The Europeans wore red today. I thought that was great. Last week at the HSBC, Paul Casey wore red and some guy emailed the golf channel analysts and commented about how that was "Tiger's color for Sunday", as if he owns a color for Pete's sake.
I would be lying if I didn't say I was disappointed in Sergio's singles match, but Stewart Cink was holing everything. No one could have beaten Cink today, not even Tiger Woods. And Sergio had done more than his share the first two days to help his team to victory. Jose Maria won his match against Phil Mickelson, making Spaniard Watch very successful today. I'm glad Scott Verplank won his match. That sent a message to Lehman that he shouldn't have gone back on his promise to play Verplank in both matches on Saturday. As for Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood, the captain's picks, they left no doubt as to the worthiness of their being picked and won darn near everything. There were tons of highlight shots made today, many of which I'm sure will be seen on the Golf Channel tonight.
The one black mark on the day: The streaker. That doesn't really happen in the US in golf tournaments. Thank goodness.
Now we get to hear for the next two years, well in about 20 months we will start hearing, all the reasons why the US can't win a Ryder Cup, what needs to be done to change things, blah, blah. As long as the American team members look at the Ryder Cup as something to win, and not something to love, like the Europeans, they will always lose. Scott Verplank only had two matches and he won both. The story of Scott Verplank this week: He told Tom Lehman that he was born to play the Ryder Cup.
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