Kevin Van Valkenburg

of uh hunger for it but also like all the people who are often making those editing decisions and that you know are people who lived through the tiger height of it and so they're feeling as like well you know we can draw this kind of interest in this kind of traffic let's uh let's throw it out there and so you know i just feel like uh bryson and and john rom and rory and justin rose and there's so many interesting good storylines obviously scotty

that I don't know that we need to, I don't know if waste our time is the right word, but like expend so much energy on the tiger storyline.

Let's at least let it kind of develop.

And then if you wanna say like, oh, you never saw this coming,

Yeah, guilty as charged, man.

I did not see Tiger Woods competing in the 2026 Masters.

And if you want to label me with that, that's fine.

But I just think everyone's so worried about looking silly if they get it wrong, like this, oh, you doubted him.

And I just don't know that that's a healthy way to frame your media coverage.

Yeah.

The thing that I keep kicking around in this discussion is how do we know that he'll even be a good Ryder Cup captain?

There isn't a lot of evidence to suggest.

People keep pointing to the President's Cup in Melbourne.

But in a lot of that, what he did was kind of roll the balls out and be like, okay, boys, who do you want to play with?

I mean, it's not like you're going up against a behemoth in the internationals who has won and tied one President's Cup in the whole history of...

the deal.

I mean, I think

To me, imagine Tiger Woods sitting in a room and the analytics and data people come in and show him this is the proper way to play the hole.

I could very easily Tiger being like, well, why don't you just hit a big old sweep draw around this tree and hit it to three feet?

There's a great adage in America of great players don't make good managers, good coaches, because they can't conceptualize how a mortal would hit a shot that is required.