Sunday Preview

I've a good five minutes to post something pithily upbeat, a tall order indeed. I'm just struggling to understand why you would bother to fly to Scotland only to phone it in in foursomes....<rim shot> I'll be here all week folks, please remember to tip your waitress.

The overnight press is being quite harsh on our Cap'n. Tom, and it may well turn out that all those

souls who voiced concerns about the age gap between Watson and the team may have been onto something. But it's equally true that the Euros have better and deeper talent, and anyone familiar with the event will tell you that foursomes separate the men from the Junior Ryder Cuppers.

I went to length to defend Tom not sending his young guns out Friday afternoon, and stand by that call. In the interim we find out that a 3:00 a.m. text from Webb Simpson may have had an outsized effect on Watson's decision-making regarding his picks, but one match is a really short leash for any player.

I was completely perplexed when I heard Friday afternoon that Phil and Keegan weren't in the Saturday morning fourball lineup, never dreaming he would bench them the entire day but also knowing that they're a significantly weaker team in foursomes. Given that short leash, wouldn't it have made more sense to leave them on the bench Friday afternoon. They won Friday morning (though the afternoon pairings were due while the match was still in doubt), but they were really scraping it around.

For now we'll have to console ourselves with a Rickie-Rory singles match, as well as a Whistling Straights mulliggan (Bubba vs. Kaymer). I don't see a huge comeback in these cards, does anyone?  Though if it tightened, Dubuisson in that final match could be swashbuckling good fun....