What if they stopped playing the Ryder Cup?

[Go Cougs]

[ShowMe]

36 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

 

Why do you assume he is addressing you?

 

🤣

 

Cheers 🍻 SM ; )

 

I wasn't, although I guess he could have been.  He just seemed to have a lot of anger.  Most guys who make fries seem to have a lot of anger.  I just put 2 and 2 together.

[ShowMe]

19 minutes ago, Hawkeye77 said:

Haha, yes that's another of the OP's hypotheses.

 

Captains' presser was a snoozer.  

 

We need Reed to tweet something disparaging the dairy industry, anything to get through the next three days of nothing to talk about agony.

 

In other news, since there is breakfast at Wimbledon, I'm having breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner at the Ryder Cup here at home on Friday! 

 

 

 

Well, I've started a petition to eliminate both the Ryder Cup and the Masters, if you want to help out with that in the interim.  Your cat's agreed to sign it.  🙂

[ShowMe]

18 minutes ago, Go Cougs said:

 

Orange Tabby!

[Hawkeye77]

4 minutes ago, ShowMe said:

 

Well, I've started a petition to eliminate both the Ryder Cup and the Masters, if you want to help out with that in the interim.  Your cat's agreed to sign it.  🙂

Haha, my daughter's cat - and I'm not a bit surprised.  

[Hawkeye77]

1 hour ago, Titleist99 said:

Most Americans don't obsess over the Presidents Cup either, In fact I wish that the International win more to make it competitive.

 

You definitely don't obsess - they've won 9 of the last 12.  Plenty competitive in my book but hey, I rooted for Stenson and Stenson and Rose in the last disaster of a Ryder Cup for the U.S. 

[gvogel]

3 hours ago, dropkicked said:

Ryder Cup??? .. Season winding down here in Toronto, so I'll be golfing Thursday - Sunday. 🙂

65 and rain - sounds like a perfect weekend to me. 😁

[dropkicked]

31 minutes ago, gvogel said:

65 and rain - sounds like a perfect weekend to me. 😁

It really is a great weekend. Golfing with the boys and enjoying it all before it's gone.. No golf around here Nov-April.... that's real pain. 😄

[TiScape]

Found the perfect GIF for this thread 

[ShowMe]

16 minutes ago, TiScape said:

Found the perfect GIF for this thread 

 

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[bscinstnct]

[BIG STU]

10 hours ago, BlackDiamondPar5 said:

While i don't often drink Yuenling I don't mind it at all. Definitely over the big brands like Bud etc. 

 

Problem is, most the beer I drink a can costs as much as a six-pack of Yuenling 🙂

Yep I do not drink much anymore maybe a beer every now and then when I get a hankering---- Glad I don't anymore. Back when I really drank I would drink any kind of beer especially if it was free. ----- Now days around here there are so many folks making "craft beer" I would have been fatter than I already am

[BNGL]

11 hours ago, bscinstnct said:

Every single one of the people on here knows about how he made his wealth. You pass by them every time you go to the garden center in any WalMart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target (maybe?). 
 

He made his fortune selling seeds in packages for a penny. His other competition had to mail them which upped their prices, since he lived next to a mainline railroad he was able to eliminate costs. He wasn’t really a golfer until later in life when he and his brother started sponsoring golf tournaments. Although a good player himself, he was captain at two clubs Stratford Upon Avon and I forget the other (fun fact Shakespeare was from Stratford Upon Avon) he was less known for ability but rather his enthusiasm and ability to promote the tournament's. 

[gvogel]

13 hours ago, dropkicked said:

It really is a great weekend. Golfing with the boys and enjoying it all before it's gone.. No golf around here Nov-April.... that's real pain. 😄

Enjoy.  I'll be trying to do the same, 97 miles southeast.

 

BTW, I'm not particularly excited about this Ryder Cup.  Maybe because I am not fond of Pete Dye courses.

Edited September 21, 2021 by gvogel

[bscinstnct]

1 hour ago, BNGL said:

Every single one of the people on here knows about how he made his wealth. You pass by them every time you go to the garden center in any WalMart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target (maybe?). 
 

He made his fortune selling seeds in packages for a penny. His other competition had to mail them which upped their prices, since he lived next to a mainline railroad he was able to eliminate costs. He wasn’t really a golfer until later in life when he and his brother started sponsoring golf tournaments. Although a good player himself, he was captain at two clubs Stratford Upon Avon and I forget the other (fun fact Shakespeare was from Stratford Upon Avon) he was less known for ability but rather his enthusiasm and ability to promote the tournament's. 

Thanks B!

 

Well, he’s certainly my Mom’s hero 😊

 

Amazing the lasting impact of his enthusiasm for something. 

