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<\/p>\nRyder Cup star Sam Burns has candidly revealed he was doing a poo when he got the call-up to Team USA.<\/p>\n
Burns, 27, opened up on how he learned he'd be heading out to Rome ahead of kicking off the competition alongside close pal Scottie Scheffler as they take on Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton in the opening foursomes clash on Friday (September 29).<\/p>\n
He perhaps offered up a little too much information about the exact moment captain Zach Johnson invited him to represent his nation at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club this week.<\/p>\n
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Sky Sports is bringing you 500 live football games to watch, as well access to Cricket, Golf, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA and more across eight<\/span> dedicated channels. Sky Sports is the <\/span>only way to watch all the action this year.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a322 a month<\/p>\n Speaking to Sirius XM, the world No. 21 said: \u201cWe got back to the house on Monday morning, and I had to go to the bathroom – like, the bathroom, bathroom. <\/p>\n "Literally as soon as I sit down, Justin [Thomas] started texting me like \u2018have you heard anything yet?\u2019 and while I\u2019m responding to him, Zach calls me.<\/p>\n Who do you think will be the Ryder Cup MVP? Let us know in the comments section.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u201cSo of course I had to answer. He's like \u2018hey, as the captain of the US Ryder Cup team, I want to officially invite you'. I\u2019m like mid-poop and then I start crying because he just told me I\u2019m invited.<\/p>\n \u201cSo much is going on, while I\u2019m on the phone with him I'm trying to wipe, and get out of there, and also tell (his wife) Caroline. It was really cool. That's real life right there."<\/p>\n Burns, who was one of Johnson's six captain's picks, has fully embraced his first Ryder Cup appearance by shaving 'USA' into the side of his mullet – emulating Rickie Fowler's hair-do for the 2014 event. <\/p>\n He'll be hoping the result isn't the same as it was nine years ago at Gleneagles in Scotland as the defending champions aim to win on European soil for the first time in 30 years.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article31057836.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_2023-Ryder-Cup-Previews.jpg\")
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