Farmingdale, Ny-Americans have lost the thread here, along with this absurdly mesmerized, very crowded, expensive eyes 45 Cup Ryder. We are the hosts here. I say this as a proud local boy of Long Island: we have to act as hospitable.
When your team is Tracking from a touch (and Pat) in a golf match, you need to be able to hear a topic fall out of your pocket. The crowd that rejects here is savage wrongly set. Has not been funny, it has not been original and is so Not golf.
Rory Mcilroy was greeted by a desecrated cheering in the first Tee at the afternoon session, and she continued, in various forms, pretty much uneven for the next 17 holes. Did these Jingoistic Chants think that this will do anything other than to make it dig deeper and play better? So not golf.
Mcilroy’s game partner Shane Lowry, who plays nearly Golf, as well as anyone in the Pro game, calmed down with an hour verbal shot when preparing to play a delicate blow. so Not golf. Second, do you think your count will destroy this guy? Did you see it close? Lowry grew up in gelor football. You are not getting in his head.
The Ryder Cup has actually become very big. I do not know how America’s PGA expects a large number of ordinary fans with ordinary-child tickets, normal-size people, quite old fans to remember Ryder cups from the 1970s to see this event easily. They are not inviting you to buy a ticket and see a golf tour. They are selling you the promise of a spectacle and the opportunity to see the event on a massive outdoor screen. Golf fans come to golf tours to see golf. Looking at the back of a boy’s neck for a whole day is not that golf.
As for current competition, six Captain choices Feels like the wrong number. I would say to eliminate the point system all together and give the captain 12 chooses – or return to the old and sensitive standard, 10. Twelve can be better. The last beauty of the professional golf is that the golf player wins his place in the game.
Let each captain have an assistant. This will force the players to make more decisions for themselves. They are adults. They play golf to live at a very high level. They know what they are doing. The players, some of them, just look so straight. You are well in golf. Don’t get away with yourself.
Here is the biggest thing of all. The Ryder Cup is really an exhibition for the rights of boasting. That’s a big deal but that’s all it is. A Ryder cup is not a fight. There was never a fight from the shore. there it Was An exciting team’s golf event in Kiawah in Kiawah that showed how really the difficult golf is and how exciting it is when playing well.
But since then, the difficult part and the exciting part have received a backwardness in the war. America’s PGA, and to a lesser degree, its European counterparts, have been a war in marketing. We all know what the war looks like. Millions of people are living in wars and dying in wars. This ryder cup in Bethpage Black has no balance sense. It depends on us, the hosts, to get back to the right track. Sunday in Bethpage would be a good place to start.
Michael Bamberger welcomes your comments in Michael.bamberger@golf.com
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