O’Grady: we’re just unlucky

THE sun may or may not come out to play in the Usk Valley this weekend but European captain Colin Montgomerie was certainly saying hip, hip, hip hooray to the prospect of a vastly rejigged Ryder Cup schedule intended to beat the weather.

Attempting to make up the seven hours and 18 minutes lost yesterday to atrocious weather conditions that waterlogged the TwentyTen course at the Celtic Manor Resort near Newport, tournament organisers the European Tour and PGA of America, in conjunction with both captains, Montgomerie and Corey Pavin, came up with ‘Ryder Cup: Extreme Makeover’, a revised itinerary designed to get the event completed on schedule tomorrow evening. Weather permitting.

With all four fourball matches scheduled to be completed this morning, the second session of matches intended to have been completed by close of play last night will now consist of six foursomes matches instead of the programmed four, while session three, the early Saturday session, will now feature two foursomes matches and four fourballs before concluding as is the norm with the 12 singles matches. Weather permitting.