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Super Quick Recap: Ryder Cup
Xander Almost Kicked Off Team
Golf Shots Heard Round The World
Sanderson Farms Championship Odds
Golf Thing We’d Buy If We Weren’t Broke

Super Quick Recap: 2023 Ryder Cup

The Europeans are your 2023 Ryder Cup Champions. The final score was 16.5 to 11.5 and let us tell you, they are celebrating like hell over there right now.

Video: Team Europe Sings ‘Europe On Fire’ Like Drunken Madmen

After getting out to an early lead Friday and Saturday, the Euros proved to be too much for the American team to handle. The Europeans haven’t lost on home soil since 1993, as we’re sure you’ve heard 15,000 times already, and now the Americans won’t have a chance to change that for another four years.

Despite a brief window of opportunity on Sunday, the US team was mostly hapless. There were a few bright spots on the team, but they were largely overshadowed by the drama that seemingly had nothing to do with golf and everything to do with money. More on that below.

There will be an endless amount of speculation about coaching, the concession by Rickie Fowler, chemistry, and camaraderie, but the bottom line is this:

Team Europe flat out played better golf across the board than Team USA.

Shanks Picks Recap: We hit three bets from our Ryder Cup Card. Justin Thomas Top US Wildcard Scorer +450, Tommy Fleetwood Top EU Wildcard +200, and Max Homa Top Rookie Scorer +175.

Xander Almost Kicked Off Team

The biggest storyline coming out of the 2023 Ryder Cup, besides the US getting their butts kicked, was about Patrick Cantlay, hat-gate, and money.

This morning, The Times reported on a new twist to the saga, which seems to give some legitimacy to the hat-gate drama after-all, or at least the money part.

Unfortunately, the original report is behind a paywall unless you already subscribe to The Times. (If you’re American you probably don’t)

Fortunately, we are here to give you the gist for free.

The original story surrounded Patrick Cantlay, but it’s well known that he and Xander Schaufele are close friends. In fact, the original hat-gate report noted that the pair had ostracized themselves from teammates over some sort of financial dispute.
The pair was not part of the team scouting mission to Rome.
They also did not want Netflix cameras to have access to the team.
Now Stefan Schauffle (Xanders Dad) has ripped the PGA of America in a quote to The Times, because PGA of America threatened to kick Xander off the team, due to the contract disputes raised by Xander / Cantlay.

“The PGA of America were not willing to even talk to us about [the amendments],” Stefan Schauffele claimed.

“It was very late in the schedule right before the team came here [to Rome] to practice because they had moved the deadline and they said, ‘If you don’t sign it by then, you’re off the team’, but they never gave us the contact information of their legal counsel.

“Saturday morning of Labour Day weekend [September 2], finally, the head of the PGA of America got wind of this, because it was not him that was blocking it, and put our lawyers in contact with the PGA of America’s general counsel, and then it took a few hours to hash it out and it was fine. Then I received a message that Xander was back on the team. That you can quote. That’s the extent of this and I think it’s shameful.”

Nothing new, sadly.

The debate about whether players should get paid to play in the Ryder Cup isn’t a new one. In fact, Tiger Woods and David Duvall said much the same thing back in 1999.

It’s just been a while since the money debate has effected the team so much.

Now, we know that for the US Team, at least two of their members missed the scouting trip in Rome due to unresolved contract issues.

Not because Netflix cameras were a distraction, or anything else, but because they didn’t want Netflix around unless they were getting a cut.

These guys are already multi-millionaires and this is the ONE EVENT that is supposed to be about something more than money.

No wonder they got whipped, do you hear any of this coming from the Euro side?

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Early Lines: Sanderson Farms

Odds via BetMGM

It’s a weaker field event, but it looks like Ryder Cup Champion Ludvig Aberg is going to make the journey to The Country Club of Jackson, and he’s the favorite by a mile.

As always, we will be here on Wednesday to make our picks, but the number on Cashmere Keith ain’t lookin too shabby.

Golf Thing We'd Buy If We Weren't Broke

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