A Water-Logged Cup

And it rained and rained at this year's Ryder Cup giving Judy Rankin an opportunity to explain something that has always puzzled the American golfing public --- the squeegee rule -- at seven o'clock in the morning.

It took 27 hours to complete the first day’s matches, long enough for our national debt to go up another 3,240,000,000 [2 million a minute]. At one point there was a better ball, a best ball and I think a butterball going on at the same time -- all with different formats.

To add to the confusion the US team [and their caddies] had to buy rain suits in the pro shop because the ones furnished by Captain Pavin weren’t water proof – thus there was no US insignia or colors to distinguish them. Did I mention it was seven o'clock in the morning?

  

Why were they trying to play golf in October in Wales? Part of the problem was the PGA tours Commissioner's office, who in order to promote their own cup -- the FedEx Cup [fondly know as The Finchem Cup] -- pushed the Ryder Cup back so the weather was bad enough to force the Monday finish.