With all your better competitions for Bekers-De Solheim Cup, the Walker Cup, the Presidents Cup, the Ryder Cup-Being, there are sessions dedicated to a varied game. What the Scots call fourtomes. The Ryder Cup still uses that word in its formal accounting. All square And dormitoryIf golf terms have fallen out of favor.
But four survives and sometimes thrives. It is a small nod to a deep truth about the game: everything that is great has Scottish roots.
Have you ever played foursomes? If you have not done that, I recommend it. It is not a good training for your driver, or even your putter. But it will test your ability to act and when the moment requires you. It looks like life in that. It will make you connected to your play partner in a way that few others can do in sports. And it also looks like life. It is a normal game in very few places, most are in Scotland. At Prestwick, for example, where the Open Championship began.
At Bethpage Black, and on any other occasion when the Europeans have won a Ryder cup, it is because Europe has been dominant in the foursomes sessions. That is, the format with which every player takes turns in turn. The format with which your root for your play partner when he or she plays with every fiber of your being, only matched by your desire to lift the other player when it is your turn. It eliminates all inherent self -absorption of golf.
At Bethpage the Europeans won the Friday and Saturday Foursomes sessions with the same margin, 3-1. Six points, on their way to the 14 they needed. There have been comparable results over the years. The European players are better in foursomes than the American players. There is a reason for that. They come from cultures that are more common. In Europe they like public transport. We are a nation of cowboys. I see nothing here, just trying to make an observation.
The Europeans wore brown shirts and nobody complained on Saturday. My colleague Claire Rogers recently made this point: the European players are much more comfortable to be physically with each other – hugging, draping an arm over a shoulder – than their American equivalents.
Agatha McNaughton, Wiserools, why they are the right rolls or affections all the waiting and oohin ‘and ahinaternity with a well-searched meal somewhere in Scotland:
“All those gentlemanly rools, why they are the right rools of affection – and all the waiting and oohin” and ahin ‘o’er yer shots, all the talk of this ride and that putt and the other beautiful swing – what is it all except love? “
Yes. Foursomes Golf in particular. I am not saying that the Americans don’t understand what Mrs. McNaughton says there. I say that for Europeans her words are a way of life.
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