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In reply to the discussion: Sorry But America Disgraced Itself At The Ryder Cup [View all]
tetedur
(1,352 posts)17. Everything is political even golf.
No matter who wins, does the world change? No.
Golf and all sports, in my opinion, is entertainment, a game where people can exercise their skills and others watch for vicarious thrills.
I don't understand the hostility exhibited by the crowd. Why were they ugly to the guy? Don't the players deserve respect for their skills?
Is there some underlying dispute going on between USA and the UK?
If a team wins, does that mean that they have won some sort of political victory? Does it mean that the country they are from is more righteous, or powerful, or admirable than the losing team?
Or is the game just an opportunity for unsportsmanlike people to show their ass to the world?
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Rory McIlroy shows frustration with crowd in putt build-up at Ryder Cup - Golf Channel
Goonch
Yesterday
#5
These Assholes Should Have Been Immediately Ejected from the Course and Permanently Banned
The Roux Comes First
11 hrs ago
#88
And I thought this was strange, the USA players are getting $500,000 each. Europe is not getting any money.
a kennedy
23 hrs ago
#11
Justin Thomas is definitely MAGA as are Scheffler, DeChambeau and Burns for sure
Wiz Imp
22 hrs ago
#30
MC behind vile Rory McIlroy chant at Ryder Cup unmasked as she quits job and issues grovelling apology
Wiz Imp
22 hrs ago
#44
Heather McMahan (since the Record didn't give her first name for some reason)
muriel_volestrangler
22 hrs ago
#55
I can accept a "rowdy" crowd in the Ryder Cup - it seems unnecessary to add a "warm up" act here
muriel_volestrangler
21 hrs ago
#64
Keegan Bradley has refused to call out the New York mob who hounded Europe's stars.
Wiz Imp
22 hrs ago
#45
the greenest of jealousy. Skill, culture, good looking and not American.
Tetrachloride
22 hrs ago
#49
Super. Next up - how to turn a golf tournament into a late 1980s British football riot . . .
hatrack
22 hrs ago
#51
I know a guy who graduated college with a civil engineering degree and got a job with the Department of Transportation.
spike jones
21 hrs ago
#65
I don't follow golf. So American golf spectators are behaving like Scottish soccer hooligans?
Ocelot II
21 hrs ago
#67
Golf culture, always conservative even in the best of times, has become MAGA trash
Prairie Gates
18 hrs ago
#80
Most of the problem could be fixed if they just stopped serving booze.
LudwigPastorius
9 hrs ago
#94