junior ryder cup

The Junior Ryder Cup is a team golf competition between Europe and the United States. It is based along similar lines to the Ryder Cup Matches and is run by the same organizations - he PGA of America and Ryder Cup Ltd (a subsidiary of The PGA European Tour). Each team consists of six boys and six girls. The Americans must be under the age of 16 on the final day’s play, while the Europeans must be no older than sixteen on the 1st of January of the year of the event. The tournament is played over two days of four-ball matches. There are three boys' matches and three girls' matches on the first day and six mixed matches on the second day.

The venue for the 2010 Junior Ryder Cup tournament is Gleneagles Resort in Perthshire, Scotland. The Match will be played on 23rd September 2010. This event will be followed by a Friendship Match at the Celtic Manor Resort, in Wales.

Junior Ryder Cup - Tournament Format

Day One will features foursomes matches, followed by mixed fourballs matches, while Day Two will feature Singles matches. This change in format was made prior to the 2008 Junior Ryder Cup, creating twice as many points to play for, making the competition more similar to the Ryder Cup Matches tournament itself.

History of The Junior Ryder Cup

In 1995, an informal match between European junior golfers and Central New York PGA Section and area juniors was played in the United States; Europe dominated but no results were published. Semi-official matches were played in the next two Ryder Cup years, with Europe now taking on the whole of the United States. The Americans won 7-5 in 1997 and Europe won 10½ to 1½ in 1999.

The Junior Ryder Cup was formally introduced in 2002 and the first event was played at the K Club in Ireland, venue for the 2006 Ryder Cup. The contest was won by Europe by 9½ to 2½. The second event was held in 2004 at Westfield Group Country Club in Ohio, USA and the European Team retained the title by winning 8½ to 3½. The 2006 event in Wales was tied 6-6. The United States Junior Ryder Cup Team came out strong on the second day of competition and cruised to victory at the 2008 Junior Ryder Cup, 22 to 2, at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Several players in the competition have gone on to launch successful professional golf careers. Most notable among them is Sergio García, who played for the 1995 European team. Isabelle Lendl (former tennis star Ivan Lendl's daughter) played for the United States in 2006.
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introduction

The Ryder Cup Matches is like no other event in golf. It was established in 1927 as a competition between two teams of golfers representing the best professionals in the United States of America and Great Britain. Over the decades, it has evolved into one of the most popular and widely-covered events in the sporting calendar, with the US now competing against a team representing Europe for the trophy named after the event's founding father, Samuel Ryder.

The Ryder Cup Matches tournament is staged every two years, with each side taking turns to host the event on home soil.

The Celtic Manor Resort in Wales is the 25th venue to stage The Ryder Cup, the first time the competition has visited Wales. The event has broken new ground in golf many times before. In fact, this is a characteristic feature of The Ryder Cup. Most of golf's greatest events started out as localised competitions which would become genuinely international events many years after their foundation. The Ryder Cup, however, was established with grand ambition a trans-Atlantic contest decades before passage across that great ocean was commonplace.

The origin of The Ryder Cup Matches is the subject of much debate among golf historians. Plans to establish a regular competition between the United States and Great Britain had been carefully drawn up on a number of occasions, but it took one man to make it happen.

Samuel Ryder was more than just an enthusiastic member of the gallery at an exhibition match at Wentworth between the US and Britain in 1926. The event had been arranged during free time for players between qualifying rounds of The Open Championship and the tournament itself. Ryder was a wealthy businessman, famous for having made his fortune from selling Penny Packets of seeds. He had taken to golf in his 50s and had a vested interest in the contest, as he had employed one of the British representatives, Abe Mitchell, to be his personal teaching pro.

