With most of the Tours taking their annual midseason excursion breaks, we in the end get to the unofficial but regularly very gripping occasions of the golf year. We kick off with the ISPS Handa Melbourne World Cup of Golf. (Wow, that is a mouthful!)
We get groups from 28 nations, all converging on The Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia. This route is one of the Sandbelt guides and has hosted the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in 2001, the 2009 Women's Australian Open and all 3 of the Australian Triple Crown occasions. This is a category route, parents!
The World Cup of Golf is a seventy two-hole stroke play event, but rounds 1 and 3 are four-balls at the same time as rounds 2 and four are foursomes. The route will play 7308 yards, the vegetables typically stimp at better than 12, and rough climate is expected -- just what you want for a nerve-wracking group occasion.
Of course you knew I turned into going to post a photo of Team USA -- I am a US citizen, of route -- but pgatour.Com's power rankings don't want us. We're wide variety 4 behind Australia, Korea and England. Granted, Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith could be a tough pairing and both are absolutely acquainted with the Sandbelt, so it is tough to argue with them as the favorites. Still, I like the Kuch and Kyle Show to offer them a run.
The TV times at GC have me a bit confused. It appears that they're going to alternate between the World Cup and the ET's Hong Kong Open -- a couple of hours of one, then switch to the other, back and forth. At any rate, they've got the World Cup starting at 8pm ET Wednesday night , so that should get us started. Golf in Australia is always interesting!
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