Thetownend.com

http://www.rydercup.com/tickets/


This is the official site chaps...very strict on tickets and the good thing is that no tiks will be on ebay...expensive at £100 a day...but cost you 80 for the cup final so ime happy with that...its a ballot so the chances of getting one is minimal...but you never know....as i said you have to put you pic on the ticket so they are NON transferable....its at Newport so really the only chance to see it locally for along while...know alot of you dont watch it but the ballot is in July i believe so for those of you who do fancy it dont hang about.

cheers leefer.i'll be there for the welsh open in june and am entering the ballot.shame that twat monty is captain though

Fair play,will be going to Wentworth the week before Welsh open.....will give you a shout maybe if you defo go to the Welsh..going 2 days Wentworth but will probably only go the sunday to wales arriba.

er what's our international dialling code?
i dont know it and need it on the form.
is it 0044?

Yes sir.

thanks

bumpage.
got tickets for the final day of this confimed today!!!!
get in there!!!

gulp
just read the cost for me and my lad.£260

Up periscope !

:D

Just noticed that arriba...great news,see you there......see howell shot 6 under today..

well the team is now named.would have picked rose over harrington but dont give a shit really.
bring it on,it's gonna be awesome

Got me ticket....fukin roll on Sunday October the turd.

Have they said who will play if Westwood doesn't recover from his knee injury?

dunno?

Can't believe its come round so quick since posting this thread...scary.

Starts on Friday...but i will be getting the train to Newport on Sunday for the final day singles :D

Will get wet no doubt but i cany ferkin wait.

Just got back from Newport as the girlfriend lives there. I never thought I'd say this, but the place looks quite nice. EU development money well spent.

The course...or Newport itself?

Newport is on the up.....the football team are going for it also.

You still can't make a silk purse out of a cow's arse though.

My Sis-in-Law lives in Newport, and fuck me, what a depressing dump it is. And I notice its trying to call itself a City.....

And if you're travelling to the Ryder Cup (Arriba/leefer), beware the 50 mph limit all the way from the Second Severn Crossing all the way to Newport. Not that you'll be going that fast anyway.......

can't wait for this now.
not gonna be interested in football this weekend.
and newport itself is horrible.one of the worst towns i've ever been to.glad celtic manor is out of town

Well you wouldn't exactly find an 18 hole golf course in the middle of the town centre, would you?

Plenty around in the World...Dubai being one(take your point Sam)

You would be suprised how many courses are in or near the centre...St Andrews is part of the Town centre these days...as the popularity of golf grew.....the town gradually built around it.

Thanks for the advice Pumbaa...but as i said i am going by train 8).....will take me 40 mins only.
And arriba...dont forget its cash only on the toll.....i am guessing you have crossed it a thousand times as indeed i have.

Have a great time, this is the only goldf I watch on TV!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ9YWoNhwL0

Am I alone in wanting to heave every time I see a photo shoot of (mostly) middle aged men wearing matching blazers & slacks?  The chummy smugness of it all completely does my head in.

what like football teams in matching suits and that?
that's all it is.what are golf teams meant to wear?

Wrong, so wrong.

[url width=800 height=512]http://photos.upi.com/slideshow/lbox/aeec89af547475be29de1295eca82990/2006-RYDER-CUP.jpg[/url]

That's still better than what the US are wearing this year, and what they wore on the final day in '99.

Uh, That is the US!!

Unless Tiger Woods and Mickelson are playing for Europe this year!

Have they announced the pairings for Friday's fourballs yet?

Just started the opening ceremony. We should know in the next hour.

I do know it was the US side. The people that designs their kits should be permanantly shot.

Ah, so this is not a picture of the US from this year?

Apologies for that!

I would say that was from 2006 when Lehman was captain, when the Ryder Cup was held in Ireland.

I was not trying to be specific...sorry if anyone was mislead.  I was simply drawing attention to the issue of general Ryder Cup sartorial wankiness.


Let's not go overboard.  A temporary shooting would be more appropriate in this instance, I think.

No. Let's go the whole hog, just in case they do bring that design back !!

No, we're quite happy when they team up in the foursomes and the fourballs for the US, as proved in 2004 !!

Fourballs :

Mickelson/Johnson v Westwood/Kaymer

Cink/Kuchar v McIlroy/McDowell

Stricker/Woods v Poulter/Fisher

Watson/Overton v Donald/Harrington

Ryder Cup = No Danny Baker Show, Fighting Talk or 7 Day Sunday podcasts this weekend.

