Webb Calls Ryder Cup Golf Side A "Terrible Experience"

Stopping short of saying, "and the captain was pretty terrible too," Webb Simpson suggested to Golf Channel's Todd Lewis that he won't be scrapbooking the 2014 Ryder Cup any time soon.

Will Gray on the captain's picks comments about the long week at Gleneagles.

"Any golfer wants to play, and I wanted to play," he said. "So my anticipation of what the Ryder Cup would be on a golf side, and what it was, was much different. And that's why I said yesterday it stunk. ... I think all of our team would agree that to an extent, the golf part did stink. We lost. We lost the Ryder Cup, and nobody likes that."

As for defenses of Captain Watson, Brian Sullivan, who caddied for Mathew Goggin during the final day pairing at Turnberry in 2009 and is a longtime tour caddy, made a fair defense of Watson by noting that the legend played liked he Captained, or Captained like he played. Anyway, his main point? That (admittedly) odd gift...

It’s reasonable to second guess the omission of Chris Kirk and Ryan Moore as captain’s picks, and it’s fair to criticize Watson’s abusive, grumpy old man style. It is unreasonable, however, for the U.S. team to be “despondent” that Watson scoffed at their gift: a replica Ryder Cup trophy signed by the players. As John McEnroe famously said, “You can’t be serious, man. You CANNOT be serious!”

This may be the worst gift idea of all time.

Tom Watson does not want a perpetual reminder of his failure, signed by the players he blames for his failure. Watson hurt everybody’s feelings when he told them their gift meant nothing if they didn’t win the real Ryder Cup. Can you blame him? I, for one, think he made a good point.