The Ryder Cup is less than two days away and we'll get our first set of pairings on Thursday. There's so much speculation out there on who should be paired together. I think there's at least one players who is tough to pair with - Patrick Reed. I'm going to be watching him closely this weekend to see how he plays. He's a very streaky player and I think we'll see how the pressure gets to him, but I think I have found someone to pair him with. Here are five potential pairings I hope to see … [Read more...]
Phil Mickelson is a Quitter and We Should Stop Rooting for Him
Phil Mickelson is a quitter. Bottom line. And all the people who are fooled by his "thumbs-up" and "smiling good-nature" should really step back and reevaluate why you even root for this guy. He's not the person you really think he is. Phil withdrew from the BMW Championship after his piss-poor 76 on Friday. No injury. No emergency. Just a WD because his primary goal right now is the Ryder Cup. He even said as much in his statement released Saturday morning: My primary goal is to rest … [Read more...]
Davis Love III Makes His Ryder Cup Picks
Okay, so he doesn’t actually announce his picks until Tuesday morning, but I decided to make it easy for Davis and announce my selections for the United States team now. If he follows Front9Back9, which I am sure he does, then my picks should help him sleep a little better tonight because these four players will help ensure the Ryder Cup won’t be leaving the United States. Dustin Johnson – Dustin has been playing great golf lately, with three top-10 finishes in his last five tournaments. … [Read more...]
Tiger weighs in on raingear-gate
Add Tiger Woods to the list of people who have publicly piled on Sun Mountain in regards to the infamous rain gear malfunctions during the Ryder Cup. Tiger was doing interviews today during media day for his upcoming Chevron World Challenge when he was asked about the rain suits: One of the things, just going back to the Ryder Cup for a minute I never really got to ask you about that over there is I know Steve's been caddying since he was 12 years old. He's pretty good at keeping clubs … [Read more...]
Europe Wins The Ryder Cup
As you can tell by the boring title, I am not too excited Europe won the Ryder Cup. I woke up again at 5:00 a.m. today and watched about an 1 1/2 hours worth of the coverage until I had to leave for my real job. Then when I got to this real job, I streamed an hour worth of it on RyderCup.com until my colleagues starting showing up and then I decided I needed to turn it off so I just hit refresh on my browser every three minutes in-between catching up on other news. So as you may be able to … [Read more...]
Singles Matches Start 4:05 a.m. EST Monday
Ryder Cup officials have announced the start of the singles matches will begin at 4:05 a.m. EST Monday morning and go off every 12 minutes. The last group will go off at 9:17 a.m. EST. Closing ceremonies will begin 30 minutes after the end of play. All I can say is DAMMIT!! I don't know if I can do another day of waking up early... … [Read more...]
United States Ryder Cup Team Making Comeback
See, what did I tell you... It was only about two hours ago that I wrote live coverage had begun again and the U.S. team was down in six matches. Now they are up in one match and two others are all square. So that puts Europe up in one match as well. If the U.S. can close out that one match they are up in and get the full point and end the other two with halves then that will be a great boost for the U.S. team. Let's go USA!! … [Read more...]
United States Ryder Cup Team Struggling
Ryder Cup coverage has resumed on NBC finally after another lengthy rain delay and things don't seem to be turning around for the Americans right now. They are still currently down in five matches and Woods and Stricker have already lost their match to Westwood and Donald. The matches will definetely have to finish on Monday now and Woods and Stricker need to go do something to get their games back. The U.S team is up 6 to 5 right now over the Europeans. Currently as I write this, two … [Read more...]
Final Golf World Rankings for 2009
The final World Golf Rankings for 2009 were released today and there was really no surprise in the top 30. There were no changes compared to last week's rankings until you get to #38 and 39 where Graeme McDowell and Francesco Molinari swapped places. The United States has five of the top ten players in the world with Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and Steve Stricker ranking #1-3 respectively. Jim Furyk ends the year at #6 and Kenny Perry rounds out the top ten ranked #10. Just looking at … [Read more...]