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THE MODERATOR: We’ll go forward and get began. We wish to congratulate you on being named Worldwide Crew captain for the 2026 Presidents Cup coming to Medinah. Are you able to simply begin us off along with your pleasure to be shifting ahead as Worldwide Crew captain?
GEOFF OGILVY: Look, yeah, it’s an unimaginable honor, fairly humbling if you have a look at the listing of captains that we’ve had for the Worldwide Crew. I went again to the primary captain I performed for was Gary Participant, which was wonderful in itself and all of the listing of men we’ve been via.
It’s a humbling factor. It’s a terrific honor. I’m actually trying ahead and excited for it. Medinah is a spot the place we’ve finished lots of work, my firm the final two, three years. It’s thrilling. It’s clearly an away recreation, but it surely’s thrilling to be on a course that I’ve come to know actually, very well the previous few years. Chicago is a superb golf city. A barely stuffed golf market, you would possibly say. I feel the keenness for the occasion goes to be enormous. These occasions are at all times nice. I’m actually trying ahead to it.
Q. Not stunned to see you named crew captain due to your work with Medinah. The one barely shocking a part of it was in 2028, clearly it’s again in Australia, and I began considering, properly, perhaps Luke Donald has set a brand new precedent the place any individual can captain twice. I used to be curious, that is trying manner forward, however was there any dialogue, hey, perhaps that is nice for the Worldwide Crew to have some continuity and provide you with an opportunity to captain in your house nation as properly?
GEOFF OGILVY: I simply suppose we’ll see how we go on that one. We’ll deal with ‘26 and Medinah. We’ll hopefully win the match after which work that out subsequent time. We’re simply centered on ‘26 in the meanwhile.
We’ve acquired to kind of inform on the management group when you’d like, its not a proper group. You guys can put the items along with who that’s — Ernie and Trevor and Adam Scott could be very concerned and Camillo and Mike Weir and all of the individuals who have collective expertise with the Presidents Cup. We’ll put our heads collectively, it’s a crew effort. Clearly the crew occasion for ‘26 in Chicago. Then we’ll deal with that one and make any choices about the rest after that.
Q. Then I wished to ask about crew identification. I do know it’s at all times been one of many large challenges for Presidents Cup, it appears, due to the massive cultural variations in comparison with Crew Europe. Ernie Els, I believed, was the primary one that actually had a significant deal with that. You’ve acquired your badge and the whole lot. How do you suppose that’s developed within the final couple years. Is that one thing you’re taking a look at as considered one of your enormous priorities as properly?
GEOFF OGILVY: Completely. Ernie, it was kind of a stroke of — it’s a stroke of genius, actually. He actually understood that we kind of wanted kind of the protect that he got here up with, along with his — it’s kind of like a banner or an emblem that we will all kind of unite below. It’s undoubtedly, as you say, bringing individuals from southern hemisphere, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Canada, South America — we’re kind of bringing from all corners of the globe. To kind of create that kind of play below one banner factor, he felt actually strongly about it.
It’s been actually highly effective truly. It’s simply gotten stronger and stronger, the bond inside the group over the previous few Presidents Cups because the protect was launched, the discussion groups that go on on the telephones. They go on longer and longer earlier than and after the Presidents Cup. The banter is all there. I feel Presidents Cup is a bit bit extra entrance of thoughts for worldwide gamers exterior of the Presidents Cup years than it was earlier than, a bit extra just like the Europeans within the Ryder Cup.
It was a terrific transfer from Ernie. He actually perceive what the crew wanted, and it was the precise time. We’re a crew once we flip as much as the match on Monday now. Whereas typically it will take lots of the week to actually join.
But it surely’s a gaggle that’s collectively. In a two-year cycle, it’s at all times collectively and at all times speaking and mentioning the Presidents Cup.
Additionally, to the protect, we have now younger youngsters come as much as us now kind of aspiring, who’ve grown up simply solely figuring out the protect because the Worldwide Crew rising up, aspiring to place it on their shirt someday or their hat. It’s been a very good factor. I feel we’ve kind of — we’ve navigated that problem I feel that’s pure with the Worldwide Crew, and we’ve created a very good crew unity, and it’s simply up now to kind of get the system for the week of the match proper.
Q. Two issues, Geoff. One, from the golf course perspective, is there any a part of you that’s type of excited that the primary go-round at Medinah doesn’t have a rating hooked up to it like 20-under, but it surely’s match play?
