The 2014 Ryder Cup at Scotland's Gleneagles Hotel will take place between September 26-18, organizers announced Tuesday.
You often mention the Ryder Cup as a model for international team play that the Davis Cup should adopt. Problem there is, the Ryder Cup is the U.S. vs Europe. Given the state of U.S. tennis these days, this would be a competition the U.S. could NEVER win. Worse, if you are Adam Scott, Geoff Ogilvy, K. J. Choi, Retief Goosen, Ernie Els, Camilo Villegas or Vijay Singh, well, tough luck for you! The beauty of the Davis Cup is that every country on the planet can field a team. That said, I would suggest a biennial competition for the World Group, at least -- on non-Summer Olympic and non-World Cup years. This would also put it in non-Ryder Cup years. --Helen, Philadelphia
Europe wins back the Ryder Cup. Don Riddell speaks with Captain Colin Montgomerie.
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Don Riddell previews the 2010 Ryder Cup competition and why golfers are banned from social networking during the event.
After taking an early lead, the USA trails in all 6 Ryder Cup matches. CNN's Don Riddell reports
Team USA takes the early lead after Friday's wet Ryder Cup action. CNN's Don Riddell reports.
CNN's Don Riddell eyes some of the best trick shots from the Ryder Cup practice rounds.
The top contenders for the European Ryder Cup team talk to CNN from Gleneagles ahead of Colin Montgomerie's selection on Sunday.
CNN's Justin Armden talks to 2010 European Ryder Cup Captain Colin Montgomerie about taking the position.
Sam Torrance spoke to CNN's Don Riddell at The De Vere Collection PGA Seniors Championship at Slaley Hall, giving his thoughts on the Ryder Cup.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
The U.S. moves closer to a win in the Ryder Cup. CNN's Patrick Snell reports.
CNN's Patrick Snell reports on the state of the course at Valhalla, in preparation for the Ryder Cup.
Team USA took a shocking lead over Team Europe after the first day of the 2008 Ryder Cup. CNN's Patrick Snell reports.
Paul Azinger, American Ryder Cup Captain tells CNN about his confidence in his team for the Ryder Cup.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- No longer affiliated with Tiger Woods or the tournament he won five times, American Express signed an endorsement deal Friday with the PGA of America that showed how it has shifted its strategy in golf.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- No longer affiliated with Tiger Woods or the tournament he won five times, American Express signed an endorsement deal Friday with the PGA of America that showed how it has shifted its strategy in golf.
SI.com: Colonial Dazeupdated: Wed May 23 2007 11:05:00
The putt was so easy a child could have made it. Stewart Cink, playing with Davis Love III and leading in the final round of the 2000 Colonial, went to tap in, to get out of Love's way, to tidy up on the 5th hole ... and missed.
VIRGINIA WATER, England(AP) European captain Nick Faldo picked Jose Maria Olazabal and Paul McGinley as his assistants Tuesday for the 2008 Ryder Cup - provided they don't make the team as players.
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., May 13 -- He could've been crushed. He could've been angry. He could've been tearful.
MILAN, Italy (AP) -- Joakim Backstrom shot a course record 10-under 62 Thursday to come within one stroke of matching the lowest round of the European Tour season in the first round at the Italian Open.
SI.com: Sentimental Journeyupdated: Mon Apr 30 2007 10:37:00
Even Iron Byron, the robot hitting machine featured in those old golfgear ads; even the giant Nelson statue at the TPC Four Seasons; even themost hardened cynic couldn't help but shed a tear at how this one turnedout.
From Arnold Palmer to Phil Mickelson, the Masters has a long history of decisive final-hole dramatics, but this year's tournament was a Masters unlike any other, and so the ending was destined to be a little messy. After four days of exasperating golf, it figured that Zach Johnson would win his green jacket while slouched in the locker room, averting his eyes from a television because he couldn't bear to watch his fate unfold.
SI.com: The Quiet Manupdated: Tue Apr 10 2007 10:22:00
Jack Taylor, father of Vaughn, is a master of hyperbole.
SI.com: Ryder Toughupdated: Sun Apr 08 2007 23:02:00
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 8 -- He was a solitary figure in the fading light, a man slowly burning off the frustrations of a windblown 76.
Augusta, Ga., April 7, 2007 -- By PGA Tour standards, Vijay Singh is an old man. At 44 in the Age of Tiger Woods, he should be counting his pension assets and preparing to break Hale Irwin's Champions Tour record of 45 wins. He shouldn't be staying on the range all hours of the night, making busy work for the Augusta National grounds crew.
