USA stages a brilliant singles comeback before Shane Lowry's 18th hole birdie clinches a tie followed by Tyrrell Hatton's halve to win at Bethpage, 15-13.
OK, I hate the "retain" nonsense, and it's a bit weird to user it in the header when they won outright.
The Ryder Cup will remain with a European squad that captured just one of Sunday’s 12 Singles matches and did so against a USA squad that at one point earl on trailed in 9 of 11 matches.Sam Ryder’s cup and the ingenious, never-over-until-it’s-over 28-point format remains alive, thriving, and captivating as ever after Europe edged the United States, 15-13.The Americans commenced the day seven points back on home soil and in danger of a loss so terrible that it would have produced Task Forces for the Task Force, class-action lawsuits against Keegan Bradley from the Society For Data Golf, and maybe even a Presidential commission. (Or at least an I told you to pick yourself social tirade by Friday’s guest of honor.)But with the Americans using Sunday Singles to show the heart, passion, and the quality of golf they’d been playing all year, the USA salvaged the 45th matches and their dignity.
Agreed, though they still have some 'splainin' to do about Saturday....
Saturday’s turd-show featuring $750-paying jackwagons, putzes of many stripes, and other assorted nimrods masquerading as fans, was rendered a largely forgotten storyline thanks to Sunday’s picturesque day at Bethpage State Park. There were still fan attempts at interfering with the matches and an exhausting number of dim attempts at humor. And we’ll never know how many European holes were lost to the antics. A double-digit number is not out of the question.
I'd love Geoff to expand on that last bit, because this seems to have been the PGA of Americas intention in going to this venue. And as we get into Envelopegate below, I'll leave a marker here.
Sunday’s Singles gave the world the kind of tense back-and-forth duel that had been expectedgoing into the week, headlined by dramatic opening winds from New York’s Cameron Young and Justin Thomas. But for a while, the gargantuan scoreboards were awash in neutral “Tied” grey, with only Xander Schauffele’s 4&3 win over Jon Rahm falling into the category of statement-making, red-on-the-board.Match four’s showdown between Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy delivered plenty of thrills even if both players appeared to be running on fumes after four sessions and high-intensity duels.“Playing all five matches is a grind,” said Scheffler after winning 1UP. “Rory and I even chatted about that a little bit today.”McIlroy confirmed.“I felt like I was running on empty today. I gave so much of myself the first two days and I tried as hard as I could out there against Scottie. Scottie and I both didn’t have our best. It was a bit of a pillow fight if I’m honest.”
Courtesy of team and PGA of America “observer” guest badges, a who’s who of CEO’s, stars and real-life, unpaid influencers went all 18 inside the ropes to watch the superstars. McIlroy was once again subjected to an overload of lame gallery comments as he was close to hitting shots. Low points included at the 10th tee, where his subsequently dodgy tee shot allowed Scheffler to win the par-4 with a bogey, and again at the 18th where he had to back off his fairway bunker shot.
Isn't this what they wanted? How else to explain picking Bethpage and then changing it to Hazeltine?
Honestly, I would have preferred Rory to be matched against Bryson. A little bad blood goes a long way in these things. Although that incendiary pairing might have elicited even more boorishness from the rabble.
Somehow I expected Shane Lowry to be in the middle of it all:
“Look, we were all prepped on [a close finish] last night,” Shane Lowry said. “You don’t want to take any complacency out there to that arena against those players. The U.S. Team are 12 amazing players, and we knew it was going to be very hard.”Coming off a match-tying birdie at the 15th against Russell Henley, Lowry would have a shot at the Cup-retaining points necessary to reach 14.“I didn’t envision myself going up the 18th needing a birdie to retain the Ryder Cup,” Lowry said. “It was, yeah, like the worst two hours of my life. It was horrible. It was. But I said to my caddie walking down 18, ‘I’ve got an opportunity to do the greatest thing I’ve ever done today,’ and I did it. And I’m very proud of myself.”Henley drove into the 18th’s left fairway bunker and hit an incredible recovery to 9 feet 8 inches from the deep mess of spread out of puzzle piece bunkers. Lowry countered with a shot inside Henley, who left his putt short to set up the Irishman as this year’s European hero.Lowry sank the 6’3” putt and broke out into a raucous 18th green celebration as teammates joined him. Captain Luke Donald grinned but largely retained his stoic demeanor in hopes of capturing Europe’s fifth outright victory on American soil.
