SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – You can spend as much time as you want envisioning what it might be like. The feel of the crisp morning air. The cacophonous serenade of the fans. The unsettling, enveloping, intoxicating sense of apprehension that consumes the body. But when it comes down to it, the only way to prepare for […]
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SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Henrik Stenson’s left elbow continues to give him problems, but he insists that it won’t hamper his game this week at the Ryder Cup. The injury popped up in early July when Stenson withdrew from the Scottish Open. He played The Open the following week at Carnoustie, though he was clear that he […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – For the first time in six years, Tiger Woods arrived at the Ryder Cup with his golf clubs. No more earpieces. No more two-way radios. No more golf carts. No longer relegated to the vice-captain position because of injury, Woods returns to his usual role this week as the most important American […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Profound transformations rarely have such a distinct tipping point, but the U.S. Ryder Cup team’s journey from perennial loser to heavy favorite can be traced to a single and seminal moment. “When some dumb ass opened his mouth,” Phil Mickelson shrugged two years ago following the U.S. side’s victory at Hazeltine, its […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Don’t expect the dizzying display of birdies and eagles like at Hazeltine. Quite the opposite, in fact. “I don’t think you’ll go anywhere else where you’ll see as many fist-pump pars as you’ll see this week,” Jordan Spieth said. The difficult course setup for this Ryder Cup didn’t come as much of […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – After a 10-year absence from one of golf’s biggest events, Paul Casey is savoring his Ryder Cup return. The Englishman played on three straight European squads between 2004-08, but he was famously left off Colin Montgomerie’s 2010 squad despite being ranked inside the top 10 in the world. That sparked a domino […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Sometimes it pays to be single. Thorbjorn Olesen was the last man to qualify for the European Ryder Cup team, and he’s one of five rookies this week on captain Thomas Bjorn’s squad. But the 28-year-old Dane also happens to be the only player on either team who is not currently in […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – While most of the players on Team Europe boast plenty of experience at Le Golf National, none can match the recent good vibes of Alex Noren. Noren is set to make his Ryder Cup debut this week, and it happens to be on a course where he won just three months ago. […]
Tiger’s got jokes. On Thursday at Le Golf National, Tiger Woods took some time out of his Ryder Cup prep to have some fun with the man he took down in Sunday singles in the 1999 biennial matches. That man is Andrew Coltart, who is now a Sky Sports analyst that was on the range to […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The subtext to Friday’s opening four-ball session at the Ryder Cup isn’t who will play the morning matches, it’s who is not playing. For Europe, captain Thomas Bjorn decided to sit Alex Noren, Henrik Stenson, Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia, the final three serving as anchors of the Continent’s team for over […]