Farmingdale, NY-de Americans have lost the thread here, along with this absurd hyped, far too busy, strikingly expensive 45th Ryder Cup. We are the hosts here. I say this as a proud indigenous son of Long Island: we must behave as hosts.
If your team leaves behind a touchdown (and pat) in a golf match, you should hear a T -shirt falling out of a bag. The crowd that hangs here is wild misplaced. It has not been funny, it has not been original and it is it So No wave.
Rory Mcilroy was greeted by a profan of singing on the first tee in the afternoon session, and it remained almost unabated in various forms for the next 17 holes. Have these Jingoist Chanters thought that this will do something different than having him dig deeper and play better? So no wave.
The play partner of McIlroy, Shane Lowry, who plays both golf and everyone in the Pro Game, became Serenade with a verbal shot clock when he prepared to play a delicate pitch recording. So No wave. Second, do you think you’re counting this guy rattling? Have you seen him up close? Lowry grew up on Gaelic Football. You don’t get in his head.
The Ryder Cup has actually become much too big. I do not know how America’s PGA expects a large number of ordinary fans with normal tickets children, people with normal size, fans who are old enough to remind Ryder Cups from the 1970s to see this event comfortably. They don’t invite you to buy a ticket and view a golf tournament. They sell you the promise of a spectacle and the possibility to view the event on a huge exterior screen. Golffans come to golf tournaments to view golf. Staring at the back of the neck of a man for a whole day is therefore not a wave.
Regarding the actual competition, the choices of Six Captains feel as the wrong song. I would say that the point system is all eliminated together and gives the captain 12 picks – or return to the old and sensible standard, 10. Twelve may be better. The ultimate beauty of professional wave is that the golfer deserves his place in the game.
Let every captain have one assistant. That will force the players to make more decisions for themselves. They are adults. They play golf for a living at a very high level. They know what they are doing. The players, some of them, just seem so entitled. You are good at Golf. Don’t get along with yourself.
Here is the biggest thing of all. The Ryder Cup is really an exhibition for bragging. That’s a lot, but that’s all. A Ryder cup is not a war. There was never a war on the coast. There wax An exciting team of golf event in 1991 in Kiawah that showed how really hard golf is, and how really exciting it is when it is played well.
But since then, the difficult part and the exciting part have put a back seat at war. America’s PGA, and to a lesser extent, European counterparts have been his marketing war. We all know what war looks like. Millions of people live through wars and die in wars. This Ryder cup at Bethpage Black has no sense of balance. It is up to us, the hosts, to get back on the right track. Sunday in Bethpage would be a good place to start.
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