He didn't look excited at all, did he? But how about that Ruthian called shot?
What I loved was the symmetry, though perhaps not the exact right concept. In those earlier 18th hole denouements, Young-Rose and Thomas-Fleetwood, the Yanks had their balls inside the Euros but on the same lines, and paid them off to great effect. Here it flipped, and Lowry would have had no doubt about his line. Unfortunately, despite having played great on a track that was perhaps a bit long for him, Russell Henley made the unforgiveable error there in not getting a shortish putt to the hole.
Shall we segue to the Tour Confidential gang for their take? Again, rhetorical:
The Europeans held on against the Americans in the 2025 Ryder Cup to become the firstroad team to win in a decade. Europe had big leads after the first two days before the Americans dominated Sunday singles and closed the gap to two late in the day before ultimately falling 15-13. Players have said before how difficult it is to win a road Ryder Cup, yet Europe got it done this weekend. How did Europe pull it off?Zephyr Melton: They executed their plan to perfection on Friday and then just flat-out out-played the Americans on Saturday. (It helps when you’re making seemingly every putt you look at.) The Euros regressed to the mean in the final session, but by then the cushion they’d built up was enough to hold on for victory.Jack Hirsh: They embraced and relished playing as a team, which is not something that’s easy to do in golf. It’s very clear that Europe consistently plays greater than the sum of its parts each and every Ryder Cup. The U.S. keeps searching for answers on how to succeed in the Ryder Cup (Europe has won all but three Cups this century) and it’s literally staring them in the face.Josh Sens: Agreed, Jack. But I also think that’s a deep-rooted cultural thing that’s hard to change. This week was like a metaphor for the character of each side: the Europeans romped when it was all about partnering up; the Americans rounded into form when they were going it alone.
Cultural or structural? Europe most certainly rides the underdog thing especially well. Combine that with the ability to return your entire winning team from two years ago, and that's a pretty big advantage.
On Captains - Again we'll lede with Geoff, on the Eurodeity:
“We knew New York was not going to be easy,” Donald said. “It was rough. It was brutal at timesout there. It really was. It was nasty sometimes.“But I think when you prep these guys enough and you communicate enough with these guys and you give them a plan and an idea and a theme and a motivation, they don’t really need motivating, but you know, the theme causes the cohesion of the team.”Over-analysis of Donald’s captaincies will continue for months and even years. We’ll find out what thread count sheets and the brand of mattresses he had moved into the Garden City Hotel to improve rest. We’ll learn more about the stop-gap light-blocking strips brought in to ensure full darkness, and study the shampoo chosen by Luke and his longtime sidekick, confidante, and devoted wife Diane to make everyone feel better about their hair and therefore, their Ryder Cup games.
I agree with Geoff that Luke's discussion of shampoos and thread counts was quite off-putting. yeah, it has to be done, but I'm guessing the other side was comfortable as well....
Let me vary from conventional wisdom here with a quote that might seem to you from out of the blue:
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
I know, you didn't see that one coming. But I think the Euros have pulled off a great scam on the U.S., convincing them that it's all about a system, or data or some elusive Vulcan Mind Meld.
I was thinking of inserting Tom Watson's quote from the infamous 2014 post-match presser, but perhaps it's even better to excerpt this longish bit about the aftermath of that day:
The long-term consequences
The public feud led to a major institutional overhaul of the U.S. Ryder Cup program.
- The "Task Force": The PGA of America, which manages the U.S. Ryder Cup team, convened a "Task Force" of former players and captains to revamp the entire selection and management process.
- Player empowerment: Mickelson's core complaint about a lack of player involvement was directly addressed. The new system, championed by the "Task Force," gave players a much greater voice in the team's direction and the selection of the captain.
- Improved results: The new approach was immediately successful, with the U.S. team winning the Ryder Cup in 2016 at Hazeltine, ending a three-match losing streak. The new process, ironically, failed to produce a win in Europe in 2018, leading some to question Mickelson's original logic.
- Lasting bad blood: Despite the organizational changes, the personal relationship between Watson and Mickelson was permanently damaged. Years later, Watson continued to express disappointment with Mickelson's public behavior, calling his comments "sour grapes".
That penultimate bullet is a laughfest. The triumphalism at Hazeltine didn't survive the opening session in Paris, and player empowerment has turned out to be a mixed blessing at best. Maybe, and I'm just spitballin' here, it matters who you're empowering.....
