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2023 Ryder Cup

Started by 🏀, May 09, 2023, 08:48:57 PM

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Typical American performance, such a tough team to root for.

Lennys Tap

Quote from: 🏀 on October 01, 2023, 07:52:05 PM
Typical American performance, such a tough team to root for.

Homa was great, Cantlay and Harmon had moments. That was about it.

When their best are almost running the table and our best (Scheffler, WTF) suck you cannot win.

MuggsyB

Quote from: Lennys Tap on October 01, 2023, 08:45:09 PM
Homa was great, Cantlay and Harmon had moments. That was about it.

When their best are almost running the table and our best (Scheffler, WTF) suck you cannot win.

Scheffler & Koepka lost a 4-Ball match 9& 7.   I repeat:  9&7.  I get Zach Johnson taking significant blame but when you're that bad as the #1 player in the world, and a guy with 5 Majors, that's either mystifying or totally inexcusable.   

MU82

SI's Jeff Ritter graded each player for both teams.

https://www.si.com/golf/news/ryder-cup-2023-grades-for-every-player?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morning-read-newsletter-&date=2023-10-02

Highest score, A+, went to Rory and Homa. Six others got A or A-: Rahm, Hovland, Fleetwood, Hatton, Aberg, Cantlay. (I agree about all except Aberg; silly to give an A for potential.)

Four F's: Scheffler, Morikawa, Spieth and Fowler. Of the latter, Ritter said: "Probably wishes he just stayed at the gala."

Zach Johnson got a C-, Luke Donald an A+.
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The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole

I had no idea that players weren't paid to participate in the Cup, and no idea why that would be controversial.
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Uncle Rico

Quote from: MU82 on October 02, 2023, 06:43:56 AM
SI's Jeff Ritter graded each player for both teams.

https://www.si.com/golf/news/ryder-cup-2023-grades-for-every-player?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morning-read-newsletter-&date=2023-10-02

Highest score, A+, went to Rory and Homa. Six others got A or A-: Rahm, Hovland, Fleetwood, Hatton, Aberg, Cantlay. (I agree about all except Aberg; silly to give an A for potential.)

Four F's: Scheffler, Morikawa, Spieth and Fowler. Of the latter, Ritter said: "Probably wishes he just stayed at the gala."

Zach Johnson got a C-, Luke Donald an A+.

Zach got a C-??  This guy is an idiot.   
Ramsey head thoroughly up his ass.

MuggsyB


Uncle Rico

Ramsey head thoroughly up his ass.

cheebs09

Quote from: The Sultan of Semantics on October 02, 2023, 06:57:38 AM
I had no idea that players weren't paid to participate in the Cup, and no idea why that would be controversial.

Yea, for as huge of an event it is, I'm a bit surprised they aren't paid. I wonder if their endorsement contracts give them bonuses.

Based on the travel and time commitment, it feels like they should make something.

MuggsyB

Quote from: Uncle Rico on October 02, 2023, 08:12:57 AM
What's lower than F?  Zach was a disaster

Tiger next team C?

Uncle Rico

Quote from: cheebs09 on October 02, 2023, 08:15:11 AM
Yea, for as huge of an event it is, I'm a bit surprised they aren't paid. I wonder if their endorsement contracts give them bonuses.

Based on the travel and time commitment, it feels like they should make something.

20% of the revenue goes to the PGA Tour proper.  The money is largely placed into the players pension fund. 

The player also receive money for their respective charities.

Is it enough?  I don't know the answer but if X and Pat the Hat don't want to play without a bigger paycheck, next man up.
Ramsey head thoroughly up his ass.

Uncle Rico

Quote from: MuggsyB on October 02, 2023, 08:17:00 AM
Tiger next team C?

Rumor has it it's supposed to be Stewart Cink for Bethpage.  FIGJAM was supposed to get that one before the Saudi's bought off his gambling debts. 
Ramsey head thoroughly up his ass.

MU82

The hat thing cracked me up. I enjoyed the fans getting into it, and got a kick out of some of the U.S. players giving it back to them. Trash talk in a game like golf if is fun.

Of course, the Euros and their fans could have always responded the time-honored way by simply saying: "Scoreboard!"
"It's not how white men fight." - Tucker Carlson

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." - George Washington

Uncle Rico

Quote from: MU82 on October 02, 2023, 09:14:33 AM
The hat thing cracked me up. I enjoyed the fans getting into it, and got a kick out of some of the U.S. players giving it back to them. Trash talk in a game like golf if is fun.

Of course, the Euros and their fans could have always responded the time-honored way by simply saying: "Scoreboard!"

