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Ryder

Of course I am a huge fan of the Ryder Cup, and have many happy memories of watching the contest unfold over the years. Prior to the advent of constant updates and tracking it online, I have been known in the past to sit in front of the TV with a pencil and paper, particularly on singles day, to try to keep up with all of the games as the coverage flitted between them.

It's also been great to enjoy the tournament with J every couple of years. It's on our sporting calendar, right alongside Augusta.

This year, as a result of not properly co-ordinating my sporting and my professional calendars, here I am in Indonesia trying to keep up with things. That's meant mostly 'watching' day 1 by text update, then day 2 by reasonably decent live coverage of the latter part of the day from where I am staying, despite it being essentially the middle of nowhere. And now we move on to day 3 with Europe only needing 4 points from the 12 available in the singles to reclaim the trophy.

This is the first tournament I have watched in any detail since reading John Niven's 'The Amateurs', which was lots of fun. And a few weeks ago I picked up a signed copy of his new book, which I suspect will be a tougher read, all about his brother, but look forward to getting into that soon as well.

As I type, Europe will be leading off with John Rahm in about an hour. Let's hope he can bring home the first of the four points we need ...



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