Na na na na na naaa........

Hump Day and all is quiet on the sporting world front. There are no mid-week games to report of, managers are busy getting their players back in shape, and American golfers are flying to the K Club in Ireland for the Ryder Cup that starts on Friday. The US team got spanked at the last Ryder Cup, but did a bit better at the President’s Cup last year. However, they are still the underdog and all eyes are turned to Tiger Woods who is now the leader of the pack, so to say. I would imagine he will be paired with Jim Furyk as they played well together at the Prez Cup. Woods’ teaming with Big Phil at the ’04 Ryder Cup was about as successful as Lindsey Lohan was in keeping her kojak out of the tabloids. The Euro team has some hot players now with Paul Casey (won last week at the Match Play Tourney, Luke Donald, and spiritual leader Darren Clarke, who lost his wife to cancer recently, and was one of Captain Ian Woosnam’s picks. The American’s have four rookies in the squad this year, but that may help and hopefully they all come together to pull off the win. Here are the complete squads:

Team USA
Captain: Tom Lehman
Assistant Captains: Corey Pavin, Loren Roberts
Team Members:
Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
Jim Furyk
Chad Campbell
David Toms
Chris DiMarco
Vaughn Taylor (R)
J.J. Henry (R)
Zach Johnson (R)
Brett Wetterich (R)
Stewart Cink (Captain's pick)
Scott Verplank (Captain's pick)

Team Europe
Captain: Ian Woosnam
Vice Captain: Peter Barker, Des Smith
Assistant Captains: Sandy Lyle, Sandy J. Russel
Team Members:
Darren Clarke (Captain's pick)
Paul Casey
Luke Donald
Sergio Garcia
Padraig Harrington
David Howell
Robert Karlsson
Paul McGinley
Colin Montgomerie
Jose Maria Olazabal
Henrik Stenson
Lee Westwood (Captain's pick)

Too bad we don’t have Ty Webb on our team.








The matches start on Friday and I hope that the Americans do better than I did in my mini-Arsenal-Ryder Cup match last year as I lost 3 and 2 (or something like that) playing against my buddy Rick when in London. I was playing with someone else’s clubs that were too short and it was some crap weather. Seriously, they wouldn’t have let me on the course in the States with the weather we played in. Cups were full of water and the greens were a bit soggy. Of course, that had nothing to do with my crap swing that day. Hopefully I’ll get Rick over here and we can settle the score Texas style!

Enough for today.

Adios.