2018 Ryder Cup at Le Golf National - Paris, France

[Zeph]

Woods, Mickelson, DeChambeau selected to U.S. Ryder Cup team.

 

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Woods will no longer be a vice captain, though Furyk said he would continue to lean on his advice. Woods was an assistant at Hazeltine and at the Presidents Cup last fall at Liberty National in a U.S. route.
 

Furyk picked former world No. 1 David Duval to replace Woods. Furyk also said Zach Johnson and Matt Kuchar would fill out his lineup of vice captains, joining Davis Love III and Steve Stricker. 

 

https://www.pgatour.com/news/2018/09/04/tiger-woods-phil-mickelson-bryson-dechambeau-captains-picks-us-ryder-cup-team.html

 

No surprises there.

[Gettin Better]

20 minutes ago, Zeph said:

Woods, Mickelson, DeChambeau selected

Sounds like US are happy .. so are we Euro's .. we're looking forward to Woods keeping to his normal Ryder Cup 4 ball form. Gives us a far better chance 😁

[iacas]

30 minutes ago, Gettin Better said:

Sounds like US are happy .. so are we Euro's .. we're looking forward to Woods keeping to his normal Ryder Cup 4 ball form. Gives us a far better chance 😁

Once again, his form has generally been fine.

Be careful what you wish for.

[saevel25]

Strokes Gained Rankings

Europe: 3rd, 8th, 9th, 17th, 19th, 22nd, 42nd

USA: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 24th, 30th, 39th

I suspect the European team will pick - Paul Casey, Henrik Stenson, and Ian Poulter .That would add a 20th, 23rd and 30th ranked to the list above.

Just in terms of strokes gained, I would give the edge to USA this year.

 

 

[Moxley]

Terrible picks from Byorn, he's just playing it safe with the older players. So disappointing.

[DeadMan]

Honestly don't know how you can defend taking Sergio with his recent form. Who knows, though. A motivated Sergio might show up and magically be on form and lay waste to the US team. But I feel like RCB deserved a pick over Sergio.

[iacas]

15 minutes ago, Moxley said:

Terrible picks from Byorn, he's just playing it safe with the older players. So disappointing.

FWIW the picks were:

• Paul Casey
• Sergio Garcia
• Ian Poulter
• Henrik Stenson

Half of them are in pretty poor form right now and/or fighting injury.

Edge: US.

[rehmwa]

32 minutes ago, DeadMan said:

Honestly don't know how you can defend taking Sergio with his recent form. Who knows, though. A motivated Sergio might show up and magically be on form and lay waste to the US team. But I feel like RCB deserved a pick over Sergio.

Casey and Henrik are good picks.  The other two - well, the Ryder is really just a crap shoot on who's playing hot that week anyway - Sergio and Ian could go big either way.  Seems like legacy picks to me.

[iacas]

1 minute ago, rehmwa said:

Casey and Henrik are good picks.

Really? I don't know about that.

T69, T20, MC, T39, T35 in his last five events, and fighting an injury last I heard.

[rehmwa]

3 minutes ago, iacas said:

Really? I don't know about that.

T69, T20, MC, T39, T35 in his last five events, and fighting an injury last I heard.

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You got me....I just like him when he's playing good.  The Open a couple years ago turned me into a fan.

[iacas]

1 minute ago, rehmwa said:

You got me....I just like him when he's playing good.  The Open a couple years ago turned me into a fan.

I'm a fan of Andy Van Slyke. Doesn't mean he's should play center field for the Pirates any time soon. 🙂

He and Sergio have been suffering lately.

[MrGolfguy67]

3 hours ago, Gettin Better said:

... we're looking forward to Woods keeping to his normal Ryder Cup 4 ball form. Gives us a far better chance 😁

[MacDutch]

Stenson, Casey an Poulter are good picks imho. Ok Henrik is fighting injury, thats a risk. The pick of Garcia is really bad. 7 missed cuts on his last 12 events. The guy is just not playing well enough. Praying he is not going to do a Westwoody.

[SPJr]

Sergio?!?!?!?

[DeadMan]

So the teams right now:

USA:

1. Patrick Reed
2. Brooks Koepka
3. Dustin Johnson
4. Justin Thomas
5. Jordan Speith
6. Rickie Fowler
7. Bubba Watson
8. Webb Simpson
9. Tiger
10. Phil
11. Bryson DeChambeau
12. TDB

Europe:

1. Tommy Fleetwood
2. Alex Noren
3. Ty Hatton
4. Rory McIlroy
5. Francesco Molinari
6. Jon Rahm
7. Thorbjorn Olessen
8. Justin Rose
9. Paul Casey
10. Ian Poulter
11. Sergio
12. Henrik Stenson

USA team looks stronger, especially when you get past the top 4-ish guys on each team. If this were in the USA, I would be predicting a fairly big USA win. In Europe, it's going to be close. I would give the edge to the US, but this is a pretty good European team still. It's probably going to come down to how the rookies fair and whether an out of form player like Sergio or Bubba shows up.

[Wally Fairway]

1 hour ago, DeadMan said:

 

USA:  (total 145)

Patrick Reed  14
Brooks Koepka  2
Dustin Johnson  1
Justin Thomas  3
Jordan Speith  10
Rickie Fowler  9
Bubba Watson  13
Webb Simpson  19
Tiger  26
Phil  24
Bryson DeChambeau  7
TDB (Finau - unless he dislocates his ankle) 17

Europe: (total 216)

Tommy Fleetwood 12
Alex Noren  15
Ty Hatton  25
Rory McIlroy  8
Francesco Molinari  6
Jon Rahm  5
Thorbjorn Olessen  40
Justin Rose  4 
Paul Casey  16
Ian Poulter  33
Sergio  30
Henrik Stenson  22

OWGR rankings listed, with totals (not that totals really mean anything)

[Gettin Better]

3 hours ago, Moxley said:

Terrible picks from Byorn, he's just playing it safe with the older players. So disappointing.

Dammit .... if Woods is fourballed up against García or Poulter then he's got a decent chance.. BAD choices Björn 😥😥

[Moxley]

Bjorn rambled something about Sergio being the heartbeat of the team or something. Sounds like nostalgia to me.