Winner of the Week

I’m just going to come out and say it, no surprises this week, U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! That’s right, the Ryder Cup is back on the proper side of the Atlantic and Team USA is Second Jumpability’s runaway Winner of the Week. There were, however, some other solid candidates. Chase Daniel is doing his best to prove he is a machine at quarterback, the Atlanta Falcons won their 2nd game in the first three weeks of a season that included rumblings of a possible zero win team, Ronnie Brown turned in a ridiculously monstrous upset performance with five total touchdowns as the Miami Dolphins demolished the Pats, and the Tampa Bay Rays clinched a playoff birth for the first time in their history, giving a huge middle finger to the spend-happy Yankees and Red Sox in the process. But in the end, it was AK, Boo, JB, Hunter, Kenny, and the rest of Zinger’s rag-tag crew that stuck it to the favored Euros.

Going into this weekend’s big match, I admit I felt rather blase, expecting yet another heartless effort by team USA. Padrig Harrington, Lee Westwood, and Sergio Garcia have been playing too well and Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, Robert Karlsson, Ian Poulter, and Paul Casey all have talent to be the best golfer on earth (well… 2nd best, who are we kidding?) in any given round. Europe just seemed too talented for the rookie-stuffed, Tiger-less American squad to overcome. (And seriously, from now on, every time Europe wins… you know what… good. They should. There are 731 million people in Europe, it is the birthplace of golf, and it doesn’t have as many popular kid sports, I think, to draw away potential golfers. Big whoops. Congrats!).

Boooooooo!!!

But alas. Boo Weekley kept the crowd fired up for 72 straight hours. JB Holmes hit drives into the stratosphere and proved that my own preferred style of play is in fact a viable option. Anthony Kim played like a veteran of twice his 23 years of age. Steve Stricker, Kenny Perry, and Jim ‘The Loop’ Furyk made clutch putt after clutch putt. Team USA’s best player, Phil Mickelson, hardly even showed up, but his on course lessons to Kim during Friday’s team matches surely had a major impact on the young fella. Team USA simply flipped the script. They appeared to want it more. They made more key putts. They got out to an early lead. Everything that led to European romps in the past few Cups became the keys to the American victory.

So live it up Team USA! You’ve made American golf fans proud and are the Winners of the Week for it.

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