Following the match, Ryder famously told British player, George Duncan, that he would support a regular competition between the two nations by rewarding the winning players with £5 each and hosting a party with champagne and chicken sandwiches. He then commissioned Mappin & Webb to create a solid gold trophy for £250. But Ryder's patronage did not end there. He helped to finance the British team's journey to the US for the inaugural Ryder Cup Matches in 1927 at the Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts. The match was won convincingly by the Unites States team captained by Walter Hagen by 91/2 points to 21/2. Ted Ray captained the Great Britain team after original captain Abe Mitchell was sidelined with appendicitis.

In becoming one of the very few events that genuinely transcends its sport, the Ryder Cup has had to overcome many obstacles and challenges along the way. Exhibition matches featuring Ryder Cup players were held during the World War II, although there was a 10-year gap between Ryder Cup victories for the United States in 1937 at Southport & Ainsdale and Portland Golf Club in 1947.

Great Britain joined forces with Ireland in 1973 at the Muirfield Links in Scotland and the process of golfing expansion continued with the United States facing a European team for the first time in 1979 at The Greenbrier in West Virginia, in an attempt to revive an increasingly one-sided contest. Of Jack Nicklaus' many achievements in golf, his determination in pressing for the creation of a European team is one of the least recognised.

As it turned out, the United States won their 13th Ryder Cup in a row at The Greenbrier and would win a further two before the tide turned in 1985 at The Belfry. Europe's captain Tony Jacklin wrenched The Ryder Cup from American hands for the first time in 28 years and heralded an age where it has become a compelling contest. Since 1985, Europe has won competition seven times (retaining The Ryder Cup in 1989 after a tie), while the USA has won four times. The 2001 Ryder Cup at The Belfry was postponed until 2002 following the terrorist attacks on the US of 9/11.

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Colleagues for Corey……

As I’m sure you are aware, my opposite number Corey Pavin recently announced the four men who will be his assistant captains in Wales: Tom Lehman, Davis Love III, Jeff Sluman and Paul Goydos.

I have been around the game long enough to understand why the media wanted me to comment on each and every one; ‘Why did Corey pick so and so?’ ‘What will so and so bring to the American team room?’ ‘Why did he pick so and so who hasn’t played in a Ryder Cup’ etc, etc – you get the drift.

However I said then, and I’ll reiterate here, I’m not going to do that out of respect for Corey and his team – who he has in his backroom staff is his business, not mine.

All I will say is that, as good friends of Corey’s, all four were natural choices because you want people around you that you are comfortable in the company of. I wish them all well.


Patience is a virtue…….
Of course, that leads me neatly into the subject of my own assistant captains, a topic I am continually quizzed on whenever a microphone is placed in front of my face and The Ryder Cup questions begin.

Therefore, I would like to take this opportunity here in my own blog to make it crystal clear, exactly what my position is.

First and foremost, I do not feel there is any rush at all to name my assistants. I have said publicly that I am hoping to select a younger generation of assistant captain and, because of that, I am going to leave the decision for a few months yet as the range of players I have in mind will all be trying to qualify for the team first and foremost. Therefore, I will be making NO decision on that, or naming ANY names, until at least after the conclusion of the Open Championship at St Andrews in July. At that time, there will be just over a month to go until the end of the official qualifying period and I feel that is a more realistic time to take stock of the overall qualification situation to see where we all stand. So let’s all have a little patience on this issue – I’ll name the names when the time is right.





An Eight-some Reel…..
Those of you who know me will know the number eight has played a central role in my professional golfing career. Not only does it represent the number of Harry Vardon Trophies I won as European Number One, it is also the number of Ryder Cups I have contested as a player.

Now, as we sit here in the middle of February, there are also eight months to go until The Ryder Cup kicks off at Celtic Manor and I wanted to use that countdown to look back over my eight Ryder Cup appearances, all of which were memorable and all of which I could write volumes about.

Therefore, to kick off the series, I am going to start with the year of my debut, 1991, at Kiawah Island.