It probably also makes sense, before we get to the harder captain to evaluate, to note how Luke's selection evolved out of the mayhem of Henrik Stenson's betrayal. Whatever we think of LIV at this weird juncture, Henrik proves to us that the Euros can be just as self-serving and disingenuous as the Yanks. Maybe not quite at the level of Mickelson, but Henrik should be banished from polite Euro society for his move. He signed a contract top captain the Euros including a clause stating that he wouldn't jump, then did so as the ink was drying....
The U.S had a very similar problem in the run-up to this cup, and it led to a cascading series of errors. When this event was awarded to Bethpage, the captains were assumed to be Phil and Sergio. Each of those guys deserves to spend eternity in Golf Siberia, but for the former I'd argue that it's more about 2014 than LIV.
I don't subscribe to the theory that the problem with the U.S. is that they don't care. If you watched them out there, especially a guy like JT, you can see how badly they want it. But we all know who should have been the U.S. captain, and it's easy to compare and contrast. Despite his reservations at the time, when Europe told Luke Donald they needed him, he answered the call (and might even be willing to consider a third go, though he probably should give it a pass). When the U.S. went to Tiger and told him he was needed, he responded that he needed to wash his hair that week. See the minor difference?
If you're wondering why I end up rooting for Europe, you don't need to go any further than Tiger and Phil. Of course, Patrick has made his won unique contributions thereto....
So, Keegs? I'll lede with this off-the-wall take:
Keegan Bradley didn’t win Ryder Cup but gained something valuable
So who’s going to be your U.S. captain in 2027, when the Ryder Cup is played in Ireland and the team is anchored by Scottie Scheffler?Scheffler offered the answer Sunday night, just minutes after the two-point, wildly close U.S. defeat, was signed and sealed. He was being interviewed by Damon Hack of NBC Sports. Hackasked Scheffler about the American captain, Keegan Bradley. And then Scheffler, who was on four losing teams Friday morning and afternoon and Saturday morning and afternoon, got emotional. His voice cracked. For a second or two, he got stuck on his words.And that’s when you knew. Keegan Bradley will be offered the job again by the PGA of America, and he will absolutely take it.How can you be so sure? Because Scheffler and all the other 11 players were floored by the job that Bradley did, and because Ryder Cup captains are selected by a committee comprised of three players and three PGA of America officials. Bradley was chosen by a committee that included Zach Johnson, Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth. It’s likely that Scheffler will be on the committee to elect a captain for the next outing. Either way, he’ll have a loud and influential voice. Scheffler, a man who says exactly what he means, said this to Hack about his captain: “Keegan has been amazing.”
That would actually be a great idea, but it's not going to happen, and the reason it won't tells us everything we need to know about this clown show. That guy who couldn't give up a week of Call of Duty to visit Long Island will get the gig. His buddy J.P. McManus owns Adare Manor, and your humble blogger suspects that Tiger demurred this year yo help his buddy, leaving us to speculate as to what consideration might run in the opposite direction.
You can find any take you want on the Interwebs. I'll be kinder tan this guy, for instance:
Why Keegan Bradley is Captain Calamity: Classless behaviour, disastrous pairings and gaffes show appointing him to lead US team was a HORRIBLE mistake, writes OLIVER HOLT
Look, don't blame me, but I'm not strong enough to pass on this lede. I've always said that pairing Tiger and Phil was only the second stupidest thing Hal Sutton did that fateful Friday. Oakland Hills had all four Par-3's on either even or odd holes and he allowed Fred Funk, a man whose most notable skill was finding fairways but was a bottom-tier iron player, to play the tee shot on those long one-shotters). It turns out that, not only was Hal Sutton a bad captain, but he was a worse captain than any of could even imagine:
At the 2004 Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills, the US skipper Hal Sutton said during his Opening Ceremony speech that he wanted to thank his three kids for their support. His wife held up four fingers to remind him he had forgotten a child.
I'll give you a moment to collect yourselves....
What exactly did Bradley get wrong? I haven't bought into their Medinah-driven conclusions ever:
“I think I would have set the course up a little different,” he said on Sunday shortly after Europe withstood a ferocious rally to win the Ryder Cup 15-13.The U.S. captain has a say in the course setup and Bradley elected to cut the rough. As a result,there was little penalty for missing the fairway and most of the players were able to hit a high percentage of greens in regulation. It turned the Ryder Cup into a putting contest and the Euros dominated on the greens. NBC Sports analyst Brad Faxon recounted how he ran into European vice-captain Edoardo Molinari, who oversees the team’s data analytics, who was surprised that the setup favored the visitors.“He told me, ‘This is exactly playing into our hands.’ Not the way he thought that the Americans would set it up,” Faxon said.
