This year’s Ryder Cup is 1985 revisited, with the formula for success unchanged. If Europe is to win this Ryder Cup, the leading players are almost certainly going to have to step up. History says it is so.
Brooks Koepka should be included on this year’s US Ryder Cup team. That’s the opinion from across the aisle of European Ryder Cup stalwart Rory McIlroy. As for LIV golfers playing for the host team this September in Rome, that’s another story.
Perhaps predictably, certainly unluckily and surely understandably, any first mention of David Drysdale tends to include the fact that the Scot has never finished first in any of the 574 tournaments he has played so far on the DP World Tour.
The Europeans announced it will mirror the United States’ selection method, with six players earning their way to the 12-man team through automatic bids while captain Luke Donald will round out the other six via wildcard picks.
Even if he hasn’t been frequenting any social-media sites, or reading the newspapers, Harrington is well aware that questions are being asked of his decision-making last week.
There are a multitude of theories emerging as to why just about everything went so disastrously wrong (on the course at least) for the European side in Wisconsin.
If Harrington continues to pluck from the 2018 vice captains, Graeme McDowell and Lee Westwood would likely be his next options, though Westwood could find himself playing at Whistling Straits.
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 dynamic duo blew kisses at each other during Europe’s victorious press conference, but showed their affection for each another even more with a hilarious video of them holding the coveted trophy. . . in bed.