Winner: Europe 16.5-11.5
Around the wider world of golf: Believe it or not, there was quite a bit of golf going on this weekend. John Cook won the Nature Valley First Tee Open on the Champions Tour (Lee Janzen and junior partner Christopher Meyers won the pro-junior team event); Tyler McCumber won the Ecuador Open on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; Hiroyuki Fujita won the Asia-Pacific Open Golf Championship Diamond Cup on the Asian Tour; Hao Tong Li won the Jianye Tianzhu Henan Open on the PGA TOUR China; Kanphanitnan Muangkhumsakul won the Taiwan LPGA Party Golfers Open on the TLPGA; and Miki Sakai won the Miyagi TV Cup Dunlop Ladies Open on the JLPGA (the Constructivist has details).
Well, the European Team did it again... And that means we're in for some other spherical of finger-pointing and second-guessing.
Apparently it's already started in the American Team room. Phil Mickelson's feedback inside the after-spherical presser appeared to signify that Tom Watson's "technique to crew management" didn't set particularly nicely with many gamers at the crew. I may additionally do a put up about the ones matters later within the week, however one factor is very clear:
It don't matter what the Captain does if the players don't put up the numbers. Wouldn't you all agree?
In this brief submit I'll just factor out a few excessive factors from each groups.
The top point getter for the Euros became Justin Rose with a 3-zero-2 report and the pinnacle US player changed into Patrick Reed with three-0-1. Rose has been handed over in beyond Ryder Cups -- it truly is unlikely to appear ever once more! -- and Patrick Reed was widely maligned with the aid of enthusiasts and the media earlier than the occasion. Again, it is not going to occur now.
And I need to factor out, for those who are satisfied the Euros have a "magic device" that creates giant killers, that the only US player uniformly singled out for reward with the aid of European stalwarts like Darren Clarke became Reed. In truth, Colin Montgomerie told NBC, "If the US crew had 12 Patrick Reeds, they wouldn't have been trailing 10-6 Saturday night time."
Neither captain did particularly properly with their choices: The Euro picks completed three-5-2, the United States picks 2-five-2. (So a great deal for the "magic gadget.") The US novices did some distance higher than the Euro newbies -- 6-2-5 vs five-3-1 (it is 8.5 factors to 5.Five) -- even though I think it's safe to mention each groups seem to have vivid futures.
But none of these stats is as significant as sixteen.5-eleven.5, that's Team Europe's margin of victory. (I suppose even those numbers will faded in comparison to the range of champagne and beer bottles emptied in celebration this week!)
And therefore I submit this bittersweet Limerick Summary (bittersweet for Americans like me) to salute the European Team on yet another dominating Ryder Cup win. Man, this is getting old...
A American Team
Soon determined itself swimming upstream
?Gainst the electricity of the contemporary
Team Europe, who weren?T
The underdogs they tried to seem. The photo came from this page at PGATOUR.com.
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