It took away some of what makes American players such as Scottie Scheffler and reigning U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun special, and put shorter hitters such as Russell Henley and Collin Morikawa at a disadvantage. Harris English is another member of the USA team who does his best work on hard courses, not pushovers.
I still find it mystifying why those greens were so soft.... yes, we had some rain before the event started, but September was completely dry until then.
To me, the bad taste in the event and the lingering questions have to be about Saturday. They got beaten pretty badly on Friday and I was expecting Saturday to be a remake of The Empire Strikes Back:
Europe needed only two points to retain the Cup to start Sunday, although the Americans didn’t give up easily, put the first three points on the board and led the majority late. How surprising was Sunday’s effort? And where was that urgency the previous two days?Melton: You’ve got to give the Americans credit, they fought hard on Sunday to make it a heck of a lot closer than most thought it would ever get. With a more talented team (on paper, at least), the singles format was always going to play in their favor, and once they got some momentum, they really got things rolling throughout the afternoon.Hirsh: I agree with Zephyr, the American struggle in the Ryder Cup is really confusing given that they typically have the talent advantage. It certainly helped that Tommy Fleetwood and Rory McIlroy weren’t at their Sunday best, and frankly when you win the first three matches like they did, and in dramatic fashion on 18 like they were, that can have a cascading momentum effect. There was none of that Friday and Saturday.Sens: I don’t think the Americans lacked urgency the first two days. If anything, I suspect they wanted it so badly that they might have been pressing. It’s not a shock that they mounted a comeback, in part because the format is better suited to them but also, I would wager, but they were playing like they had nothing to lose.
But this is where those foursomes pairings open Keegan to second guessing:
After a dominating victory at Whistling Straits in 2021, the Americans were crushed two years ago in Rome. Now they’ve been on the wrong side of the scoreboard two years in a row. What didn’t change over the last two years that should have?Melton: For all that was made about Keegan Bradley breaking the mold as a captain, he seemed to make the same tactical errors that his predecessors fell victim to. The decision to roll out the Morikawa-English foursomes team twice is one that will be scrutinized for quite some time, as will sitting Cameron Young in the first session. While the Euros dial in their plan and stick to it, the Americans always seem to make gut calls that come back to bite them. This year was no different.Hirsh: I thought Keegan Bradley was supposed to breakup the boys club? The fact that Collin Morikawa was on the team despite having a terrible season was evidence to the contrary. It just seemed like Bradley was trying to make everyone happy instead of doing what he thought was right. The U.S. needs to blow up its entire Ryder Cup process and start over from scratch. And they should do it quietly. No task force, no pomp and circumstance captain’s selection. Just learn from what the Europeans do so well and apply it.Sens: Whenever the Americans lose, fans and players and pundits on this side of the Atlantic spend a lot of time agonizing over what went wrong, as if there has to be some hidden explanation, or some question that a task force can resolve. In this case, I think one of the explanations is that the Europeans had the better team. I’m not talking about World Rankings or any other power metrics. I’m talking about a mix of Ryder Cup veterans and young talent, most of them in good form, all of them absolutely thirsting for this event. Several top Americans, meanwhile, came into this event out of form. I think it reflects a particular kind of American arrogance to think that there must be some other reason, as if we can’t accept that the other team was simply stronger.
To me, the bigger takeaway is what bullshit all that Task Force nonsense was. And their triumphalism after Hazeltine and Whistling Straits was self defeating...
What was the best (and worst) captain’s decision of the week by both Luke Donald and Keegan Bradley?Melton: The previously mentioned Morikawa-English pairing was Bradley’s biggest head-scratcher. Running it back on the second day was borderline malpractice. I think the Euros played it about as well as they could have.Hirsh: Yeah I can’t think of a bigger blunder in recent Ryder Cup history than running Morikawa-English back against the same Euro team. It was like Bradley was conceding two wins to FleetwoodMac because they were so good. I also don’t understand why Ben Griffin played just two matches, give the guy a chance, you did pick him to play.I can’t think of poor decision by Luke Donald this week. He’s been class for the last three years since being named captain and the Euros would be wise to keep running it back with him. Can you believe he wasn’t even supposed to be captain in 2023?Sens: The Morikawa-English repeat was definitely a head-scratcher. But the course setup also appeared to be a factor. Conventional wisdom seems to be that the Americans are the bigger hitters who benefit from a bomb-and-gouge course. But as Edoardo Molinari of the European braintrust said before the event, he felt like the relatively easy setup played into the Europeans hands. I think it’s telling that the Europeans were so dominant in the opening six holes, which are some of the easiest on the course. The Americans fared better when the holes got tougher. In the future, maybe they’d be better off setting up a stiffer test.
