Even Nice Guy Davis Love Can Only Take Azinger's Windbaggery In Small Doses

Farrell Evans with one of the better bits from Monday's Captain's press conference to kick off the Ryder Cup.

Love has experiences from his six Ryder Cups as a player and from the captains of those teams. He's getting more information than he could ever apply for from Paul Azinger, who led the U.S. team to a win at Valhalla in '08.

"When the iPhone says 'Paul Azinger,' I have to make a decision: Do I have 30, 45 minutes, or do I hit the ignore button," Love said with a grin. "And sometimes I hit ignore and sometimes I answered it.

"It's really incredible how much thought and passion he put into it, and I could tell you 10 or 12 things we're going to do."

The entire set of comments can be read in the ASAP transcript.

Oh, and if you don't know what a nice, patient guy Davis is, then check out Jaime Diaz's October Golf Digest profile of the American captain.

Here is Golf Channel's Monday coverage, including excerpts from the press conference and, perhaps, the pay cable debut of Kelly Tilghman's new homage-to-Erin Andrews hair, about the only real shocker from Medinah on Monday?