40th Ryder Cup

Dick move by Mickleson.
I get he's pissed at being benched Saturday. But he shoulda been benched. I agree with Watson's reasoning: He and Bradley didn't play well Friday. Watson said they begged their way into playing Friday afternoon (which we all know was mistake).
The call is already be made to bring back Azinger, who said he hasn't ruled anything out.

Fuck it .... Tiger Woods Player/Coach 2016 Ryder Cup.




Bradley's play today was none to sharp, either.

 

Is there a more over analyzed job than Ryder Cup captain? The Americans lost because they played like crap both afternoons.

 

So an American team that had one of the best players of the past 20 years - a guy who has never really shown that he gives all that much of a fuck about the Ryder Cup - back home injured, along with Jason Dufner out due to injury s well and Dustin Johnson out due to drugging and fucking and they were beaten.

Shocking.

 

Anyone that thinks Europe isn't simply better than the U.S. in terms of top-notch linksters should go to work for a company desperate for a PR spinster. And the best player of the last 20 years is Woods, he's a choke in this event in the last 5 or so years.

 

Never understood why people seem more so eager to dump on a captain for Ryder Cup losses rather than on the golfers themselves.

 

Watson sitting Speith/Reed was unforgivable. So graphic today was Speith/Reed 2 1/2 pts out of 3; rest of team 3 1/2 out of 13.

Americans were 1 and 7 in foursomes (alt shot) so that's where they got killed.

 

Every time the Ryder Cup comes around,
my first thought is: "Well, how will they fuck it up this time?"

Sad to say, but right on schedule, they did it again.

 

By my count, there were nine matches in which the U.S. never led for even a single hole. That's just not getting beaten; that's getting destroyed. Zach Johnson, Fowler and Bubba Watson should all be forced to pay their own way home.

 

- The only two questionable calls Watson made IMO, were to play Keegan/Mickelson twice on day 1 then bench them all of Saturday, and perhaps the biggest was to play Walker/Fowler all four matches on Friday and Saturday. They had played solid but not great, and they went all 18 every match. If they had closed out some teams 5 &4 it wouldn't have been as big of a deal, but asking two guys (any of them) to play 90 holes of extremely competitive golf in three days is asking a lot.

- Bubba might as well stay at home for any event (Ryder Cup, Tour Events, British Open) that's held in Europe. He's awful when he's on European soil. He had by far the poorest performance on the US team, and never seemed to be into it, but rather just going through the motions. Hopefully he got to see what 17 &18 looked like during the practice rounds, because he never sniffed them in competition.

- The US still had a great shot Sunday morning, but Spieth's collapse and Hunters WTF moment at 18 finished any hope the US had. Hunter's was so predictable. He had stood over his ball for 5 minutes, and when the coverage cut back to him, he STILL didn't even have a club in his hand. It was a difficult chip, but he had no clue what he wanted to do there. He has to get that ball on the green somewhere and at least give himself a chance at birdie. Taking the highest risk option made no sense there.

- As for Spieth, it's hard to rag on him when he played so well Friday and Saturday, but when you're down 2 with 3 to play, you can't leave a birdy short. You also can't be two clubs short on the par 3. It's match play and you need to be aggressive.

- In the end the US team had some good performances, ironically from it's rookies, who seemed to really want to be there while guys like Bubba looked like they'd rather be at home watching football on the couch. They also had some "average" performances. Guys like Kuchar, Phil, Keegan, etc. They certainly didn't earn an A, but they were solid. You can't have your whole team go 3-0-0.

- The difference through the whole weekend was the putting. The US players were missing 4-8 footers to halve or win holes. The Europeans were making 25-30 footers to do the same.

Overall the US were a couple shots away on Sunday morning to having a very interesting finish play out, but the Europeans made the shots they needed to, while the US missed theirs. It'll be interesting to see what the RC looks like in 2016, and I'm looking forward to it.

 

I disagree with sitting Bradley/Mickelson Sat., as much as I root against Phil, he's one of the most talented golfers out there, a true great, you cannot do that to him.

On the other hand, I read he was the only one who did not fly on the team charter to Europe; not good for team spirit; you've got to be on the same plane.