Ryder Cup 2016 - Hazeltine, Minnesota

Opening morning matches

Speith/Reed v Stenson/Rose
Mickelson/Fowler v McIlroy/Sullivan
Walker/Z.Johnson v Garcia/Kaymer
D.Johnson/Kuchar v Westwood/Pieters

6 rookies in this years European team - good opportunity for USA to end the European streak.

Highlights of a pretty decent first day on BBC2 now.

Meh does anyone under 65 watch this leisure activity!

Looking like the Yanks for me. Had an inkling beforehand.

Due one I suppose.

Lee Westwood has got to be one of the biggest bottlers in world sport!

I wouldn't care that much if he wasn't always giving it the big'un!

Lee Westwood has got to be one of the biggest bottlers in world sport!

Read a stat last night that if golf courses only had 15 holes then Westwood would have 6 majors.  Harsh, but apparently true.

He was a bad pick.  To be fair to Clarke he had his hand tied with a lot of the rookies.  Wood and Fitzpatrick had qualified on their own merit.  Having half your team making their first appearance, away from home, against probably the best USA team for a long long while - they were on a hiding to nothing really.  They probably did well to get 11 points.

Pieters was immense - so was Garcia.  As soon as McIlroy and Rose didn't get the points then Europe had no chance.

The best team won, it's as simple as that. Was a very entertaining Ryder cup to watch with some great golf played.

Read a stat last night that if golf courses only had 15 holes then Westwood would have 6 majors.  Harsh, but apparently true.

Doesn't surprise me, I said to my dad when he was 2 up with 3 to play that he would lose it, you can just see it with him all the time. Didn't quite expect him to miss a 3ft putt mind to hand the cup over.