Ryder Cup 2025 - All matters
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Orikoru
Tour Winner
You can't ignore the personal side though. Foursomes is a tough format, I think it's easier to form a good team with someone you already have a bond with - when it comes to putting your teammate in the crap and so on!If captaincy of the RC was as much of a ‘thing’ as everyone says it is, there really ought to be pairings made (esp in Foursomes) based on the strengths and characteristics of the golfers game — and not as basic as ‘they’re from the same country (or island), they should be paired together’ — a 10 yr old could come up with pairings as simple as that
The very obvious difference being that the six picks are arguably the strongest players available who did not qualify as of right.
sunshine
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I'm not sure this analogy works.
What's the equivalent of picking Maguire and Henderson? Call ups for Garcia and Poulter.
Klimski
Active member
Europe bases the pairings mainly on data, provided by Eduardo Molinari (and his team). It transcends who's from which country etc. But they do take into account if some people just don't get along. This is based on an interview that Molinari did with No Laying Up two years ago: https://nolayingup.com/podcasts/no-laying-up-podcast/nlu-podcast-episode-757-edoardo-molinari
PS: I am including this podcast link, have no affiliation with them, and am also not 100% sure that this was the one I was thinking of, as they also spoke to him in 2024 (in Youtube)
PS: I am including this podcast link, have no affiliation with them, and am also not 100% sure that this was the one I was thinking of, as they also spoke to him in 2024 (in Youtube)
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Arthur Wedge
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Hoganman1
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This is a great team with some really talented players.
Hoganman1
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Glad to see Noren was named as a vice captain.
Barking_Mad
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Interesting to read about course set up. Reason to expect birdies. 1st has had the tee brought forward so it's in range with driver. Par 3 17th has a grandstand around it, at Bradley's request, so it's been reduced from 200+ to 170-190.
Most importantly the rough has been reduced from up to 5" to no more than 2.25".
Most importantly the rough has been reduced from up to 5" to no more than 2.25".
Arthur Wedge
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Seems like the standard US Ryder Cup set up where they are looking to ensure the players can reach the green from anywhere
BubbaP
Occasional Player of Golf
Bomb and gouge baby!
TBF all the players are well used to this sort of fare now, the bygone days of Euro tour v USA tour are in the past so is likely less of factor. But it probably plays into it becoming a putting competition - and we have seen how that often plays out on away legs....
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Completely agree with that. Most of the players are bomb and gouge specialists these days, so maybe cutting down the rough doesn't favour the US as much as it used to. As you say, it'll just be a putting competition. I think our team is a fair bit stronger than theirs, so it will just be a case of whether we can overcome their home advantage or not.
D-S
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100% agree with this, however I have put money on the fact that I don’t think we will. Happy to lose it though if we do beat them.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Ryder Cup rejection causes Sergio Garcia to withdraw from Irish Open
Garcia, the highest-scoring Ryder Cup player in history, wasn’t selected by Luke Donald to be part of Team Europe at Bethpage Black this month
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Is Sergio not all there in the head? He can't seriously have believed he was going to be in the team can he? That's some top tier delusion there if he did.
“I felt like I was so looking forward to being a part of that team, and so I felt like mentally, you know, mentally it was kind of tough."
Absolute screw loose!
Mel Smooth
Hacker
Ryder Cup rejection causes Sergio Garcia to withdraw from Irish Open
Garcia, the highest-scoring Ryder Cup player in history, wasn’t selected by Luke Donald to be part of Team Europe at Bethpage Black this month
Is Sergio not all there in the head? He can't seriously have believed he was going to be in the team can he? That's some top tier delusion there if he did.
“I felt like I was so looking forward to being a part of that team, and so I felt like mentally, you know, mentally it was kind of tough."
Absolute screw loose!
He said back in May he wasn’t playing well enough to be picked. I don’t think he ever thought he was going to be picked to play unless he’d had a big upturn in form.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Why's he talking rubbish now then? Excuse for dropping out of this week's event?
sunshine
Well-known member
Ryder Cup rejection causes Sergio Garcia to withdraw from Irish Open
Garcia, the highest-scoring Ryder Cup player in history, wasn’t selected by Luke Donald to be part of Team Europe at Bethpage Black this month
Is Sergio not all there in the head? He can't seriously have believed he was going to be in the team can he? That's some top tier delusion there if he did.
“I felt like I was so looking forward to being a part of that team, and so I felt like mentally, you know, mentally it was kind of tough."
Absolute screw loose!
I'm in the same boat. I'm so disappointed with being left out of the Ryder Cup team that I've decided to withdraw from the September medal this Saturday.
I'd rather play golf with Carlos Alcaraz in New York.
Mel Smooth
Hacker
It might well be. Maybe he was hoping to be part of Luke's team working on the sidelines - but I don't think anybody including Sergio thought he'd done enough to play his way into the team. He looked pretty content with life watching Alcaraz at the tennis the same day anyhow.
Klimski
Active member
I think he was eyeing up a vice captain role - which there was one slot open, that went to Noren
