Off to Paris in 2018, then.
Highly appropriate that the competition should go to continental Europe again, not to Britain and Ireland, given the contribution continental golfers have made to it (as I think I said ad infinitum on the other thread, Seve, made the competition what it is.)
But France? really? Okay, Jean van de Velde and Thomas Levet were both a shot off becoming Open Champions in the last twenty years, but I can't help feeling that golf is still a pretty minor deal in France. And is likely to remain so, while they have so few players competing at the world level.
By 2018, the Molinari brothers and that lad Manassero could all quite conceivably not only be mainstays of the European team, but all major champions in their own right.
Golf could be huge in Italy by then, if so.
Highly appropriate that the competition should go to continental Europe again, not to Britain and Ireland, given the contribution continental golfers have made to it (as I think I said ad infinitum on the other thread, Seve, made the competition what it is.)
But France? really? Okay, Jean van de Velde and Thomas Levet were both a shot off becoming Open Champions in the last twenty years, but I can't help feeling that golf is still a pretty minor deal in France. And is likely to remain so, while they have so few players competing at the world level.
By 2018, the Molinari brothers and that lad Manassero could all quite conceivably not only be mainstays of the European team, but all major champions in their own right.
Golf could be huge in Italy by then, if so.
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