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TUrns that Europe is only the second thing you can be in Bethpage this week. Luke Donald and his team may have been hué during the opening ceremony on Wednesday, but the reception they obtained tens of thousands of liquid golf fans who had dragged to watch were a warm welcome from the one they pronounced the governor of New York State, Democrat Kathy Hochul, who was so strong that her speech of the Democrat was shredding. Donald should perhaps think about bringing her as a last-minute vice-captain, just to keep his team away.

“Relax everyone, she’s not Roger Goodell,” said Carson Daly, referring to the unpopular commissioner of the NFL. It didn’t help. “What should everyone come here for the first time on New York?” He asked Hochul. (“She has no idea! She lives in Albany!” Burned up a standing man nearby, “Take her here!” Range another.) Hochul, a smile ricked on her face, said something about how “we have the most friendly people you meet” and was immediately shouted by the locals. “It went well,” said Daly, Deadpan after Hochul beat a scene retirement.

Donald went down slightly in comparison. “New York is a place where you show up with talents and a fighting spirit, the city will get behind,” he said, with Gamely. “No, it won’t be!” Someone shouted. He almost laughed when they hoked him again for saying, “You will win each joy.” He couldn’t help but slip into a few small subtle excavations in the American team in the way they are paid to play here this week, but they were so subtle that you needed to speak English about diplomat to take them back.

“We are fed by something that money cannot buy,” said Donald, an ironic smile crossed his face while he let the comment settle, “by resilience, conviviality and prove that people are wrong”.

You have the impression that he appreciated all the clumsy questions that were dismissed about American players on this subject this week. And there have been many, especially European journalists. Before finishing, Donald wanted to thank him Hochul, who was again in Hulé, just to have the temerity to mention in someone else’s speech.

Keegan Bradley followed him. He spoke of his formative memory of the Ryder Cup, which turned out to be one of the most sadly famous moments in its history. At the age of 13, his father took him to watch in Brookline in 1999, when the United States returned from four points to win in single on Sunday. He was one of the people who loaded the 17th green when Justin Leonard’s putt entered. Only, he went wrong and told everyone that it was Justin Rose. Since Rose is 46 years old and that 1999 was her second year as a professional, he could not have been so offended by the suggestion that he was old enough for having done so.

It was a good speech despite everything. He told everyone the story of the way he rose the closure by maintenance hangars to play Bethpage here when he was supposed to be closed when he was a student at St John’s University, and how he was broken by the Park service while he was halfway through the 17th, and how he worked in the coat room in the coat during the Wheat Hills top of the road. He is a New England by birth, but a New York of education, and he closed with: “Go Giants!” The crowd launched him.

Americans are good in this kind of thing. The opening ceremony of the Ryder Cup is generally one of the most painful spectator events of all sports, especially when it takes place in Europe. He moved to a quick clip, and was subjected to the soundtrack by the Beastie Boys and Jay-Z, and dotted with a steering wheel helicopter which was timed to arrive during the closing notes of the national anthem, and a parachute display team that landed right next to 18th. In fact, this last part could have been a better idea on paper, because it took them a long time to arrive, even in falling at 80 mph, and there was a long break to fill while everyone watched them fall.

“It could take some time,” said Daly. “While we expect,” has anyone has questions for the governor? ” Form a line. “