1991: The Year I Made My ‘Mark’
As everyone knows, The 1991 Ryder Cup boiled down to Bernhard Langer’s putt against Hale Irwin. But the reason he had that opportunity was because of what happened prior to their game with the players out on the course beforehand. Of course, one of those matches was my own against Mark Calcavecchia.

Understandably, on the verge of making my Ryder Cup singles debut, I was a little nervous and I’ll never forget, before I went out, our captain Bernard Gallacher saying to me; ‘Colin, the one thing you don’t want to do against Mark Calcavecchia is let him get ahead. He’s a gritty player and a great front runner so, whatever you do, try to stay with him.’ Of course, I immediately forgot all that and was five down by the turn!

What was going through my mind? In all honesty, when I lost the eighth and ninth to go five down, I was thinking that if I lost the next three holes, I would lose 8 and 7 to equal the heaviest defeat that anyone had ever had in Ryder Cup singles – I really wanted to avoid that so I knew then that I had to do something about it!

However I was lucky in a way that the walk from the ninth green to the tenth tee at Kiawah Island was about half a mile so, during that time, I managed to get my head together and I managed to birdie the tenth and 11th to get back to three down which was pretty good. Unfortunately though, I made a mess of the 14th to hand Mark that hole which saw me four down with four to play.

It is then written in history what happened, but it’s fair to say that into a left to right wind over those closing holes, Mark struggled and I managed to win all four of the holes to square the match in the end. I must admit it really helped me feel part of the team having won half a point for Europe while at the same time taking a half point from the Americans – all of which helped Bernhard have the opportunity to come within inches of holing the putt that would have seen us retain the trophy.

Thinking back on it, I was playing those holes down the stretch, not for me, but for the half point gained for Europe. That is exactly what I will be saying to my Team at Celtic Manor. On that Sunday, wherever you play, that point counts incredibly towards the end of the day to give the opportunity to the guys coming behind you to win The Ryder Cup. No-one must ever forget that.
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A Gee Up from GMac….

I was interested to hear an interview with Graeme McDowell recently and in particular, two things he said. Firstly, when asked what his main goal for the year was, his reply was “to make Monty’s team for Wales.” I have to admit, I hear that a lot from players in interviews and, from a Captain’s perspective, it’s music to my ears. Every player wants to be part of this European ‘family’ I am trying to create and which will come to fruition at Celtic Manor. From the players to the caddies to all the staff at the Tour, everyone wants to be part of this European Ryder Cup experience. They all believe it will be a successful experience and I believe that too.

Secondly I heard GMac say that, from his current position of World Number 46, in the past, that would have made him a certainty for a European Ryder Cup Team but not any more – and he’s right. I remember, in the past, going down much further than that in teams I played in, but now with European players occupying half the world’s top 20, it just goes to show the huge wealth of exciting talent I now have at my disposal.


Flying High……
Ever since I was appointed Captain, I have overseen many developments off the course relating to The Ryder Cup and I was delighted to be part of yet another special occasion in Dubai a couple of weeks ago when Emirates Airlines were announced as the Official Airline of The 2010 Ryder Cup as well as Official Partner to The European Team in 2012.

Emirates Airlines have supported our Tour since the Desert Classic tournament began in Dubai in the late 1980s and the standards involved in the airline have always been first class. As one of the great Blue Chip companies of the world, I think it is a fabulous association we now have with them in an official Ryder Cup sense and one that can only be beneficial to us.

Personally speaking, of course, Dubai will always have a special place in my heart in terms of The Ryder Cup because it was there over a year ago now that my announcement as Captain was made official.


Take it to the Bridge……
Another off-course development was unveiled recently when the new bridge over the River Usk – which will help transport players and spectators to and from the new practice ground at Celtic Manor – was officially opened.

The £2 million twin-suspension bridge completes a £16 million investment by Sir Terry Matthews and The Celtic Manor Resort in building a new course clubhouse and internal infrastructure, all geared to making this Ryder Cup the best ever.