Augusta, Ga., April 6, 2007 -- If the Ryder Cup was being contested here at Augusta, the Americans might actually have a chance of winning it.
AUGUSTA, Ga.(AP) Last year's Ryder Cup rookies were this year's early leaders at the Masters. Zach Johnson and Henrik Stenson were among the few players shooting under par Thursday during a slow start at Augusta.
According to the forecast, Augusta is about to get colder and wetter. Scattered thunderstorms will start moving through the area Tuesday night, which could cause delays to Wednesday's practice round.
MIAMI(AP) Tiger Woods made it all look so routine, from a 4-iron into 10 feet for eagle on the opening hole to the most simple par on the final hole to build a four-shot lead on a Blue Monster course he has tamed the last three years.
SI.com: Woods Pulls Awayupdated: Sat Mar 24 2007 19:33:00
MIAMI (AP) -- Tiger Woods made it all look so routine, from a 4-iron into 10 feet for eagle on the opening hole to the most simple par on the final hole to build a four-shot lead on a Blue Monster course he has tamed the last three years.
SANTO DA SERRA, Madeira Islands (AP) - Portugal's Ricardo Santos birdied seven holes and led by one stroke after the first round of the Madeira Islands Open on Thursday.
SI.com: Where'd everyone go?updated: Wed Mar 21 2007 17:30:00
YOU WOULD HAVE thought Sergio Garcia was the next Elvis the way crowds responded to him at the 1999 PGA Championship at Medinah Country Club outside Chicago. The smile, the daring, the vigor, and only 19 -- men exchanged high-fives, women swooned, and kids, well, kids adored him most of all. "It looks like they love me,"a grinning Garcia said after narrowly missing birdie putts on 17 and 18 and finishing second to Tiger Woods.
SI.com: History lessonupdated: Mon Feb 26 2007 11:58:00
It's too bad Tiger Woods had his PGA Tour winning streak end at seven last week in Arizona. It means we'll miss the debate about whether his streak was comparable to Byron Nelson's famous run of 11 straight victories in 1945.
Say this about Phil Mickelson -- he gives good press conference. After four months in hibernation, "Phil the Thrill" finally turned up this week at the Bob Hope Classic, giving us the chance for another installment of "What Phil Was Really Thinking."
SI.com: Aloha, Sunshineupdated: Tue Jan 16 2007 11:15:00
The new season began last week, at the Sony Open, the tournament the players all call Hawaii. The Mercedes-Benz Championship, the one Vijay Singh won at Kapalua in the first week of January? That's a dressed-up exhibition, winners only, another chance for the rich to get richer. The real start -- caddie changes in place, new gizmos on the practice tee, virgin irons in the bag, the exquisite grind of the Tour, all in the name of staying out there -- began for real last week. Charles Howell, who finished a shot back, said you start every season with all manner of golfing resolutions, but they're all on a short leash, one bad shot away from being discarded. The veteran Paul Goydos, a master of deadpan with a fitting nickname, had only one good week in 2006, a second-place finish in the Chrysler Championship, the final full-field event of the year, providing him with a $466,400 paycheck that allowed him to save his card. "I spent 10 weeks hoping that what worked at the end of last year would work in the new o
Following the first round of the new golf season, at last week's Mercedes-Benz Championship at Kapalua's Plantation Course in Maui, Hawaii, Vijay Singh sauntered into the press room expecting to discuss the 69 that had put him among the early leaders. Instead he was asked about the FedEx Cup, the overarching name for the PGA Tour's radically reorganized schedule.
This month, Living Golf host Don Riddell meets British actor Hugh Grant, at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.
A quick glance at the list of former U.S. Open sites reveals several grand old courses that time has passed by: Myopia Hunt Club, Scioto, Interlachen, Philadelphia Country Club, Olympia Fields...
I'm worried about Michael. In fact, all I can think about is Michael Jordan and his deeply bruised right thigh. I wonder if the trainer is taking good care of him. I wonder if he's been stretching ...
Fortune: Weak Linksupdated: Mon Sep 16 2002 00:01:00
In the 1999 Ryder Cup, Hal Sutton scored a team-high 3 1/2 points for the United States. And Lee Westwood, a workhorse for the Europeans, played all five matches for the second consecutive Ryder Cu...
Because both sides agreed not to change their rosters from last year's, each team will have a few out-of-form members--and some hot players will be home watching the matches on TV. Here's who won't...
I don't know about you, but nothing makes me more tired than waiting. And waiting and waiting and waiting. It seems as if that's all I've been doing--until now.
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