I'm livid :)

Fuck me the weather looks bad on Sunday.......i will just have to make sure i have some extra hot toddies on route :beers:

Surely no Danny Baker is exelent news Rich.

watching the ceremony i couldn't help but notice how much rory mcilroy looks like one of the kids on postman pat.

it's happening! WOOOO

It's pissing down :(

i'm a bit worried i wont be there to see the finale sunday.i have a nasty feeling it will go on into monday.

I can feel a sickey comng on    ;)

Get in, Nice putt from Poults

it's costing me enough to go sunday.can't justify the time off or the cost to go monday too.
to be fair the greenkeepers seem to be doing a grand job so i hope it doesn't get delayed.

From the forecast the weather looks like its going to be OK on Saturday, so hopefully they should be on time then.

Will be interesting to see if they decide to start the singles early to try and make sure that they get a result on Sunday?

not looking good now...

Play Suspended  :(

lets hoe the rain stops soon

SSN reporting that it's not due to restart until this afternoon.

BTW those jackets that the US are wearing are hideous.

Looks inevitable now that it wont finsh until Monday

1300 Announcement - no announcement until 1400.....

Not currently raining in Bristol, but I guess the playability of the course will all the overnight/morning rain will be the issue. Hope those of you going get to see some play.

You beat me to it.

Looking at the weather forecast, they are due to have fog tomorrow morning and Sunday's weather will be similar to today's.

Normally the Ryder Cup would take place a couple of weeks ago...but thanks to the money making FedEx Cup in the States, they've delayed the start to the beginning of October, and you are likely to get this weather this time of year in Europe.

SSN are saying that the cut-off to finish the Ryder Cup is 6.43pm on Monday, with any uncompleted matches being halved.

I hope it won't come to that.

That would be a shame

Announcement as 16:00

Whatever happens, it's not going to finish on Sunday.

Apparently the 'waterproofs' that the Americans were wearing were not waterproofs, and they've had to buy some from the merchandise shop !!

It's not actually raining in the 'Port right now... But that is a first for the day and it is slightly brighter now.

Sorry to not add much and I don't like golf but I'm just up the road from the course.

5pm re-start.

A lot of unhappy people!...arriba and myself got tickets and paid substantially more to see the last day....looks like that may be Monday now which will mean the European tour will be paying out a lot on ticket refunds.
Believe me they will do all they can to get it finished on Sunday otherwise they will lose millions.

out of intrest leefer, how much did that cost for the sun

I'm not sure you will get a refund if you get a full days golf. Especially as they have said that anyone with a ticket for Sunday will also get to watch Monday as well.

£130 instead of £100.....to be honest its not so much the money but really wanted to be there on the final day....the singles on Sunday dont start till 11.30 so they could start at 7am and play catch up before the singles start.
Fair enough Posh....but to be honest i feel they may give part refunds on todays play....2 hours of golf today will probably mean they will give a little refund for people who maybe had to get home and didnt see any play today...its going to be a lot of hassle for the European PGA to sort out thats for sure.

They should play it in the summer months when it's over here.

Bit of a cheeky plug, but the company I work for is giving away Ryder Cup sweaters to the first person to predict todays closing scores.  With only a short amount of play time left you've got nothing to lose by just posting your predictions on the Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/golfbreaks.com (http://www.facebook.com/golfbreaks.com)

All sorted now - they've re-arranged the format so it will finish on Sunday. Provided the weather holds up and if it doesn't they'll finish on Monday.

phew.some good news at last.please dont rain sunday

Apparently fog is due tomorrow morning, and rain due on Sunday, but not as bad as today.

I'm glad that they are trying to get 28 matches in, but it just loses the edge of a normal Ryder Cup. Of course, if they played this a few weeks ago, when they were supposed to, I don't think the weather would've been an issue.

I know it's only nearing the end of the first set of matches but the decsion to pick Harrington is looking like the wrong one at the moment.

And the fact that he now has to play in every session, means that we can't hide him either.


Let's hope that he gets his act together and proves Monty right.

The amount of advert breaks is really beginning to hack me off.

Great putt by Mcilroy. Back in it a little.

If we can get out of the fourballs level, that will be a good result now

Picking Harrington is going to be a massive mistake by Monty.

only if we lose

ahh well only a point in it so far.long way to go, and the singles will decide it anyway

The waterproofs are ready.....think i will need them tomorow.

Hope you haven't got the same one's as the US team :D

:badmood:

i dont have any for my legs.brolly and a good jacket will have to do

May have a spare pair arriba................meet me at the station in the morning if you want?
Tell you for sure later when i have dug them out.

dont worry leefer.wouldn't want to wear leggings as they make me to hot when walking.
where you gonna put yourself on the course tomorrow?

