00:00Who's got to be the players that step up?
00:02Like today I watched Corey Connors and Nick Taylor play alternate shot together.
00:06You're thinking to yourself, it's like, ooh, if Canadians can win their point.
00:10Because Nick Taylor is going to, I imagine that Nick is going to not play four ball
00:13and he's just going to play foursomes and play with Connors both times.
00:17Like you think like, okay, maybe they can go one and one.
00:19Or what if they go two and oh, that's great.
00:21But Nick Taylor is a dog.
00:22Let's not forget that.
00:23Nick Taylor is a player under pressure has proven he can win.
00:27But Sebez, apparently just throw him out in singles.
00:30He's two and oh there.
00:31Nico Etcheveria, he's the guy that I think could be a spark plug.
00:34Ryan Fox, I think a lot of, I think people have a lot of high expectations on Ryan's this week.
00:40I'm wondering how he plays.
00:42I wonder if he's going to be up for the challenge because he's a guy that is also a player
00:46that is capable.
00:48He's got the talent to be able to go and do it, but he doesn't have the experience.
00:52And that's what worries me.
00:54His Satsune, I don't know what we're going to get out of him.
00:56He's a good ball striker, but I don't know if he's got the energy for this whole thing.
01:00Now maybe he can just kill you with darts and just wash and wash, switch and water around his mouth.
01:05But I have questions about his Satsune and how he's going to go out.
01:10Sungjae has been better.
01:12He's been better over the last month.
01:14His form is better.
01:16Siwoo Kim has been arguably the best, one of the best iron players.
01:20What are you going to get out of him this week?
01:22I think his expectations have to be high.
01:24Tom Kim's been playing well.
01:26Minwoo Lee's got to be, he's got to have something from him this week.
01:29He's got to have something from him.
01:31Hideki, he's got to be the top-end talent that we know he can bring.
01:37Adam Scott, well, honestly, Hideki, you just got to worry about him getting hurt in this weather.
01:42And then Adam Scott, I mean, he's 20 and 28 in this format, under .500.
01:48He's got more experience than anybody.
01:50He's going to be not only a leader in the team room with his voice, but he's got to do
01:54it out on the golf course, too.
01:55I think, again, if we're trying to create optimistic scenarios for the international team,
01:59I think it's that there are better pairings than maybe they've had.
02:03Like you mentioned Hideki in the past, or just their top-end players having trouble getting the points they need
02:10to keep them in contention.
02:11And I think in the past, a lot of conversations are over finding a partner for Hideki.
02:16Well, if this partnership with Rio goes well tomorrow, and for a guy that, you know, Rio being a rookie,
02:23but having a setting, calming influence, a guy that can speak in great depth to him in a native language,
02:31that kind of helps him handle the atmosphere and the pressure and playing his first time out.
02:36And I think, of course, Ryan Fox is a rookie in this format, but he's 39 years old.
02:39He has a ton of experience playing all around the world.
02:41I don't think he's too phased by all this stuff.
02:43For him, I wonder, we should go back and look at his match again, because pace of play could be
02:49interesting there.
02:50So he's playing against Wyndham Clark and Colin Warikawa.
02:53I mean, you know, do you try to slow play?
02:55A guy likes to play fast?
02:57Maybe that comes into play.
02:58Who do you think is the leading point getter at the end of the week for the internationals?
03:02For the international team?
03:04Let me look at this sheet real quick.
03:07I would either, gosh, I was Tom Kim and Siwoo Kim is what it goes to my head.
03:17But I'm going to go, you know what?
03:20I'm going to go Minwoo Lee.
03:21Wow.
03:22And the reason why I go Minwoo is that he's due for a breakout of some sort.
03:28Yeah.
03:28And not to say that he hasn't been great on the PGA Tour.
03:31He's contended plenty of times.
03:33He's won on the PGA Tour.
03:34But we haven't seen, like, the dog of Minwoo Lee come out yet.
03:39Yeah.
03:39And I think I'm more so cheering for Minwoo to be the top point getter, because you know you would
03:44have watched him pretty great golf.
03:46Yeah.
03:46I think Minwoo is a great call.
03:48And I just think, you know, we had Tom Kim burst onto the scene, end up playing that President's Cup
03:55in 2022.
03:55And he's had a couple of years where it's felt like, eh, dip in form is unfair, but just getting
04:00adjusted to PGA Tour life at a very, very young age.
04:03I almost kind of like Tom Kim to come out, pump up, bring the energy, capitalize on a year where
04:08he won, you know, made it to East Lake.
04:11And, you know, that's my pick for leading point getter from the international side.
04:15I mean, I think Siwoo Kim and Adam Scott are both good call-outs, too, on that.
04:18I think so.
