Smylie Kaufman Talks Presidents Cup Success for Team USA Members

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00:00Patrick can't lay wins four points from five sessions. Uh

00:07Colin Morikawa also wins four points from five sessions as

00:10does Sanders Shoffley. Those were your three guys that kinda

00:13carried the team this week. Then, a guy you've been talking

00:16about a lot this week played really well and had a back and

00:19forth with Tom Kim today. It was highly entertaining. Sam

00:21Burns, three and a half points out of four sessions. Then,

00:25Russell Henley, three points in four sessions. Scotty Sheffler,

00:29three points in five sessions. Keegan Bradley, two points in

00:33three sessions. Tony Finau, two points in four sessions. Say

00:38the gala point and a half in three sessions. Windham Clark, a

00:41point and a half in four sessions. Max Homa, one point

00:45in three sessions and Brian Harmon, no points in three

00:49sessions. So, I'll let you, you know, you, that's your full

00:53list. We're both looking at it right now. Where do you wanna

00:55kinda start in terms of breaking down a player

00:57performance? Yeah, let's just start there at the top in that

01:00group. I know I mentioned Patrick Canley from what in the

01:04other two guys that had the most points was Colin Morical

01:07and Sanders Shoffley. Both of those two guys also played five

01:10sessions alongside Patrick Canley and Scotty Sheffler. I

01:14I could not have been more impressed with Colin Morical

01:18this week. He blew me away. Um he is a thousand percent all

01:23the way back. There is no doubt in my mind this guy's gonna win

01:27a major very soon. Um it just his control with his irons is

01:33unlike anything you'll ever see. It's just every shot that

01:38he hits just pin high, pin high, pin high, and then his

01:41drives off the tee. You know when a guy's driving it really

01:44well is when they get to their finish and the the shaft of the

01:48club hits the back of their their spine and the back of

01:52their neck and bounces off. Every single time, it's just so

01:56much freedom in his golf swing and just hit it so well this

02:00week. So, uh props to you for getting Colin Morical right for

02:04the most points. Uh scored for the US team and I I would have

02:07loved. We both kinda had that. I just got drafted first. Yeah.

02:10Yeah, you you drafted first. So, uh and also Xander just was a

02:14dog. Love to see him. Uh love to see him lighting up cigars

02:18anytime the US wins. It's kinda the the one thing you know you

02:22to expect out of Xander Shaffer is that he's gonna be very

02:25tough to beat and again, very tough to beat this week. Uh

02:28yeah. Couldn't have been more impressed as well with just how

02:31hard he is hitting the golf ball. Uh I think people just

02:35don't realize how ridiculously far he's hitting it. It's just

02:39so impressive to watch him drive it and you know, he's

02:41there was you had him in one of those groups where you were

02:43just noting that it it was II forget which hole II I should

02:47have written it down but just where he had a wedge in where

02:49other guys were hitting like mid and long irons and just the

02:52the leap he's made this past year. It's amazing. It's

02:55insane. He's cruising cruising and like mid 180s which you

03:00know, if I swing as hard as I can, I'll be lucky to touch

03:03mid 180s. So, it's it's it's just so impressive to watch,

03:08you know, a guy work his tail off, you know, being so good in

03:11the weight room, uh completely change his game by just, you

03:14know, working his tail off and having really good technique

03:17and a good coach to be able to maximize, you know, hard work

03:20and and effort and be able to get the results from it. Yeah,

03:23I think that group, I mean, just to start back at the top

03:26with with Colin Morikawa, it just this whole year, it's just

03:30it's insane that he did not win a tournament this year

03:33although he did, he won the tour championship, right? And

03:36and I would stop you. Well, that's the irony of the year,

03:39right? Is that he actually, he won the one event where it's

03:41not starting at zero for everybody but I mean, this to

03:45me is a great finish for him on a great year and you know, I

03:48don't know how much he wants to play in the fall or plans to

03:51play in the fall but I just hope he kinda keeps that. I

03:54I'd assume he plays Zozo. I'd assume he defended Zozo. Um not

03:58sure where else he's gonna play but I I think that I just hope

04:01he carries this momentum into 2025. Yes. He's putting it so

04:05good. I mean, as you mentioned, the ball striking is just, it's

04:09back to where he was when he was winning those majors, you

04:12know, in 2020 and twenty-one.

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