Look, forget this Olympic Golf stuff for now, no matter what NBC and the Golf Channel tell you, it’s just not that important.
It isn’t.
Let’s get down to something that is.
The Ryder Cup.
It’s coming up fast. September 27-October 2 is the time, Hazeltine National Golf Club up in Chaska, Minnesota is the place. And the Ryder Cup is important because, let’s face it, the United States team is getting sick and tired of being bitch-slapped by the Euros.
It was almost a panic after the last loss. Secret task forces were formed to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup.
The answer is simple. Play better golf, fellas. Make some damn putts when it counts.
Simple as that.
The latest point standings show that Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Phil Mickelson are your top three with Jimmy Walker jumping into the fourth position thanks to his PGA victory, where points counted double. And that was really a good think for one young star-in-the-making and that would be Brooks Koepka. Playing on a bum right ankle and going 36 soggy holes on Sunday, Koepka followed his round of 68-67 with a 36-hole effort of 66-71 to finish in a tie for fourth. That jumped him to No. 5 on the point standings.
Behind him at Zach Johnson, J.B. Holmes and Brand Snedeker. The top eight are automatic. Bubba Watson, Patrick Reed, Matt Kuchar, Rickie Fowler and Scott Piercy are nine through 13. There will be four captain’s picks.
In case your wondering, Tiger Woods is 122nd on the points list. But he’s going to show up as an assistant captain and he’s already been pestering team captain Davis Love III by texting him the guys he thinks should be captain’s picks. Hey, Tiger’s gotta do something these days.
The next 30 days will be important to a guy like Koepka as well as the rest who are outside the top eight.
Right now, the U.S. team may be a slight favorite, but you know how that can go.
Bascially the Euros have been taking the U.S. team’s lunch-money for too long.
This bullying has to stop.