Right from the word go, Sir Terry and his staff got one hundred percent behind everything to do with The Ryder Cup and I think the opening of the bridge – in the company of the new First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, and our own Ryder Cup Director Richard Hills – showed that once again.

They built an entirely new practice ground and when it became apparent that the existing transport layout wasn’t quite right to get players from the practice ground to the course and the clubhouse, they immediately said, “Well, let’s get two million together and build a bridge!” In these difficult economic times we have a lot to thank Sir Terry, Celtic Manor and the Welsh Assembly for in terms of their continued backing and support. We now must have the most expensive walkway from the practice ground to the first tee ever assembled on any golf course in the world and we all look forward to making big strides over it come October.



A Match for Anyone…..
With the Gulf Swing now behind us, it is time to look forward to the next part of the season and one which contains the first two World Golf Championship events of the year; the WGC – Accenture Match Play in Arizona and the WGC – CA Championship in Florida.

It is great as both events will see European players contend at the very top level of the game but, for obvious reasons, I am intrigued to see how the match play unfolds.

We had a finalist last year in Paul Casey while Ross Fisher made the semi-finals and Rory McIlroy the quarters, so let’s hope this year we can again have a good representation into the latter stages. This is a great opportunity for all European players to show me, in a match play format, just exactly what they can do and I will be watching every shot hit. I’ll be looking out for the results of all of the European players but also, and perhaps even more importantly, how they achieve those results.

I want to see guys who show guts and determination, guys who are maybe two or three down with four or five holes to play but who battle back to win. It doesn’t matter if that’s in the first round or the final, trust me, I’ll be taking note of it. Don’t get me wrong, the 8 and 7, 7 and 6 wins are great and show a player is playing well, but it is the matches which are tight and where a player comes out the other side that are crucial, and the ones which could be key in shaping my Team.
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The Captain's Blog: Seventh Heaven

European Ryder Cup Captain Colin Montgomerie gives us his seventh blog in which he looks back at the Gulf Swing and ahead to the Match Play; plus begins a special series of his own reminiscences from his eight Ryder Cup appearances.

Swing-ing Success…..
Welcome to my latest blog and I hope the start of 2010 has been a successful one for you. I must admit, in terms of The Ryder Cup, it has been fantastic.

We have just finished our traditional Gulf Swing on The European Tour and, to be honest, I don’t think it could have gone any better. We had three European winners in Martin Kaymer, Robert Karlsson and Miguel Angel Jiménez, in addition to three largely European chasing packs challenging near the top of the leaderboards on the Sundays.

I was particularly delighted for the three champions. For Martin and Robert, it was great to see them back in the winners’ circle after spells out in 2009 with injury. Martin had shown a bit of form towards the end of last season with a couple of top tens but I know Robert was a little worried, not having been near a top 30 since he came back from his eye problem. Therefore, it was not surprising he was more pleased than anything in Qatar with the fact he once again played at the level which saw him win The Harry Vardon Trophy in 2008. To shoot 65 in the final round at Doha Golf Club, which I think everyone appreciates is the most demanding of the three courses we play in the Gulf, was some feat. And what can I say about Miguel? Some players just seem energised in a Ryder Cup year and he is definitely one of them. I already have an espresso coffee maker on standby for the team room at Celtic Manor because I have a feeling I might just need it!


Well done to all……
It was not all about the winners in these three weeks though. As I said, there was strong European representation at the top of each of the final standings. The current number one in The Ryder Cup rankings – Lee Westwood – was in fine form in Dubai and Qatar, Rory McIlroy was in contention once again as was Ian Poulter – and how great was it to see Martin, Rory and Ian battle it out together in the final day three ball in Abu Dhabi? Also prominent were players such as Edoardo Molinari, Henrik Stenson, Ross Fisher, Oliver Wilson, Søren Hansen and Sergio Garcia. Finally, let’s not forget Paul Casey – another player who, thankfully, looks to have put his injury woes of 2009 behind him. Paul finished 11th in Dubai and fifth in Qatar, the latter being excellent as he’d never made the cut there in the past. Funnily enough, his new caddie – Christian Donald – told him before the week that he’d never missed a cut in his life in Qatar and didn’t intend to start now – that’s motivation I suppose! Great too to see Christian’s brother, Luke, finish second behind Steve Stricker at Riviera on the US PGA Tour. See, it is not just in Europe that I’m watching!


