Handling whatever atmosphere develops will be key to European Ryder Cup hopes
United States captain Keegan Bradley and Team Europe Captain Luke Donald during a press conference at the Bethpage Black ahead of the 2025 Ryder Cup. Pic: David Davies/PA Wire.
The 6.16am LIRR to Ronkonkoma shuddered its way out of Penn Station on the dot. No sleepy stragglers breaking from waddle to sprint, no arms desperately stretched to keep sliding doors from meeting.
The Long Island Railroad has been around for 200 years so the tracks are well travelled. The journey under and out of Manhattan into Queens was smooth and serene. Sparse too. It stayed that way as city boundaries gave way to Long Island. How long is Long? About 190km in all but Monday morning’s commute took us just 40km across it.
