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Ryder Cup 2025 - All matters

It was a leading item on world sports news and we're just meant to ignore that it happened :D What a funny little website.
In the grand scheme of things, we should be able to discuss the orange one turning up at the Ryder up. However you describe the forum very well. As the funny little clowns on here would make the Yank spectators at the Ryder cup look like innocent nursery children and this thread would be locked inside an hour.
That aside I prefer to focus on a big ass whuping than discuss Prez Don Tango.
Anyway there is only one Donald we should be Focused on and that’s the European Captain.
 
Just looked up the rule...they have up to 30 minutes before the start of the first singles match to pull Hovlund out..
After that the match is forfeit...

Interesting kind of want him to .. it wouldn’t surprise me if one of their better players this week is in the envelope 😂 the war keegan decision making has been
 
Just looked up the rule...they have up to 30 minutes before the start of the first singles match to pull Hovlund out..
After that the match is forfeit...

He's last out, so 1. we will have won it by then and 2. he could beat English one handed 😁
 
Yes we should just go out and win by as many as we can .
Set a record winning score ! That’s a better statement imo.

That’s what I’d rather see, obviously. I’m a golf fan, first and foremost.

But imagine the press and media coverage if Europe got to 14.5 points and Luke Donald called upon his remaining players to concede, and then told the watching world in his press conference precisely why, citing examples. It’d be huge.

Anyway, back to the golf……..
 
I must confess, after this RC, Im actually dreading how it will be in Ireland in 2 yrs time.

That’s actually just about the only cause for optimism and may save the RC in 2 yrs.

If there’s one country on Earth that knows how to do good banter while also being very friendly and welcoming, it’s Ireland. Marry that to a bit of ‘we don’t want to be like them’ and you should have a cracking RC.
 
Technically once 14.5 is reached (or 14 for retention) Europe could concede every remaining match. They wouldn’t but the option is there.
Not sure that holds as much impact as walking off to demonstrate abuse in the modern world it is not acceptable, at any level.
I'd rather they make the statement of the biggest winning margin in modern history despite the levels of abuse.

Having said that, I did bet on 14.5-13.5 being the final score so would be amazing if they did that too. 😂
 
I think I saw Fleetwood with his young son last night as he left.

If players like McIlroy have family, friends and their young children at the event, it just makes the abuse even more appalling.
They have from what I read in the paper. The abuse was vile , calling McIroys wife names and she being in the crowd watching her husband play.
I don’t want to hear anyone criticise Rory for what he said when he told them to shut up. His discipline was brilliant because how many of us would have tolerated vile abuse about your wife when she was there to hear it.

Perhaps the venue will have to be neutral in future? Japan etc?
As Billy says, how far away are we from physical attack on players, and I don’t just mean punches!
 
As per the advertisement on this forum (Peter Millar), I suspect the post sales of any Ryder Cup gear will now plummet, or there'll be some fabulous sales.

American course fans at their best.
 
Agreed, nor with the many decent entry fee paying fans who have simply gone to watch the golf.

But what a statement it would make.
Agree, but perhaps the decent fans should tell the morons to shut up when they say these vile things. And when these morons are detected by the security, they should be unceremoniously ( euphemistic) thrown out…., identified, and then their golf clubs , if they belong to one, should be instructed to throw them out.
To those who say ‘you can’t do that’…….make it a condition of entry to the event that that may be an outcome for being dismissed from the event for unruly behaviour.
 
You don't think golf is a reflection on society and those that attend or play it? Go read the golf sub Reddit and see what other Americans think. You'd be surprised.

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Yes I do, but that doesn’t give you the right to break the forum rules and morph the way society has gone, into political comment here
 
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