Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Ryder Cup Bringing Out the Worst of America's Best

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Tiger Woods Ryder CupNEWPORT, Wales -- In honor of the cream of the U.S. golfing crop, the soup special at the Ryder Cup cafeteria Sunday was leek and blue cheese.

You could smell it a kilometer away.

Europe tossed the Americans into a boiling pot and stirred up the biggest one-day rout in history. It won't take a miracle for the U.S. to come back from a 9 1/2 to 6 1/2 deficit, but it will require the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the world to start acting like it.

Upon further review, that would be a miracle.

Is Tiger Woods the leek, or is Phil Mickelson the blue cheese? They've done everything at Celtic Manor except spill soup on their pastel sweaters.

Mickelson has established himself as the worst Ryder Cupper to ever wear red, white and blue. As for Woods, Steve Stricker carried him to two points earlier in the match. The sheep grazing on the nearby hillsides would have put up a better fight on Sunday.

Their 6 & 5 loss to Lee Westwood and Luke Donald was the worst match-play whacking of Woods' career.


"It happens to the best of them," Corey Pavin said.

Yeah, but why does it happen so often in the Ryder Cup?

Theories have ranged from disinterest to being marked men to a lack of camaraderie. Their Celtic Collapse isn't exactly surprising given recent developments. Mickelson became a vegetarian after developing arthritis. Woods reportedly had marriage difficulties.

 

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