Ryder Cup Pairings

baboo800

Who would you put in your pairings for the fourballs and foursomes.Mine are:
Fourballs
Donald & Colsaerts
Garcia & Westwood
Hanson& Molinari
Gmac & Rmac

Foursomes
Rose & Donald
Rmac& Garcia
Gmac&Lawrie
Poulter & Hanson

Eric the Eagle

Foursomes:

Donald & Garcia
McIlroy & McDowell
Westwood & Lawrie
Rose & Poulter

Fourballs:

Garcia & Westwood
Donald & Colsaerts
Poulter & Kaymer
McIlroy & Hanson

Keano

If a mod can edit the title of this thread it would be great to have this as the 2012 Ryder Cup thread

L.O.F.T

McDowell & McIlroy, Rose & Poulter after that its hard to second guess José María Olazábal. Westwood & Donald have played before as has Westwood & Garcia.

murphdogg11

Ryder Cup starts on Sky TV at 12.30 on Friday but what is the first tee time?

Eric the Eagle

murphdogg11 wrote: »

Ryder Cup starts on Sky TV at 12.30 on Friday but what is the first tee time?

First tee time is 13.20 I think

Trampas

Donald and Garcia have to paired in foresomes. I think 4 wins from 4 games record

rrpc

Here are the records for all the team members. I've not broken down fourballs and foursomes stats...

Team EUROPE|Total (W-L-H)|Singles (W-L-H)
Nicolas Colsaerts| - | -
Luke Donald|8-2-1|2-1-0
Sergio Garcia|14-6-4|1-4-0
Peter Hanson|1-2-0|0-1-0
Martin Kaymer|2-1-1|0-1-0
Paul Lawrie|3-1-1|1-0-0
Graeme McDowell|4-2-2|2-0-0
Rory McIlroy|1-1-2|0-0-1
Francesco Molinari|0-2-1|0-1-0
Ian Poulter|8-3-0|3-0-0
Justin Rose|3-1-0|1-1-0
Lee Westwood|16-11-6|2-5-0
Total|60-32-18|12-14-1


Team USA|Total (W-L-H)|Singles (W-L-H)
Keegan Bradley| - | -
Jason Dufner| - | -
Jim Furyk|8-15-4|4-2-1
Dustin Johnson|1-3-0|1-0-0
Zach Johnson|3-3-1|1-1-0
Matt Kuchar|1-1-2|0-1-0
Phil Mickelson|11-17-6|4-4-0
Brandt Snedeker| - | -
Webb Simpson| - | -
Steve Stricker|3-3-1|1-1-0
Bubba Watson|1-3-0|0-1-0
Tiger Woods|13-14-2|4-1-1
Total|41-59-16|15-11-2


...but in terms of fourballs and foursomes, Europe seems to have the better stats at 57% win ratio and singles coming out at about 45%

USA have 30% in fourballs and foursomes and 54% in singles

Pretty close but slight edge for Europe

AGC

http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/golf/2012/0925/1224324402736.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Lawrie/Garcia could actually be a great call. Lawrie is an excellent putter and throw in Garcia's iron play hopefully would do the job.

Tox56

The other thing those stats show is the experience of the European team, only 1 rookie compared to 4 on the American side.

SnowDrifts

Anyone have an idea what the story is with the orange outfits today?

http://www1.skysports.com/golf/news/12176/8108721/?utm_source=twitterfeed_skysportsgolfnews&utm_medium=twitter

rrpc

Tox56 wrote: »

The other thing those stats show is the experience of the European team, only 1 rookie compared to 4 on the American side.

The rookies can go either way though, it's hard to know.

The stats would suggest that Europe should win 9 of the fourballs/foursomes with the USA winning 5, two others being halved

10-6 going into the singles would be too much though . 9-7 would be a more realistic aim.