Graeme: “We will save the partying for Sunday or Monday night"

Nothing like a little bulletin board material...too bad no one will have any time to read it Saturday with a whirlwind of matches. Brian Keough reports:

“The forecast is set good and we want to give the people what they came here to watch, which is golf and a chance to finish on Sunday evening.That is what this golf tournament deserves. So fingers crossed. It is going to be a long day but a good day with plenty of good golf to watch.

“We will save the partying for Sunday or Monday night, depending on what happens. We have good strength in depth in our team and having all 12 on the golf course tomorrow is pretty good for us. We are pretty excited about that change in format.”

Steve Elling files a fun look at the advantages for Europe (in theory) with the new format, but as he notes, after Jeff Overton and Bubba Watson's solid early play, theories are pretty useless. But at least the Captain has given it great thought before signing off on the concept.

"For me, I feel like this makes it a lot easier," Pavin said. "As I said before, sitting four guys out is very brutal to do as a captain. It's nice now that all of the guys are going out.

"I'm pleased that the solution was thought of by very smart people, other than myself, because I'm not a smart person. So I was glad it was done and I think it's going to be great. It's going to be tremendous for the fans. They are going to have six matches to watch on the golf course, as opposed to four."

But that doesn't mean it's going to be easy. Pavin said he hadn't had time to wrap his head around any supposed disadvantage his team might encounter.

"I haven't had much time to think about it, actually," he said. "But it is what it is and I have to go out there and put six pairs together in foursomes and then put two in foursomes for the third session and four in better-ball.

"So I don't even think about stuff like that. I just kind of get the best six teams I can possibly get and send them out. It is what it is. I don't even think about things like this."