If you honestly think that choke-job today wasn't coming, you weren't paying attention, "golf" "fans"...

I usually don't post about non-rigged events, but this basically dovetails into a number of the same issues in which it goes.

NICE COLUMN, GENE.  Way to eat your foot.  I hope you are FIRED tomorrow, because that's a Dewey Beats Truman moment!

The United States just pulled off a reverse-Brookline, choking away a 10-6 advantage and not only losing the Ryder Cup, but losing it OUTRIGHT when Mr. Tin God himself chokes the 18th so that Europe wins the singles 8 1/2 - 3 1/2, for a 14 1/2 - 13 1/2 win.

Europe has now won 10 of the last 14 Ryder Cup matches.  Before that, Europe nor Great Britain had won since 1933!

Why has this happened?  That's easy!!

The United States, and it's golf associations, with the full sport of the corporate backdrop and the sports media of every conceivable company, have made the entirety and totality of American golf around one Eldrik Tont "Tiger" Woods.

Until this changes, you're going to keep losing.  Worse, you're going to keep embarrassing yourselves.

And it's the PGA...

And it's ESPN....

And it's SI...

And it's FOX Sports...

The Golf Channel...

Etc.

And on...

And on...

And on...

Tiger Woods has been on seven Ryder Cup teams since 1997.

He is 1-6.

He got one-half point this weekend and was benched for one session.

He is, historically, one of the worst Ryder Cup players in history.

Why, ESPN?  Because Tiger Woods is nothing short of a corporate whore who is the perfect embodiment of everything, and everything wrong, with United States sport in the late-20th and early-21st centuries.  Tiger Woods only plays for the United State of Tiger Woods.

So why, then, sports media, is he the only story in every tournament he goddmaned plays?

The ONLY reason he's got as many majors as he has had is that there are a number of golfers who are completely stealing paychecks out on the PGA these days (and have been for quite a while!) and either can't handle real pressure or their styles of play allow for no margin of error -- and they usually err.

That's the second time in four Ryder Cups that Europe has gone 8 1/2 - 3 1/2 on the singles.  The last time, they won in Europe 18 1/2 - 9 1/2.

But you've got a bunch of guys (and this is most of the established American names) who just aren't cutting it, for one reason or another.  And until you realize, American sports fans and media, that Tiger Woods does not equal and define US golf, this isn't changing.