Hunter Mahan won't be playing in the Ryder Cup

Hunter Mahan, a name likely familiar only to those of us who actively follow the PGA Tour, probably won’t be receiving one of Captain Paul Azinger’s four “wild-card” invitations to this year’s Ryder Cup team.

“And from what I’ve heard the whole week is extremely long. You’ve got dinners every night — not little dinners, but huge, massive dinners. I know, as players, that’s the last thing we want to do. We want to prepare ourselves. That’s part of the whole thing: you’re just a slave that week.”

I know that most of the materials I have read on slavery included references to the colored folk being forced to chow down on lobster, foie gras, and filet mignon, all while surrounded by people waiting on you hand and foot who are at your beck and call. Oh, wait! No! It’s the opposite – the slaves are the people who were the waiters, not the waitees. Oh, well, Hunter appears to be young, and we all know the quality of today’s public schools…

But I think my favorite was this part: “From what I’ve heard, the Ryder Cup just isn’t fun. The fun is sucked right out of it. That’s the word I hear a lot.”

I’ve heard that sex with two girls at one time is totally overrated and can actually turn you gay, so that’s why I’ve never done it. Sounds like young Hunter is engaging in a bit of projection to avoid the reality that he isn’t good enough to play his way onto the Ryder Cup team. (Note: if anyone got beyond psych101 in college please feel free to weigh in with the correct psychological term here.)

Something tells me it’s attitudes like Mahan’s that hurt the US team far more than their lack of compensation. No wonder the damn limeys clean our clocks every other year.

h/t to The Big Lead on that one.