Someone Get Padraig A European Tour Pocket Schedule, Please

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Even though he's only played twice in European Tour sanctioned non-majors this year, and even though he won three majors before deciding his swing needed changing for the worse, Padraig Harrington was selected for the Ryder Cup team over Justin Rose and Paul Casey in part for his devotion to European golf. You can sense it in this quote, after a missed cut at the Deutsche Bank.
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Sunday Promises Plenty Of Captivating Storylines And None Involve The FedExCup!

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The NCAA Match Play U.S. Amateur wraps with a final between two of the top amateurs in the land, Stanford's David Chung (who has displayed some awesome shotmaking skills) and OSU's Peter Uihlein (whose father has rendered too many USGA committees utterly impotent).
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"Ridiculous"

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I'm still trying to understand Paul Lawrie's eight-putt and whether it was induced by a faulty hole location at Celtic Manor (thanks reader Brian for this).

A sixth birdie of the day was his hope at that point, but after splashing out 20 yards past the flag his first putt rolled off into a hollow.

He needed three attempts to get back up, then from 20 feet beyond the cup he putted back down the slope and took three more from there.

"Ridiculous," he said after signing for a 74 and making plans to fly home to Aberdeen. Asked if the blame lay with him or the pin placing the 41-year-old replied: "Bit of both.

"I hit the first putt about a foot out. When you do that from 60 feet and you end up where I was then that's a bit silly."

Els Unravels Over Wentworth Criticism

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Even though there had been advance buzz that Wentworth was looking radically different, and even though the owner admitted he goofed in overruling his player-architect, and even though there was widespread media criticism of the course changes, Ernie Els lashed out at his fellow players for not keeping their opinions to themselves.  Lawrence Donegan reports:
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"Come to think of it, the 'TPC at Virginia Water' works pretty well, too."

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And just one more bit of Wentworth piling on from John Huggan:

Actually, in view of the often radical and deeply controversial work that bears the signature of three-time major champion Ernie Els, it is time for Wentworth to break out a new nickname. Long gone is Harry Colt's design, to be replaced by what in places is so pseudo-American it might as well be called 'I-95' or, on days when the sun shines, 'Route 66'. Come to think of it, the 'TPC at Virginia Water' works pretty well, too. Only the absence of a completely inappropriate fountain in the pond short of the 18th green revealed that we were not actually in Florida.