GEOFF OGILVY: Yeah, I feel that’s undoubtedly — I feel there’s just a few benefits. That’s nice. I feel the golf world on the whole, most of you guys most likely as properly, are a bit too centered on rating relative to par deciding whether or not a course is sweet or dangerous, and it’s actually arbitrary the place you place par. So I don’t suppose it actually issues, however everyone does deal with it.
Having a match play occasion the primary time anyone goes there’s actually distinctive, and I feel a novel alternative for the work that we did for Medinah, that the course that we’ve seen and the photographs that get hit and the selections that must get made, it feels prefer it’s going to ask some powerful questions, however the programs that ask powerful questions often have pleasurable outcomes to kind of watch and play.
Hopefully it seems properly, and it’s good. Additionally, the Presidents Cup, these crew occasions are so thrilling, and the environment and vitality is so excessive, it is going to be — it’s good that the primary occasion is match play and that it’s the Presidents Cup that’s going to be there. It’s going to be enjoyable to observe.
I do not know — I feel we have now an thought of how the course goes to play, however you by no means actually know till the week and the way the climate’s going to be. I’m going to be a really observer to see how the work we did kind of performs out when the most effective golfers on this planet are taking part in on it.
Q. Thanks. Going again to your captaincy, and who is aware of the place we’re going to be a 12 months from now, however are you able to see the TOUR ever relenting on any certified or respectable LIV gamers being a part of the Worldwide Crew?
GEOFF OGILVY: When you requested me that two years in the past, I’d have stated no, but it surely looks like — and that is only a feeling, and also you guys most likely all have related emotions — that it’s a bit bit nearer perhaps now than it was two years in the past. I’ve completely no thought if that may transfer even nearer between now and Medinah.
In some unspecified time in the future within the golf world, it’s going to get aligned, and if that occurs within the subsequent 16 months, that might be cool as a result of there’s some good gamers from the worldwide aspect of issues on that aspect of the ledger, when you like.
Yeah, I’ll be selecting from the pool of gamers that’s put in entrance of me and lead it to smarter individuals than me to work out issues like that.
Q. At what level do that you must know what the pool seems to be like main into the matches? Three months out? Six months? What?
GEOFF OGILVY: We make the captain’s picks — I feel the automated picks are after the BMW historically, and I feel the captain’s picks are kind of per week later after East Lake.
We would want a bit extra time than that clearly. It’s not apples to apples anymore. The information and the stats, and also you solely have the majors actually to do a direct comparability between how individuals are taking part in. It might should be a little bit of time for positive. I hadn’t actually even considered how a lot time that might should be.
You’d most likely need the key season, I’d think about, as a result of they’re actually the occasions that you just spotlight as a result of they’re the best stress occasions and everyone’s there. You’ll have the most effective kind of sense of feeling for kind of comparability from kind of one to the opposite.
Q. You had talked about crew unity. I’m curious when you can communicate to crew starvation to really exit and win this factor. Clearly you’ve acquired Adam Scott and Hideki, they’ve performed on a bunch of those. You then’ve acquired Tom Kim who’s 22, 23 years outdated. He’s performed on two already. These guys clearly discuss truly going out and doing it.
I’m simply curious now within the group conversations or clearly from your individual management perspective, when you may communicate to the starvation to really go and defeat the Individuals.
GEOFF OGILVY: The starvation is there for positive. After I first acquired concerned in Presidents Cup within the mid 2000s, I feel the starvation was there for the week after which it will dissipate shortly after which it will disappear for 2 years after which come again the week of the match. It’s unimaginable to be at considered one of these occasions and never be motivated to win.
I feel with the crew unity and the collective group, Adam’s performed 11 of those now. Hideki is on 6, I feel. That’s lots of disappointing Sundays. That simply provides gasoline to the hearth. There’s a burning willpower that’s within the group that could be very envious. Each trophy ceremony, once we watch the U.S. Crew has the trophy, it seems to be like lots of enjoyable. It’s equally as disappointing to be on the opposite aspect of issues.
Disappointment often fuels motivation, so the group could be very captivated with it and really decided to kind of stability the ledger, when you like, and begin profitable this match a bit extra recurrently.
As I stated, it simply seems to be a lot enjoyable to win. They’re unimaginable occasions to play anyway, however it will be extremely rewarding and a tremendous expertise to share with these guys like Adam and Hideki, who’ve been via so many defeat ins this match to kind of assist them style victory on the finish of the week could be actually particular.