Agree about being hot but better than soaked......no probs if you want them.
I will be following the first match.....try and keep an eye out for any matches going to 18 arriba because the final hole arena is incredible.
Obviously the only problem is that many wont get to 18.

the the 18th is a superb hole with ample room on the banks to view.
i'm gonna try to get near the first tee and watch every pair go out.then will have a wander.

Good shout..................if it is tanking down early in the morn and you change your mind about leggings give me a shout on here,,,,,,,,,,,before 8 :eek:

They made a comment on Sky yesterday that all of the singles matches now have to be played in full, even if the result is decided before the 18th.

Don't know whether they will stick to that based on the weather issues.

Anyway hope you both have an enjoyable day tomorrow & tht you get to watch Europe win the cup back :D

Cheers Posh...didn't no that about playing out till 18.

seems pointless(no pun intended)if the match has been decided

arriba....whatever time you leave tomorow,give yourself an extra hour if you can......apparently the tolls have been a half hour wait.
The park and ride is another ten pound return per person.......bit miffed with that really.

Agreed, but its what they do in the Presidents cup apparently.

I guess its so that all the Corporates around the 18th green get to see all the players

yeah i'll leave plenty of time.certainly aint cheap as you have to get official trains,and tranfers etc.i am driving as the trains were a rip off.would have preferred to go on the choo choo to get on the beer though

Suprises me arriba....my ticket is only £14 return.....know you got your lad to.

is that on the official train?
when i looked it was silly money.anyway park and ride is paid for now, so driving it is

Never look online for rail prices...always the dearest.

Don't look now, but six matches, Europe up in all six. That's a bit better.

gonna be a very early start tomorrow by the looks of it.better not drink too much tonight

Hope the weather is kinder than the forecast looks. Have a good 'un.

Dont look great...but a bit better than was expected......seems the worse is coming in overnight.

what time you leaving then leefer? looks like they will be out there from 7.45

come on miguel!!!!!!

Probably another 8am start.

Tiger is struggling badly. In his first two games Stricker has been making all the putts, and now he's not making any, Westwood and Donald are giving them a spanking...finishing 4up after 9.

Looks like it's going to end tonight with Europe up in all 6.

Will be there about 9.....8.15 train from Swindon so on course about 9.30.

I hear Friday at newport train station was chaos leefer with massive queues for buses...you may want to factor this into your journey.....and I wouldn't worry about whether you've got a specific time train ticket as all the trains will be rammed and they wont be checking em.....in my opinion anyway....

sure you n arriba will have a cracking day and the weather is kind to you....watching the european boys being announced on the 1st tee today gave me goosebumps and thats from me sofa so u can heighten that excitement by 1000 times to what you boys will experience....wish I was goin...enjoy yourselves

Hammering it down on the course not looking great

Play delayed til noon...not good

Just leaving...massively disapointing.

Course will be like the County Ground of old :badmood:

fucking gutted.aint bothered to leave yet as it's pointless.my tickets cost me £260 plus £20 for parking.
my ticket will be valid for tomorrow but i can't get the time off work at such short notice,and my lad can't take time off school as it's crunch time for his studies now.
i will go there later but will also be trying to get some money back.
fucking pga tour are to blame as rain is almost a certainty in oct in wales.
played a month ago all would have been fine.
cunts.....

Play resumes at 13.30

poor arriba and Leefer

No singles today, they're just finishing off the matches already in progress.

Don't they have some sort of policy like they do with cricket in terms of refunds, i.e. for each hour lost you get a percentage of your ticket cost back?

If not that's one huge oversight. I hope you get to see some golf today and get some money back!

the americans must have forgotten their waterproofs and bought some cheap lonsdale ones. they look pathetic

Looks like they don't, or if they do they met the minimum requirements for a days play on Friday. Though they've issued a statement which gives the impression that Friday ticket holders will be able to use them to get in to another golf event next year.

Woods and Stricker 5 down after 10, Donald and Westwood taking them apart.

Westwood and Donald tanked them 6 and 5.

Stricker was keeping that parnership together by holing the putts, but Tiger looked poor. No wonder just about all the Europeans want to face Tiger in the singles.

cant believe they're not starting the singles today out of order for those that coughed up a lot of dough....yes it would have taken the tactics out of it a little by not waiting for all the foursomes and fourballs to finish to sort out how they wanted to line up (e.g. westwood and donald may have had to have gone head to head in the singles against stricker n woods).....but they've put the public interest to the back of the queue by doing it like this imo

I thought exactly the same when this was mentioned this morning. They have said that the only people allowed in tomorrow are ticket holders for today, which doesn't help people like arriba, unless he can find a tout to sell his ticket to on the way out to make a few quid.

