The Ryder Cup

• When: September 25-30, 2012
• Where: Medinah Country Club in Illinois

Eight American players automatically qualified for the team by accumulating points over the past two years. On Tuesday, September 7th, American Ryder Cup Captain Corey Pavin chose his four Captain’s Picks to complete the twelve man team.

The battle for the Claret Jug makes its way across the pond, as the Twenty Ten Course at Celtic Manor will serve as host for the 2010 Ryder Cup. The South Wales course is the first in history to be specifically designed for the Ryder Cup, and will undoubtedly add to the challenge of an already demanding event.

The Ryder Cup epitomises the greatest traditions of international sporting competition as one of the last great sporting events founded on prestige rather than prize money. Held every two years, the Ryder Cup pits Team Europe against Team USA and it is always one of the biggest golf events of the year.

The Ryder Cup Team is composed of the first eight golfers according to the Ryder Cup standings, and then four additional players are added at the discretion of the team captain. The eight that qualified for the team include four veterans with Ryder Cup experience: Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk, Hunter Mahan, and Steve Stricker. The rest of the team will be thrust into the Ryder Cup limelight for the first time: Matt Kuchar, Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson, and Jeff Overton. The four wild card selections by Corey Pavin were Woods, Rickie Fowler, Zach Johnson, and Stewart Cink.

In 2008, Team USA won 16½ - 11½ to end the streak of three successive victories for Team Europe. This was Team USA's largest margin of victory since 1981, and the first time since 1979 the Americans had the lead after every session of play. Team captains were Nick Faldo for Team Europe and Paul Azinger for Team USA. Faldo's assistant was José María Olazábal, while Raymond Floyd, Dave Stockton and Olin Browne assisted Azinger.

Europe won the preious three matches in Spain (1997), England (2002) and Ireland (2006) with, in total, seven European wins and a tied match in the last 12 contests going back to 1985.

Ryder Cup 2010 Golf Betting

The Ryder Cup is the next big sporting event on the horizon, Corey Pavin has named his wildcards and the 12 man team will now be preparing themselves for one of the most avidly followed events in world sport. The Ryder Cup betting, as always shall be substantial, both leading up to the match and during the match itself. It will surpass any other sports betting events during the 3 days of the Ryder Cup competition. As everyone knows however the Ryder Cup is as much about team play as it is individual head to head play.

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Ryders Cup History

The first informal matches were played in 1921 in Gleneagles, Scotland.  James Harnett, most likely with Walter Hagen’s assistance, selected the American team. The British soundly defeated the U.S. Team, 9-3. During those matches, British golf star Abe Mitchell beat the reigning British Open Champion, American Jim Barnes, 8 and 7 in the singles, and then partnered with George Duncan in the foursomes to beat Hagen and Barnes, 9 and 8.  English seed merchant and entrepreneur Samuel Ryder watched those matches and enjoyed himself tremendously.  Ryder was an English nurseryman from St. Albans in Hertfordshire, who made his fortune selling penny seed packets. Before the matches in Wentworth, Ryder had engaged Mitchell as his personal golf tutor. Soon, Ryder agreed to donate a solid gold cup, worth £250. The cup was designed by Mappin & Webb Company. Ryder insisted that a golfing figure adorn the lid and that it resemble Mitchell.

The first official Ryder Cup Matches were arranged for June 3-4, 1927, at Worcester Country Club in Worcester, Massachusetts. That same year in1927, Mitchell was originally selected as Captain for the Ryder Cup but suffered appendicitis and was replaced by Ted Ray.  Ray was joined on the team by Aubrey Boomer, Archie Compston, George Duncan, George Gadd, Arthur Havers, Herbert Jolly, Fred Robson and C.A. (Charles) Whitcombe.  Only British Isle-born players were allowed to join the team. The U.S. Ryder Cup team was captained by Hagen, a charter member of the PGA of America.  Only American-born players were allowed to make the team.  Joining Hagen on the team were Leo Diegel, Johnny Farrell, Johnny Golden, Bill Mehlhorn, Gene Sarazen, Joe Turnesa and Al Watrous.  Mike Brady and Al Espinosa were named alternates. The United States team defeated the team from Great Britain in that historic match, 9 ½ to 2 ½. With the outbreak of World War II, the Ryder Cup Matches were suspended from 1939-’45, and the U.S. retained the trophy from its 1937 victory. Over the last 20 years and 10 competitions Europe has won five times, the United States has won four times and they have tied once. The Ryder Cup Format today is a four four-ball and four foursome matches the first two days and 12 singles matches on the third day.  The total points awarded is 28 points.  This format will be the same for the 2006 Ryder Cup Matches.

Europe and the United States take turns hosting this biennial event, which means that the U.S. only plays host once every four years. Overall, only 17 courses in the United States have served as sites for the Matches, and no course or club has ever held the Matches twice. In 2004, Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, site of six U.S. Opens and two PGA Championships will become the 18th course to host the event. The Ryder Cup will be held on The K Club, Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland.

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Match Play Guidelines & Terminology

• Match play is a game that is decided hole by hole instead of cumulatively over 18 holes.

• A hole is won by the team, which holes its ball in the fewer strokes.

• Score is kept by the number of holes up (won) and the number of holes to play. (Example: U.S. 2-up, with six holes to play)

• When a team is up (winning) by more holes than there are holes remaining, then the match is closed out and a point is awarded.

• One point is awarded for each match won.

• If the match is tied or "halved" through 18 holes of play, each team receives one half of a point.

• A total of 28 points are awarded in Ryder Cup competition. If a match is currently tied while in competition, then it is considered "all-square".

• A match is considered "dormie" when one side is up by the exact number of holes that remain.

• A player/twosome is said to be 2-up thru 10 after winning two more holes than their opponent(s) through 10 holes.

• A player/twosome is said to win the match 2-up after winning two more holes than their opponent thru 18 holes.

• A player/twosome is said to win 3 and 2 after winning three holes more than their opponent(s) with only two holes left to play, assuring victory.

2010 Ryder Cup Winner

Europe held on to win the 38th edition of the Ryder Cup when Graeme McDowell won the 17th hole in the last match on the first Monday finish in the event's 83-year history. When Hunter Mahan conceded the hole to McDowell, the winner of this year's U.S. Open, Europe won back the Ryder Cup with a tense, momentum-shifting, 14 1/2-13 1/2 win at Celtic Manor.

Europe, which has now won the cup six of the last eight matches, needed every point in singles action to thwart a historic collapse. Leading by three points with 12 matches to play, Luke Donald, Ian Poulter, Miguel Angel Jimenez won matches in addition to McDowell, and Rory McIlroy and Edoardo Molinari earned important half-points.

The Americans, trying to become just the second team to overcome more than a two-point deficit on the final day, got wins from Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Zach Johnson, Dustin Johnson, Jeff Overton and Steve Stricker but fell one-half point of keeping the cup.

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