We were joined by two of the game’s writers today, Shane Ryan of Golf Digest and David Rumsey of Front Office Sports. Ryan, who has written a book on the Ryder Cup, talked about this year’s competition, the Keegan captaincy, the resumes of Collin Morikawa and Chris Gotterup and Europe bringing basically the same team forward again. Rumsey talked about the state of the big golf sponsorships, the new Versant’s jump into the property rights mix and their flexibility to partner with others and LIV’s first year as a partner with Fox Sports. Gary Williams closed with commentary on this year’s Payne Stewart Award winner, Paul Azinger.