MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — The objective for the home team in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup is to get up early in the matches and ride the momentum of the crowd.
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objective → get → crowd
The common phrase heard at these competitions is to get a lot of red — or blue (Europe) or gold (International) — on the board.
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phrase → hear → board
U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker tried to stack the top of his Sunday lineup while trailing by three points and said, “We’ve got some studs up there at the top of the lineup that are going to go out there and hopefully put a bunch of red on the board.”
It used to be an actual thing.
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It → try → board
Now it’s a figure of speech.
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it → ’ → speech
It’s a recent trend, at the Ryder Cup in Europe, and now the Presidents Cup.
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It → ’ → Europe
Organizers are leaning on video boards across the golf course that show a mixture of results and video of other matches.
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that → lean → matches
But to get a sense of the score requires being there long enough for the screen to change.
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screen → get → score
The stationary boards — similar to what’s found at the majors — used to have all the matches and the score in red, blue or gold to indicate who was leading.
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who → find → red
Spectators knew, players knew, momentum was created.
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momentum → know → ?
Boards were noticeably missing in France in the 2018 Ryder Cup.
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Boards → miss → Cup
Kerry Haigh, the chief competitions officer at the PGA of America, also noticed them missing and said that would not be the case in U.S. matches.
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that → notice → matches
The PGA Tour had 20 video boards across Medinah, eight with content such as real-time scoring, graphics and video, 12 with PGA Tour content.
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Tour → have → content
“More than anything I want to hear the crowd going.
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crowd → want → anything
The crowd can tell you what’s going on,” Snedeker said Saturday.
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Snedeker → tell → you
“We had a great crowd today.
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We → have → crowd
I heard a lot of roars out there.
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I → hear → roars
I don’t think we need boards; I think we need crowds.”
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we → think → crowds
He went on to say that “what’s on the board doesn’t matter” because players should be paying attention to the match in front of them.
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players → go → them
As for no standard boards, International captain Geoff Ogilvy pointed to his radio to let his players know what was going on, if the pockets of occasional cheers wasn’t enough.
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pockets → point → cheers
“They ask us what’s happening, and I guess we text the leaderboard on the phone if there’s no board there, like we do,” Ogilvy said.
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Ogilvy → ask → phone
“We’re all communicating about what’s going on in other matches.
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what → communicate → matches
Some of the guys don’t care like what the other matches are doing.”
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matches → care → what
He also said Sunday that it was tough getting scores to load on the phone because of so many people in the crowd using their phone at the same time.
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people → say → time
World Golf Hall of Fame candidates announced
Butch Harmon and Dottie Pepper, who came close to induction two years ago for the World Golf Hall of Fame, are among 14 who have been announced as finalists for the 2027 induction class.
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who → announce → class
A new system had the nominees broken down into four groups — men, women, contributors and historic figures and amateurs.
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nominees → have → groups
Nominating committees for each group narrowed the list to four men, four men, three contributors and three from the historical figures and amateurs.
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committees → nominate → figures
Pepper is joined as a finalist by Inbee Park, Cristie Kerr and Liselotte Neumann.
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Pepper → join → Park
The final group has amateur great Jay Sigel, Canadian amateur Alexa Stirling and British golfer Ted Ray.
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group → have → Sigel
A 24-member panel will vote on the induction class later this fall.
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panel → vote → class
The induction ceremony is scheduled for July 12 during the week of the British Open at St. Andrews.
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ceremony → schedule → Andrews
Saudis pulling back on women’s golf
Golf Saudi has announced a multiyear commitment to women’s golf with a tournament called “The Championship,” to be played next week in Britain with a $4 million purse that will be co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour.
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that → pull → Tour
“The partnership builds on Golf Saudi’s backing of women’s golf since 2020 — part of a strategy to grow the game of golf and support women’s sport on the world stage and in the Kingdom,” Golf Saudi said in a news release.
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Saudi → build → release
Left out was how it was eliminating tournaments the Public Investment Fund supported, mainly on the Ladies European Tour, one on the LPGA.
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Fund → leave → LPGA
The LET had the PIF Global Series that had 29 tournaments dating to 2021.
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that → have → 2021
This year’s Global Series had five tournaments with $15 million in total prize money.
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Series → have → money
The Saudi-backed series has delivered 29 events since it began in 2021.
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it → back → 2021
The 2026 PIF Global Series included five events and a total of $15 million in purses, which, without the two majors, represents more than half of the LET’s total prize funds.
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which → include → funds
Only three regular tournaments on the LET schedule were $1 million or more, not including majors.
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tournaments → include → majors
Instead, Golf Saudi said it would sponsor the season points race with a bonus at the end.
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it → say → end
It did not say how much the bonus would be.
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bonus → say → ?
…and 19 more, not listed.
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