Post by caspday on Sept 25, 2012 21:37:31 GMT -5
Is it possible that the only person onCowboys Jerseys Shop the USA side zyhaa926 in the Ryder Cup who will not hit a single drive, line up one putt, play out of any bunkers or have his name written on a solitary page of the Ryder Cup record book could end up playing one of the most pivotal roles this week at Medinah Country Club?It does not require an extreme bend of the imagination for such a scenario to come true, at least not in the mind of the USA captain, Davis Love, who is stirring a special ingredient into his team mix – a bald, 49-year-old, cigar-chomping, billionaire former basketball player named Michael Jordan.
He plays neither pro basketball norOfficial Cowboys Jerseys Ryder Cup golf but make no mistake, Jordan's presence as one of Love's assistants will somehow affect the outcome. We've seen this before. This is not the first occasion that Jordan, the one-time superstar of the National Basketball Association, has been brought on board by a USA captain in international golf competition. Fred Couples had Jordan as an assistant in the 2009 Presidents Cup, a 19?–14? victory for USA over the International team.
Couples said Jordan had one mission to Cowboys Game jerseys accomplish and one mission only. "His role was to have fun with the guys," Couples said. "That's it. He's certainly not telling them how to hit a chip shot." And Love envisages a similar outcome happening again, this time on the tree-lined layout of Medinah's famed Course No3 in suburban Chicago. "Air Jordan," said Love, invoking Jordan's nickname earned by the manner in which he seemed to play the game above the court. "Michael's going to be hanging around … and be an influence."
Working out the details on exactly how that Nike Cowboys Jerseys happens is probably going to be more extemporaneous than planned. At best, Jordan, motivator extraordinaire, is on hand to keep the players loose, to serve as possibly the greatest role model for success in sport and to pass out cigars. At worst, the USA lose for the fifth time in six Ryder Cup matches since 1999 and the Michael Jordan Experiment comes to an abrupt conclusion.Jordan and the Ryder Cup began their association in 1997 at Valderrama, where USA's captain, Tom Kite, plucked Jordan out of the gallery.
invited him on to his golf cart and spent Reebok Cowboys Jerseys a great deal of time driving him around the course.Europe won by one point and one of the lasting images is that of a worried Kite behind the wheel chauffeuring Jordan while Europe's captain Seve Ballesteros charismatically steered his team to victory through sheer will.Of course, not everyone feels that way. Love thought the Jordan-Kite thing was an inspired moment then and continues to do so now. "I thought one of the neatest things I ever saw in the Ryder Cup was Michael riding in the golf cart with Tom Kite," Love says.