Smylie Talks How to Balance Vibes and Pairings at the Ryder Cup

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00:00talking about JT you know thinking about the composition of like the relationship of those

00:05partnerships and you know how much of a psychotic competitor both he and Jordan have been and I'm

00:11looking at this roster and everyone on this roster is competitive I'm not saying that but

00:14the three guys on this roster that we know to be psychotic competitors are JT Scotty Scheffler and

00:20Sam Burns and so if Scotty ends up paired with Russell Henley in a couple sessions would a JT

00:26Sam Burns pairing be something that could work well together yeah it totally could and I think

00:31that's the one thing that surprised me a little bit when they decided to go foursomes in the morning

00:35and four ball in the afternoon is that I just I don't feel comfortable enough with their foursomes

00:41pairings yet and so I was thinking that man it's easy to find your four your four ball pairings it's

00:49simple to me to come up with your best four ball pairings because you're not so concerned about

00:54the players who wouldn't get comfortable with that format quickly in a very high tense environment

00:59it just goes by real quick you could be four down through six before you even blink you know because

01:05you're only playing on two balls and this and my other thought on this is if you were going four

01:10balls in the morning and you didn't I feel like you still have to send Bryson out and foursomes in the

01:15morning even though I don't know how good of a foursomes player he's going to be even though you feel

01:21like he's kind of a an exhibitionist if you will like this is kind of right up his alley like hey

01:26let's let's go do a a scramble from the red tees right like that's right up his alley so foursomes

01:31like is honestly shouldn't be a big issue I don't know why I'm talking about like it is but in either

01:37format whether it was foursomes or four ball Bryson has to tee off first for the Americans like he has to

01:43send the first tee shot at the green doesn't matter if he gets there or not that ball needs to be at the

01:48flagstick and I need I need the caddy to be on the tee and giving him a number hey it's 370 front

01:55and if it's actually 385 carry over that bunker okay got it okay yeah I need actually I need the

02:03caddy be on the green tending the flagstick exactly yeah and then and then can you fire a red smoke if

02:11it hits the green fire a white smoke if it's in the bunker and a blue smoke just because

02:16just fire them all at the same time like uh one of those popsicles that you just have on the 4th of

02:23july that that's hilarious uh I I think that right so like doesn't he have to hit the first

02:27he has to he has to I mean and that's the thing is like I think we were counting on Keegan as a vibes

02:33guy which he can still do and still be in the mix of it as as you know a captain that's definitely on

02:38the younger side obviously still playing and I think that's part of the value of having him as

02:42a captain is he can give this a feel that is so different from the old guard boys club type thing

02:50that that everyone wants to get away from is he really can be involved in building energy but like

02:55Keegan would be a vibes guy Bryson would be a vibes guy Justin Thomas Keegan called him the heartbeat of

03:00the team he's definitely a vibes guy um and I think we have some interesting new entrants like Ben

03:05Griffin easily could be a guy that gets in the mix starts pumping up the crowd the aviators but

03:10but I'm trying to think other guys on that team you know Scotty he gets fired up when he's playing

03:16but it's maybe less of a theatrics guy don't feel like JJ spawns Andrew Shoffley Russell Henley or

03:22Harris English or much for the theatrics vibes is vibes is all about making birdies it doesn't like

03:27you can have great vibes but nobody's gonna have good vibes when you're three down you know

03:31when you're when you're getting your when you're crap beat in through nine holes it's all about who

03:35can go out and play the best golf and and leave the vibes more for the birdies