Ryder Cup Today: When Europe and America Agree on Nothing Except Their Mutual Disdain for the Metric System By the time the dew lifted off the Marco Simone fairways this morning, the Ryder Cup had already achieved what the UN Security Council has not: a peaceful—if utterly passive-aggressive—trans-Atlantic summit. On one side, a dozen Americans…
The Belgian Bombshell Who Reminds Us Golf Is Still Just Golf By H. L. Marchand, Dave’s Locker International Desk From the fairways of Flanders to the flood-lit driving ranges of Dubai, Nicolas Colsaerts has spent the better part of two decades proving that talent travels while disappointment enjoys a diplomatic passport. The man nicknamed “The…
The Ryder Cup MC: When a Golf Tournament Becomes a Metaphor for Civilizational Collapse By Our Man in the Rough, filing from Marco Simone Golf & Country Club, Rome ROME—In the shadow of a 16th-century aqueduct and the ghost of Berlusconi’s bunga-bunga era, the Ryder Cup’s master of ceremonies took the first tee box microphone…
Bryson DeChambeau and the Ryder Cup: How One Man’s Protein Shakes Terrify an Entire Continent By Dave’s Locker International Desk Rome, Italy – While most of the planet obsesses over AI doomsday scenarios, climate tipping points, and the slow-motion implosion of the global supply chain, the Old World has found a more immediate existential threat:…
Francesco Molinari: The Last Quiet Man in a World That Forgot How to Whisper Rome, May 2024 – While the planet debates whether to nuke TikTok or let it nuke our attention spans first, a 41-year-old Italian with the charisma of a well-ironed accountant is quietly proving that excellence can still occur without a personal…
Patrick Cantlay, the taciturn Californian who currently occupies that curious intersection of athletic excellence and corporate ambivalence, has become our planet’s improbable barometer for late-stage capitalism’s slow-motion meltdown. While European pension funds hemorrhage over ESG golf tournaments and Chinese streaming services decide whether Cantlay’s glacial pace constitutes subversive performance art, the man himself keeps cashing…
Scheffler at the Ryder Cup: America’s Reluctant Atlas, Europe’s Favorite Punching Bag By the time Scottie Scheffler stepped onto the first tee at Marco Simone last September, the world had already spent two years treating him like a walking algorithm: plug in fairways, receive birdies. Inflation? Solved. War? Calmed. Simply project Scottie’s Strokes-Gained chart onto…
Tiger Woods’ Ryder Cup ledger reads like a passport stamped by an overworked customs officer: nine appearances, 44 matches, 13-21-10, and zero victories as a player in the biennial Europe-versus-America death-match. In any other walk of life those numbers would trigger an HR review and a discreet LinkedIn update, yet in the realm of global…
The man in the grainy 1970 colour footage looks like he’s just been handed the keys to a fallout shelter seconds before the sirens start wailing. Tony Jacklin, hair still behaving like it has somewhere better to be, lifts the claret jug above his head at Royal Lytham while the BBC commentator tries not to…
The Curious Case of Bob MacIntyre, or How a Scotsman Quietly Bent the Universe By the time the final putt dropped on the 72nd hole of the Scottish Open, Bob MacIntyre had not so much won a golf tournament as issued a low-key memo to planet Earth: gravity, money, and geopolitical anxiety remain optional accessories…
The Swedish Meteor That Missed Every Radar Screen By our correspondent in the bunker beneath Geneva’s Palais des Nations GENEVA—In a week when the planet busied itself with the usual carousel of missile tests, crypto collapses, and whichever royal duchess is currently suing a tabloid, a 24-year-old from Esbjerg (yes, that’s in Denmark, but try…
PARIS—In an age when nuclear superpowers trade threats on social media and the global thermostat is set to “apocalypse pre-heat,” the world’s attention briefly swivelled last week to an altogether more genteel battlefield: the upper deck of a charter bus parked outside Le Golf National. There stood Tommy Fleetwood, freshly minted Ryder Cup points-machine, being…