I see the US TV stations are already making their excuses. I just saw this on the BBC website :

Andy via text: "Sitting in my hotel room in Chicago watching on NBC. Can't believe they just said Europe is winning today because of the weather, long rough, slow greens and local knowledge by playing the Welsh Open here. Any more excuses USA?"

Me too. They could have just sent everyone back out in the singles once they've finished their matches, sure their tactics would be fucked but it would be the same for both sides. Good chance they'd have a result tonight if they did, even if all the matches aren't actually finished - then they can just half the remaining holes and it's job done.

No way to tout your tickets either, think they've got your photo on or something. They should have relaxed this to allow people to pass their tickets on - just screwing them over even more by not doing so. There isn't even going to be a full round played as they were carrying on with the matches. I'd be fucking fuming.

If that's the case, that's crap, as they are not likely to get any money back otherwise, as they've seen golf today, and they had the opportunity to come back tomorrow.

I wouldn't be surprised of an awful crowd tomorrow then because there are going to be a few people in the same boat as arriba.

Molinaris halve on the last hole- Europe 5.5 USA 0.5 for the day.

Oh yes.

Singles to be announced in the next hour. I would think Lee Westwood will be going out first for Europe.

Singles draw :

Donald v Overton
Fisher v Mahan
Hanson v Stricker
Westwood v Woods
Jimenez v Watson
Harrington v Furyk
McDowell v Mickelson
F Molinari v Cink
Poulter v Kuchar
E Molinari v Z Johnson
McIlroy v Fowler
Kaymer v D Johnson

Westwood v Woods could be brutal.

The list I posted was from the BBC website but this is giving a different order of :

Westwood v Stricker
McIlroy v Cink
Donald v Furyk
Kaymer v D Johnson
Poulter v Kuchar
Fisher v Overton
Jimenez v Watson
F Molinari v Woods
E Molinari v Fowler
Hanson v Mickelson
Harrington v Z Johnson
McDowell v Mahan

http://plixi.com/p/48583198

Those are correct, BBC published a fake.

Lee Westwood v Steve Stricker
Rory McIlroy v Stewart Cink
Luke Donald v Jim Furyk
Martin Kaymer v Dustin Johnson
Ian Poulter v Matt Kuchar
Ross Fisher v Jeff Overton
Miguel Angel Jimenez v Bubba Watson
Francesco Molinari v Tiger Woods
Edoardo Molinari v Rickie Fowler
Peter Hanson v Phil Mickelson
Padraig Harrington v Zach Johnson
Graeme McDowell v Hunter Mahan

Looks like Monty's put most of the big guns out early, and left a couple of major winners at the end just in case.

That was a long day........tainted with sadness as i can't make tomorow(Warrington at 5am)...but happiness in a sense of what i saw today.
Sadness is that like arriba its to short notice to cry off work...singles should have been played today.
Madness that for health and safety we wasn't allowed on course till past 12....believe me it was more unsafe in Newport centre with 20,000 peeps crammed and waiting to get on the shuttle buses.
Can't blame the people on course as they did a great job...off course need to look at themselfs.
Anyware in the UK in October runs the risk of rain.
On the plus side i am thinking of patenting

RYDER CUP CARNAGE...a pc game on funny and dangerous moments like....hoo ray henrys in there wellies sliding all over the place.
An Irish fella who went ass over tits but still managed to kkep half his guinness in the cup...but my favourite...the hitler lookalike of a welshman steward who was telling us all to be carefull...then promply fell over a ten foot hillock to great amusement.
As for the golf didnt see alot but Poulter was quality...in his Dick Dastardly kind of way,spitting image of the treble drat man.........though Kaymer played more like Mutley.
Dont hold out much hope of a refund.....oh well.

What a bloody shame, typical British weather spoiling things again!  I'm glad you still managed to make the most of it Leefer and you're being very pragmatic about the whole thing.  I'd be absolutely distraught if I'd spent all that money and barely got to see any golf let alone the finale which you had paid for!

