Money and emotion both resonate with golfers. The problem is they’re not the same thing.
The concession was a little surprising from the ground, but not notably so—at least not based on my read on the situation.
In a Ryder Cup year, it’s never too early to ask the big questions about what’s coming in the northern autumn. And this year, after Brooks Koepka’s win at the PGA Championship, we have a really big question: should he make the US Ryder Cup team?
To say they wasted no time would be an understatement: Ryder Cup Europe executives removed Henrik Stenson as their captain for next year’s event even before he was announced as a new LIV Golf recruit.
The Americans’ performance so far at the the 43rd Ryder Cup has been so commanding, it begs the question if this event’s tide has been turned for the foreseeable future.
What if I were to tell you that the underdog European side could absolutely win this week? Would that blow your mind?
Some ideas just have to be blurted out in a thoughtless torrent of courage and faith, so here goes nothing.
It’s no coincidence that the Ryder Cup has become bigger as McIlroy’s relationship with it – and appreciation for it – has deepened.
By Sunday evening at Ryder Cups, as champagne is being sprayed all over the place, no one remembers what happened on the Friday morning. That’s the beauty of the Ryder Cup. The team is what matters.
He’s still got some game and can rise to an occasion the way few golfers who will be on the American team can.
There’s no guarantee that a full-throated Ryder Cup can be played in September 2021 – but the odds are much better.
Sometimes, when a new idea seems baffling, it’s helpful to silence the part of your brain that screams bloody murder and attempt to understand the idea on its own terms.
The Presidents Cup has an opportunity to make a statement in the gender-equality era.
The Presidents Cup is near, which is a good time to discuss team events. It’s an honour to go to the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup. It means you’re with a player who had a good year, you made good money and you probably have job security. It means you matter. But how much these team events matter to us varies.
International team captain Trevor Immelman knows he has an opportunity to take the Presidents Cup to the next level.
It is time to call out one of the laziest takes in golf: “The Presidents Cup should be a mixed teams event.”
I’ve spent much of my adult life trying to help the PGA Tour in any way I possibly can. So, I present to you the fairly simple solution to all this, a system that is fair, that should keep the sponsors happy and will make for – just as important – good TV.
Because Kim – more specifically, the legend of Anthony Kim – is the closest thing professional golf’s had to a folk hero, his possible emergence has many a golf fan on social media salivating at the prospect.
The message from the first PGA Tour event of 2024 is: there’s room for you in the club. You just have to earn it.