Just like the Masters, the Ryder Cup brings golf to millions of people who only follow it casually, if that. The great thing about this is that the Golf gives a chance to spread its wings and explain its special ways. Everyone who watches two fleshy European players, Jon Rahm van Spain and Tyrrell Hatton of England, on the 7th hole in the opening session of Friday’s alternative game, received an emergency course in how the whole thing works.
Every time a golf ball moves, the rules require the rules a kind of accounting at all, either by a stroke, fine or verbal explanation. That is the most fundamental part of the game.
On the 7th hole, Rahm hit his team’s tee shot wide and right. Hatton played the second shot of literal rough soil – bare dirt, under trees, a stick thicker than a stogie about half a centimeter of their ball. With a camera that stares at the walls of the ball, Hatton and Rahm, 440 pound golf muscle, squatted over the ball over the ball as children on a beach and looked at an exotic starfish. They did not dare to poke in one of the nearby twigs for fear of starting a Ryder Cup version and to maintain the children’s theme, TiddlyWinks. Now you play operation, the three-and-over game where the goal is to extract bones of your patient without being electrocuted.
Big, big men. A great, delicate procedure. At one point Hatton was shocked when he almost left a firework by stepping on a twig.
The commitment was so high Rahm and Hatton decided to break down their game from Move-the-Stick. At that time it really seemed that the nearby Stok would endanger Hatton’s Swing with an iron.
And here is the educational moment for everyone who plays golf seriously everywhere, and every Ryder Cup viewer who wants to understand this strange game: every movement of the ball must be explained. Tiger Woods did not understand this most elementary fact during a PGA Tour event in Chicago in 2013. He tried to move a branch, moved his ball, he did not mention the penalty himself; A PGA Tour officer, Slugger White, did it for him.
Golf is not a game of catch me if you can.
Nick Faldo, who offers live comments on the USA Network, thought Hatton would hit a simple Punch shot.
Hatton, buzzing with adrenaline, hit an iron in the back of the ball. The offensive branch broke in two. The ball found the green. “A bit of a hit and hope that the stick would not have too much influence,” Hatton said later. Rahm did it up close. The Europeans made an unlikely 4 to win the gap and even the competition. The American team of Bryson Dechambeau and Justin Thomas played the Rahm-Hatton team the 8th hole in the first game of the day to go up 1; Eight holes later they closed the game, 4 and 3.
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