Ryder Cup
 

Here are the current point listings. Top 9 are auto ins, 3 are Watson captains picks. Phil is close, but Tiger MIA, lots of talk about whether they should be picked. Who would you choose for the 3 spots ?

http://espn.go.com/golf/rankings/_/page/ryderstandings

Here's the Tiger / Watson take on it

http://espn.go.com/golf/theopen14/st...ryder-cup-team

I'd pick Phil, Ryan Moore and Patrick Reed.

Had this exact convo on the course yesterday. I think the Captain's Picks should be Tiger, Brendan Todd, & Ryan Moore.

I doubt Watson looks past Tiger once he calls him to see where he's at with things. In fact, I think it's HIGHLY unlikely that Tiger is omitted.

One things for sure, my buddy and I are putting a small fortune on the Europeans. We just can't see them losing, we'd be utterly shocked.

DJ on "leave" again, will miss Ryder Cup

At this point, I give us very little chance in the Ryder Cup this year. It's a home game for the Euro's, who are playing very well all around. The loss of Dustin Johnson complicates things, and the Tiger question clouds the selection process even more. Hopefully Watson can get TW's commitment to win or sit out.
Agree on Ryan Moore for sure, he's a match play assassin.

We shall see.........

Word about why he's on leave is quite interesting. Seems PGA Tour has no requirement to announce suspensions?

Yeah..lifting those jet skis are a bitch...

*sniffle, sniffle*

Prolly never see transparency on the PGA Tour. And that just adds to all the speculation around DJ. Can't help thinking that a South Carolina boy hanging out in Sherman Oaks added to his issues. Hoping his fiancé is not facing the same troubles.
He's a great talent and I hope he gets his sh*t together.

Well, hear that? That's Tom Watson scurrying back to the drawing board. Might as well stick a fork in Tiger Woods' 2014 season.

Updated list

http://espn.go.com/golf/rankings/_/page/ryderstandings

Phil, Moore,and Bradley my picks now that DJ and TW are outs.

Tiger out.

How many points does the US earn. 5?

I don't mind this it's not like he does the team any favors when he is in anyway

I have 20-25 friends and family members that want me to run something for the Ryder Cup. Any ideas on how I could set something up? Anybody currently involved in a pool type thing for the Cup?

make reservations and go on vacation, thus avoiding all that? :D

no, seriously...i guess you could do something similar to football pools, instead of quarter scores, half, final scores, etc you'd insert golf related stuff?

If you get 24 "entries" in your pool you could determine an entry fee per person, then do a random draw where each person gets a Golfer....random whether Euro or USA. They have that golfer all three days. You need to add up the total number of matches that will be played and divide into your total pool. Then each match played is worth that to the winning golfer. Draws split. Fourball counts as two matches.

...or something like that!

It's meaningless who's on the team. Europe is better and they win regardless of who is picked. That's just the way it is. It's actually fun to watch an American team regularly lose something like this event. Europeans actually want to win this more and actually have better players now too to the point where it's expected that they win.

:tro:

Thanks brother!

Agreed on all points except for the fun part watching them lose. Nothing fun, imo, in watching the Euros celebrate that weekend! Esp two yrs ago when Americans blew the lead.

In the end, this country is still the best in golf.....they had to include every single European country to make the event competitive. I've also never liked that every single player doesn't play every single match. Just have 6 foursome and fourball matches the first two days. Shouldn't depth be part of it also?? Sorry, I just get a kick out of the Euros winning for some reason....don't know why. For some reason it seems guys like Poulter and Garcia get more up for this than majors.

I've been battling a guy over a certain player that he says has been choking, and won't give knowledge to how well the actual winners have been playing.

Well anyways, I mentioned how said player went 5-0 in 2011 President's Cup, where all players get to play every match, he says President's Cup is not as pressure packed as the Ryder Cup. Really?!

Anyways the point was to mention that the President's Cup they allow all members to play in all matches (repetitive I know).

Final euro team picks. No Luke.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/poulter...986--golf.html

VS

USA Team - adds Bradley,Mahan, Simpson

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nbc-ya...234500056.html

http://www.rydercup.com/usa/team/201...layer-profiles

Johnny Miller not thrilled by choices
 

As always, he has an opinion critical.

http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci...-watsons-ryder

How must Watson feel now with his choices , with Hoerschel playing his ass off for the past few weeks. Would be nice to have a hot hitter on our side going in now.

#1 F*ck Johhny
#2 Horschel has had 2 years to play his way onto the team.

IMO...one if the biggest reasons Watson picked Webb is because he is the only dude on the team willing to put up with Bubba's crybaby act on the course.

Schedule
 

Getting psyched for it now. Here is the schedule for this week.

http://www.cbssports.com/golf/eye-on...2014-ryder-cup

As stoked as I am to watch it, the starch was really taken out of it for me once the captain's picks were chosen. Would've loved to see a few new faces, esp when Webb had as horrific a year as he did.

That said.... LETS PHUCKIN' GO --- RED, WHITE, AND BLUEEEE!

Possible partner for Webb; Reed, who is a good 2nd shot maker , while Webb is a short off thee tee for par 5's. Interesting profile of Reed though.

http://www.sbnation.com/golf/2014/9/...w-patrick-reed

"watson and reed

let the two asswipes duke it out"

perfect

Sergio holes bitchin bunker shot on 4 to go 1 up.
Poulter holes everything.
Speith and Reed cling to I up lead.
Train wreck coming.

Say it ain't so , and it ain't.

USA 2 1/2 - Euro's 1 1/2 after morning matches.

:tro:

Fowler and Walker can't close out and that halve is absolutely brutal. I wish the US side had a few more players that you can really root for.

Looking like the worst decision of the week will be resting Reed and Spieth after their strong effort this morning.

:tro::tro:

Had the feeling when Rory sank putt on 17 that they were in trouble.

Our country really sucks in team golf

Now here comes Phil with the criticism, it's apparent nothing would of made the difference. The team unity and spirit the Euros have is something the current Americans have not grasped, I blame Tiger and Phil they should of stepped up to the plate and lead.

LOL.

It's not really a fair competition. Let the US add the rest of the Americas and then those idiots would stfu.

Nothing worse than seeing Brits and Irishmen chant Ole over and over. Maybe the event would mean something if it didn't have that air of bankrupt socialism and total bread and circuses.

We'll whip Europe in 2016. (I hope)

Redux on RC
 

Lots of dissension coming out now from unknown sources on team blaming Watson for lack of leadership. I had read during it, that players had rejected his call for revenge as a motivator.

Interesting SI article on it,

http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/ry...elson-team-usa