 Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Nari, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy. What song? What are results? What a Rider Cup and I'm a bit late with this one, it's Monday evening but I don't think we can go and not discuss a little 10 minute video about what just happened over the Rider Cup weekend. I get a lot of people who watch this channel from across the pond, some great supporters of the channel from over in the USA so really relevant to you people out there and love to hear your opinion on your thoughts on the way this all panned out this weekend and obviously plenty of people across the UK, Ireland and Europe who watch the channel as well. So again, love to hear your feedback but let's start with the results. There was a 17.5, 10.5 was it in the end, if that makes sense? Why that? It was an unbelievable weekend and one that... I made a joke last week that after my prediction the tide would never win again I said that Europe would not win either and I hope that fingers crossed it's backfired again. All seriousness on paper, I definitely thought Americans were favourites to win. It seems to be on a lot of occasions when we go into the Rider Cup that seems to be the case but it doesn't always pan out in terms of the results. But this time round I think it's widely been commented that this was possibly the strongest USA team on paper that there has ever been. It was packed with all kinds of qualities that I honestly believe were going to be just too much for Europe with all due respect to them and was I wrong massively, was I surprised massively even so much as the captain's picks once again and I never mind admitting when I get something wrong and having an opinion on something I love it but again Garcia, probably if it was in my shoes would I have picked Garcia? No. I don't try and claim otherwise. I'm going to shuffle some papers here because I want to go through some numbers but Garcia, unbelievable performance. What I want to do is I just want to go through the two teams and I'll give you my rating and we'll discuss about where it was won or lost and what quite went wrong, mainly obviously for the American team and how they possibly looked to change things moving forward. So lots of opinions I'm looking for on this one. But I'm going to start off with the, first of all, the 0.1 and the score that I would rate, the amount of 10 in terms of performance for each of the players on both teams. We're going to start with the American team first. We're going to start off with Bryson De Chambault, 0 points return, didn't do a great deal and the singles yesterday again couldn't get that over the line, 4 out of 10 for De Chambault. Other people scored 0 but didn't quite get a 4 out of 10, I explain my reason because De Chambault was a rookie so I think again it's more difficult for a rookie so there's certain you can make some allowances for their performance but overall 4 out of 10. Tony Fienow, again, a rookie. Captains pick this one. If you turn 2 points and I think overall he looked really nervy on day one but I think he really stepped it up. He had the best net round going there yesterday, gross round rather. He was sort of 6 under when he was getting finished, he placed up phenomenal golf yesterday and didn't see him giving Tommy Fleetwood such a hiding but 7 out of 10 for Tony, fantastic performance overall. Ricky Fowler, he returned the points and again he's now a player that's played in Ryder Cup. You're expecting him to step up and he failed miserably. His game was way off the mark. He returned 1 points and it's 4 out of 10 for Ricky Fowler. Dustin Johnson exactly the same for me. World's number one golfer and just did not perform on that level. 4 out of 10 for Johnson. Brooks Kopker, again for me, played really well. Didn't look a great team and seemed to play all his games very much as an individual but he did play well, can't knock that. Point and a half for Kopker, 7 out of 10 as far as I'm concerned for his own individual performances. Going on to Reed, I mean, when he was paired with Woods, I mean he was atrocious. He was literally all over the place. He managed to pull a great round together yesterday and he put up points on the board but again expecting more things from Patrick Reed, 4 out of 10 for him. One of the stars for me for America underused was Webb Simpson. Golf course suited him, found fairways, putted well, played very very well in the games that he was given, he returned 2 points and 7 out of 10 for Simpson. Jordan Spieth, massive star for the American team for me on every level. Seems to be a team player, seems to want to get, he's got a lot of enthusiasm and he's got all that team bonded and he's got great fighting spirit. He really is, you know, he's a great match player. Don't know what quite happened yesterday, Olson got a bit of a run on him but overall Spieth's performance with Thomas was brilliant so it's 8 out of 10 for me for Jordan Spieth. Then we got on to what arguably without doubt was the star man for the Americans. It was just in Thomas, he played fantastic, he returned 4 points and again he's just got that, he had that drive to get the American team going. Him and Spieth as a pair had that enthusiasm for me 9 out of 10 for Thomas bearing in mind his performance yesterday in the singles as well. It doesn't have to be about fantastic golf as it was yesterday with him and Rory but he was able to get that over the line and get that point in but it's his, like I said, it's the driving enthusiasm which seems to be lacking from so many