Only 1 event on the PGA tour can guarantee excitement, the Ryder Cup is that 1 event and it starts tomorrow people. Once every four years (yes just like the Summer Olympic games) PGA tour golfers play in an USA vs. Europe rivalry; that's right, it's golf team style versus smelly Europeans...if that F**k Yeah American mentality doesn't get you going I don't know what will. This morning the trash talk began between the men in collard shirts: 
"' If your ready to rumble in the jungle, we'll be on the tee on Friday morning' European captain Nick Faldo laid down the challenge to opposite number Paul Azinger this morning."
Even better is that the each team pairs two golfers together to face head to head two golfers from the other team- the foursome walks the course together and everything. The drama is stifling, the only way they could make the whole thing better is if after play 18 holes the foursome went behind the clubhouse to fight each other to the death or something.
Europe has beaten our sorry asses for more years than I can remember, and no, we don't have Tiger playing for us this year ( gasp!). But fear not, we have something else favoring us, and that is home field advantage. Yes! for the first time I can remember the Ryder cup will be played on US soil, in Kentucky. That means instead of some crazy drunk Euros hawking the sidelines this year you'll see some crazy drunk Americans who thought they were getting dropped off at the Jack Daniels factory museum.
Oh yeah and everyone wears funny looking team uniforms! Get Ready to Rumble in the land that brought you Churchill downs, whiskey, and Louisville Sluggers. "Did Someone Say Cigars and Golf in the Land of the Mint Julep? Miguel Angel Jimenez Approves. " [Fan IQ]
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