CSI Ryder Cup
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 10:29 AM The postmortems move from the funeral phase to exhuming the bodies for further analysis. But at least the Ryder Cup stories that won’t go away make for such great reads.
David Feherty writes in the new Golf Magazine that “by the time this rag hits the shelves we'll have swallowed all the Ryder Cup analysis we can stomach, so I'm not going there. This is not a post-mortem, it's an admission of misdiagnosis.”
Feherty correctly points out that after that “dog-and-pony show of an opening ceremony should have been a dead giveaway that something strange was about to happen.
“Another high point was the horrified look on Chaka Khan's face when 40,000 white golf fans tried to dance as she sang Marvin Gaye's ‘What's Going On.’”
Feherty also dares to go where announcers from competing networks normally wouldn’t go, but this is why he’s Feherty.
“My favorite part was the announcing crew's heroic struggle to find exciting, innovative ways to agree with Johnny Miller. “
"Once again John, I concur." -- Gary Koch
"Yup, Johnny -- right on the money." -- Bob Murphy
"You're not wrong, Johnny." -- Mark Rolfing
"Why the hell am I here?" -- Roger Maltbie
Meanwhile Golf World’s Bob Verdi talks to Chris Riley and several others about his Saturday 15-hole fatigue problem, the litany of rationalizations and just plain embarrassing excuses will make your head will spin.
It’s also intensely embarrassing to read about the U.S. team considering pairings based on equipment affiliations and ball flight. (What does ball flight have to do with the alternate shot format?)