others of the American team. Bubba Watson, I don't know, Bubba just doesn't, as much as I like Bubba Watson he doesn't seem to be that interested in the Ryder Cup and half the time when I listened to him he didn't seem to care whether they were winning or losing or drawing. I don't know, that's the opinion I got. He returned a point so it was a 4 out of 10 for him and the last one was Woods and Woods, I do not know what happened. I mean it was like whether it was just again physically too demanding for Tiger whether or not it came just that week too soon after all the euphoria of the week before. I don't know but he played pretty poorly but the biggest thing for me for Tiger is again it's this ability to play as part of a team. His Ryder Cup record is atrocious for a player of his standing. When he played with Reid they almost did not speak to each other and I do not understand how that works, the pairing especially as the top man leading from the front if I was playing with somebody like Reid who was struggling like he was surely some words of encouragement were needed someone needed to galvanize the team but the body language was so negative it was incredibly low for Tiger. I've given Tiger 3 out of 10 and he turned no points I've actually scored him more simply because again he fought hard the only one thing I'll give as an individual he fought hard and he did his best because he played on whatever it was the Saturday was it afternoon with Reid I mean it was just a complete, he played on his own so I'd score him slightly higher but it's just again the team I think is unreal it's hard to watch to be quite honest at times right, aren't the successful European team and it was successful in so many ways I'm going to start off with Rory McIlroy didn't have his best rider cup there's no doubt about it but he is part of that team he's part of the main crew that's in there that drives it all forward he still returned 2 points and I'm giving Rory 7 out of 10 Hatton, Tyrell didn't play I had again Rookie, difficult to do he returned the point he was so disappointed yesterday with his performance and as an individual but again lots of reasons why he performed well and again massive exceptions to the Rookie 7 out of 10 for him Ollison, rabbit and headlights on the day 1 sat around for a couple of days and then come out with a blistering performance yesterday against Spieth did not see that one coming and again 7 out of 10 for Ollison brilliant, Norrin again it just looks like it's just a times that it's hard when you're not used to being in that environment I don't think anyone's used to it and having been there before it clearly helps you out and Norrin, if you turn the point the end there, I just I never understand why the games go on once the result is finished because there's a celebration going on and you've got players who are left out there who are not part of it I did feel sorry for Norrin however, the way the whole the put at the end was just an absolute brilliant end for it all to kick off again on the 18th green so made up for Norrin 7 out of 10 for him then it's on to John Rahm John Rahm wasn't at his best explained later again about all kinds of things that's going on in his life and you can see the massive relief when he backed that point against Tiger which was a fantastic match again, lots of great quality and then some lots of great quality but John Rahm again 7 out of 10 for John Paul Casey, one of the captain's picks returned a point and a half 8 out of 10 for Paul Steady Eddy really again some good pairings plays good in the pairs games and again yesterday the games was a cup currently in there they got a half didn't they fantastic finish there then another captain's pick Stenson Stenson was phenomenal the Iceman returned 3 points and he was just it's amazing how these people who've been there and done it just do not get phased and again very well played from start to finish 8.5 out of 10 for him Rosie next one up he didn't return a point we used to and perhaps didn't play as good as but he still had a good return of 2 points 8 out of 10 for Rose then when I'm getting up into the big players for me at the weekend apart from Stenson who I've just missed there Stenson was also one of the big players you got Pilter captain's pick and my god that lad whether you're loving or hating as an individual I mean this nickname of spokesman he delivers it's true I mean if I was if there was a 12 foot port and it meant life or death for me and I had someone to choose to take that port I'd pick Ian Pilter because he just he loves it doesn't he he just loves to be in that environment he thrives on it and like I said that enthusiasm and energy that he drives through the team is brilliant to see it really is and 8 out of 10 for Pilts next up says you've got to see it an absolute blinding captain's pick like I said doubts from my mind why he was picked no form at all and he just absolutely played fantastic 3 points 8 out of 10 in terms of how I rated his performances just brilliant just brilliant just to come in there he knew he must know what goes on in the media there were people that were doubting him leading up into it so that's extra pressure and he just loved every minute of it what I read and hear again about how he is in the changing room and the dressing room he's just a great character to have in there and again brilliant, brilliant performance right, top 2 we know who they are Tommy Fleetwood well amazing a rookie that came out the blocks on Friday morning and just did a lot back I mean he played some amazing golf