and it's much more of a, you know, people are crossing oceans easier and cheaper and all-wing private jets, not cheaper.
1:30.6	So you can play on both tools and those kind of ideas.
1:34.1	It definitely does make you wonder for the DP World Tour again for me, like it's future
1:44.0	when not many of the players playing are really committed
1:47.8	to playing on the DP World Tour.
1:49.6	Who wants to kick this one off?
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