This 12 months’s Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf Membership in Rome might appear to be a U.S. Open to some.
Not less than, that’s what Shane Lowry believes.
Lowry, together with the 11 different members of the European Ryder Cup workforce, visited the Everlasting Metropolis to scout Marco Simone on Monday.
“The tough is fairly thick, however you’ll want to hit fairways, and you’ll want to hit greens, and you’ll want to keep within the gap, and that’s the best way we prefer it,” Lowry stated of the golf course Tuesday.
“It’s fairly brutal in spots, but it surely’s no totally different to what you may see on the U.S. Open or one thing like that. For those who go decently off the fairways, that’s going to get very fascinating, so yeah.”
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Ought to they miss the brief grass, these teeing it up within the biennial competitors might draw some gnarly lies.
The thick tough was truly a point of emphasis for Team USA when the People scouted the course late final week.
However since this version of the Ryder Cup shall be contested in Italy, the Europeans have the freedom of establishing the course as the house workforce. Sometimes, Crew Europe likes to slim the fairways and thicken the tough to make the course more difficult.
They hope their course setup will stymie the People but once more too, as Crew USA has not received the Ryder Cup on European soil since 1993.
“So I believe, look, they tried — just like the People do, once they get their dwelling Ryder Cup, they attempt to arrange the golf course to swimsuit them, and I believe the vice captains are attempting to arrange the golf course to swimsuit us,” Lowry stated. “For those who hit a very good driver and a second shot down the green — that’s what golf’s about. That’s how I see it.”
Becoming a member of Captain Luke Donald as Vice Captains for Crew Europe are Italian brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari, Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts, and former Ryder Cup captains Thomas Bjorn and Jose Maria Olazábal.
Every captain additionally made the short journey, which undoubtedly helped the youthful gamers, particularly Ludvig Åberg, 23, and Nicholai Højgaard, 22.
“Particularly for the youthful lads yesterday, it was very, very cool,” Lowry stated.
“Simply to get everybody concerned and everybody appears like The Ryder Cup is sort of beginning and you recognize as a result of while you get there the week of, and it’s your first Ryder Cup, even when it’s not your first Ryder Cup, the week goes by shortly. So that you get in and earlier than you recognize it, it’s Wednesday or Thursday, and also you perhaps really feel such as you haven’t actually bought to do what you’ll have appreciated.”
Now, the 12 Europeans will tee it up on the BMW PGA Championship, the place the DP World Tour paired every of the Ryder Cuppers collectively.
The European camaraderie will solely enhance in England, simply because it did Monday night in Italy when the workforce joined collectively for dinner.
Maybe they are going to be adequately ready to deal with the thick tough, too.
The forty fourth Ryder Cup begins on Sept. 29.
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