What's the difference?

Yeah, you know, certainly the, you know, the Ryder Cup, the European side, the world rankings has more good players on it than the world team.

I tell you what, like, I was watching the selection show yesterday a little bit and you look at the roster of, you know, their team.

It's really good.

I mean, it's that you're not dealing with.

flunkies out there.

I mean, there's, it's really, really good.

Can you run past a couple of those for us?

But is there anything that you can kind of, is there a role there for golf professionals to say, hey, there's a reason why, why little Timmy's not hitting the ball up in the air.

Yeah.

I mean, I think it's a, there is in fact, an interesting story that does connect to us kids.

When my now 18 year old, I think was six years old.

He was playing golf and he, you know, said, dad, I think I want to play in one of these us kids tournaments.

And, you know, and then they, and they allow caddies.

Would you, would you caddy for me? So I'm like, okay, let's do it.

Tell us a little bit about the mission there.

I don't think you will, but I think you have the coaching and now playing staff there to potentially at least cause some disruption and ruffle some feathers in that division.

Yeah, exactly.

And I think when I was doing a little bit of prep for this, I was having a little look at Sean Payton's numbers since he's been in Denver.

So it's quite a similar situation, Super Bowl winning head coach going to a franchise that maybe plateaued over the last 10 years or so.

And in the three years he's been there, sort of eight, eight and nine, and then winning 10 games and now winning 14 and Superbowl parents again, raw, raw young quarterback.

I think the situation is very similar.

Tough division again, good head coaches within the division.

Does that worry you about maybe their futures and whether they'll even be in the league in a few years?

Let's continue with the story.

Our platoon was given a, an order that we were gonna send a squad out across the Helmand River to investigate cave systems in the mountains on the other side.

Wrightsman immediately volunteered us for it, and we loaded down really, really heavy, 'cause we were expecting to go into the caves and have a serious fight on our hands.

So we had rockets, and everybody had a few extra grenades and a lot of extra ammo.

And we left early morning and hiked way out towards the river.

And, uh, we, uh, finally got to the point where we kinda had to cross, and uh, I remember Wrightsman openly saying, like, uh, you know, even though your point man usually does anything before anyone else, like he's the point man, he walks out point.

And um, Wrightsman told our point man to, to stay where he was, and he said like, "If anybody's gonna drown, it's gonna be me." So he went into the river, and he actually made it all the way across.

Let's continue with the story.

But maybe that's not the best way to choose the ball best for our game, huh?

Yeah, something that actually we now have at the golf course at Hagen, Ping Golf, who they do not make golf balls, as I think people know.

So I view it as they're pretty legit because they have no dog in the fight, so to speak.

Their tour players have been asking this question a lot over the last few years.

And so they, as an engineering company that they are, they decided to do a couple years worth of testing every single golf ball you can imagine and get all of the different flight characteristics and what it does and the spin and the launch and this and that.

And so they've compiled all this information and something called ball dynamic.

And we actually have a kiosk at the golf course.

Can you take us through that?

Give us an idea of what it was and how you got there.

Yeah.

So this team, it's kind of our first four year class since I took over.

So, um, kind of fun to have a bunch of the same kids work through the program.

And, uh, we knew at the start of the season, we were having a freshman come in who was quite good.

And we thought to ourselves, you know, this, this team could do something this year.

And, um, we had kind of a, you know, a solid regular season, so to speak, and some ups and downs with lots of different things within the program.

So Tom, how do we get over the mental issue of a bunker and how do we play those bunker shots?