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Euro Ryder Cup Team to Wear Tin Foil Hats
As though it couldn't get any weirder for Monty, he has apparently decided that the lessons of history - Watergate, Jaimee Grubbs, Paula Tagg, that Indonesia incident, et al - implore him to maintain utmost secrecy with his team. Derek Lawrenson reports Colin Montgomerie has had the European team...
Little League & the Ryder Cup: Why Participation Matters
The Ryder Cup has almost every advantage over its younger, less compelling brother called the Presidents Cup. There is deeper heritage. It (although at a lower prior rate) introduces American audiences to players we don't typically see here. The opponent wins sometimes, or at least ties. A...
Agent: Westwood Will Play in Ryder Cup
Last week, Waggle Room tried to contact Lee Westwood's management team for comment on his progress in rehabbing the calf that has kept him out of action since mid-August. No such luck. Maybe no decision had been made yet, but it appears Westwood is ready to pronounce he will play. Through a...
Luke Donald Explains His Barclays 28-40 & How Monty May Have Cost Him $10 Million
Remember that front nine 28 that probably landed Luke Donald a spot on the European Ryder Cup team? And then the 40 coming home that made half of the universe second guess what in the world they just saw? Well, the Englishman has a perfectly fine explanation. In his blog through sponsor Mizuno,...
The Most Exciting Way to Reveal the Ryder Cup Teams
A number of European contenders, and even now members, of the Ryder Cup team opposing the Americans have complained about the selection process which Colin Montgomerie used to craft this team. Monty used a mix of a points systems created for both globetrotting players and homebodies to create a...
The Manchurian Captain: Did Monty Help the US With His Picks?
Waiting with bated breath, so many of on both sides of the Atlantic awaited Colin Montgomerie's announcement of his three captain's picks for the Ryder Cup team. The announcement was originally set for 1pm ET, then minutes before the show was to go live, it was pushed back a half hour. The pushing...
Montgomerie Selects Molinari, Harrington, & Donald for Ryder Cup
Colin Montgomerie has just announced his European Ryder Cup team. Filling out his squad in addition to the 9 automatic qualifiers, Montgomerie has selected Edoardo Molinari, Padraig Harrington, and Luke Donald as his captain's picks. Molinari birdied the final three holes at Gleneagles to win the...
Montgomerie Delays Ryder Cup Picks by 30 Minutes...to Pick Luke Donald?
Colin Montgomerie was set to make his three captain's picks for the European Ryder Cup team at 1pm ET. Montgomerie, though, has now pushed back that press conference to announce the picks at 1:30pm. Perhaps he is doing so to accommodate Luke Donald who has made birdies on six of his first seven...
Euro Tour Winner: Monty's Picks - Casey, Molinari, Rose
We are just a few short hours away from Colin Montgomerie's announcement forming the European Ryder Cup team. There has been rampant speculation about who will make the team, but one European Tour player seems to know who the picks are. Thomas Levet, who missed the cut this week by a shot at...
Monty Backs Down from Gleneagles Mandate
Just a few months ago, Colin Montgomerie made it abundantly clear that he wanted every European player within striking distance of making the Ryder Cup team to be in the field at Gleneagles - the final event held prior to the formation of the twelve man squad. Monty, with three captain's picks at...
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