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    Do the teams pick matches or do they just name their 12 in order and whatever happens happens?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3puttpete View Post
    Do the teams pick matches or do they just name their 12 in order and whatever happens happens?
    I think each team just names their 12 in order and whatever happens happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3puttpete View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by olddogmike View Post
    There does not appear to be much conviction from either team.
    Really? Are you watching the same thing I’ve been for the last two days?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BUSHY View Post
    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.
    All they can do is pick their own pairs and the order of singles, they can’t pick their opponents like the uncivil war. That sucks a bit

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    Quote Originally Posted by wizard_of_oz View Post
    Cringe.
    Perhaps, but it hands-down beats the USA! USA! USA! malarkey.



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    Quote Originally Posted by BUSHY View Post
    Either way it’s sure to be awesome. What an awesome venue for this event.
    Yep. There were lots of spots where you could see two or three greens at once and the mounding does make for good vantage points.A bit of a pain to follow one particular group though, mainly because of the volume of spectators.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hippo10 View Post
    Yep. There were lots of spots where you could see two or three greens at once and the mounding does make for good vantage points.A bit of a pain to follow one particular group though, mainly because of the volume of spectators.
    Maybe easier tonight in singles. All those people crammed around 4 groups for the first 2 days would be tough going.

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    Quote Originally Posted by timah! View Post
    Really? Are you watching the same thing I’ve been for the last two days?
    That's what I was thinking. In fairness, while the Europeans are very fired up, maybe the Americans haven't had much to cheer about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wizard_of_oz View Post
    Cringe.
    I loved it

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    The singles have started pretty awesome!

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    TW goes 0 for 4. Lol!

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    And how good is Molinari! YES!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jazz18 View Post
    Garcia? Is he frickin kidding!!! I think Bjorn has been smoking too much Danish weed. Westwood's playing better than Garcia FFS!!!

    https://www.rydercup.com/news-media/...te-team-europe
    Nice OP idiot! You look like a right dickhead now hey!!!

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    Americans got an absolute arse whooping this Ryder Cup.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jazz18 View Post
    TW goes 0 for 4. Lol!
    I am all about Team Europe, but Reed has approximately 50% to do with that. What a dog of a partner to have for those first two matches.



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    Quote Originally Posted by henno View Post
    I am all about Team Europe, but Reed has approximately 50% to do with that. What a dog of a partner to have for those first two matches.
    I'll give you 37.5%. He lost his match to Rahm, all on his own

    Rory was lucky to win points. He was terrible for most of the time too. Can't believe he played all 5 matches to be honest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by henno View Post
    I am all about Team Europe, but Reed has approximately 50% to do with that. What a dog of a partner to have for those first two matches.
    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daves View Post
    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.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by timah! View Post
    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.
    The combined count of times played LGN was something like 228 for Europe to 8 for the yanks. That’s a pretty decent home course advantage. Apparently the yanks reckon the course was too short and too narrow. Just perfect for say.... Molinari. Worked too.
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    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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