We talked about it in our summary of the French Open in July, the Golf National course near Paris is currently the site of the famous Ryder Cup, the event that comes in 3rd position in media coverage worldwide. behind the Olympics and the football world cup. A billion viewers in 200 countries will attend this epic game, a real “war” that takes place every 2 years, between the 12 best American players and the 12 best Europeans, in a “match-play” format.
No French in these 12 as almost always, French golfers are not yet at the level of the world top. Recently in 2014, the prodigy Victor Dubuisson had greatly participated in the victory of Europe and carried our colors high with a faultless Ryder. But since that one got a little lost and nobody took over.
Composition of the "USA" team: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, Patrick Reed, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Bryson Dechambeau, Matt Kuchar, Web Simpson, Tony Finau. Captain: Jim Furyk.
Composition of the "Europe" team: The Italian Francesco Molinari, the English Justin Rose, Tyrrell Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood, Ian Poulter and Paul Casey, the Spaniards Sergio Garcia and Jon Rahm, the Northern Irishman McIlroy, the Swedes Henrik Stenson and Alex Noren and the Danish Thorbjorn Olesen. Captain: the Dane Thomas Bjorn.
This edition is announced as exceptional both in terms of the organization, the quality of the course and the expected attendance (nearly 300.000 over 3 days). But this edition coincides above all with the return to the world foreground of the "Tiger", Tiger Woods the living legend of golf, who won his place in the USA team at 42 years old after having almost quit golf 2 years ago. But a delicate and successful operation on the back (welding of 2 vertebrae) now allows him to swing painlessly and return to the top 15 in the world. The specialists even see it resume its place of world No. 1 soon. Its presence in Paris causes hysteria on the National golf course.
This Friday are scheduled 4 matches 2 against 2 in “four balls” in the morning (each player plays his ball, we take the best result on each hole), then 4 matches in “foursome” in the afternoon (the 2 players of the team plays the same ball alternately).
The grandstand at the start of the first hole can accommodate 6500 spectators, unheard of in the Ryder Cup or the largest, in 2016, did not exceed 2500.
This 2018 edition of the great golf festival is a great opportunity to introduce people to this sport in our country, which really is, contrary to popular belief. A sport where the mind and humility more than in others is a factor of success.
The results at the start of the week.
Go Europe! _AH
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