Time for the big smack down. The USA vs. the whole of Europe in a take no prisoners golf match. The Brits are already upset and accusing Team America of unsportsmanlike conduct. What they object to is … Ricky Fowler’s haircut, which Oliver Brown describes in the Telegraph as:
a GI Joe-style crewcut, the letters “USA” shaved around his ear in an exhibition of thuggish jingoism that on any normal day would give grounds for many a club secretary to throw him off the premises in a heartbeat.
There was a time when the mood for this event was what might be called “gentlemanly.” Quaint notion. But nowadays, this is war. And it would be unthinking to concede a putt, as Jack Nicklaus so memorably, and sportingly, did a long time ago in another sporting universe.