Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup both postponed
By Daily Bruin Staff
Sept. 23, 2001 9:00 p.m.
By Doug Ferguson
The Associated Press
LIGONIER, Pa. “”mdash; The Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup are
trading places on the calendar beginning next year, a change that
golf executives described Wednesday as the only one that made
sense.
The Ryder Cup, scheduled for Sept. 28-30 at The Belfry in
England until it was postponed one year because of the terrorist
attacks, will be played Sept. 27-29 in 2002 at the same location
with the same captains and the same 12-man teams.
After that, the matches between the United States and Europe
will be played permanently in even-numbered years. The Ryder Cup
has been held every other year since 1927, with the exception of a
10-year break during World War II.
“I don’t think playing in odd-numbered years added a
whole lot to the atmosphere,” U.S. captain Curtis Strange
said Wednesday.
To accommodate the change, the PGA Tour agreed to push back the
Presidents Cup one year to November 2003 in South Africa. It will
be played in odd-numbered years.
“It was our position that the most likely scenario, if we
made the determination to postpone the Ryder Cup, was to slide
everything back,” PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said.
“When we looked at the logistics of it, with a couple of
exceptions, it seemed like it was not particularly difficult to
do.”
Finchem said he was working on a couple of issues before
announcing a 2003 date for the Presidents Cup.
