Europe Has Us Beat

Every two years there is this competition between the United States and Europe. This contest is called the Ryder Cup. It all started way back when in 1927, with just the US and Great Britain. It slowly changed over the years and it extended to all of Europe instead of just Great Britain. Anyways, these past few Ryder Cups haven't been in the Untied States favor. In the past ten Ryder Cup's Europe has won eight of them. With winning this years cup put them in a three year win streak. To some people that don't really care about golf probably don't see what the point in this is, but to me and to all the other fans out there its awful. Especially this last cup was pretty embarrassing to be honest. They just got they ass's handed to them losing 16 1/2 to 11 1/2 points.

But that score wasn't as bad as the 04 and 06 Ryder Cup's losing both years with the score        9 1/2 to 18 1/2. The one in 2004 was actually held here in Michigan at the Oakland Hills CC. Surprisingly though we are still winning with the record of 25-12-2. In the very beginning when the Ryder Cup was created America was dominate. From the beginning 1927 all the way to 1983 Europe only won three and tied one. But then again the Europe team back then only consisted of Great Britain and Ireland. Once they extended the team to all of Europe it completely switched on us.

Mainly golf is just an individual sport, but during the Ryder Cup that is not the case. The captain of each team has to plan and match players who they would think would play well with each other. There are different types of play at the cup. There is Fourball, Foursomes and then Singles. In Fourball and Foursomes two teammates are paired with each other and go ahead against two other on the opposing team. It may seem like it would be easy to just throw players in wherever but there is some strategy to it all. It all depends on how everyone plays and their own style of play. Every single person on the team are really great and are on the team for a reason but there are a few that standout and those players will most likely play the same type on the opposite side. The weekend overall is really exciting to watch. The next Ryder Cup is back here in the US in Minnesota. I really would like to go and I'm going to try to. I'm just going to have to wait and see.