Arnold Palmer Cup

So I didn't put Luke and Niall together because they played together.

I was at Tralee for the Arnold Palmer Cup in early July, and they played together in Tralee.

And they roomed together there as well, but the chemistry wasn't quite there.

And that was evident to see that their games didn't quite gel.

I'm sure team golf is just great.

And being here since 2010, you had Palmer Cup.

I suppose that's given you, leading into the Walker Cup, the ability to really refine your approach to how to build a great team.

Almost everything that you're working on, we've been in your office in the performance and you know met some of the guys everything you're focused on is much more around mental approach thought process how much of that what's what's kind of led to all of that approach there must be influences from other sports this isn't you didn't start in 2010 with all this thinking this is how we're going to approach team golf i'm sure you've built an arsenal of all these different

So...

nice easy question

sorry no so in terms of in terms of Stuart and I'm not I'm not massive on social media but I did know there was some heat on him but so Stuart I knew Stuart as an amateur because he went to Maynooth and Barry Fennelly who's the head of golf there is a good friend but he also played under me in the Palmer Cup team in 2016 at Formby Stuart didn't the pro life didn't work out for him and I don't know what he accumulated in all the 7 or 8 years that he played as a professional golfer but it wasn't much at all it wasn't much at all so he's came back into the amateur game and he's done well and he's you know the USGA and the R&A are the ones that with amateur status so that's something that I've really I don't really get drawn into commenting on in terms of in terms of in the states now and how how professional all the players are professional but with the nil money now you know players student athletes are getting paid an obscene amount of money an obscene amount of money so where does the amateur and professionals i don't know It's

changed, doesn't it? Because, I mean, there was a world where 50 years ago in the Walker Cup, you know, people would be going back and, you know, Monday they're being a solicitor again or a medic or whatever.

All right.

So as we kind of close this conversation, Josiah, one of the questions I actually have for you is that you've been playing on these United States teams, Palmer Cup, Walker Cup.

And I think I was almost a little surprised by it because, of course, we already dated.

You've spent plenty of time growing up in Australia.

Yeah.

Cool.

And then obviously like the Palmer cup and Walker stuff comes with it, but that's, you know, two years of your life.

And so I think that as of right now, it would stay representing the U S I, when I switched over, there was like, there's like a four year period where I have to like, If someone was to switch back to their other flag, they have to go four years without playing.

[laughs] Thank you.

Actually talked to Will Gordon, who you played on the Palmer Cup team with.

Love Will.

And I think he said you were like cross-handed claw-

Yeah

... at the Palmer Cup.

Yeah.

Oh, hell yeah.

He had two wins as a freshman.

He was on the Palmer Cup team.

That's a heck of a week for him.

Ninth alone.