Bethpage is going to be bad.  Euro and the Euro press better get some real thick skin between now and then
Ramsey head thoroughly up his ass.

MU82

Quote from: Uncle Rico on October 02, 2023, 09:17:16 AM
Bethpage is going to be bad.  Euro and the Euro press better get some real thick skin between now and then

Agree, though I naively hope it's only as "bad" as these Euro fans were. I didn't watch it all, but I watched a lot, and I never heard anybody yell during a backswing or a putt or anything like that. They generally were quiet when they were supposed to be. I hope that'll be the case at Bethpage, too. If it is, what they yell during the not-quiet moments shouldn't matter much.
"It's not how white men fight." - Tucker Carlson

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." - George Washington

Uncle Rico

Quote from: MU82 on October 02, 2023, 09:38:37 AM
Agree, though I naively hope it's only as "bad" as these Euro fans were. I didn't watch it all, but I watched a lot, and I never heard anybody yell during a backswing or a putt or anything like that. They generally were quiet when they were supposed to be. I hope that'll be the case at Bethpage, too. If it is, what they yell during the not-quiet moments shouldn't matter much.

I have my doubts that happens.  I think it'll be bad, like Brookline bad. 
Ramsey head thoroughly up his ass.

tower912

Bethpage will set new standards for inappropriate behavior.   I will set the over/under for European players or caddies stopped from going into the crowd after a heckler at 4.


The money thing goes back to David Duval and Brookline, IIRC.
Luke 6:45   ...A good man produces goodness from the good in his heart; an evil man produces evil out of his store of evil.   Each man speaks from his heart's abundance...

It is better to be fearless and cheerful than cheerless and fearful.

MuggsyB

Any explanation as to why Scheffy, Morikawa, and Speith in particular were cataclysmic disasters?  I heard Speith literally looked like a muni hack.  What's up with the dude?

CreightonWarrior

Quote from: MuggsyB on October 02, 2023, 10:44:48 AM
Any explanation as to why Scheffy, Morikawa, and Speith in particular were cataclysmic disasters?  I heard Speith literally looked like a muni hack.  What's up with the dude?
All the US guys hadn't played in a month+

tower912

Quote from: MuggsyB on October 02, 2023, 10:44:48 AM
Any explanation as to why Scheffy, Morikawa, and Speith in particular were cataclysmic disasters?  I heard Speith literally looked like a muni hack.  What's up with the dude?

Spieth just became a dad.   As family focused as he is, I have to believe that his preparation and focus for golf were not normal.   
Luke 6:45   ...A good man produces goodness from the good in his heart; an evil man produces evil out of his store of evil.   Each man speaks from his heart's abundance...

It is better to be fearless and cheerful than cheerless and fearful.

cheebs09

Quote from: tower912 on October 02, 2023, 10:51:41 AM
Spieth just became a dad.   As family focused as he is, I have to believe that his preparation and focus for golf were not normal.

Also, looking at how he's played the last few years, it's not too surprising. He bounced back this year but he was playing at Fowler levels for awhile I think.

Uncle Rico

Quote from: MuggsyB on October 02, 2023, 10:44:48 AM
Any explanation as to why Scheffy, Morikawa, and Speith in particular were cataclysmic disasters?  I heard Speith literally looked like a muni hack.  What's up with the dude?

Took a month off.  Morikawa sucked this year.  Scheffler is rebuilding his entire putting stroke.  Spieth is a massive hit or miss player and Tower is right, just had a kid.

Cantlay is getting married today, so he planned his wedding for the day after the Ryder Cup.

Ramsey head thoroughly up his ass.

MU82

Spieth is a notorious over-thinker on the course. When things aren't going well, he can be a real mess.

That situation with Zach Johnson followed by the shot into the drink was something. I'd love to know what really went on there. But Spieth was a disaster even before that.
"It's not how white men fight." - Tucker Carlson

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." - George Washington

tower912

Should have gotten you, Goose, Muggsy, and Rico. (If Rico would deign to be seen in public)  If nothing else, having you guys being mic'd up would have been must see.   
Luke 6:45   ...A good man produces goodness from the good in his heart; an evil man produces evil out of his store of evil.   Each man speaks from his heart's abundance...

It is better to be fearless and cheerful than cheerless and fearful.

Uncle Rico

Quote from: tower912 on October 02, 2023, 02:11:06 PM
Should have gotten you, Goose, Muggsy, and Rico. (If Rico would deign to be seen in public)  If nothing else, having you guys being mic'd up would have been must see.

I can tell you this, I'd have left Spieth, JT, Morikawa and Flower at home and sent Cantlay and X to Saudi Arabia.  We may not have won but we would have had a better chance
Ramsey head thoroughly up his ass.