You know what kind of player would have been helpful in that Saturday foursomes session? Let's see, how about a fiery personality that's also one of the best ball-strikers on Tour? Yeah, say a guy like Keegan Bradley might have been helpful, but Tiger couldn't be bothered.
With the U.S. seven points down heading into singles, there were no decisions that seemed to matter. But after Sunday? Each one could have made the difference....
My frustration is that Tiger is being allowed to skate for being a self-centered dick. There seems little doubt who I'll be cheering on in Ireland.
Let's finish with the Tc gang, although the clock is impinging:
Bethpage Black is known for its incredible difficulty, but the U.S. squad moved up tees and mowed down the rough to make it a birdie-fest over three days. What are your thoughts on that movie both from a strategic standpoint and TV-viewing experience?Melton: Neutering the Black made for a pretty bland viewing experience, IMO. Golf balls stuck where they landed and off line shots were seldom punished. I’ve played the course dozens of times and I’ve never seen it so benign. It took a lot of intrigue out of the event.Hirsh: It was terrible. Why go to a notoriously tough golf course (one of the hardest in the world) only to make it easy? I would have loved to watch a Ryder Cup where par might win some holes. What does it matter? Yes fans love birdies, but they love watching players grind too. Do people not like watching the U.S. Open?Sens: Agree. The obsession with birdies ignores the fact that par is irrelevant. It’s match-play, for cripes sake. In the heat of the Ryder Cup, the excitement doesn’t come from putting for birdie. It comes from putting for one less than your opponent. The setup was disappointing in that respect. That said, the soft conditions compounded the problem, and it wasn’t something anyone could control.
Yeah, I never loved the Bethpage choice, especially since it seemed so obviously in conflict with their preferred set-up. The more so since to PGA of America seemed to want to encourage boorish behavior from the crowds.
Who or what was the biggest surprise of the week for each team?Melton: Scottie going 1-4-0 is definitely up there for the Americans. For the Euros, I’ll go with Viktor Hovland’s health.Hirsh: How about Cam Young? Maybe “surprise” is the wrong word, but this was as much his coming-out party as his win last month. Hopefully this is the start of a tear that we all saw coming from him after his rookie season. Could also put Bryson DeChambeau’s 1.5-point dud here too.I’m with Zephyr here, tough news to learn Viktor has been dealing with a neck issue.Sens: I can’t top those. But probably worth mentioning J.J. Spaun on the American side. Not a shock that he played so well. But for his first go around in a Ryder Cup, he looked remarkably comfortable. On the flip side, I’d say Jon Rahm coming up relatively flat in his last two matches, given how deadly he’d been leading up to them.
Yeah, I think the U.S. maybe found a couple of studs there. They'll need them going forward.
Envelopegate - I don't think Keegan helped himself here:
Is the envelope rule one that should stay? Or does it need to be changed?Melton: Perhaps each team should have an on-site alternate in case of injury. It seems like the most logical solution.Hirsh: I don’t hate that idea Zeph, but I actually also don’t hate the envelope rule. I don’t think a team needs to be penalized for injury, especially for an event considered an “exhibition.” It’s a decent compromise and it worked out in the end this week. In fact, I think it probably benefited the Americans.Sens: I could live with either of those proposals. Or, each team puts out a captain or assistant captain to fill the slots.
First, Keegs started whining abut this when he was seven down, so not a good look.
It's not that it isn't subject to discussion, but Keegan's "It has to change before the next cup" is above his pay grade. I don't even agree with him on the merits. he was reacting as a guy who needed a miracle but, absent that huge deficit, it's not clear who is helped, since the guy in the envelope if the worst player on his team. I know anyone can turn it around, but if they were tied I don't think Keegs would have been upset by losing Harris English.
The only alternative is to have a reserve, but do we think Mav McNeely wanted to spend the week here as a back-up?