I feel the younger guys recognize that too. You talked about Tom and Min Woo will most likely be again, I’m positive. These younger guys who’re kind of getting occurring their Presidents Cup journeys actually really feel kind of the very long time kind of disappointments that Adam and Hideki have had and frustrations and actually wish to win for them, I feel.
The starvation is certainly there.
Q. I’m simply questioning when you can no less than identify one. Be happy to do extra, however what are some ways in which you wish to stamp your captaincy in your individual model? Like what’s one thing that you just wish to try this perhaps hasn’t been finished earlier than?
GEOFF OGILVY: Have them eat Vegemite on toast for breakfast each morning.
I’m probably not positive. Look, I’ve been concerned in seven of this stuff — Gary Participant, Greg Norman, Ernie Els, Nick Value, Trevor Immelman, Mike Weir — they’ve all introduced their very own taste to it. I’m not precisely positive what mine might be, if it’s intentional or it’s simply it’ll match my persona and examine on the sport.
I really like match play competitors. Match play is my favourite type of golf. I feel it’s the purest type of competitors that we will do in our sport. I really like this crew occasion. I’m probably not positive what might be totally different about my captaincy than anyone else’s.
I’ve simply tried to — alongside the journey, I’ve discovered lots from all of the captains that I’ve performed with and have assisted with and simply attempt to choose the good things they did and perhaps see some stuff that I feel that we will enhance on and issues we’ve finished very well, preserve enhancing them and preserve doing them higher and higher and attempt to put my very own factor.
I’m not fairly positive what that may appear to be, however I suppose we’ll discover out as we get nearer and nearer.
Q. Is designing the course a bonus?
GEOFF OGILVY: Look, I feel it’s a bonus once we flip up on Monday, however by Thursday, if touring professionals are something — the most effective talent, I feel, that touring professionals have over most different golfers is they will be taught a golf course actually shortly.
The caddies are nice. The gamers are actually good — we’re superb at kind of selecting up the best way to play a course fast. I feel, by the point we tee off on Thursday, something that I will help the gamers out with with what we did and the way we had been hoping individuals would play the course, I think about that the U.S. Crew can have it fairly labored out by then.
This can be a bit benefit pre-tournament, however by the point we get to Thursday morning, it is going to be fairly nullified.
Q. Don’t chortle at this. That is critical stuff. I’m off to a terrific begin. Having been concerned in, I feel, seven of those as both an assistant or a participant, who’s accountable for the swag that goes into the crew room, and the way vital is that for setting the tone for the week?
GEOFF OGILVY: Properly, that’s the captain and the captain’s spouse. Bree might be swag grasp, I’d say, behind the crew.
Look, these occasions are very — particularly the primary time you get entangled, as you guys have all heard and also you stroll into your crew room, and it’s like Christmas. It’s wonderful, kind of the extent of thought and a spotlight to element that goes into this. You get items and swag rained on you, and it’s a tremendous expertise.
After some time, after you’ve been via — I’m positive Adam might be — Scottie and Hideki are most likely sick of getting free stuff. So be considerate. I don’t suppose it’s an excessive amount of of an impact. It does make you’re keen on the week if you first begin taking part in the match. Simply everyone loves getting free stuff.
We’ll put a little bit of thought into it. There might be a little bit of Australian taste concerned. They’ll all get cuddly Koala teddy bears, perhaps, Greg Norman in a Cobra hat. The swag is likely one of the enjoyable aspect advantages to the match, however I don’t suppose it really impacts how the match performs out. It’s simply a type of enjoyable aspect issues. It’s good to make the crew, you already know.
Q. Neatest thing you’ve ever gotten?
GEOFF OGILVY: Oh, my goodness. You’ve put me on the spot. There’s plenty of good things. I can’t even — we’ve acquired this wonderful kind of woven fruit ball factor that Trevor and Carminita acquired that was made by tribes in Africa that also smelled like the hearth they had been constructing round, if that is sensible. It nonetheless had the scent of Africa, and that was wonderful.
Most captains often have some kind of contact to their nationality and their homeland. That was actually particular. We get plenty of devices and technological stuff and funky stuff. It’s often the one which’s kind of the private contact from the house nation that they’re the most effective ones and so they’re those that often find yourself on the mantelpiece or on the e book shelf at dwelling. However that one was actually cool.
