Colin Jost’s debut Ryder Cup TV offers a brief appearance after curtain

Farmingdale, NY – at 7:30 am in the middle of a flood in Bethpage Black, player field in Ryder Cup on Thursday was reduced to one.

While the rest were waiting for the rain inside, a single man stood under a makeshift tent on the side of a green practice and imitated his golf swing. A slow and comprehensive bow after another. Finally, after a while, the golf played by a voice. He snapped, turning his energy towards the television resting on the other side of the makeshift tent. A few meters away, one of some elongated passers -by cut off the sound of rain with a realization.

“Hey! This is Colin Jost!”

For those outside the small golf media bubble, it was not immediately clear why jost, Long member of Snl of Snl Long and the successor of Weekend the throne held by such legends of shows as set Meyers and MacDonald ratewas standing in the rain in the Ryder Cup.

In a Ryder cup where the most visible LIVE performer was the main singer of a prominent Long Island Billy Joel Cover band (Mike Delguidice BY Big shots)Your decision to add a week of working on TV seemed insignificant. He is, according to the most common determinations, a list A, married to the actress Scarlett Johansson and participating in the most coveted work of the day in modern comedy. Except Snl Stardom, he claims about 900,000 followers on Instagram, a more selling book and a occasional cement as a host Jeopardy of pop culture.

Why is Colin Jost on Ryder Cup? The long answer is boring: his friends in Omaha Productions and T-Mobile managed to cut an “alternative pregame show” in Bethpage at the intersection of College AND Manningcast. The show, called Breakfast at BethpageIt would give golf fans a new way in the Ryder Cup led by a famous famous face. Duty will also Give you the opportunity to display another vibration in a much wider comedy skill than 30 rock – giving Jost a second major sports concert after the 2024 Olympic Olympic competition in Tahiti.

But why is jost hereIn the middle of Thursday’s crash, practicing a shaky thought? The shortest answer is much more detecting.

“This is such a small thing for me, but it’s making sure my club is the first thing turning back, not my hands,” he said. “I was working with this great PGA teacher, Ivan Foster, and I think he was quoting Bobby Jones. He said:” If you ever see someone whose hand moves in front of the club in the back, always have to bet against them. “”

Your dissertation for the nuance of his shake trends continues for a few seconds before stopping and lighting a quick lightning smile.

“I think I’ve already lost the room,” he said.

Yes and no. The truth is that I am closer to a rocket scientist than a swinging instructor but I done Look Jost and Eli Manning to completely disassemble their opponents in a match in the famous Ryder Cup in the previous afternoon. And me I have Seen his unique claw glove with a long coercive, which is more or less a red paper for the golf crazy. And I know that golf holds mythical power over people at his intersection of work ethics with high and ruthless IQ. So yes, he has lost me in detail, but he has tied me to the substance.

Why is it here in Bethpage? Because he loves golf, and because, for someone who loves golf, the chance to sit in the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black is an offer you don’t refuse. Salary control, television show and chance to create a name in the sports media? This too is useful. But the biggest deal is not that he is Colin Jost, Weekend BY Snl; That’s what he is Colin Jost, 8.1 by Rockland Country Club.

There is something deeper than the Rock and the stick that makes Jost Love Golf. Something that could probably be informed by more than two decades of his as a writer and a member of the cast in Snl The staff, surviving the almost uninterrupted grind of a new show, a new host and a set of new ideas every week. Jost says he has sought wisdom from While writing, Legendary Tome of Stephen King in the craft. He learned to read that good writing is actually not very complicated.

“There are no short cuts. You can’t do it in part time. Or whenever you are in the mood to do it,” he says. “It just has to make it”

Jost I also know (maybe more or less well) that good writing holds a inherent humility. Mostly, it is about going from many to little.

“Writing is just rewriting,” he said. “Getting shorter things is always making them better.”

Of course, you don’t need a genius to recognize this worldview can also be directly applied to Golf – a sport with a lot of humility, a little shortcut and a mostly dangerous road to reduce the results. Jost does not make this connection in a rainy ryder cup on Thursday. Maybe he doesn’t have it.

Or maybe, for the TV star at the center of a green practice in Bethpage Black, it’s just clear. No one is lit in Ryder Cup by chance. That is the kind of things you let go of everything to do … even in the rain that is poured.