Bravo Alvaro……
My final reflection on the Gulf Swing centres around one player – Alvaro Quiros. He didn’t win but he was a common denominator on the leaderboards of all three tournaments. He is someone I want to see mature into a Ryder Cup player and I have to say that every time I see him play, he is doing just that. I’m delighted with his progress and his form in the Gulf is exactly the sort of consistency I’m looking for. Because of having to go ‘in the envelope’ at last season’s Vivendi Trophy after the injury to Anthony Wall, he was bitterly disappointed not to be able to play in the singles because I know he wanted to show me his potential in that realm and he wasn’t allowed to do that. However, trust me, he is someone that everybody should watch.

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ryder cup begin

When Samuel Ryder that bears his name in 1927, it’s unlikely that he would have predicted the emergence of WAGs, Park & Ride, blogs, airport-style security and triple-decker corporate boxes. But it’s certain he would have welcomed the heavyweight battle that starts the 36th tournament tomorrow at 8am.

Colin Montgomerie’s performances in recent Ryder Cups have been so impressive that his impact on the US team will be no less than Tiger’s influence on the Europeans. There may be golfers in better form on the European side but Montgomerie was the logical choice to lead his team’s defence of the old trophy. He has partnered local favourite Padraig Harrington successfully in the past and that pairing are guaranteed a raucous and passionate support on every tee, fairway and green. But despite all of that, the in-form Tiger and his successful President’s Cup partner Jim Furyk will take a lot of beating and Tom Lehman will be really confident of landing the first blow.

The other heavyweight contest is in the fourth match where the tried and trusted combination of Clarke & Westwood take on another President’s Cup success story in Mickelson & DiMarco. The Americans should be favourites on the basis of recent form but local experience and a long-standing relationship between Clarke & Westwood will ensure they bring the match all the way to the closing holes.

Europe’s most likely success should be with the Spanish partnership of Garcia & Olazabal in the third match against David Toms and debutant Brett Wetterich. Many Americans are confident that Wetterich’s long hitting could be a huge advantage in the soggy conditions but he will have to perform in an environment way beyond anything he will have experienced before.

Two rookies face each other in the second match where in-form Paul Casey will partner Robert Karlsson against JJ Henry and Lehman’s wild card Stewart Cink. If Casey can reproduce the form which saw him win last week, then he should win enough holes to post a point for the Europeans.

In recent history, European dominance of the fourballs & foursomes has underpinned their overall success but on this occasion the home team will have to be at their very best to take an early advantage over this US team with their two ‘awesome’ pairings.

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close contest

Remarkably, after two hours of golf, none of the four matches has yet gone more than 1-up in any direction. This keeps the possibility of a sweep for either team still alive although the early evidence suggests the Europeans are the likely winners of this day and the tournament.

Tiger Woods has had something of a nightmare so far but has just hit a sweet approach to the 8th and can get his match back to all square. The US team cannot afford to have both their heavyweight teams fail to win.

The golf has been nothing short of spectacular so far and not always for the right reasons! We’ve seen many balls go in the water and there’s been quite a lot of hacking out from behind trees. All of this is wonderfully entertaining for the spectators.

The pace of the golf has been quite slow. The top game is on the 8th green, two hours and fifteen minutes after the first shot. Apparently, they have been warned but it’s not clear how they can be sanctioned. Not that the fans are complaining, this is golf heaven.

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