Thursday, September 16, 2004
One for the blog archives
The beauty of a blog is that items, web sites and articles you know for sure that one day in the future you'll want to refer to, have their own wee place in internet space.
I've got the feeling Patriotism seems to be last refuge of an American Ryder Cup captain
will be dug up from my archives in a few weeks time and an email sent to James Lawton of independent.co.uk and hopefully advising him: y'all go it wrong.
However, and I've no reason to believe it's not an accurate account, and if so this is a wee bit of a worry.
Sutton, who is the son of a rich Louisiana oil family, said: "Y'all see that flag? Anything I can summon up, that's what we're going to do." It did not, to be perfectly honest, seem like precisely the action or the form of words guaranteed to calm fears that when the 35th Ryder Cup gets under way here tomorrow, the nightmare of the 17th hole at Brookline Country Club five years ago will at some point be revisited.
Fortunately there will be a pipe band at the official opening - to soothe the fevered brows of those who may get a wee bit carried away.
Incidentally my daughter who's just been visiting a festival in Puducah, Kentucky emailed me to say she heard The Star Spangled Banner being played on the bagpipes.
God bless America and the Americans who had to suffer through that experience.
I've got the feeling Patriotism seems to be last refuge of an American Ryder Cup captain
will be dug up from my archives in a few weeks time and an email sent to James Lawton of independent.co.uk and hopefully advising him: y'all go it wrong.
However, and I've no reason to believe it's not an accurate account, and if so this is a wee bit of a worry.
Sutton, who is the son of a rich Louisiana oil family, said: "Y'all see that flag? Anything I can summon up, that's what we're going to do." It did not, to be perfectly honest, seem like precisely the action or the form of words guaranteed to calm fears that when the 35th Ryder Cup gets under way here tomorrow, the nightmare of the 17th hole at Brookline Country Club five years ago will at some point be revisited.
Fortunately there will be a pipe band at the official opening - to soothe the fevered brows of those who may get a wee bit carried away.
Incidentally my daughter who's just been visiting a festival in Puducah, Kentucky emailed me to say she heard The Star Spangled Banner being played on the bagpipes.
God bless America and the Americans who had to suffer through that experience.
