00:00You have to respect the tradition, but at some point, if this thing gets out of hand and the United States wins the next five,
00:08what point do you look at the current Walker Cup and think, okay, how do we make this a more competitive deal?
00:17Almost to where it's similar to the President's Cup, where you feel like they keep it somewhat interested in close, but never feel like they're going to win.
00:25Yeah, I mean, I think, okay, first preference would be the USGA and the PGA of America and the RNA all get together in a boardroom and say,
00:36hey, like, we're going to work together on this thing to make it, you know, we're going to call it the Walker Cup and we're going to retain all the tradition.
00:44Well, it's different organizations, right?
00:46It's different organizations.
00:47That's what I'm saying.
00:47The USGA and the PGA of America were able to get together and say, hey, we're going to make the Walker Cup basically the Junior Ryder Cup with Walker Cup branding.
00:58I think that's the best case scenario for the competition.
01:00Well, they already do it, you know?
01:01It's like they already have the Junior Ryder Cup.
01:03That's the problem.
01:04They do, and so they're not going to give up some commercial entity, but I just feel like that it's a product with a rota that people are so, so intriguing on a yearly or bi-yearly basis, I guess.
01:17That if you added a competitive level there and players that we all, you know, can see on the Wagger and some of whom have won amateur events, they're playing in majors, we have familiarity with them.
01:30If you added that in, I think the TV ratings would only go up.
01:33And there's already been a sort of steady incline.
01:35And so that would be my argument there.
01:39But I also say that I understand why it's split.
01:41So then it's like, let's just keep the competition as is.
01:44I'd look at that like Saturday afternoon session and say either do a four ball session or just do three foursome sessions, you know, like just do, do, you know, three sets of three sessions of four foursomes matches and then 10 singles matches.
02:02I'd almost be in more for that.
02:04Your first option that you presented instead of another set of foursomes go four ball in the afternoon on Friday to where, you know.
02:11I still love everybody playing singles in the afternoon on Sunday, which is, of course, similar to the Ryder Cup.
02:17But if you if you throw in just another curveball of team play versus you want to get everybody out there playing because it's only two days and you don't want to have anybody sitting both sessions on on any on any given day.
02:32So maybe it's that's that's that's the reasoning why with the singles.
