Ryder Cup - Better format?

tough to handicap the ryder cup format ...

I looked at the Presidents Cup on the schedule and went, Ah, for *$#@!’s sake, not again. Americans versus the world.

Nice message.

The Presidents Cup and the Ryder Cup---the latter which is old country versus new country, Atlanticism at its harmless, silly worst---should find an exile island.

Cups Ryder and President are impossible to handicap. I generally wait to the last minute, like buying a gift for a difficult relative. Safe money can be had on anti-American sentiment in the Ryder, but the Presidents Cup has been more even in its recent history. (One of these tournaments might be sufferable every two years; sticking us with one of them every year is not nice.) The Americans always ramp up the importance of these ridiculous biennials while the Europeans (Ryder) and rest of the world minus Europeans (Presidents) also talk about their importance but seem to mean it more and tend to win more.

We have not talked about the fact that this is meant to be a team competition. It seems to escape the golfing establishment that golf is not a team sport. So how do you try to gauge players who play for themselves all year and then have to go through the motions of playing together as a twosome or foursome or twelvesome, whatever, looking over each other's putts as if that actually helps?

No worry, though. Because it can be ignored. There is a regular Tour event, called the Viking Classic, where risk and reward are still somewhat commensurate.

i wish it was 10 player elimination

You are most definitely an American if you're suggesting that!