Monthly Archives: September, 2006

2006 Ryder Cup Schedule and Team Info

The 2006 Ryder Cup is being held at the K Club in Kildare, Ireland later this week and everyone is getting pumped up. Here’s the US television schedule…

  • Friday, September 22 on USA - 8AM - 6PM ET
  • Saturday, September 23 on NBC - 8AM - 6PM ET
  • Sunday, September 24 on NBC -8AM - 12:30PM ET

2006 United States Ryder Cup Team

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
  • J.J. Henry
  • Fred Funk
  • Zach Johnson
  • Brett Wetterich
  • Stewart Cink
  • Scott Verplank

2006 European Ryder Cup Team

Captain

  • Ian Woosnam

Vice Captains

  • Peter Baker
  • Des Smyth

Assistant Captains

  • Sandy Lyle
  • David J Russell

Team Members

  • Darren Clarke
  • Paul Casey
  • Luke Donald
  • Sergio Garcia
  • Padraig Harrington
  • David Howell
  • Robert Karlsson
  • Paul McGinley
  • Colin Montgomerie
  • José Maria Olazábal
  • Henrik Stenson
  • Lee Westwood

Where Wie Go?

Michelle Wie needs to stop playing against the men. Other blogs have made some great points, so I won’t even attempt to do it better. Go read…

A Summer of Golf

Wow, has it really been over a month since my last post here? I’ve got in a ton of golf over that time and had some great rounds I should have written about. On August 15th I shot under par for 9 holes for the first time in my life with a 1-under 34. The next day I want out and shot 80 for 18 at Bay Valley. I had my first sub-80 round in the bag and blew it on the last two holes. I had shot 38 on the front nine and ended up with a 42 on the back. On the 17th hole I bombed my best drive of the day on a par 5. It was 300+ and left me with an easy 7 iron into the green. I duffed it about 70 yards. Then I duffed a SW and hit a 2nd SW to the back of the green. Took 3 putts from there. I needed a par on the last hole to shoot 41 for a 79 and actually had a 5 foot putt, but missed it. But It was still my best 18 holes ever, so I can’t complain too much.

I took my yearly trip to Boyne near the end of August for 3 days of 36 holes a day and played decent golf there. My 34 ended up being the best round of the year in our golf league so I got a nice little trophy. I also ended up with the lowest handicap in the league with a 2. I can shoot some good golf, but there is no way I’m a 2 handicap. Our league only uses your last 3 scores and the handicap can only go up by 1 each week, but there isn’t a limit on how far it can drop.

I’ve golfed a lot more this summer than I have before. Before the summer is over I’ll have played somewhere around 1000 holes of golf. I still can’t believe it when I think about that number. My back needs the winter off!