Global Golf Post - September 20, 2010

“We’ve been playing some good
golf together, winning The Pres-
idents Cup.”
This is all going to end in
tears for someone.
THIS COULD GET BOOZY
... (if the Americans can be
coaxed away from their Ping-
Pong table). The formal victory
dinner has long been discarded.
Far too stuffy and painful – for
half of those in the ballroom,
at least. Now it’s dress-down
Sunday with beer, buffet (eat-
ing appears to be optional) and
karaoke with the more sociable
flitting between team rooms like
naughty schoolboys in adjacent
dormitories.
At the K Club near Dublin
in 2008, Mickelson began the
evening playing Ping-Pong with
Woods in the U.S. team room.
He ended it standing on a table
with the Europeans singing “Ole,
ole-ole-ole, ole, ole.”

“After it’s over
you have a beer
with everyone.”
– Corey Pavin
Mickelson smiled when he
was reminded of this entente
cordiale.
“There is not that same
hostility that there was a few
decades ago when the players
didn’t know each other,” he said.