Q. Simply curious, Montreal was such an odd opening two days with the 5-0s going both manner. To come back again from that utterly on Friday appears so enormous. Then it simply type of turned towards you on Saturday. I’m curious if, after that Cup was over, if the captains and vice captains sat down and kind of had a postmortem, how in depth you talked about perhaps what went mistaken on Saturday, what may have been finished otherwise. If there’s any conclusions that you may share with us from that.
GEOFF OGILVY: We completely, we had some debriefs and a few postmortems. As disappointing as Thursday was, Friday was equally as thrilling and satisfying. Thursday typically is a bit little bit of perhaps an aberration, arduous to learn an excessive amount of into.
However because the match will get going and the way we react to what occurs, and kind of — the Presidents Cup is exclusive in that we get to kind of match as much as the Ryder Cup. They put blind groups in. We get to kind of match up, go towards — they put a crew, we put a crew, they put a crew, we put a crew. That’s a very attention-grabbing facet, and that offers us — it doesn’t give us management, but it surely’s one other factor to consider that we will enhance on.
I feel we clearly did a terrific job on Friday, however that was extra of an vitality factor with the crew. We did a terrific job of turning across the Thursday disappointment and created a terrific, constructive environment on Friday.
Naturally typically after such highs — you guys had been most likely principally there. That final inexperienced when Si Woo holed that putt in the dead of night was a fairly particular second for our crew. Power like that often has a hangover, and the best way to greatest take care of that subsequent time, I don’t suppose we’ll have one other 0-5, 5-0 Thursday, Friday, that doesn’t occur fairly often.
However you’ll be able to undoubtedly be taught from stuff and the way we reacted and the way we managed the vitality contained in the crew was a very powerful factor. All of us had our ideas, and we had been debriefing on Monday morning, with our Monday morning hangovers after Montreal. We had been speaking about that and considering straight in direction of Chicago and the way can we do higher subsequent time and what did we be taught from that?
I don’t suppose I’ll be sharing too many conclusions, however we undoubtedly — you be taught lots from excessive conditions like that. I feel if it’s 3-2, 2-3, 3-2, 2-3 each session, there’s most likely much less to be taught. With the massive excessive swings, with the highs and lows, there’s lots to be taught. Hopefully we’ve picked up a bit bit. As I stated, we most likely gained’t see Thursday and Friday like that once more.
Each single time we do that, I feel we be taught and we get higher at it. The scores — the ultimate scores don’t actually appear to be it, however I feel they had been fairly compelling and fairly shut, each the final two, although they regarded like by the final hour they weren’t, however they had been nearer than the ultimate rating regarded, I feel.
We simply plan the whole lot we will and attempt to do higher subsequent time. Yeah, we undoubtedly talked about it.
Q. If I can do a fast followup, I used to be truly going to say that. I feel the variety of holes gained in Montreal was both lifeless even or the Individuals had been up one or two on the finish of it, and but you’ve a rating that finally ends up trying actually lopsided. A part of that’s to go to your conclusion, yeah, it’s nearer than it seems to be, however perhaps is there a tactical motive that it finally ends up lopsided? Are there causes which might be controllable? Simply curious what you consider that, or if it’s simply right down to small pattern measurement and luck of the draw in relation to that stuff?
GEOFF OGILVY: I don’t know, we did see that. I feel we gained extra holes or no less than an equal quantity of holes when you go on holes for the entire thing. It actually got here right down to, when you sorted via the ashes of the information, it was the 18th gap.
It fairly often is. Typically this stuff don’t get to the 18th gap, these matches, and so they’re a bit extra lopsided every manner, the matches, however lots of matches went right down to 18. The U.S. Crew managed to win 18 greater than us.
Is {that a} technique factor? Is it a matchup factor? Is it a teammate factor? Is it an vitality factor? There’s most likely lots of the whole lot.
We additionally ran right into a little bit of a buzz noticed. We had Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, and Collin Morikawa, arguably the 4 greatest golfers on this planet final 12 months in September, and if you’re taking part in like they had been, all coming off the summers like they did, that’s if you’re holing putts on the final gap like they did as a result of they’d been doing all of it summer season.
So I feel there’s lots of components. The U.S. Crew closed out the 18th gap, and people evens and 1-ups and 1-downs on the 18th gap, they did a greater job than us. It’s as much as us to work out if there’s something we may have finished about that and subsequent time doing it higher.
THE MODERATOR: We’ll wrap issues up there, Geoff. Thanks for becoming a member of us.
