Valhalla Golf Club is located in Louisville Kentucky in the USA and will play host to the 37th Ryder Cup Matches in 2008. Valhalla is a private club and is now owned by the PGA of America. Valhalla is a feature of Norse mythology and one might wonder at the wisdom of holding the Ryder …
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Ryder Cup 2008
The 37th Ryder Cup Matches will be held at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville Kentucky. The dates have been set for 19th-21st of September in 2008. This should be a cliff hanger of an event as the US Team try to win back the trophy on home ground. Who will captain the US team? …
Ryder Cup
So the 36th Ryder Cup Matches have been completed and Europe have romped home to a record 3rd in a row victory, where does that leave us? Well for some of us it’s onward to Valhalla and the 37th Ryder Cup but in the meantime where does this crushing defeat leave the US team and …
Ryder Cup Players
So the Ryder Cup is Europe’s once more… The Europeans won 18.5 – 9.5 The Ryder Cup Players involved in the 36th Ryder Cup were as follows:
Ryder Cup Results
Team Europe 18.5 – Team USA 9.5 Congratulations to the European team on an emphatic victory. Singles results: Colin Montgomerie Won 1 Up v David Toms Sergio Garcia v Stewart Cink Won 4&3 Paul Casey Won 2&1 v Jim FurykRobert Karlsson v Tiger Woods Won 3&2
Ryder Cup Singles Draw
All the strategising is complete and the two captains have laid out their team line-ups for the final day. Monty leads the charge for the Europeans as he has done so impressively and successfully in the past. Europe need just four and a half points to win. Based on the evidence of the first two …
Ryder Cup – Day 2 Summary
Just as in Brookline in 1999, Europe take a 10-6 lead into the final day of the Ryder Cup. The memories of Justin Leonard’s epic comeback on that Sunday afternoon still linger sufficiently with the European team to prevent any complacency from developing in their thoughts and behaviour. Paranoia aside, the European team has performed …
Ryder Cup – Day 2 Update
With the morning fourballs reaching an exciting conclusion, the pairings for the afternoon foursomes have been announced. Garcia/Donald v Mickelson/Toms Monty/Westwood v Campbell/Taylor Casey/Howell v Cink/Johnson Harrington/McGinley v Furyk/Woods USA will be facing a deficit of anywhere between two and four points going into the foursomes and will need the big guns to deliver. Once …
Ryder Cup – Day 2 Pairings
With the score standing at Europe 5 USA 3, the action begins all over again on Saturday morning at 8am with these pairings: 8.00: Cink/Henry v Casey/Karlsson 8.15: Mickelson/DiMarco v Garcia/Olazabal 8.30: Woods/Furyk v Clarke/Westwood 8.45: Verplank/Johnson v Stenson/Harrington
Ryder Cup Foursomes – A Game of Three Halves
Often, the foursome format can be a greater differentiator than the fourball given the absence of a second chance to cover for a mistake but this afternoon saw an amazingly tight contest with all four games ending on the 18th green. Only the wonderful Sergio Garcia and his partner Luke Donald ended victorious over the …
Continue reading “Ryder Cup Foursomes – A Game of Three Halves”