00:00You know, you look at the board right now, Keith, and you know the mainstays there.
00:05Scottie's obviously already there.
00:07Xander's going to be there.
00:08J.J. Spahn's going to be there.
00:10I don't know if people are happy about that or not.
00:12Russell Henley.
00:13Keegan's basically said that Bryce, you know, J.J. Spahn, it's, you know,
00:17it was a great win for him, but it's a little bit like Harmon a couple years ago, right, Keith?
00:21Like, he wins a major close to the Ryder Cup, and it, you know,
00:24it kind of pushes him on a team that maybe he wouldn't have been on
00:28if he didn't get that win at a major, but that's neither here nor there.
00:31Harris English is sixth, then J.T. Morikawa, Ben Griffin, Keegan is tenth himself, and Mav.
00:36You got guys like Patrick Cantlay who are 14th on the points list right now.
00:41You have guys like, where's Jordan right now, too?
00:44Is Jordan even on the list right now?
00:47I can't even find him.
00:48He's in the 20th.
00:49Are these guys going to be on the team over the,
00:52all these other younger guys that have kind of played better this year,
00:56the Mavericks or the Goddard-Ups or any of these other guys?
01:00Well, you know what, Mike?
01:01A lot of these folks on Twitter, they love,
01:03they love to throw out these hyperbolic questions about the Ryder Cup team
01:06and the points and everything.
01:07I don't know what list you're looking at,
01:09but the list that I'm looking at, the real world list,
01:12has after the top point getters, it has Patrick Cantlay, number one,
01:16and Colin Morikawa, number two.
01:18Now, people are going to say, like, oh, they don't deserve it.
01:20They're missing cuts and everything.
01:21Get over yourself.
01:23These people are going to be on the team.
01:24They're going to be there, okay?
01:26Colin Morikawa, one of the best ball strikers in the world.
01:29You can say what you want about his record and the caddy roulette
01:32and all this other stuff, right?
01:33He is going to be there, and, of course, Patrick Cantlay is going to be there.
01:36Patrick Cantlay is going to be the first captain's pick that day,
01:39not because of alphabetical order, but because he's Patrick Cantlay
01:42and he's earned the right to be there.
01:44So everyone needs to calm their jets.
01:45Now, Jordan, I'm not so sure on.
01:48You've got guys that are down there with him in the 20s
01:51that if they continue to play well, and that's one of the big subplots
01:54for this week.
01:55You look at a guy like Chris Goddara, who's 22nd in Ryder Cup points,
01:58and he's 23rd in the FedEx Cup points.
02:02I mean, he's got all the reason in the world to be out there at the 3M
02:05and to play hard.
02:06And I love that about the middle tier right now.
02:08With two weeks left to go and this FedEx Cup list,
02:11the cutoff for 50, the cutoff for 70, the cutoff for 100,
02:14all of these things are in play, and a ton of guys that need points
02:17are out there in Blaine, Minnesota.
02:20I really think the only guy that hasn't been there before
02:25that I think is going to make it, and it's not just because where he is
02:29right now, but I think he'll play well in the playoffs, is Ben Griffin.
02:32Like, he feels like the only guy to me that I feel like he's going to be there.
02:37Like, I feel he's the one outsider of this group that's going to find his way in.
02:42Although, J.J. Spawn's going to be there, too,
02:44but that's because he's automatically going to be there.
02:47Well, Russell Henley is going to find his way in.
02:49It'll be his first Ryder Cup, but I wouldn't be too sold on Ben Griffin yet.
02:54I get that he has the two wins and everything,
02:56but you start to see what happens through the course.
02:59Okay, so let's just lay the landscape for everybody.
03:02I just talked about the FedEx Cup points for a second.
03:04I know we'll get more into that with the 3M,
03:06but when it comes to the Ryder Cup, the Sunday of the BMW Championship,
03:09which is four tournaments away,
03:11is when the top six on the points list is solidified.
03:14You have one more week with the Tour Championship
03:16to get into those six captain's choices, and then that's it.
03:19So you've got five tournaments left.
03:21You better hope you're in all of them.
03:23We know Ben Griffin will be,
03:24but you better hope you're in all of them
03:25if you plan on being one of those captain's choices
03:27because it's going to get extremely competitive.
03:29You better hope you're in all of them.
03:40You're welcome.
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