If the Swedish rookie receives a captain’s pick for this month’s Ryder Cup, he will become the first player in history to make a team without ever having played in a major championship.
In the run-up to any team contest, a few sporting metaphors invariably spring to mind when it comes to the various decisions, behaviour and carefully considered comments required of the two captains. “Jockeying for position” comes to mind. So does “shadow boxing.” And, from cricket, “playing a straight bat.” Still, after all the preamble has Read more…
Two former winners of the Open Championship at St Andrews are providing secret tips to the Walker Cup team for this weekends’ amateur biennial contest between Great Britain/Ireland and the US.
You can argue over who should have made the US Ryder Cup team for days, but there’s no debating the golfer who took his rejection hardest on Tuesday. That would be Keegan Bradley, who sadly was on the wrong end of captain Zach Johnson’s phone calls on Tuesday.