Smylie Kaufman Breaks Down the Presidents Cup International Team

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00:00Let's just keep on that international side. I feel like there's a way in which we can

00:08kind of sort through to see who would pair best together. The interesting thing about

00:14when you look at the international team is that it would be super easy to put the guys

00:19that hang out and play with each other the most. And I think that it's safe to assume

00:25that putting a guy like, whether it be Si Woo Kim and Sung Jae Im together, that seems

00:32like it would make sense. They speak the same language. They're good friends. That's kind

00:38of the way I seem to want to go and see Jason Day playing with a Min Woo Lee. That just

00:44makes sense in my mind, or a Min Woo Lee with an Adam Scott. That would get me excited.

00:50I sure would love to see Day and Min Woo Lee on that team, because they would show

00:54up with some swag. Oh, without a doubt. I mean, I think the interesting thing in looking

01:00through the stats pack that you sent over is looking at the difference in what you can

01:06just gather from a treetop strategy perspective of how both sides do their pairings. Like

01:14on the American side, you can look through and it's like, yeah, it's clear that once

01:18guy found his partner, he played the majority of matches with that guy. Whereas there's

01:21definitely on the international side, more of a mix. Now, maybe part of that is you're

01:26getting beat a lot. You're trying new stuff. And so there's naturally going to have to

01:29be a, that partnership didn't work. We try the next one. And I also think that, that

01:34there is this interesting thing happening where, you know, Jason Day was on the 11,

01:3813, 15 and 17 teams, but wasn't on the 19 team or the 22 team. And then you go right

01:44down. Some JM wasn't on any of those previous teams, but he was on the 19 and 22 teams.

01:49So just looking for patterns, there's not necessarily a ton there for some of guys of

01:54how you're going to kind of mix them together. I like what you've just thrown out from the

01:58gate, which is, you know, let's, let's first and foremost get men will leave with an experienced

02:03Aussie, whether that's Adam or Jason day, I think both kind of suit. And then from there

02:08it's, you know, are we going to try to throw out, you know, like a big hitter,

02:14like a Taylor Pendrith? That's an interesting one. Good putter. Like a McKenzie Hughes. Are

02:18you like, that's your Canadian combo there? Taylor was over for that last president's cup

02:22and he was so poor. And that's the one to me is, is that if you would have told me that

02:28Taylor was the guy that made this team over Nick Taylor and Adam had one, I would tell

02:32you you're crazy at the beginning of the year, but he's been playing so well. I think Taylor

02:37Pendrith could be a horse for the international team if he stays in that form. But I'm not sure

02:44if this is the type of golf horse that maybe quite suits his game as much, uh, seems to be maybe a

02:50bit of more of an accuracy test. Um, not to say that he doesn't hit it accurate. It just seems

02:54like he would be a player that would play better on a bigger park. Although he was owing for a

02:58quail hollow, which I would consider to be a very big part. Yeah. So he played, he played with

03:03Mito Pereira. He played with Corey Connors and he played with Hideki Matsuyama. And so he kind

03:09of kind of mixed there, you know, I, I guess with Mito and Corey, he only lost one down,

03:13but then with Hideki, he loses four and three to JT and Jordan. Um, and then he like, you know,

03:19so we talked a little bit about Adam and, and, and, uh, Jason day, but looking at a guy like

03:23Hideki Matsuyama, who's obviously been in good form of late, uh, he played with Adam and lost,

03:30and I guess he lost one, one, one lost to can't lay in Xander, uh, beat Cam young and call him

03:36or Akawa play with Tom Kim lost that match. And we've just mentioned play with Taylor Pendereth

03:41lost that match. So like finding a partner for Hideki, you know, I'm wondering if it's,

03:45do you stick him with a vet like they did to kind of varying success of quail hollow with Adam Scott,

03:51or are you trying to pair him with a young guy because he has experience in this competition?

03:56Yeah, I, I think Adam's going to be so easy to pair. You know, he's going to play, right. It's

04:02just a matter of like, who's the guy that we want to get comfortable. Um, and I imagine that he would

04:07be playing with somebody that's probably much more on the rookie side, or do they go with a

04:12Hideki? Like you were just talking about, who's got a ton of, who's had a ton of success. One

04:17player. I know we've kind of talked a little bit earlier about, uh, guys that, that didn't make

04:22the United States team mentioned Billy Horschel, Akshay, JT, um, this international team, uh,

04:29mentioned some Canadians. I mentioned Adam had mentioned Nick Taylor. Those are the big surprises

04:33of two guys that didn't make it. But one guy, um, I really am surprised that he's not on this team

04:39is Cam Davis. Yeah. After, I mean, so what, when's the rocket mortgage on that? Right. I think that

04:46was, that was the, where, where Akshay came up short. Um, yeah, to me, that's a guy that I, I

04:53guess you just have to kind of see what the strategy is. Once it kind of unfolds and my

04:57career puts his teams together to see who he's pairing, where, but it seems like a guy, like,

05:02maybe you're feeling like you're duplicating too much between him and a Taylor Pendrith.

05:06I just profile player. I don't know. I just felt like Cam Davis was good at the last president's

05:11cup. Um, to me, he's got, he's got, he's got a lot of high quality shots in his game. Um, he's

05:20very impressive when you watch him. I just felt like that, you know, with him, with Mike, we're

05:26taking McKenzie taking also Min Wu, like those two guys, I felt like, you know, maybe didn't

05:33earn their way on the team or just, you know, didn't have the, quite as much of a benefit of

05:37the doubt as a guy that I felt like Nick Taylor's had success, you know, maybe, you know, Adam had

05:43one has played on these teams as well, but then Cam Davis just seemed like an up and comer that

05:48was surprised to not see him make this team. So I think that definitely kind of begs a question of

05:54what is Mike, we're going to do with his lineup because he has to have a plan to me for Taylor

06:01he's got to have a plan for men. We, we, and I think he's got to have a plan for McKenzie Hughes,

06:08um, as well as I think see beds as well. Like I think he needs like going into this,

06:12when you look at this roster, I think all four of those guys have the capabilities

06:18of, of making an image and making a serious impact.

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