I make no apologies for looking back in time with this column. The recent Ryder Cup only confirmed my view that the biennial matches between the United States and Europe offer the most fascinating insights into the competitive psyches of our game’s leading players.
Quite apart from the fact that the contest is never less than entertaining, unlike any event the Ryder Cup brings out the aggro that match play can so often produce, as we saw in the “disagreement” between Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay’s caddie, Joe LaCava. I thought it was fantastic.
Okay, so things like that are not ideal in a supposedly gentile game like golf, but that little contretemps only underlined how much all the participants were “into” the
