Kevin Kisner has never been afraid to speak his mind and when it comes to the Ryder Cup selection process, Kisner let it be known last week that he’s no fan of how it works.
On Golf.com's Subpar podcast with Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz last week, Kisner – who has played on one Presidents Cup team but never made a Ryder Cup team – said he keeps getting the same phone call every two years including this past year when U.S. captain Steve Stricker did not add him to his squad.
“I don’t know, man. They don’t like me, I guess,” Kisner said on the podcast. “I’ve had the same phone call for about four years in a row from about every captain: ‘Man, you were on the team and then you didn’t play well in the playoffs.’ I’m like, ‘OK, bud.’
“I don’t know. I didn’t give a s---. It’s too political for me, and I don’t really care, I don’t really get caught up in that s---. I love Stricker to death, he’s my favorite captain, but he didn’t pick me this year, which I get. I didn’t play worth a s--- in the playoffs.”
Kisner has finished inside the top 15 in Ryder Cup points only once when he was 14th in 2018. Known as one of the PGA Tour’s toughest match-play competitors, Kisner has a victory and a runner-up finish in the Dell Technologies Match Play Championship and he went 2-0-1 in his lone Presidents Cup appearance.
He jumped into the Ryder Cup discussion last fall after winning the Wyndham Championship, just three weeks before Stricker made his six captain’s selections. Kisner missed the cut and finished T66 in his two playoff events after the Wyndham victory.
Kisner said he will continue to play his best and if he never makes a Ryder Cup team, he can live with it.
“Whatever, it’s fine. I don’t really care,” Kisner said on the podcast. “I love playing team golf, I love representing the U.S., I’d love to be on any team possible.
“But if my career ended tomorrow, I’m perfectly content with everything I’ve accomplished. If you had told me 15 years ago, you’re going to have four wins, play in a Presidents Cup, play in 35 straight majors, or whatever the hell I’ve done, I would have said, ‘You’re f-ing crazy.’ ”
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