Netflix episode summary: The Ryder Cup gets off to a shaky start for Team USA. Tensions run high after an incident on the 18th green. The epic battle comes to an emotional end.
Star of the episode: Keegan Bradley, who wasn’t even at the Ryder Cup. Netflix cameras watched at home with Bradley, and he was great! He said how he wanted to be on the Ryder Cup team and feed off its youthful energy from guys like Justin Thomas, who ultimately got his spot. “If I was a captain, I’d want him in my locker room,” he said of Thomas. That takes some serious maturity and love for the game and Team USA. If I were a captain, I’d want a guy like Bradley in my locker room.
Thoughts and highlights:
Shoutout to the European fans. “Stand up if you’re 4-nil up” on Friday was funny. “Hats off to your bank account” and “Where’s your hat? Cantlay-ay-ay” to the tune of Zombie by the Cranberries might’ve been the chant of the week. European fans are just so, so creative and passionate.
Justin Thomas on European fans: “That’s what I love about the European fans. They’ll needle you and jab you all day, but if you go out there and win they’ll be the first person to tell you, ‘Great playing,’ and I appreciate that.”
They completely skipped the Saturday morning session after going all-in on Friday to focus on, you guessed it, Hat-gate.
We finally heard what Shane Lowry said to Joe LaCava (“get out of the way you (expletive).”) He was mad he was on top of McIlroy and thought the U.S. team let the celebration linger for too long on the 18th green and kept saying how he was at Whistling Straits when the U.S. rolled Europe, and the fans let ’em hear it. Justin Rose tried to be the voice of reason and admitted the hat-waving was funny.
You loved to see Donald back McIlroy after the parking lot confrontation. That’s the kind of fight and passion you want from your leader. Can only imagine Johnson wished the U.S. had more of that early on in the week.
Still can’t believe Rickie Fowler didn’t make Tommy Fleetwood make the clinching putt on the 16th green. Fowler said he understood why people were mad he gave the putt, but said “But in any other time or match, that putt’s good. Why is it not in that situation?” Well, he clearly doesn’t get why people were mad then, because the Ryder Cup isn’t any other time or match. It’s the Ryder Cup. He should know that as a five-time player.
I wish we got more from Max Homa this season….
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