Showing posts with label Ryder Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ryder Cup. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Luke's 2008 Toast & Farewell

So I am sure that you have heard that Luke Donald, The English Cutie, is out for the rest of the season due to a wrist injury. Tiger's "goodbye" was more dominant than Luke's "goodbye", but that goes without saying. I like Luke, he seems like a strapping wholesome Mizuno-Royal Bank of Scotland kinda guy;) A graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago he still carries his English accent well...So we drop 2 Ryder Cup Cuties: Tiger (America) & Luke (Europe), so I guess that would make the Ryder Cup Teams "all square" in terms of "Loss of Hotties". Should we let Zinger know about this? Could it change the Captain's picks?

FYI: Luke has his own signature bordeaux wine set to be released in April or May of 2009. Yummm... (image http://www.photozo.com/)

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Slavery at the Ryder Cup

"You've got dinners every night - not little dinners, but huge massive dinners. I know as players, that's the last thing they want to do. We want to prepare ourselves. That's part of the whole thing: You're just a slave that week." - Hunter Mahan in regards to the post-shinannigans at the Ryder Cup.

Who knew? Eating giant 5 course elegant dinners amongst a selection of premier corporate sponsors and the best golf professionals in the world is noted as being perpetual torture for Hunter Mahan. This young man, at the ripe age of 26, has learned that the media will chew you up and spit you out. Will Ryder Cup Captain Paul Azinger bring Mahan aboard the the slavery train to Europe as a Captain's pick?

We are all aware that the "entertainment bit" where professionals are obliged to endure a mixture of pro-ams, banquets, conversations and socials with sponsors, volunteers and event committee members is necessary.

Note to Mahan: The fact remains that they are the people that make this "tournament stuff" possible, simple.

Although Hunter was a bit "amateur" in his Ryder Cup comments, he spoke the truth. Athletes don't speak the truth, they just tell the media what they need to hear so that important corporate people can walk around in blazers and smoke cigars. I feel for Hunter, he made an honest mistake. From now on, he should lie to the media and say that the after parties are cool and highly anticipated even though he really doesn't feel that way.

TEAM HUNTER MAHAN