Fred Funk

... perfection.

But I, I'm, I, I wanna ask you specifically, though, about you played him and Fred Funk, um, in 2004 at Oakland Hills, and you guys are, you're building a big lead, okay? And, and I'm just...

The, the, the match that went off before you, uh, was ended because it was four and three.

Do you remember being the only match left? Because you had the last opportunity to put one more point on the board and feel like you took momentum into the evening.

And then they did an actor.

And so I got paired up with Fred Funk and I won't name who the other guys are, but one of these guys was was hilarious to play golf with because he's the kind of guys like breaking clubs and throwing them and just he's a good golfer but he's so he was so mad when he would miss it he's oh i'm playing the worst i've ever played of course i'm playing terrible on the tournament in front of you know fred funk and whatever and fred looked at me one time and he goes i'm gonna give you the best piece of golf advice i've ever heard he goes i played around with jack nicholas one time And he said there was a guy that was doing exactly what this guy's doing, just mad, embarrassed that he's playing in front of Jack and not not playing well.

And at one point, Jack just walked up and patted him on the back and said, buddy, you're not good enough to be this mad.

Yeah, that's it.

We're doing this.

What about Fred Funk? No,

Fred Funk is a terrible guess.

So we're missing one.

Yes, and it is not tennis.

He did play in a Ryder Cup in '04.

Fred Funk.

Fred Funk, uh, he had to have played in one.

He won the Players in what, like '05?

You committed?

This is Nick Price's final appearance as one of the players that sort of kicked off the President's Cup now 10 years later.

Um, on the US side, you've got Kenny Perry, Fred Funk, Charles Hall, Chris DiMarco, uh, Jerry Kelly.

Just interesting group of guys there-

Phenomenal.

Uh, Jeff Sluman ends up being in charge of the opening pairings after Nicklaus is up all night sort of- [laughs] ... firing out of both ends, presumably.

Uh, Sluman is actually younger than two guys on the team, Fred Funk and Jay Haas.

Uh, I'm sort of unclear why Sluman was picked.

Uh, he's never played on a Ryder Cup or a President's Cup.

Yeah.

Uh, the format used to be 18, 36, 18- That's right ... and then singles on the last day, which I think is kind of sick.

Uh, Jay Haas and Fred Funk were paired together, uh, and had the combined age of 96 years old.

What a pairing.