Rory McIlroy is being billed in Europe as the 26th coming of Christ.  Shane Lowry is billed as the 27th.  I don't know how you can have multiple Christs at once, but it seems to be happening right now.

Well, McIlroy recently made some public comments that suggested that he feels the Ryder Cup isn't much more than an exhibition match. 

"In the Ryder Cup, it's a great spectacle for golf, but an exhibition at the end of the day and it should be there to be enjoyed," McIlroy said. "I think if I get on it, you know, you enjoy the week, and if you win or lose, it's a great experience and you move on from it. In the big scheme of things, it's not that important of an event for me."

That comment - critical of the beloved Ryder Cup - has drawn a bunch of chirping crickets from the British media that is often very quick to criticize American players.

Interestingly enough, Hunter Mahan made fairly similar comments before this 2008 Ryder Cup.

I just feel like the players don't have much control over it (the Ryder Cup), and I don't think they like that. I wouldn't like that.

... And from what I've heard the whole week is extremely long. You've got dinners every night - not litte dinners, but huge, massive dinners. I know, as players, that's the last thing we want to do. We want to prepare ourselves. That's part of the whole thing: you're just a slave that week. At some point the players might say: "You know what - we're not doing this anymore, because this is ridiculous."

Those comments, which actually weren't even an expression of Mahan's own opinion, got him ostracized from society by the same British journalists that are keeping shut about McIlroy's dismissal of the team competition.

Well, Scott Michaux of the Augusta Chronicle noticed and he's calling it out.  Love the piece and love the call out.  Don't get me wrong.  The European journalists are not the only ones that do this kind of thing.  Americans do it with Tiger all of the time.  But, now that the Europeans have their Tiger equivalent, they need to be reigned in a bit.

Thanks to Shane Bacon for the link.