[ShowMe]

2 hours ago, BNGL said:

Every single one of the people on here knows about how he made his wealth. You pass by them every time you go to the garden center in any WalMart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target (maybe?). 
 

He made his fortune selling seeds in packages for a penny. His other competition had to mail them which upped their prices, since he lived next to a mainline railroad he was able to eliminate costs. He wasn’t really a golfer until later in life when he and his brother started sponsoring golf tournaments. Although a good player himself, he was captain at two clubs Stratford Upon Avon and I forget the other (fun fact Shakespeare was from Stratford Upon Avon) he was less known for ability but rather his enthusiasm and ability to promote the tournament's. 

 

Wait.  So this is a tournament named after a guy who sold seeds?  Hmmm...sounds like the topic for the next thread I start - "Should the Ryder Cup be renamed?"

[BlackDiamondPar5]

10 minutes ago, ShowMe said:

 

Wait.  So this is a tournament named after a guy who sold seeds?  Hmmm...sounds like the topic for the next thread I start - "Should the Ryder Cup be renamed?"

The Ryder truck and supply chain logistics company would not like that. They've enjoyed decades of free name promotion 🙂

[imakaveli]

18 minutes ago, ShowMe said:

 

Wait.  So this is a tournament named after a guy who sold seeds?  Hmmm...sounds like the topic for the next thread I start - "Should the Ryder Cup be renamed?"

Seeds & Pods Cup. Still better that the FedEx Cup...

[bscinstnct]

27 minutes ago, ShowMe said:

 

Wait.  So this is a tournament named after a guy who sold seeds?  Hmmm...sounds like the topic for the next thread I start - "Should the Ryder Cup be renamed?"

 

Ryder cool name

 

Just be happy he name not like

 

 

[BNGL]

1 hour ago, bscinstnct said:

Thanks B!

 

Well, he’s certainly my Mom’s hero 😊

 

Amazing the lasting impact of his enthusiasm for something. 

By no means am I saying that those seeds you see today in stores are his company but it’s similar. 

[tatertot]

18 hours ago, ShowMe said:

 

Wow.  Bad day at the fry making station?

I guess your OP wasn't the dumbest one ever.

[ShowMe]

5 minutes ago, tatertot said:

I guess your OP wasn't the dumbest one ever.

 

Well, that's a relief.  You had me worried.

[MountainKing]

I don't think it should be cancelled, but I think the Presidents/Ryder Cup should be re-invented.  The premise of America vs Europe or anywhere else just seems weird in the modern day.  I don't really feel like the concept has aged well.   In recent years the US side rarely seems to show up for the Ryder Cup, but then dominates the President, time to find a format with some more balance that would include the worlds talent rather than breaking it up into these two events. 

[johnseg]

Like everything in life people would miss it at first and then forget it.

 

No one probably thought the Western Open would ever go away, but it is gone.  In 2021 the strength of field in some big tournaments not so good:

• AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am   -  141
• The Honda Classic  -   179
• The Byron Nelson  -  298
• Arnold Palmer Classic  - 460

To compare let's go back to 2015

• AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am   -  285
• The Honda Classic  -   466
• The Byron Nelson  -  272
• Arnold Palmer Classic  - 483

Those were pretty big tournaments in the past. The only one going up is the Nelson. Likely due to the strong Texas contingency on tour right now.

 

Time marches on and change is inevitable.

[xmanhockey7]

On 9/20/2021 at 1:01 AM, Holy Moses said:

Right. No Ryder Cup, no PGA of America. 

Wrong. It still exists, just a smaller budget. We also have this kinda big tournament called the PGA Championship 

[CasualLie]

if the U.S. had won 4 of the last 5 RC's, most everyone would say we can't stop the RC; it's the most important tradition in golf!

 

 

 

 

[BNGL]

52 minutes ago, CasualLie said:

if the U.S. had won 4 of the last 5 RC's, most everyone would say we can't stop the RC; it's the most important tradition in golf!

 

 

 

 

I’d be the one person who’d honestly say “eh whatever”

[miamistomp]

8 hours ago, ShowMe said:

 

Wait.  So this is a tournament named after a guy who sold seeds?  Hmmm...sounds like the topic for the next thread I start - "Should the Ryder Cup be renamed?"

 How about the Diva Cup...

[BNGL]

8 hours ago, ShowMe said:

 

Wait.  So this is a tournament named after a guy who sold seeds?  Hmmm...sounds like the topic for the next thread I start - "Should the Ryder Cup be renamed?"

Well it’s actually named for him because he donated the trophy, hence Ryder Cup.

Edited September 22, 2021 by BNGL
Typo

[biffstix]

Unless we have nuclear warheads pointed at each other I just can’t get too fired up