Ryder Cup Golf Odds

Sept. 25-30th, 2012

Medinah Country Club, Chicago

 
The 39th Ryder Cup Medinah Country Club, Chicago, will be played from Sept. 25th-30th, 2012. Europe defeated the USA team on the 2010 Ryder's Cup so they will be the defending champions for this year event. The Illions area has never hosted the Ryders' Cup before so there was lots of expectations about this professional golf event. The course itself went under big renovations over $1.5 million were spent on the redesign project.

The Ryder Cup is such an important golf event, that the usual season highlights, the majors, are regarded by members of the PGA Tours as the platform for Ryder Cup qualification. The battle for Ryder Cup positions is hard-fought, with only a win in a major guaranteeing a European or American player a place in their respective Ryder Cup team.

Since the format changed in 1979 to allow European Players to compete alongside the British and Irish golfers, against the USA, the competition has become much more competitive. In the last 14 matches, Europe have won seven times and the USA six. One match having been halved. Recent Ryder Cup Results has seen the tide of competition turn in favour of the Europeans, they have won five of the last six encounters, the last two wins coming with emphatic score lines.

Medinah Country Club just outside of Chicago will host the Ryder Cup on the weekend of Sept. 25th-30th, 2012. The mayor redesign was done to the 15th hole, which was completely renovated, but 11 of the 15 green were renovated mainly y re-grassing. Now the course measures 7,657 yeards. Some of the professional golf events that have been hosted on this course are the U.S. Open three times in 1949 (won by Cary Middlecoff), 1975 (Lou Graham), and 1990 (Hale Irwin), the U.S. Senior Open in 1988 (Gary Player), and two PGA Championships in 1999 and 2006 (both Tiger Woods).

2012 Teams

Qualification and Selection

EUROPE

USA

2010 Ryder Cup Results

2008 Ryder Cup Results

	16½
	11½

Captain Paul Azinger changed the qualifying format to reward players who were playing well in the same year of the event and to give himself four captain's choices instead of two. Both moves were crucial to the American team's success. Captain's choices Hunter Mahan and J.B. Holmes didn't play like the Ryder rookies they were, earning a combined six points and winning their Sunday singles matches. Anthony Kim, Kenny Perry and Justin Leonard all parlayed strong play in 2008 into places on the team, and all three showed that continued good form. That combination of good form and good chemistry gave Azinger's team a for lack of a better word European flavor, and the result was, um, European. The underdog role obviously agreed with this captain, and with his team. It'll be interesting to see how the Americans try to figure out a way to cast themselves as underdogs again in 2010, at Celtic Manor, when Tiger Woods is presumably back on the team.

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