DO you know that there are 259 days until the Ryder Cup roars into action in Rome? Why, of course you do because it’s almost impossible to ignore the tick-tocking countdown, isn’t it?
Such is the over-hyped frenzy of this transatlantic tussle in the modern era, the prolonged build-up is rammed home with all the gusto of a Victorian chimney sweep shoving a sooty-faced apprentice down the lum.
There is, of course, plenty of golf to be played before 24 players from Europe and the USA cross swords in the colosseum of the Marco Simone club at the end of September.
