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As the cleanup operation ends after hurricane Ike, the serious preparations now begin for the 37th Ryder Cup, which starts Friday at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.  The United States will attempt to end its Ryder Cup drought against the Europeans, despite arguably starting as the underdogs, to win for the first time since 1999

Lets take a look at some of the contributing factors which could determine the outcome -

Players - Europe go into their Ryder Cup defence with seven members of the world’s top 20 (and none outside the top 50) compared to America’s six.  The US has 6 rookies - advantage Europe

Home Advantage - Not only does the US have home advantage but also two players who hail from Kentucky - JB Holmes and Kenny Perry, who as local boys should whip the spectators into a frenzy and ‘get the crowd rocking’ - advantage US

btw does anybody know What does JB stand for in JB Holmes? J is for John and I’m not sure about the B. But I do know he went for JB to avoid being confused with the dead 70s porn star.

Captains - Nick Faldo is known for his meticulous preparation whereas Paul Azinger is considered more of a ’seat of his pants’, type of guy - contrast their time keeping for their respective press conferences  - Faldo arrives on time, while Azinger arrives late and keeps the press waiting.  Zinger has admitted that as Golfing co-presenters, Faldo was always better prepared.

However, Zinger says he has a cunning plan, so it just remains to be seen exactly what this ‘concept’ is - surprisingly though Azinger admitted that he didn’t realize how good Sergio Garcia is (perfect record of eight wins from eight matches in the alternate-shot format) - you would have thought he’d seen that one coming! - advantage Europe

Much has also been made of the respective WAGS, but this is a serious golfing website, don’t you know - so we’ll just ignore that!

By any reasonable measure you would have to favor the Europeans, but golf is not a rational game, and for that reason I still have it wide open.  Whatever the result, lets hope that golf is the winner with a close and competitive Ryder Cup.

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