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When I talk to most of the surviving players on both teams, it's just like today. Great

honor to play on the team. They were excited about playing the Ryder Cup. Even America

who expected to win to make the team was this huge honor. Ken still said, this is two years ago. It's a quote that's in the book, and I might not have it exactly right, but he said, in fact, I might be buried in the blue Ryder Cup jacket. No, they along, and they said I would play with anyone on the team.

Frank Beard told me that it wasn't at all like today,

where there's just all this buildup,

and you know the captain a year ahead of time, and it's talk, talk, talk,

and they're trying to figure out what players to put together,

and there's these sessions of psychological stuff and pep talks.

None of that in 69, just kind of old school.

Here we go. Here's my lineup.

I asked Frank Beard, I said, what was Sneed like as a captain?

He said, well, it wasn't like today.

He said, we might have had one meeting meeting and it might have lasted five minutes.

The 1969 Rider Cup finish that shocked the world with author Neil Saga Bell.

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Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, Neil.

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