Ryder Cup Opening Ceremony: A Pageant of Flags, Fortune, and Thinly-Veiled National Anxiety by our correspondent in Marco Simone, nursing a Campari in the media tent The Ryder Cup opening ceremony has always been golf’s answer to Eurovision: flags the size of small nations, anthems belted out by choirs that sound like they’ve been told…
The Ryder Cup: Where Europe and America Resume Their 96-Year Sibling Squabble on Grass Marco Simone, Italy—While the planet teeters between climate bailouts and the 47th cryptocurrency resurrection, 200,000 well-insured spectators have decamped to a Roman hillside to watch two continents argue over a 17-inch golden cup that looks suspiciously like something you could order…
Tommy Fleetwood’s Hair, the Ryder Cup, and the Fragile Illusion of National Pride By our man in the cheap seats, somewhere between Manchester and Marseille If you squint through the smog of geopolitical despair, the name “Tommy Fleetwood” sounds less like a golfer and more like a failed 19th-century British trade policy—something that accidentally colonized…
Sergio García: The Man Who Turned a Golf Club into a Global Rorschach Test By Our Correspondent in a Café That Charges Extra for Existential Dread If you mention “Sergio García” in a Madrid tapas bar, a Dubai boardroom, a Tokyo driving range, or a Wyoming truck stop, the reactions split faster than a Brexit…
