Friday, September 26, 2014

DAY TWO COMING UP IN THE RYDER CUP

NO SATURDAY MORNING MATCH FOR GALLACHER BUT POULTER GETS McILROY AS A PARTNER

European skipper Paul McGinley has left Stephen Gallacher, Sergio Garcia, Victor Dubuisson and Graeme McDowell "on the bench" for the Saturday morning four-balls.

Rory McIlroy gets a "new" partner - Ian Poulter who, alongwith Gallacher, was thrashed in the morning four-balls on Day 1.  

McIlroy, in partnership with Garcia, gained half-a-point from two matches today.

 SATURDAY MORNING FOUR-BALLS

07.35 Rose and Stenson v Watson and Kuchar

07.30 Donaldson and Westwood v Furyk and Mahan

08.05 Bjorn and Kaymer v Reed and Spieth

08.20 McIlroy and Poulter v Walker and Fowler.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOURSOMES

1.15

1.30

1.45

2.00

SUNDAY: ONE SESSION OF PLAY


12 singles (everybody plays)

SCROLL DOWN FOR A SUMMARY OF THE DAY'S PLAY, IAN POULTER'S THOUGHTS ON HIS BIGGEST EVER RYDER CUP DEFEAT .... AND A RECAP ON ALL THE RESULTS SO FAR




Tom Watson under US fire for benching red-hot rookies on Friday afternoon

FROM GOLF.COM

By REX HOGGARD


“I take the blame for that,” Tom Watson said of the decision to bench Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed. (Getty)










GLENEAGLES:  Second-guessing Ryder Cup captains is as much a part of the gig as pimped out golf carts and awkward speeches, but the scrutiny - in America - that is sure to descend on Tom Watson after Day 1 at Gleneagles comes with a healthy dollop of cosmic irony.
Consider that two years ago Davis Love III, the US team captain who shouldered a disproportionate amount of the blame at Medinah, was blasted for sitting the juggernaut of Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley for Saturday’s four-ball session.
Today, Tom Watson came under fire for letting the high-profile duo play in the afternoon matches.
Sure, Mickelson and Bradley beat Europe’s first line, Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia, in the morning four-ball session, but it wasn’t pretty. In that match Lefty was wayward with his driver, missing crucial fairways at Nos. 5, 7 and 8, and Bradley was nervous. Which is to say Bradley was Bradley.
You don’t have to hold the captain’s title to know that is not a recipe for alternate-shot success.
The move was compounded by Watson’s decision to bench rookies Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed, who had boat-raced match-play magician Ian Poulter and Scotland's own Stephen Gallacher in the morning.
The hyper-analysis that will follow in the wake of the U.S. team’s foursomes faux pas on a blustery day, a 3 ½ to ½ point rout that turned the tide for Europe, is sure to fixate on that theme, however premature and unfounded it may be.
It’s part of the job description and certainly relevant considering America’s three rookies went undefeated on Day 1.
The third rookie, Jimmy Walker, holed a crucial 6-foot putt at the 18th hole in his morning match alongside Rickie Fowler to eke out a half point after the duo had trailed Thomas Bjorn and Martin Kaymer for 17 holes.

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