Roger Alton Roger Alton

Please don’t let the Ryder Cup go the way of football

What's wrong with a quiet round followed by a modest handshake and a gin and tonic?

Captain Paul McGinley lifts the trophy after Team Europe retained the Ryder Cup Photo: Getty 
issue 04 October 2014

Well, that was a lot of fuss wasn’t it? The Ryder Cup is a strange old creation, only fractionally less momentous than D-Day, judging by some of the hoo-hah, but it can turn even Nigel Farage into a proud European. The Little Englander agreed, very gamely, to appear in a Paddy Power advert, for which I’m told he didn’t get paid a bean, and urge everyone to ‘swing for Europe’.

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