The sun had only just risen from behind the Lazio hills when Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton stood on the Marco Simone’s first tee to lead out the opening match of the 44th Ryder Cup. Just after daylight had broken, “Nessun Dorma,” an opera song from Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, belted out over the speakers.
The Ryder Cup Race ranks up there with all of them. Thanks to the return of the largest crowds since before the pandemic, Friday morning at Marco Simone Country Club was quite the spectacle.
ROME – Tyrrell Hatton can’t help but be entertaining, regardless of time or location. Sometimes he’s expressing strong opposition to a golf course setup, or an errant shot. Other times he’s simply responding to esoteric questions, which was the case Tuesday at Marco Simone ahead of the Ryder Cup. The colourful Englishman’s press conference began Read more…
Tyrrell Hatton can’t help but be entertaining, regardless of time or location. Sometimes he’s expressing strong opposition to a golf course setup, or an errant shot.
One of the saddest parts of the LIV Golf split, at least if you’re a Ryder Cup fan, is that we’ll be missing some of the biggest names in European Ryder Cup history for the first time in years. Players like Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia, mainstays of the European side and two of the Read more…
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.
Twenty weeks is not a long time in professional golf. That’s how long it is until the PGA Tour returns to Maui’s picturesque Plantation course for the 2024 Sentry (formerly known as the Tournament of Champions) in Hawaii.
The range is their office. And with some potentialy lucrative pay cheques on offer as part of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, they’ve been busy at the FedEx St Jude Championship this week. Here’s a few things I learned observing them at work.
While the 90-minute gathering was poorly attended and little new information was delivered, several players agreed that it was simply good to see the PGA Tour commissioner back at work.
Either Masters champion Jon Rahm doesn’t appear to be as supportive of PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan as he let on two weeks ago at the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, or he’s been rethinking where he stands.
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