Welcome to GOLF.com’s “Seen & Heard” video sequence, through which we offer you an inside take a look at golf’s largest occasions by way of the eyes and ears of our onsite crew. On deck this week: the 2024 Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Membership in North Berwick, Scotland. Let’s go!
Genesis Scottish Open week began out with an actual bang with the bombshell information on Monday that Keegan Bradley would lead the U.S. Ryder Cup group as captain for the 2025 matches.
That announcement was making waves greater than 3,000 miles away at The Renaissance Membership, website of this week’s occasion the place our Sean Zak was desperate to get gamers’ takes on the choice. Zak known as it a “stunning” announcement.
The primary participant to offer his ideas was PGA champ Xander Schauffele.
“On the course, he’s intense,” Schauffele mentioned. That’s simply how he competes and the way he’s. I’m positive as a captain he’s going to have kind of a combined bag. He received’t be afraid and can get everybody going. I don’t know if he’s coached or captained some other groups in his life, whether or not it’s his youngsters’ groups or one thing like that, however when somebody is basically obsessed with one thing, they often do rather well.”
On condition that Bradley remains to be very a lot in kind, because the Nineteenth-ranked participant on this planet and having been snubbed from the U.S. group for Rome a yr in the past, Zak puzzled if Schauffele and different gamers have been fascinated about the potential for Bradley to be a enjoying captain.
Schauffele couldn’t recall when that had final occurred.
“Yesterday, once I discovered, I believed that is going to be a lot enjoyable. That is going to be chaotic,” Zak mentioned. “And now I awakened in the present day considering this could possibly be unhealthy. It could possibly be the craziest Ryder Cup of all time.”
On the course, we joined James Colgan who, straight off a flight, performed The Renaissance Membership within the Tuesday pro-am with PGA Tour professional Matt Wallace and DP World Tour member Todd Clements.
His caddie? GOLF multimedia wiz Darren Riehl. (Though Colgan, Riehl and their group completed useless final within the pro-am.)
Xander Schauffele already has 1 suggestion for Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley
It was a baptism by fireplace to hyperlinks golf for Colgan, however Zak and Riehl acquired their rounds in at a distinct fashion of UK format: The Bruntsfield Quick Gap Course, the place the greens charges have been free!
Clad in hoodies and shorts, our group loved the pitch and putt course earlier than heading to a close-by tavern for Riehl to take pleasure in his first ever Tennents Lager, a Scottish delicacy.
Earlier than calling it a day, Zak headed again to North Berwick and walked up the 18th gap of the namesake membership’s West Hyperlinks, one in every of his favourite locations on earth, he mentioned.
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