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The Biennial golfing tournament, the Ryder Cup, which has been delayed by a year, will finally take place at the Whistling Straits course in Wisconsin on the banks of Lake Michigan. Unusually for an American Ryder Cup course, it takes its inspiration from some of the great links courses around the United Kingdom.
Designed by Pete and Alice Dye, the Straits course is a par 72 and has been the home for three US PGA Championship events, in 2004, 2010 and 2015, won by Vijay Singh, Martin Kaymer and Jason Day respectively.
The eagerly anticipated tournament will see two teams of twelve players competing across three days of intense golfing action. The first team to reach 14.5 points out of the 28 available, will win the cup, although if the match is drawn 14-14, then Team Europe will hold onto the trophy as defending holders.
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Let’s now take a look at a little history of the Ryder Cup before we take a closer look at this week’s event.
First contested back in 1927, and the brainchild of businessman Samuel Ryder, who donated the trophy for the tournament, the Ryder Cup was originally a contest between golfers from the United States and Great Britain.
In those early years, both teams were generally evenly matched but from the 1950s onwards, the American team usually proved to be much the stronger of the two. Even the addition of players from the Republic of Ireland to form a GB and Ireland team in 1971, didn’t halt the American’s dominance.
With interest in the tournament waning, a change was needed and that came with the team changing to represent all of Europe in 1979, with the likes of Seve Ballesteros, Manuel Pinero and Bernhard Langer starting to emerge across Europe.
America won the first three Ryder Cup competitions against Europe, but the matches were much closer, but in 1985, Team Europe landed their first Ryder Cup win at The Belfry.
Since the team switched from being GB and Ireland to Europe, there have been 20 matches, with Europe winning 11 to America’s 8 with one being tied (although Europe held onto the trophy as defending champions). Europe have won four of the last five tournaments held since 2010,
In the last event held in America, the United States team won 17-11 in Minnesota at Hazeltine, with Davis Love III captaining the team, however Team Europe regained the trophy in 2018 at Le Golf National in France, when Thomas Bjorn captained the team to a 17.5 to 10.5 victory.
All of which brings us neatly on to the two teams that will be competing in the tournament this week, starting with the hosts.
Both teams have different criteria used for their selection and we have outlined what these our in the respective team selection details below.
Captain Steve Stricker’s team is made up from the top six players in the Qualifying rankings for the tournament, followed by a further six players which are selected by the team captain.
In addition to these 12 playing members of the team, Steve Stricker also can pick five vice-captains to help him run the team and he announced these as being: Jim Furyk, Zach Johnson, Davis Love III, Phil Mickelson and Fred Couples.
Captain Padraig Harrington’s team consists of four players qualifying from the European points list, five more players qualifying from the Worlds points list while the captain has the final three picks of his choice of players.
Harrington has also named five players as his vice captains for the event. Two Swedes in Robert Karlsson and Henrik Stenson, Englishman Luke Donald, Germany’s Martin Kaymer and Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell.
The Ryder Cup is played over three days, but the tournament starts with the opening speeches from both captains and the announcement of the first pairings for the foursomes on Thursday morning. The action then continues as follows:
Captains will reveal their selections for the fourballs near the completion of the foursome events, while the foursome picks are announced the night before. Each captain then needs to decide the order of play for their 12 players in the individual games on Sunday without knowing what selection the other team picks.
The holders only have to tie to retain the trophy, but a team needs 14.5 points or more to clinch the win.
In terms of quality, you cannot argue that America have by far the better of the two teams, with no player ranked below 21st in the world, and eight of their team inside the top ten, in terms of those stats alone, this must rank as Team USA’s strongest ever Ryder Cup team.
However, the American team does lack Ryder Cup experience, something which is vital and which the European team has in abundance.
The question is whether that will be enough for Team Europe to defend the title on American soil.
I am not so sure it will be. There is such talent in this American team that I feel even an inspired effort from Europe may just fall short.
As such my tips are as follows:
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