Ryder Cup, Fleetwood, and Sponsor's Exemptions
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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As the end of the PGA Tour season draws near, there have been no shortage of interesting issues to discuss. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about the upcoming Ryder Cup rosters, Tommy Fleetwood's failure to close out the BMW (and whether it tells us something about his ability to handle pressure), and the fact that Rickie qualified for the Top 50 largely on the strength of sponsor's invitations into high-point signature events.
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| 0:00.0 | Hack it out. Golf podcast time myself. Luce Dagan and Greg Chalmers also in the house, |
| 0:04.9 | live from Calgary, I think he is, aren't you, Greg? Yes, sitting in Calgary right now, we've got an event this week, the Rogers Classic, so only event in Canada. So lovely place, looking forward to it. Cool. We're going to talk about a few subjects there. I want to talk to start. Let's go with the Rider Cup. It is starting to shape up. |
| 0:22.0 | Like there are actually starting to get, where are, is everyone with the picks? I'm going to start |
| 0:26.9 | with Europe because I know we've got six now confirmed. I don't say we. I don't say we. |
| 0:33.0 | We are we on this podcast when it comes to their team. So if we go with our six that are guaranteed, as I understand it, |
| 0:41.1 | Roy McElroy, Justin Rhodes, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert McIntyre, |
| 0:45.5 | Tyrell Hatton, SEP Stracker, those six are dialed. |
| 0:49.4 | I don't think they can be removed. |
| 0:50.9 | Well, no, like only the top three are currently qualified. |
| 0:53.9 | The other three are not locked in, I believe. |
| 0:58.6 | Are you sure? |
| 0:59.3 | Because I saw a post this morning saying they literally are. |
| 1:02.4 | They can't move. |
| 1:04.3 | On the official writer cup page, there's only the top three players have a cue next to their name and that, |
| 1:13.5 | and that is designated as mathematically qualified. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.1 | Maybe it's not updated. |
| 1:19.0 | And the other ones do not have the mathematically qualified. |
| 1:21.5 | In worlds that I come from, that means they're not yet officially qualified. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah. All that this website hasn't not yet officially qualified. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah, at all that this website hasn't updated yet, possibly. |
| 1:35.5 | You're reading some blog post from some dude in his mom's basement. |
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