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It's been a strange day the teams selected by Oli. Poulter is one if the best match play players in the world, won his match this morning and then gets left out.
Westwood and Molinari are woeful at putting and they get paired up this morning. I'm sure there are other examples but they are the glaring ones.
Kaymer had better not be seen again until Sunday too.
Westwood and Molinari are woeful at putting and they get paired up this morning. I'm sure there are other examples but they are the glaring ones.
Kaymer had better not be seen again until Sunday too.
i thought lawrie was a weak link too going in and sadly proved correct...
the coverage was tilted toward US shots hence not much of lawrie / hanson but what we did see didn;t look good..
5-3 is deffo recoverable... it would be nice going into the singles level then all to play for but too many of our guys this afternoon played poorly..the terrific iron play of the morning all but dissapeared, rose lost his touch on the greens, and twomacs were really never in it.
save for woods' poor form we were a poor second best in the fourballs...
colsearts - best player for europe by a mile...well done that man...lets just hope its not too much too soon and he gets over played..fourballs better for him...
europe to make 1 up tomorrow morning and give it back tomorrow afternoon...2 down going into the singles and i fear that will be maintained as it looks at present....
right now US by 3.
the coverage was tilted toward US shots hence not much of lawrie / hanson but what we did see didn;t look good..
5-3 is deffo recoverable... it would be nice going into the singles level then all to play for but too many of our guys this afternoon played poorly..the terrific iron play of the morning all but dissapeared, rose lost his touch on the greens, and twomacs were really never in it.
save for woods' poor form we were a poor second best in the fourballs...
colsearts - best player for europe by a mile...well done that man...lets just hope its not too much too soon and he gets over played..fourballs better for him...
europe to make 1 up tomorrow morning and give it back tomorrow afternoon...2 down going into the singles and i fear that will be maintained as it looks at present....
right now US by 3.
Nom de ploom said:
i thought lawrie was a weak link too going in and sadly proved correct...
the coverage was tilted toward US shots hence not much of lawrie / hanson but what we did see didn;t look good..
In fairness, when your opponents come out and birdie five out of the first six, and eleven out of fourteen,it's very very hard to stop the rot without chasing it and then giving holes away. The worst thing for me was their body language.the coverage was tilted toward US shots hence not much of lawrie / hanson but what we did see didn;t look good..
Todays another day, and it's not won or lost 'til Sunday evening.
Poulter is a superb putter, however he appears to 'love' the RC for perhaps the wrong reasons.
Namely....his only real chance in the spotlight. He loves it, lives for it....but this is his biannual chance to get in front of the cameras and boy does he make he most of it. Rose / Donald simply takeit in their stride as do the rest, but 'Poults', please....it's bigger than one man.
The US crowd ?. What do you expect. No idea and never will have.
Namely....his only real chance in the spotlight. He loves it, lives for it....but this is his biannual chance to get in front of the cameras and boy does he make he most of it. Rose / Donald simply takeit in their stride as do the rest, but 'Poults', please....it's bigger than one man.
The US crowd ?. What do you expect. No idea and never will have.
ferrisbueller said:
taaffy said:
A good putter is a match for anyone, a poor putter is a match for no-one.
'if you can't putt you can't win'
They can... we can't/didn't ....simples ( Colsaerts excluded)
See comments above about course layout. 'if you can't putt you can't win'
They can... we can't/didn't ....simples ( Colsaerts excluded)
Edited by taaffy on Saturday 29th September 08:54
In the afternoon session our putting was extremely poor.
The course layout suits both teams. They can all get the ball out there, some farther than others and they all have great wedge skills when they miss fairways.
All of our players there can putt the lights out when on their game but today we didn't and they did.
There were not that many really wild shots so the course layout did not favour either team.
We as a team are normally very strong in the pairs where we get ahead then we hang on as the Yanks play strong in singles... this afternoon we were weak and they capitalised. Can we get it back????
ferrisbueller said:
taaffy said:
Our players can putt as well as theirs.
I'm really not sure that's true. The range is from circa 27 putts per round for position 1 to circa 29 putts per round for position 50 on both tours.
The confidence that the crowd gives them is massive as it was for us at Celtic Manor.
Edited by taaffy on Saturday 29th September 10:34
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