Hello and welcome to the Fried Egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and this episode is brought to you by Zero Restriction.

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month of Team Matchplay in golf. We've got American women versus European women at the Soulheim Cup

starting on Saturday, September 4th. If you're listening to this episode on the day, it comes out

that's tomorrow. And then a couple of weeks from now starting on September 24th, we've got the

Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. Usually we don't get these events in the same year, but obviously

COVID bumped the 2020 Ryder Cup to this month. So the format of the Ryder Cup in the Soulheim Cup,

Team Matchplay, where you have two days of pairs, matches, four sums, and four ball followed by

a final day of singles matches. It's just undefeated. It's the best format in golf. So exciting,

so dramatic, very often observed. It's the pinnacle of golf entertainment, I think. But I also

think we don't understand it very well. And by we, I mean mostly fans and media. I think when we

talk about the strategy of Team Matchplay, we tend to rely on assumptions, whether it's the assumption

that a team needs to get along personally in order to do well or the assumption that a player's

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