[StAnDeliver]

I'm waiting for the Friday Opening Day pairings to be revealed after this excruciatingly bad opening ceremony.

[StAnDeliver]

US Team

Players
Berger
Cantlay
DeChambeau
English
Finau
Johnson
Koepka
Morikawa
Schauffele
Scheffler
Spieth
Thomas

Captains
Stricker
Couples
Furyk
Johnson
Love III
Mickelson

Team Europe
Players
Casey
Fitzpatrick
Fleetwood
Garcia
Hatton
Hovland
Lowry
McIlroy
Poulter
Rahm
Wiesberger
Westwood

Captains
Harrington
Donald
Karlsson
Kaymer
McDowell
Stenson

[monkeyshine]

What do they ryde? Thoroughbreds or quarter horses?

[Swanks]

On Golf channel, then Golf & NBC, then NBC. Other streaming options (and maybe thru 7 day free trial) is NBC owned Peacock network. And FUBOTV.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

My Ryder Cup story. The UK team came to Charleston SC on the Concorde. I was in a piss poor state job that payed next to nothing. I was standing on the roof of our building and got to see it arrive. 3 years later I found a better job and was on the Concorde.

[Old Yeller]

Whenever I see the words Whistling Straits, I think of nose hairs.

[Carriage Hill]

No. One. With. A. Functioning. Brain. Cares.

[noexcuses]

Thank you for starting this thread.

I love golf, and I was privileged to attend the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine.

The excitement, patriotism, and enthusiasm of the spectators was epic.

[Steve_Seattle]

I must be on Free Republic. A post about a golf tournament turns into bickering!

[Political Junkie Too]

I had an idea for baseball while watching golf match-play tournaments like the Ryder Cup.

How about match play in baseball? It can be played in the off-season as a sponsored tournament with players from any teams forming their own team for the tournament.

The format is as follows:

1. Each team gets points for doing "baseball" actions.
2. At the end of each inning, the team with the most points earned in the inning "wins" the inning. If they tie in points, the inning is tied.
3. After nine innings, the team that won the most innings wins the match.
4. If the teams are tied at the end of nine innings, they play another inning until one team wins.
5. If one team is ahead by more points than innings left, the match is over and the leading team wins.

Points are earned as follows:

• Offensive points
  • 1 point for each run scored.
  • 1 point for each double.
  • 2 points for each triple.
  • 3 points for each home run.
  • 1 point for each stolen base.
• Defensive points
  • 1 point for each double-play (a triple play is scored as two double plays).
  • 1 point for each double-play involving an outfielder (results in two points).
  • 1 point for each picked off player (includes failed stolen base attempts).
  • 1 point for each opponent's runner left on bases 2 or 3.

Like I said, inspired by golf's match play, I tried to think up a way to play baseball with an alternate set of scoring rules.

I wonder if it would make for an exciting way to play the game? It certainly would speed it up by shortening extra innings and having games end early if one team dominates the other (if a team wins the first five innings, the game ends because the other team cannot make up the difference with four innings left).

A tournament format could be an open round where groups of four teams each play the others (three games each), and the top two from each group advance to the single-elimination bracket rounds.

Or, it could be a charity event where two teams play a three-game series. The team with the most innings won after three games wins the event.

-PJ