Manic Monday

It was quite the finish earlier today at the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor - a day of massive grinding and heroics on both the US and European sides came to a close when Graeme McDowell closed out Hunter Mahan on the 17th hole in the final match of the day. What a week: from the weather, to the controversy, this was everything a Ryder Cup should be. I would like to offer a large amount of support for Corey Pavin and the US team for making what could have been a European route into the nail-bitingest Cup in the last 10 years.

I'm not sure whether it was the fact I spent most of the week behind "enemy" lines in Wales or just what I chose to take from everything that was coming out of the US media, but I felt like this US Ryder Cup team, in general, dealt with more negative press and more seething doubt than any before it. Granted, I probably haven't been in the trenches long enough to make that call, but feeling remains...

Whether it was calling Pavin into question for his or his wife's choices regarding team equipment, questioning his leadership, or just plain questioning, perhaps we can blame the bad weather on giving even our own media a chance to stew too much on things that in the end didn't matter. We played fantastic today, we looked great, we carried ourselves like we should have and we almost won this damn thing. I hope today helped get people behind our guys again in a way that just wasn't there earlier in the week.

Moving on, as has been said by my colleague Annmarie over at Khaki Crusader , this black cashmere look today was the best of the week. I was incredibly happy to see it pulled off with such charisma and poise by a US Team that has everything to be proud of leaving Wales tonight.