Golf

[tnt]

5 minutes ago, InHeavenThereIsNoBeer said:

Really threw the anchor on Scheffler and expected him to carry Henley, he looked completely lost.  JT looked nervous as hell, his game hasn't been sharp.  Need a 2-2 at minimum out of the afternoon or the fat lady going to start warming up the pipes.  It doesn't help this European team is pretty much identical to Rome, had a feeling this could be their year to win an away RC.  Hope I'm wrong

Keegan has already put himself in the crosshairs with some early decisions.  Would actually rather have him playing than some guys on the team.

[jdub27]

US didn't play great but Europe was absolutely lights out.

Rahm/Hatton -5 through 15
Aberg/Fitzpatrick -7 through 15
McIlroy/Fleetwood -5 through 14

Those are good Four-ball scores, let alone Foursomes

Schauffele/Cantlay won the lone US match at approximately -1 through 18

 

[gfhockey]

1 hour ago, jdub27 said:

US didn't play great but Europe was absolutely lights out.

Rahm/Hatton -5 through 15
Aberg/Fitzpatrick -7 through 15
McIlroy/Fleetwood -5 through 14

Those are good Four-ball scores, let alone Foursomes

Schauffele/Cantlay won the lone US match at approximately -1 through 18

 

Yeah, but some scramble I go to people are -18 through 18 or some are even -21 through 18

[Wilbur]

2 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:

Henley better not play again until Sunday. JT can go take a nap this afternoon.  Burns is the squad's best putter statistically in a setting where making putts wins holes but let's sit him. Spaun should be in everyone's match moving forward.  Keegan is channeling his inner Zac.

Have a buddy there. He said the crowd has been housing beers since 6 am and could get ugly if the USA doesn't turn it around in the afternoon. 

I'm baffled by Bryson and JT in alternate shot.  I would've put Spaun with Scottie in the alternate shot because now the best player in the world isn't playing like himself when you need him to be great against Rahm, who is playing lights out right now. 

[sioux rube]

14 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Yeah, but some scramble I go to people are -18 through 18 or some are even -21 through 18

This was alternate shot not a scramble 

[tnt]

Baffling how the #1 player in the world cannot make one single putt.  Even more baffling is how consistently he is missing on the amateur side of the hole.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

4 minutes ago, tnt said:

Baffling how the #1 player in the world cannot make one single putt.  Even more baffling is how consistently he is missing on the amateur side of the hole.

Stroke and match play are completely different animals.  Even more so when you consider the team element.  Tiger had a hideous record at the Ryder Cup in the team formats.  

[sioux rube]

Scottie with a ghoulish 5-9-4 career record across Ryder and Presidents Cups now.

[Oxbow6]

The Ryder Cup is almost always about putting to win a hole. Problem is the USA rarely makes anything outside of 10 feet. 

[Oxbow6]

3 hours ago, gfhockey said:

Yeah, but some scramble I go to people are -18 through 18 or some are even -21 through 18

Playing a rural ND goat track with 8 mulligans isn't the same thing.

[Kab]

Choice of players really baffled me

who sits tomorrow 

[Oxbow6]

2 minutes ago, Kab said:

Choice of players really baffled me

who sits tomorrow 

Too many to choose from....

[sioux rube]

1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:

Playing a rural ND goat track with 8 mulligans isn't the same thing.

Wasn’t a scramble anyways. Alternate shot 

[Oxbow6]

21 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

Wasn’t a scramble anyways. Alternate shot 

Of course

[Wilbur]

4 hours ago, Kab said:

Choice of players really baffled me

who sits tomorrow 

The guys I picked in my mind to not play are all playing alternate shot in the morning.......

This has all the lookings of a 10.5 to 5.5 Europe lead going into Sunday. 

[Oxbow6]

So to recap the Ryder Cup so far.....Europe can make putts. The USA can't. That's it. That's the story.

When does college FB start today??

[sioux rube]

Currently down in 3 of the 4 matches. McElroy and Fleetwood kicking butt once again 

[Oxbow6]

If you had Keegan being as bad of a captain aa Zac on your Bingo card you win already.

[tnt]

Why is it that the European players don’t putt as well when they are on the PGA tour, and some American’s only have success on the PGA tour through their putting success, yet can’t roll the ball in the Ryder Cup?  

 

 

[sioux rube]

Turn out the lights. This thing is over 

[tnt]

Maybe we need to pay the players more.

[tnt]

3 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:

So to recap the Ryder Cup so far.....Europe can make putts. The USA can't. That's it. That's the story.

When does college FB start today??

Correct.  So, why not just save the fans a long weekend of disappointment, and just have putting contests of H-O-R-S-E?   

[tnt]

When your Captain breaks up or doesn’t play the players that produce, and keeps together or plays guys that don’t, you have a recipe for disaster.  Yes, you have to play Scheffler and Bryson, but give me a bulldog like JJ Spaun over Henley who sounds like just getting there is the experience.

[Oxbow6]

Henley is #3 in the world yet the way he's played so far he wouldn't be top 3 in our weekend group.

[Oxbow6]

Keep Colin out the rest of the Cup. Don't play him in singles to give Europe any beatdown momentum. Just forfeit his match.