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00:00It would be much more compelling for the President's Cup if the international team won one of these things, you know, they've already won once they've tied once but every other iteration of this competition, the Americans have won. So it would inject a little bit of juice back into it if the international team were to pull off a home win here Royal Montreal. So my question for you is just to kind of stitch together for me, what needs to happen for the international team to be able to win this competition?
00:30To win this thing.
00:31Okay.
00:32Are you Judge Holmes here?
00:35Yeah, I'm Judge Smales.
00:37I could be Judge Smales, I could be Judge Holmes, I could be Judge Hume, I could be any of the above. I could be Judge Judy, you name it.
00:46Well, Your Honor, this is going to be a tough sell, but bear with me.
00:52You got your little lawyer pen, I'll get my gavel out.
00:55Because I do have a couple of things I'd like to get to here in this bit.
01:01First off, this President's Cup is not in the United States, and I think the jury, the judge need to remember that this is not in the United States.
01:13Hard to win on foreign soil.
01:15And one thing I'd like to bring up is let's look at the points that have been accumulated on foreign soil.
01:23Let's add them up.
01:24Let's see how dominant the U.S. has really been.
01:27Okay.
01:28What do you think that point difference is?
01:31I think it's a lot less on the road than it is at home.
01:37On foreign soil, 98.5 points has been accumulated for the U.S. side and 95.5 from the international side.
01:45So we're talking razor, razor thin lines here.
01:50If we go back to just Royal Melbourne, how close they were.
01:53They came off, it's the best start the internationals have got off to.
01:57They've been down in that first session eight times.
02:01The only time was at Melbourne in which they got off to a 4-1 start.
02:06Quail Hollow, that team was from an official world golf ranking perspective, the worst international team that they've assembled.
02:16A lot of that had to do with live golf.
02:18They were guys that were way down the list, ended up making that team.
02:22This year, that team was 32 points on average behind the United States.
02:28This year, it's closer to 20, which is actually right around that 2019 number when we're talking about comparing the official world golf rankings between the two sides.
02:39Now, there are some overwhelming numbers when it comes to just the rankings of these two sides.
02:45But the one other thing I want to mention just from outside the international side is that the rookies on foreign soil, the United States rookies, I should say, are 45, 64, and 19.
03:00So these guys, they have four rookies on this team, only two for the international team.
03:05So there's a way in which now we're talking about international soil in which the US is already – they're not dominating on foreign soil.
03:14They are winning. They're not dominating.
03:17And now you have four rookies that are new to the President's Cup.
03:21So that's kind of just some numbers I wanted to throw at you.
03:25But how is the international team going to do this?
03:29Well, we're going to need a lot.
03:31We're going to need a lot from our stars.
03:33Let's go to what we saw at the Ryder Cup.
03:35Like why was – why did it seem like the European side was so dominant?
03:40John Rahm, Viktor Hovland, Rory McIlroy, their stars showed up.
03:44They're going to need their stars to show up to give them points.
03:47And to me, their stars need to be Hideki Matsuyama, Corey Connors, and then some combination of either Jason Day or Adam Scott.
03:58Like you have to have – of those four guys, you really need them all to have solid President's Cups.
04:05But then you're going to have to find something from cast of characters of who's going to be the guy to take that leap into potential President's Cup leader – leading point getters.
04:18And there's the next group of guys that I think that if they have really nice weeks that they can build off of maybe like a Tom Kim from the Quail Hollow, how well he played.
04:29He would be a guy.
04:31I think you have to have one guy between Mackenzie Hughes and Taylor Pendereth to have good weeks.
04:37You can't have Corey Connors and Taylor Pendereth go 0-4 like they did at the President's Cup.
04:45I think if those two guys or just the Canadians in general have good President's Cups, we're talking about now a Korean side who I feel as strong of any of the groups of where these guys are from with Siwoo Kim being a ball striker that he is, Tom Kim we've already mentioned, and then Sungjae him.
05:06Sungjae is a guy that absolutely is a killer and then Ben Ahn as well who's been a bit of a silent assassin this year.
05:14So the way I frame it, Your Honor, is that the United States, although they look strong on paper, their world ranking looks strong, I still feel like there's rookies on this team.
05:28There's plenty of star power in the international side.
05:31They do need it to show up.
05:33They need their stars to play well.
05:35They're going to need some guys to – the combination of making these picks like Mike Weir made with Mackenzie Hughes for his putting.
05:44He's got to putt good.
05:46Minwoo Lee with the driver.
05:48He's got to drive it good.
05:49We can't have these guys' superpowers not show up.
05:53But if they do show up, I think there's an opportunity for this international team to win, and I rest my case.