Two statistics stand out brightest in the aftermath of the 16.5 – 11.5 drubbing that the Europeans hung on the USA at the first Ryder Cup ever held in Italy: USA captain Zach Johnson’s captain’s picks going 4-12-1 over the course of three days, and the USA losing the foursomes matches by a combined score of 7-1. My heart goes out to Zach Johnson...
While we finish up some skiing articles from Argentina and beyond, let’s review the last week and cue up the next. The “Summer of Hagestad” ended in the grandest fashion of all as the 32 year-old amateur followed up his victory at the USGA Mid-Am at Sleepy Hollow with a rain-shortened victory at the Crump Cup at Pine Valley. Organizers, fearful of...
With the USA still basking in the afterglow of a modern era, record-tying margin of victory at Whistling Straits, lets take a look at the future Ryder Cup venues. 2023Â Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, Rome, ITALY 2025 Bethpage Black Course, Bethpage, NY 2027 Adare Manor, County Limerick, IRELAND 2029 Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, MINNESOTA 2031 TBA...
The United States won the 43rd Ryder Cup in record-shattering fashion, obliterating Europe 19-9 at Whistling Straits Golf Course in Kohler Wisconsin. Â Dustin Johnson, the oldest member of the U.S. team, finished the week 5-0-0, only the fifth player in the last 55 years to do so, and 24-year old wunderkind Collin Morikawa sank the cup clinching putt as Team USA...
Forget everything you’ve heard on television, seen on the Internet, or read in magazines. Think with your own head for a moment: what’s the truest axiom in golf? You drive for show, and putt for dough…and trophies. So ignore who looks stronger on paper, who won “the last how many over the last how long,” and maybe take a close look at the...
So starting next Wednesday Ryan Ballengee, Peter “Say it to Me” Santo, and I will be covering the Ryder Cup for Golf News Net. Look for all your favorite columns: historical look-backs, golf course analysis and breakdown, and of course in-depth stories off all the drama and pageantry.
The PGA of America, PGA Tour and the R&A jointly announced that the Ryder Cup and President’s Cup are postponed for one year and rescheduled to 2021 and 2022 respectively. Well it beats having a Ryder Cup with no fans…which is what we get for the PGA Championship and likely the U.S. Open. From the announcement: The 43rd Ryder Cup, scheduled for...
Fan favorite and all-around good guy Steve Stricker was named Ryder Cup Captain for 2020. The event will be played in his home state of Wisconsin, at Whistling Straits, host of three PGA Championships since 2000. Stricker will be formally introduced at a press conference at 8 a.m. in Milwaukee. Veteran sports writer Gary D’Amato broke the story earlier today...
The last time heads rolled like this, Marie Antoinette let them eat cake. The Storming of the Bastille might seem like a massage compared to the potential bloodletting this weekend, as the U.S. Ryder Cup team looks to win on foreign soil for the first time in 25 years. With a murderer’s row line-up, chemistry everywhere you look, and a golf course that looks...
Amidst a tumult and shouting that would have impressed even the great Grantland Rice himself, the United States defeated Europe 17-11, winning their first Ryder Cup since 2008. Patrick Reed preened like an NFL linebacker, Phil Mickelson made putts from Duluth, St. Cloud, and Monkato, and Ryan Moore – the last man to make the team – sank the Ryder Cup...
It’s downright poetic: the “Greatest Event in Golf” (as countless golfers and pundits have described it) is being played in the most golf loving state in the union. This week the 41st Ryder Cup comes to Hazeltine National, the golf club specifically designed to bring the golf world’s pre-eminent events to Minnesota. Built in 1962 by Robert...
In honor of the passing of the King, we will simply post our fond remembrance, along with a schedule of events for this site and for Golf News Net for Ryder Cup week. Our Ryder Cup preview will go live tomorrow morning here and at GNN. Our metrics all point to a US win, even with the selection of Ryan Moore over Bubba Watson: form and personality over career resume...
Rickie Fowler, JB Holmes, and Matt Kuchar became three of Davis Love’s four Captain’s Picks for the USA Ryder Cup team which will battle Europe at Hazeltine National Sept. 29 – Oct. Europe has won the last three Cups in a row. The final spot looks to be a battle between Bubba Watson and Bill Haas. Fowler will play well in a pod with Reed, Mickelson...
Here’s the list of the automatic qualifiers for the 2016 USA Ryder Cup Team. 1. Dustin Johnson 2. Jordan Spieth 3. Phil Mickelson 4. Patrick Reed 5. Jimmy Walker 6. Brooks Koepka 7. Brandt Snedeker 8. Zach Johnson On Monday, Sept. 12, the day after the BMW Championship, at 10 a.m. EST, US Captain Davis Love will hold a press conference at Hazeltine National to...
It’s one thing to lose when you’re expected to get beat. It’s another thing altogether to go with a whimper instead of a bang. So it was that the 2014 U.S. Ryder Cup team closed the 40th Ryder Cup with a flaccid performance in the singles, absorbing a 16.5-11.5 loss to Europe. It was the U.S.’s their third consecutive defeat and eighth in the...