The European team, especially Clarke and Jimenez, are always seen smoking ciagrs. Friday it was Cohiba and yesterday, the TV images were too brief, as Jimenez opened his case and gave a torpedo of some sort (with red label) to Clarke.
I bet the sales of quality cigars will sore in Europe if they win (I remember past years when Europe have been well stuffed in the singles).
Great come back by USA on Saturday morning until Casey and Howell made a dramatic recovery.
Here's to Sunday TV, smokes and good golf. And patriotism (not nationalism).
------------------ Hi, I'm Plenty." Bond: "But of course you are." "Plenty O'Toole." Bond: "Named after your father perhaps."
I don't know what Clarke and Jimènez will smoke this afternoon, but I saw that Jimènez had a Hoyo de Monterrey Saturday. Mine will probably be a R&J Churchill or a Cohiba Esplendido while watching the best golf one can think of.
It does amaze me that US is getting smoked so badly...world rankings, as we saw with Vijah being #2, don't mean a whole lot. Not much difference between #10 and #100. Hope US pulls it out, but EU deserves it.
Don't know why they have such a hard time with this thing. They just can't get it done in the Ryder Cup.
Pretty funny from ESPN:
By Jason Sobel ESPN.com
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Break up the Europeans.
No, seriously, break them up. Scrap the Spaniards. Junk the Germans. Filet the Frenchmen.
Thanks for visiting, fellas, but we've had about enough of your laughing and high-fiving on our home turf. You've been beating our golfers and stealing our women (that means you, Bernhard) for too long.
It's time to get back to the good ol' days when Europeans were from Great Britain and Ireland -- and nowhere else.
Retro is in anyway. Can't we disco our way back to the 1970s when Jacklin and Oosterhuis had to round up a few blokes named Clive just to make a full squad? Those were some fun Ryder Cups. Scores like 21-11, 19-13 -- all won by the Red, White and Blue, of course.
Really, is the current format even fair? A continent that's been golfing since the Paleozoic Era taking on poor, little United States of America. We've only been independent for 228 years -- sometimes it takes us that long just to find one of Mickelson's tee shots.
Sure, it was Jack Nicklaus' idea to invite all of Europe, but it's a safe bet he never thought he'd see Sergio Garcia smiling his way to 3½ points in two days before he even hit puberty. Or Miguel Angel Jimenez's diabolical ponytail-and-cigar routine, a cross between Britney Spears and Groucho Marx with Nick Faldo's swing plane. Or Thomas Levet's, umm, actually he's lost twice so far, so we don't mind if he stays on the team.
And good riddence to German captain Bernhard Langer, who was racing so quickly up the fairways to congratulate his players, he must have thought it was the Autobahn. Shouldn't he really be captaining our team anyway? The guy lives in Florida, is married to a southern belle and plays golf as slow as most guys in our regular foursome.
The point is, if Europe wants to make this a fair fight, then let's do it. Starting now, we'll take Fiji, Canada and Australia. That's right -- Vijay Singh, Mike Weir, Adam Scott, you guys are on the new, improved team of "America-plus".
With initiation onto this select squad comes plenty of perks: Chants of U-S-A-Plus will follow you around the course; Chris DiMarco will pump his fist after every putt you make, just so you don't hurt yourself; and we promise not to make you wear Ben Crenshaw's ill-fated snapshot shirt. Ever.
Phil Mickelson's even got a new set of Callaways he won't be using once you join us, so you're welcome to them!
Europe, you're up. For now. And it's not like this is a one-time thing. A win on Sunday would be your fourth in the last five matches. C'mon, you already beat our Olympic basketball team and claimed David Hasselhoff as one of your own. What's next? Stealing our record for eating Cheetos while lying on the couch?
So Bernhard, Miguel, Sergio, you can have the Ryder Cup for now.
Just don't expect a ride to the airport.
And no, you can't have Elin back, either.
Mike
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Yeah...I watched most of Saturday's matches. Today I was switching back and forth between the Ryder Cup and the Panther's game. At least the Panthers won.
The US Pros just didn't putt worth a damn which is what all the golf know-it-all were saying about the Euros before it started. They all thought they'd have trouble with the greens...shows what the know.
However, my idea of golf is Clarke and Love. Love brought the cigars that they smoked on their round. Good friends yes, but they still were dedicated sportsmen and played to win. After all it is only a game.
Well done to both teams for once again making it one of the best spectacles in world sport.
------------------ Hi, I'm Plenty." Bond: "But of course you are." "Plenty O'Toole." Bond: "Named after your father perhaps."
It is an awesome tournament, Owen, but it would be even better if our side could win one now and then. You guys have won enough.
Mike
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
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Double the field, Rollcast. I think it would be an American rout.
Mike
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