[1rudeboy]

The vast majority of Euros were well inebriated by 8:30am.

Hey! That's 3:30 pm local, for us!

[UnBubba]

For a brief moment, I thought Jim "Choke" Furyk was going to enlist a team of geologists, land surveyors, agronomists, and mathematicians to join him on 18 in order to help him calibrate the precise line and pace of the putt that he was going to... someday... have to hit and, unavoidably, miss.

Sad. : (

[proxy_user]

No theory of US collapse can explain why the European team, who couldn’t make a putt for two days, suddenly couldn’t miss.

This is except for Colsaerts on day one, and sure enough on Sunday he couldn’t make a single putt. Everything was reversed.

[Uncle Chip]

Thanks for the report. Glad I wasn’t there.

[nascarnation]

Was Baraq there to encourage his buddy TW?
Only about 30 miles from his old ‘hood.

[ken5050]

Enjoyed your commentary..many thanks..I attended the 2002 Open at Bethpage Black..again..had a ball, but would never do it again..

IMHO, it was both a great comeback for the Euros, AND a monumental choke for the Americans.

Poulter was unreak..if he hadn't pulled out the match late Saturday, Sunday wasn't possible...what did he have..5 birdies in a row..

The guy that beat Mickelson Sunday..I can't recall his name as I write this..that was the Cup.

But the CHOKE award goes to Tiger..I mean..0 fer 3..One sticking point from Woods and the USA wins..

[mojo114]

Thank you so much for your excellent report.
We watched it on television and the noise from the crowd was too loud. I realized later that evidently the players all were miked but NBC choice not to allow us to hear it (except on a few occasions).
We really enjoyed watching it, sort of mindless, relaxing television. Yet somehow exciting.

[freekitty]

I don’t know about tearing up the golf courses; but changes are always made before the tournaments.

[bcsco]

I played there 3 times back in the 70’s. The course didn’t look at all the same as it did then. I know about the renovations in 2002, but it didn’t seem to have all the trees it did back then. We had to have a ball boy with us keeping track of balls going into the trees, to keep the play going.