Ryder Cup 2012 - Medinah CC

[pitchcs]

I will be heading out to Medinah on Tuesday for the practice round and Friday for the first day of the tournament. I'm pretty excited; I'm able to attend The Masters every few years or so but I'm assuming this will be much different. Getting great views of golf shots will be harder due to only 4 groups playing at one time on Friday/Saturday and enormous crowds. But the atmosphere should be a lot of fun and there will be people from all over the country and Europe in attendance.

 

Looks like good weather all week(end). Medinah shouldn't pose too many problems for these guys and the USA has loaded up on bombers. The crowd will play to an American advantage; hopefully nothing too stupid from USA/Chicago fans as all of Europe will be watching. They say the Ryder Cup is Europe's 2nd most anticipated sporting event behind the World Cup.

 

USA falls behind on Friday and has to rally Sunday in singles. Standard storyline for their seemingly few wins in this tournament recently, but it just feels like how it's gonna play out.

 

Enjoy the golf, last good stuff we're going to get for a while.

[Wilson A2000]

It's going to be a great event. I don't know if this means anything for the present, but I think the European players have much better records than the Americans do.

[wvcbxl]

They say the Ryder Cup is Europe's 2nd most anticipated sporting event behind the World Cup.

 

They are wrong - it hardly gets any notice outside of the UK.

[biittner77]

They say the Ryder Cup is Europe's 2nd most anticipated sporting event behind the World Cup.

 

They are wrong - it hardly gets any notice outside of the UK.

 

Maybe they meant non soccer sporting event. Even then I'd guess Rugby would still be more popular than golf.

[wvcbxl]

They say the Ryder Cup is Europe's 2nd most anticipated sporting event behind the World Cup.

 

They are wrong - it hardly gets any notice outside of the UK.

 

Maybe they meant non soccer sporting event. Even then I'd guess Rugby would still be more popular than golf.

 

If you're talking popularity on a European scale, I think soccer and tennis would be the top two.

[Garwilly]

Got back a bit ago. Saw a decent amount of pro's, and nearly took an errant drive from the Timberlake/Murray group off the face. You can tell this is going to be a great week. I really hope to get out there again this weekend, it's going to be electric.

[pitchcs]

Tuesday was fun, great weather. The European players were awesome about signing autographs for just about everyone. Bill Murray was fairly entertaining and George Lopez was a really nice dude. Timberlake and Phelps wanted to get outta there. I also chatted up Urlacher for about 15 seconds, couldn't believe he actually gave me the time of day.

 

Euro's will apparently go:

 

Westwood/Donald

Rose/Poulter

Garcia/Lawrie

McIlroy/McDowell on Friday

 

Westwood/Donald shot a 59 in better ball during Tuesday's practice round.

 

 

Any way to spoiler these photos? I wasn't sure how with my own attachments.

[DivineBovine]

The Euros are certainly better on paper, but it doesn't mean much at this point. It should be exciting. It's anyone's ballgame.

 

The UK folks definitely care about this a ton. Probably more than Americans. To me, it's just an exhibition with some good golf. I don't care that much about who wins, but I'll watch because I'm a golf fan.

 

It gets interesting when the 2 sides start pissing each other off- like when teams run onto the green to celebrate while another team is putting, or when there's rules disputes or gamesmanship, or teams start running their mouths. But the relationship between the players is pretty good right now- they all play in the same tournaments and know each other. So the chances of that kind of stuff happening are much lower than 10-20 years ago. But you never know.

[DivineBovine]

The Euros can't love it when the crowd chants USA! USA! after they hit it in the water! :lol:

 

Ooh, Snedeker just choked on 18. After that comeback.

[SouthSideRyan]

They say the Ryder Cup is Europe's 2nd most anticipated sporting event behind the World Cup.

 

They are wrong - it hardly gets any notice outside of the UK.

 

Maybe they meant non soccer sporting event. Even then I'd guess Rugby would still be more popular than golf.

 

If you're talking popularity on a European scale, I think soccer and tennis would be the top two.

 

And riding bikes and world championship stone-skipping.

 

Europe is weird.

[wolf stansson]

They say the Ryder Cup is Europe's 2nd most anticipated sporting event behind the World Cup.

 

They are wrong - it hardly gets any notice outside of the UK.

And man is it annoying. I watch Sky Sports News as I stumble around my apartment at 6am while getting ready for work because it's better background noise than ESPN but the Ryder Cup has hijacked their entire program like it's the biggest sporting event in the world. The amount of on-site coverage, analysis and attention it gets is incredibly surprising to me.

[Mark Priors Calves]

The WAGs wear uniforms too?

[SpongeWorthy]

We're jagging this big time

[Mark Priors Calves]

Obama's America

[SpongeWorthy]

god damnit

[El Duderino]

What a gag job.

[pitchcs]

Just terrible

[hawkeyecub]

Motherfuck