The Path Forward - see what you think of this:
The cascading failures of a Bethpage U.S. Ryder Cup
But hidden in Lowry’s answer is a kernel of truth that speaks to a much broader U.S. failure: The final two hours of Lowry’s singles match against Russell Henley on Sunday afternoon were the most discomfort he felt all weekend at Bethpage Black. That is reflective of this week’s uncomfortable — and unfortunate — truth: In nearly all ways, this U.S. Ryder Cup was a spectacular letdown.It will be easy (and tempting) to focus on just one area of the U.S. debacle: the leadership, the players, the stars, the crowd, the environment. It will be harder to remember that, from up close, the reality wasn’t nearly as simple. This American team was not just beaten at Bethpage, it was beaten everywhere, and in nearly every way.The biggest failures took place on the course. For the second straight Cup, a talented U.S. roster was roundly stomped in the team sessions, looking discombobulated and listless against a European onslaught. Depth was a problem again for the Americans, who saw a whopping one-third of the roster go winless at Bethpage, but the American star power wasn’t much better (save Xander Schauffele and brilliant rookie Cameron Young). Scottie Scheffler became the first player since Peter Alliss in 1967 to go 0-4-0 in the first four sessions of a Ryder Cup, while Patrick Cantlay and Bryson DeChambeau played five sessions each and emerged with three combined points.“It was probably one of the lowest moments of my career,” Scheffler said of the final loss of his 1-4-0 week.Scheffler watched from up close as the U.S. lost each of the Cup’s first four sessions, outclassed and out-birdied by a European side that looked better prepared and more comfortable in the match play format. That, too, was part of the letdown: Captain Keegan Bradley and the U.S. team seemed to struggle with the minutiae of roster and pairing management, sticking to a “plan” for alternate shot that included datagolf’s last-ranked option (Harris English/Collin Morikawa, 0-2-0), and necessitated a player-driven flip of odd-even holes in the Scheffler/Russell Henley pairing. These decisions were at least defensible for Bradley, whose players might have lost no matter their order, arrangements or opponents. The same could not be said for the decision to set up Bethpage Black for a birdiefest, trimming the rough to heights lower than typical public play and leaving the greens as soft as day-old butter, which seemed to benefit the Euros significantly more than the Americans.
I'm actually more focused on the cascading mistakes of fthe course, not least this bit:
The crowd situation was more nuanced than an angry mob, but not by much. Whether a few bad apples or a few too many, the display pumped oxygen into a series of ugly stereotypes about New Yorkers, New York golf and the decision to bring the Ryder Cup to a municipal course. The Bethpage faithful should be embarrassed by the display, as should the PGA of America, which failed to adequately train its marshals and security staff to sniff out the problem. The players, as Justin Thomas pointed out, also bear some responsibility for amplifying the frustrated environment with a mostly uncompetitive showing.“Cam and I said to Shane and Rory yesterday that we felt for them,” Thomas said Sunday. “Cam and I just wished that we gave them something to cheer for instead of people to cheer against. I think that was kind of the main consensus of the last two days, that we weren’t giving them enough to cheer for, and they were just trying to help us win.”This, it seems, was both the first and final failure of this Ryder Cup: A failure of soul. From the first announcement of a Ryder Cup at one of America’s true golf havens of accessibility and affordability through the final day of $750 per ticket competition, the Bethpage Ryder Cup seemed to fundamentally misunderstand itself. The point of hosting a Ryder Cup at one of America’s purest venues was not to set records for ticket revenue or hospitality offerings but rather to provide one of the loudest and most passionate golf fanbases in the world the chance to raise its voice. The goal was to bring one of golf’s greatest events to the real golfers of New York. In the end, this Ryder Cup got neither.
Yeah, I'm feeling more like they got exactly what they deserved.... They wanted the benefit of the ill-mannered crowd, and now they can answer for it. the Euros used it for motivation, so good on them.
I'll leave you with this final image:
Actually, I'll leave you with a final question for Justin Thomas, though I do want to give him props for his attempts at crowd control on Saturday. JT was especially emotional, which received quite a bit of pushback early in the week, but would have been better received after his Sunday heroics. How about some enterprising reporter asks JT, in view of his enthusiasm, how he feels about his a*****e buddy's decision to be unavailable?
I'm sure we'll have more so muse upon as the week unfolds, although the baseball playoffs might impinge on my availability. Have a great week.
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