the partnership was fantastic if we know who's coming next but his partnership was amazing well what happened on the Friday Sunday blown away a bit by Tommy Fienow maybe it was a bit too one too many for it it would have been nice to see him get the 5 points there for Fleetwood but either way absolutely fantastic but again the enthusiast enjoyed it when they won that trophy there and how he celebrates with everybody he's a proper people's person he connects with the average golfers out there and they loved him they really loved him 9 out of 10 Tommy I'm afraid he got point deducted for not getting that 5 out of 5 so 10 out of 10 goes to the top man Molly Molinari why god did he play well a little fella massive heart absolutely fantastic start to finish and really fitting that the game ended there as it did which yeah 5 points for Molinari didn't do anything wrong really no criticism whatsoever so amazing that's my scoring getting down to the sort of what went wrong obviously for America I think first of all we've got to look at the captain's picks they were disastrous they were absolutely disastrous in terms of performance from Fiorek Dishon Boo 0 return Mikkelson 0 return Wood 0 return Tommy Fienow 2 points so yeah I couldn't be any worse and not just that I mean Mikkelson should not have been anywhere near the golf course looking at the form he was in I thought leading up to it that someone with skills capability in a match play environment pulls rabbit out of hats in terms of up and down from nowhere that's how I sort of seen it before it went in but he was absolutely so far off the mark wasn't he it was almost as if he needed a phone call to Fiorek and say listen Jim I'm just not up to it right now my game isn't there because it just seems so far off the mark then you go on to Bjorn's picks and you know the complete polar opposite Garcia 3 points Piltz 2 points Stenson 3 points Casey 1.5 points 9.5 points they contributed to whether it was as a team or against the 2 points that came from the captain's pick so that was obviously a massive massive difference I'm not too sure again maybe some comments down below who perhaps Fiorek could have gone with instead of those people but from my mind it was a massive difference clearly I think anyway then the golf course itself I mean the golf national in France looked absolutely amazing it's a type of course that I love personally and I thought it looked the way I look at it is this it's an opportunity for them to showcase a golf course that now I want to go and play having watched that I just cannot wait to go and see it it was a great match play venue as well all that water at risk and reward and obviously Bjorn set the course up extremely tight in terms of how narrow the fairways were which turned out to be again a master stroke from Bjorn himself I'm a bit surprising really in the sense that again preparation from the American team was that an issue you know just in Thomas came over and played it and played well in the rounds I don't know the stats in terms of how many people actually played the course itself but the preparation didn't seem great from team USA I don't know whether again it was I don't know the logistics around why they perhaps couldn't do that but it played a major part they definitely struggled around that course and as we've seen from the rough it was penal you just could not get out of it oh well I say I couldn't I mean some of the lads are so strong they force the ball out of some of the lies penal is how the rough is how I would so the end thing is always the analogy is this is why is there such a difference between the team mentality because that's the big thing from me watching from the outset it's the team mentality you know win together lose together every player on that European team seem to have bonded as one and the complete opposite from the American team and surely that has got to be something that needs to be addressed I don't know how I'm just looking back because I'm going back through you've got Thomas, Spieth, Simpson, Cupca, Fina I would say they were the only players that performed to a level for me Spieth and Thomas in terms of the driving enthusiasm they bring to a team with a massive successes other than that it still looks like the majority of players are individuals rather than team players surely that has got to be a major thing I don't know or maybe it was just the fact that momentum went away from the Americans in the Friday afternoon and it continued into Saturday for the Europeans and maybe it's just that the whole thing just got a little bit down and there was no opportunity for them to get back into the match I don't know maybe it just all got too much as ever your feedback if you're from America then your thoughts on perhaps where it went wrong and maybe who the captain's picks should have been from seeing you all up again just again how you think it went your thoughts on Thomas Bjorn as a captain your thoughts on the lads that went out there and played I think it's only positive comments that you're going to see there right I'm going like I said I just wanted a bit of a chat with it because I thought it was brilliant it was a great weekend thumbs up if you like the video and thumbs down if you didn't what else do you do I don't know you're subscribing all that pull off I'm sick of asking all that honestly God the question of the I mean if you're going to subscribe you're going to subscribe aren't you it's that simple so why I ask you I do not know same with the 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