Shocking if some sort of refund/compensation isn't provided.  :(

Unfortunately I don't think it's going to happen, because Sunday ticket holders are the only ones to watch the climax tomorrow, but I do think Sunday ticket holders, who cannot go, should be free to sell their ticket to people who can, so the let as many people watch the climax as possible, and therefore would get their 'compensation' that way.

the golf and atmosphere was awesome.
my anger and frustration soon left me as soon as westwood sank that putt on the 10th to get the day underway.saw every player today so i am satisfied really.
i could go tomorrow which is the only thing on offer for people who went today and didn't get what they paid to see,but i can't.
that hurts a bit as i had planned to see the singles all along.those that are able to go tomorrow have hit the jackpot.people like me have missed out.i think i should have been offered the difference between the group matches and the singles(£30)but no chance of that.
spoke to poulter, jimenez and kaymer after it had finished briefly as out of the blue as they were just walking by to go to the media centre. saw plenty of prem footballers and celebs out and about.
didn't fall over either whaich was a bonus.

a mate is going to try to get in with my ticket tomorrow.

eh ?

Never liked golf, it was always shit and boring.

I don't know why i've spent the past two days watching it (when i've been able to). Should watch most of tomorrow hopefully. I know that out of the lot, i'd rather Franco played Tiger, just cost Franco can't putt for shit and because tiger's having a shit time of it - any of the other Americans could walk over Franco. McIlroy - Cink will be a good contest, and with Donald Furyk. Can see Hanson beating Mickelson too, he's just all over the place.

But, i don't know golf, i could be spouting shit, like always.

Anyone know of any live streams for this? 

Plenty on the course over the weekend.

(Sorry....)

Up in 6, 2 all square, 3 not started, US only up against Kaymer.

Good start that.

Going well for Europe so far wit Europe up in 6 and US only up in two.

Tiger is 2 down after 2 !!

US have fought back. Europe on top...just.

Stricker has just beat Westwood & D.Johnson has beat Kaymer.

Looks like that 3 point gap we got yesterday could well be the deciding factor.

Poulter's on fire.

9­½ - 8½ now

Still doing OK in most of the other matches

At the moment it looks like our middle order could win it for us...at that's what people were worried about.

Tense stuff! Poulter playing to his word amazing play

Fisher and both the molonari matches are key right now

TBF Stricker and Cink have been the best players in the US side over the weekend. He was doing all the work in his partnership with Tiger.

Poults wins.

4 points to go...

Come on Donald bring the point home

3.5 to go...

Donald wins....2.5 points to go....

Looks like it's going down to the final match, with McDowell bringing it home.

What is it with the Irish and winning putts at the Ryder Cup.

Jimenez wins...1.5 points to go...

Well done Jimenez

McDowell now HAS to win.

Oh my fucking god

They are going to blow it again :(

McDowell 2 up with 2 to play...

Extremely impressive from the young lad Fowler. Two longish putts on 17 and 18 to at least give the US a shout.

McDowell just has to tap this to the hole and Europe wins...

GET THE FUCK IN......EUROPE WIN !!!!!....

Phew!

Seems a bit odd to be backing 'Europe' though, doesn't it.

Looking forward to watching the highlights later.
It's not quite the same watching the text feed on BBC from work.

Lovely win

Yes, but I can put up with it once every two years.

Here come the OTT celebrations again...

Given that this went over time, and therefore isn't on the regular schedule, anyone know when it's on Sky or Beeb?

It's on from 7.20 on BBC2. Sky are showing 'How The Ryder Cup Was Won' but that will be a round up of the whole 4 days.

Cheers mate...

I think these videos prove how hard it hurts the Americans, and they'll certainly come out fighting in 2012 :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/9060166.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/9060181.stm

The Europeans never blamed Langer in 1991 for missing a putt on the final green which lost Europe the Ryder Cup and I hope the US papers don't blame Mahan. They were always behind on the final day, and it only became close towards the end. They lost it on Saturday night, when they were behind in all 6 matches, and the Europeans did well on Sunday making sure they got a big advantage in those matches.

Fair play

unusually gracious, especially Pavins interview less than half hour after defeat

Never thought I would say this but respect where it is due

what a brilliant ryder cup that was and glad i was there for some of it.was a truely awesome atmosphere and i'll always remember it.
my mate got in yesterday with my ticket, and was on the 17th green in the celebrations and blagged his way into the closing ceremony too.

Some of the songs on te 1st green all weekend was awesome.

I think the American love coming over here to play the Ryder Cup as the banter between the players and the crowd is better than the States, as all the crowd can normally come out with is the 'USA' chant.

Stewart Cink was having a fun time yesterday morning with the crowd, with the songs they were singing ('He's got more hair than you', 'You've got Big Mac, We've got Little Mac').