Ryder Cup...

[WKDWZD]

Well, that was an exiting final day, wasn't it?

[reg_indy]

Bizarre is more like it.

[dandrews]

Such a fun event. I wish they did it more then every other year.

[slapshot]

Epic fail by the US team.

[Omaha Beach]

I hope whoever the next Captain is starts making Captain' picks based on who can win and not on who is a member of the Old Boy's club. Two very good players in their twenties were sitting home, Fowler and Mahan, while two graybeards, Furyk and Stricker, were visibly running out of gas on Sunday. Stricker did not get one stinking point.

[slapshot]

I'd also leave Tiger off the team....

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/g...h-8193120.html

"Played 33, won 13, lost 17, halved 3. Tiger Woods would rather listen to Justin Timberlake's poetry recitals than play in the Ryder Cup. The USA's only victory in the last six matches was in 2008 when Woods was injured and didn't play. Coincidence?

He cut a forlorn figure on Sunday evening contemplating the part he had played in what Europeans had dubbed the Miracle of Medinah but Americans were calling the Medinah Meltdown. Did Tiger simply give up on the 18th green to hand a half point to Francesco Molinari and thus victory to Europe? With his own putt – yes. But was it also defeatist not to make Molinari stare at a slippery three-foot putt?

There is no doubt that by the time Woods reached the green, his head and heart had left the building. He admitted as much. Martin Kaymer had already secured the crucial 14th point to ensure Europe retained the Cup. But surely the American team room would have been less miserable in the knowledge that they had tied a remarkable match rather than watch Woods fizzle out, chuck in the towel, and wallow in humiliating defeat.

Woods was sticking to the hymn sheet handed out by Love that a tie was as bad as a loss. A frankly baffling sporting philosophy. "It was already over," Woods said. "The Cup had already been retained by Europe. So 18 was just, hey, get this over with. You come here as a team and you win or lose as a team, and it's pointless to even finish." It made a difference to bookmakers who were counting the cost of the USA's inability to win after going into the final day 33-1 on. If Woods had halved the final hole, it would have ensured the tied contest few had put money on.

Woods finished with just that half a point and three defeats to raise the question again that the winner of 14 majors, and perhaps the finest ever exponent of strokeplay golf, is just not comfortable in the team environment of this biennial matchplay dust-up, where camaraderie, compromise and a Musketeer's motto of "All For One And One For All" is anathema to Woods' self-confessed control-freak character."

[reg_indy]

I hope whoever the next Captain is starts making Captain' picks based on who can win and not on who is a member of the Old Boy's club. Two very good players in their twenties were sitting home, Fowler and Mahan, while two graybeards, Furyk and Stricker, were visibly running out of gas on Sunday. Stricker did not get one stinking point.

And prolly cost them 2-2.5...