PLAY RESUMED IN RYDER CUP

Westwood and Kaymer in the driving seat

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer continued to dominate the opening match of The Ryder Cup following a long weather delay at The Celtic Manor Resort.
Europe had led in three out of the four four-balls matches when over seven hours of play was lost due to the Twenty Ten Course being waterlogged.
When play resumed at 5pm, Westwood and Kaymer were gifted the sixth hole by Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson to go three up.
Kaymer was out of the hole, having driven into water and Westwood was in rough to the right of the fairway while their opponents were both in ideal position.
But after Westwood hit a superb shot to seven feet, Mickelson pulled his approach into the water surrounding the green and Johnson three-putted for bogey, meaning Westwood's par was good enough.

If Westwood was almost playing that match single-handedly, Stewart Cink was doing the same in match two, holing from 50 feet across the fifth green for birdie to get back on level terms against Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell.

Johnson made amends for his three-putt with a birdie 2 on the seventh to get back to two down, while Cink carried on holing putts from everywhere with a matching birdie in the group behind.

That put him and Matt Kuchar one up on McIlroy and McDowell, while Ian Poulter and Ross Fisher remained ahead of Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker by the same margin.

Bubba Watson holed from three feet for birdie on the fourth to put the United States three up in the bottom match, but Luke Donald and Padraig Harrington had yet to card a single birdie.

US team have to buy new waterproofs!
FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEBSITE
As if the weather was not bad enough at the Ryder Cup today, the American team were reported to be hastily buying better waterproof gear.
The rain break allowed whispers to spread through the clubhouse and it wasn't long before journalists and insiders learned of the American's waterproofs, which didn't protect against water.
US Ryder Cup coach Corey Pavin confirmed the decision in an interview during the rain break. "We're disappointed with the performance of the waterproofs, so we went out and bought some more," he said.
"It's unbelievable," said former Open champion Paul Lawrie when he heard the story.
"I assume they would have been tested and it seems an incredible lapse."
Phil Mickelson's coach Butch Harmon commented: "They are the ugliest things I have ever seen and if they don't work as well it's not a good thing.
"But in defence of our team we wouldn't usually go out in weather like this."
An American player, not wanting to be named, had told a reporter after practising in heavy rain on Wednesday that he got soaked underneath the waterproofs, while apparently the reason Tiger Woods played in a jacket without his name on then was that his was not the right size.
As the two sides waited to hear when the action might resume, Rory McIlroy said on his Twitter site: "I just have to say are waterproofs are performing very well!"
Ian Poulter looked dangerously near taking great delight from seeing the Americans re-emerge in different rainwear.
"I can see them on right now. Ours are keeping us nice and dry, that's all I am going to say," he said.
The manufacturers of the offending raingear, Sun Mountain Sports, posted photos from the practice sessions on Facebook earlier in the week with the caption "weather will most likely be a factor at this year’s event, may the team with the best outerwear win." Ooops!!