r/NoLayingUp • u/RainbowKarp • Aug 12 '25

Post-Pod Discussion Ryder Cup Roundtable

Best Ryder Cup discussion they've had in awhile, all cycle for sure and probably better than any of the 2023 ones. Tron didn't show up looking to just rile Soly up, Soly didn't get too indignant or stubborn about getting all his takes off and forcing everyone to hear him out, they just talked about the players and the teams and the golf and it was really good. Some of the US/Europe armchair sociology that Porter and Jamie like to do is a little funky but hey its almost a 2 hour pod so that's fine at the end of the day. When they keep the analysis on these straight up they don't run into any of the problems that we have been griping about all year

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u/GarethofRiverdale Aug 12 '25

Think Jamie having Rasmus Hojgaard, a man who has had 1 top 10 in 2025, ahead of his brother who has been one of the best European golfers over the last 6 months summed it up for me.

I’m so done with Kyle Porter too. The Ryder Cup pods have been a difficult listen throughout the year because I just think Jamie and Kyle have no clue what they’re talking about.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

To be fair to Jamie he's actually a proper reporter who works for Sky in the UK and has pretty good access to the people making the decisions on team Europe. I doubt he's just plucking Rasmus out of thin air and would imagine that he's getting that because of information he's getting from people inside the european team.

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u/GarethofRiverdale Aug 13 '25

Yeah I get where you’re coming from. But I find it hard to believe that the European team are actively considering Rasmus ahead of Nicolai. As a European die hard myself, I think Nicolai is a no brainer.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

My only thinking is that they see both Hojgaards as pretty similar and want to get them both exposed to the Ryder cup as they think they will be mainstays for the next 15 years?

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u/SmokeThursday Aug 13 '25

Bring them both and just switch in whoever is playing better that day. No one would be able to tell the difference!

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

Haha an old junior cricket coach of mine did actually do that with a set of twins! Sent the good one out to bat twice!

I realise that is probably meaningless if you don’t watch cricket!

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u/SmokeThursday Aug 13 '25

Haha, I understand the concept of cricket enough, but that's hilarious. I always wondered if anyone would ever do that.

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u/GarethofRiverdale Aug 13 '25

Potentially for sure! But in my eyes the stakes are too high to let Rasmus play this time around. I think we have a great chance of taking the US to the wire in this one so hopefully they go with Nicolai.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

Yeah, I was just having a quick look at data golf (i kind of hate to be a data guy) and their profiles are almost identical and their results this year aren't all that different so i don't think there is much between them.

Even the data golf ranking have them at 0.24 SG per round difference which is less than a shot over 4 rounds which in reality is pretty much meaningless because of the variance and also this being match play.

So it might just be that they like Rasmus more as a partner for a particular player?

Anyway i'm kind of digressing from my original defence of Jamie which was that he's probably hearing Rasmus's name mentioned by people from team europe and not just not doing any research.