Do the teams pick matches or do they just name their 12 in order and whatever happens happens?
Do the teams pick matches or do they just name their 12 in order and whatever happens happens?
There’s a bit of gamesmanship here with this. I watched a behind the scenes vid with Davis Love the other day and he explained that back at Medinah Jose Maria mentioned something about why they put their #1 out first. He was shocked the US didn’t put their #1 out first to protect their lead.
Davis went on to explain that Tiger has been chief strategist for the last 3 cups and they have been planning things along the line of...
“If we’re down after Y session the pairings will be X..”
“If we’re leading after Y session the pairings will be Z..”
He went into detail like if it’s wet it’ll be these guys or if it’s windy it’ll be those guys. They didn’t even have a team yet they were planning pairings for almost every eventuality. Even considering what the EU team would likely do depending on the scoreboard situation.
Was really interesting. I’ll look for a link, was on Golfing World on Fox on Friday before the first session.
Be awful hard for the Americans to claw their way back on the tight driving track which plays much more into the Euro's strengths. Great choice.
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There does not appear to be much conviction from either team.
The singles have started pretty awesome!
TW goes 0 for 4. Lol!
And how good is Molinari! YES!!!
Americans got an absolute arse whooping this Ryder Cup.
They played 32 holes. Tiger won 4, Reed won 2. They both (individually and collectively) lost 13.
Reed won the same number of holes as Fowler and Finau and one more than Thomas on Friday yet they all won their matches. If Tiger was good enough he’d have won his matches regardless of his partner.
Over his career he’s won less than half his matches with a partner, they can’t have all been dogs. Tiger doesn’t play well with others.
I watched it up to midnight. The Yanks had lifted in the middle of the session and looked a real threat of pulling off an upset. They started making ridiculous putts. I suppose that couldn't last. I look forward to watching the replay and see the Europeans overwhelm them.
To me the commentators picked the main difference pretty earlier on, the yanks just didn't seem to know the course nearly as well as the Europeans.
Add to that the difference in the Captain's picks results and it was only going one way.
Justin Thomas was the only one to win decent points, but also the only one to make the trip over earlier in the year for the French open.
The Euros would have all played it regularly since that became a regular event.
The amount of bemoaning the course in the media is incredible.
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Last edited by Ron Burgundy; 1st October 2018 at 08:24 AM.
The course was superb, I thought. As were the crowds. One of the best cups on both of those points alone.
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