Take your umbrella and a large dose of patience if you’re off to the K Club for the Ryder cup. The BBC have slammed the practice day organisation at the K Club as inefficient, badly planned and poorly run. Citing flaws in the public transport system and huge delays reporters at the event have been …
Category Archives: Ryder Cup 2006
Changing Ryder Cup Tickets
Well contrary to what has been said on previous articles on this site I just found out this morning that it is possible to change the name on your Ryder Cup tickets. You need to contact the Ryder Cup Ticket office by using their contact form on www.rcts.co.uk or by emailing them at names@rcts.co.uk. You …
Weather for the Ryder Cup
For regular readers to this site you may remember way back in May we tried to make a prediction at about what the weather for the upcoming Ryder Cup would be like. Not that we’re a little closer to the event we might try and be a little more exact!
Ryder Cup News
Well we’ve entered the final week of the Ryder Cup countdown and by this time next week we’ll know who the winners of the 2006 Ryder Cup are going to be (I’m swinging back towards Europe after a brief period backing the US!). In the meantime there’s loads of news and no news.
Everything you wanted to know about the Ryder Cup but were afraid to ask…
Everywhere you turn they are talking about the Ryder Cup – so what’s all the fuss about? Well, it’s golf. Golf, golf and more golf; it’s like the World Cup final in the golf world (the difference being of course only the USA and Europe are allowed to play!). We’ve been writing about the Ryder …
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Ryder Cup Park and Ride
NB: Please see the most recent Park and Ride post which shows the changed Ryder Cup park and ride facilities. This map is no longer up to date. Everyone attending the Ryder Cup is advised that there is NO vehicular access to the event except through the Park and Ride facilities. There are 2 park …
Banned at the Ryder Cup
If you are attending the Ryder Cup Matches at the K Club be aware that there are a number of banned items which you cannot bring into the grounds. The prohibited items list includes (Ladders!) and the following:
Paul McGinley – Hero or Zero?
Three performances stand out on in career of Paul McGinley; representing Ireland on the winning team of the Golf World Cup in 1997, holing the winning put at the Belfry to secure victory for the European Team in the 2002 Ryder Cup and winning the Volvo Masters at Valderrama in 2005. These were big performances …
Ryder Cup News
Well it’s the silly season, there’s no real news on the Ryder Cup front… The teams have been selected and the next real news will be when they start to play. That doesn’t stop the media filling column inches though does it? Here’s a roundup of some of the inanity:
Who is on the Ryder Cup Team Europe 2006?
Paul McGinley and Jose Maria Olazabal can both breathe a sigh of relief as they have both automatically qualified for the Ryder Cup Team. None of the other potential qualifiers could manage to do what was required to displace McGinley and Olazabal at the BMW Open. Woosnam has also announced his two captains wildcard picks …
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