Current and Future headline: Zach Johnson flubs Ryder Cup

 Thinking I'd let the news wash over everyone before writing this but my thoughts have not changed so here goes...


Zach Johnson has never been a golfer that excited me. Yes, he won a Masters and an Open Championship. Were they thrilling or even interesting events, or were you watching and hoping someone else won those events?  Now let's carry that onto the Ryder Cup. Yikes!

With his captain's picks this week Johnson chose Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Sam Burns, Rickie Fowler, Collin Marikowa, and Jordan Spieth. Obviously, the big shock is Justin Thomas who has struggled all summer with form and had to make a cut the last week of the regular season to seemingly even be considered.Yes, he "wanted" to play on the Ryder Cup team, but ya know who also wanted to play and finished ahead of Justin Thomas in the regular standings... Keegan Bradley. Bradley who won in Connecticut early this summer, has played in 2 Ryder Cups previously, and this is the closest he's been since to making the team since his last appearance in 2014. Fred Couples was quoted as saying Bradley "not being tight" with Ryder Cup teammates was part of the snub. Are you kidding me!? Is Brooks Koepka "tight" with Ryder Cup teammates? 

Give me Bradley over Thomas.

Brooks Koepka needed a court intervention to be allowed to play in the Ryder Cup as a member of LIV Golf. He won the PGA Championship this season and played decently in the other majors including a T2 in Augusta. Yes, he is a world-class golfer, but is Koepka playing for the United States in the 2023 Ryder Cup a "no-brainer" as Johnson put it? I do not think so... part of me is wishing that Zach Johnson just went to LIV in 2022.

If standings are irrelevant (see Justin Thomas) then give me Cam Young over Sam Burns. Cam Young is stone cold, and I for one would love to see him on the Ryder Cup stage. He is every bit the player that Sam Burns is and more! I'm working myself up.

The history of the Ryder Cup is full of snubs, people who would be made even better say for the "haves" picking fellow "haves". Take someone like Kevin Kisner who has never played on a Ryder Cup team but in match play is undeniably brilliant. Kiz would have been even more of a household name if he had been able to play in a Ryder Cup. "This ain't no hobby" as Kiz says. Keegan Bradley is not going to be the same golfer after this. How could he be? 

The captain's picks join the automatic qualifiers Scottie Scheffler, Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman, Patrick Cantlay, Max Homa, and Xander Shauffele. 

Anyway... the United States is going to be walking into a buzzsaw in Rome in the European team. Holy moly, they're going to be stacked! More on that later.

Swing Easy

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