posted Sep 26, 2007

Finchem could always take it to Mexico !

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posted Sep 26, 2007

I'm not sure why English commentators feel a need to compare the Presidents Cup with the Ryder Cup in an attempt to demean the Presidents Cup. The two events don't clash. Most of the Internationals support the European Tour and, just as the rest of the world tend to support Europe in the Ryder Cup, I have no doubt that Europeans support the International team. I find it churlish in the extreme that the BBC (and newspapers such as The Times) has a virtual news blackout regarding an event that is followed by the vast majority of golfers world wide. The Presidents Cup does not represent a challenge to the Ryder Cup so I beg the media to grow up.

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posted Sep 26, 2007

President's Cup will be won by US since affable
rising star and Masters' Champion Zach Johnson will be joining team. He will add some dazzle to match that of Woods whose fist-pumping adrenalin charged persona somewhat takes a back seat in team play or perhaps it has more to do with his focus getting somewhat testy when his consciousness is forced to merge with that of teamates!

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posted Sep 26, 2007

All 24 players are members of pgatour and therefore play vast majority of their golf in USA

The Times golf correspondent knows virtually nothing about modern golf -I stopped reading him a long time ago - he lives effectively in 1st half of last century

MANY 'fleet street' journalists are well aware that budgets are under pressure and if the go overboard on pagtour-run events then their editors might realise that they are no longer needed to cover events with mediocre fields as has sadly been the case in europe this year (Wentworth won by anders hansen and Dunhill next week are only ones with genuinely world class entry lists so far this year)

BBC has an incredibly bloated management hierarchy and despite cuts still has far more journalists than it can conceivably need.
The BBC golf coverage is of lamentable quality most of the time.

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posted Sep 27, 2007

I don't think anybody can accuse Angel Cabrera or Nick O'Hern of being US PGA tour regulars. Their record elsewhere has accorded them invite status on that tour.
Having watched the Jack and Gary show live last night I have to echo my hero's words about Tiger. His willingness to play and win globally is paramount to the success of the global game.
There is a place in the schedule for this competition as it more about showing the game off to the world than the "War on the shore" and its subsequent repeats. The Ryder Cup had lost some of its attraction as sport but the last three and particularly the last one (thanks to Tiger and Darren mainly) have begun to put it back into some perspective.
One other thing. This week charities will significantly benefit and that has to also justify its exostence.

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posted Sep 27, 2007

no sorry you are wrong -both are full members of pgatour and as such have to play vast majority of their golf in usa

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posted Sep 27, 2007

one of the reasons (perhaps) the course has changed is that we had a big wind last year and hundreds of trees were ripped out of the ground.

ryder cup = usa vs europe
presidents cup = usa vw rest of the world

one has nothing to do with the other

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posted Sep 28, 2007

The thing that bugs me about this event is that as a European living in the US, at work on Monday you get bunches of people coming over and saying how the USA just beat us. With the average American struggling to place even Mexico on the world map, they certainly don't understand that Australia is not on the European continent. Calling the event the USA against the Rest of the World excluding Europe, would certainly make my life easier.

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posted Sep 29, 2007

The problem with the President's Cup, for me anyway is that I have no national (or "international") pride when it comes to golf. I'm Canadian (that may be part of the reason) and I still find myself cheering for Tiger or my favourite golfer regardless of what team he plays for. At least the with Ryder Cup you have the US Tour versus European Tour dynamic.

Also, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus have to be the two most annoying Captains in team golf history. Nicklaus is getting rather silly with his decisions as US Captain. It started with offering the draw in South Africa 4 years ago, which in itself wasn't such a strange decision, but it did highlight the fact that the organisers had no contingency plan in the event of a draw when play could not continue. And this year, Nicklaus concedes Singh 4-footer on 18 giving Weir/Singh a pity half saying "it was the right thing to do". The "right thing to do" should be to try to beat your opponent, not indulge the home crowd. It makes a mockery of the event. I really hope that comes back to bite them.

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posted Sep 29, 2007

surely the fundamental problem with the presidents cup is the other side represents a non-entity-what the he ll is the "rest of the world"?I have no idea how players can feel any passion except for their own professional pride at playing for a non-existant entity.The reason the ryder cup works is the fact its 2 continents and 2 tours coming head to head plus the fact if were honest,alot of people whithin british golf still see it as GB v USA that it used to be.

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