Ryder Cup Off And Running: U.S.A. Ready To End "The Drought"? - Dog Leg News

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Tom Edrington spent the first 10 years of his misguided youth as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune. His career brought him face to face with many of sports greatest stars -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Don Shula, countless Hall of Fame NFL stars, more PGA Tour players than he can count. In 1980 he was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America for writing the best news story that year, his coverage of Jack Nicklaus' U.S. Open victory at Baltusrol. Today, 36 years later, golf is still a great part of his life, thanks to competitive playing days and the wonderful people he has met on this fabulous journey.

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    baxter cepeda

    Glad you added that Jim needs to figure out who can play foursomes in editors note Tom because that us what it is exactly all about.
    First, anyone can play fourball.
    But who can play alternate shot?
    Well, they better be naturally steady (not Phil), on form and healthy (not Bubba), major clutch, and really confortable in this environment.

    Jim left out an on form Tiger and Tony. He left out the guy with 2 majors this year. And he left out Captain America, our Poults/Serg.

    A case could have been made for all 4 except perhaps Reed.

    phil and Bubba had no right being out there in foursomes. Spieth was questionable because like Phil and sickly Bubba while he has that major pedigree, his poor form is clearly documented.

    Europe is playing everyone early as the US is trying to do but the home teams foursomes have been selected with surgeon like precision…the same cannot be said about Jims US teams alternate shot duos.

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      Tom Edrington

      This one is very much about accuracy and we can see that is obviously a big American weakness!

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    baxter cepeda

    Yes so much hindsight.
    I was all about Phil getting in cause he is Phil. But that is only true in America. Phil like a few of our guys (bubba) just arent cut out for European Ryder Cup course setups. We ironically needed more Webb simpsons over there.
    Our side are getting smarter but boy are they still so many steps ahead of us in this thing its unbelivable.

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      Tom Edrington

      Baxter: Check out the next feature for Wednesday, the real post-mortem, we won’t pull any punches in explaining what’s wrong with our Ryder Cup team…..it will be eye opening.

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