Lanny Wadkins: ‘Get Ready for a Fight’

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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO REMEMBER the Lanny Wadkins era, his below comments about the Ryder Cup will probably be no surprise. Lanny was a great Ryder Cup player, winning 21½ points in eight appearances. To my knowledge, Billy Casper and Arnold Palmer are the only U.S. players who have won more Ryder Cup points. (I looked it up but may have missed someone.)

Unfortunately, Lanny’s captaincy in 1995 at Oak Hill did not turn out so well. The Europeans won in gut-wrenching fashion, 14½ to 13½.

Wadkins’s following comments are highlights from tonight’s “Feherty Live” from the Ryder Cup, which airs at 9 p.m. ET on Golf Channel.

“Just get ready for a fight, No. 1," Lanny said. “And No. 2, you know, you have to go out there—friendliness is gone.

“I didn’t play Ryder Cups happy. I’m not sure I did a whole lot in golf happy.

“But Ryder Cups, it was all about how badly can I beat this guy; and if I can beat him that bad, let’s beat him worse. They have to take that to heart.

“If I was going to tell the American team something right now, it would be to get ready to step on their neck and twist your foot. I mean, that’s what I want to see happen ... You’ve got to be mean.

“It’s a whole different attitude. It only comes along once every two years. You’ve got to want to just take care of business.” 

Wadkins also weighed in on the four picks by U.S. Ryder Cup Captain Davis Love.

“I really like what Davis did with his picks. I think he went for guys that are putters.

“I played on eight teams and captained one and I can tell you every single Ryder Cup I played in, it comes down to putting. This is the best putting American team I’ve seen in a long, long time.” 

The question is, will it be the best putting team on Friday, Saturday and Sunday?

Besides Wadkins, other guests that appear on the special Ryder Cup edition of “Feherty Live” include former Ryder Cup captains Paul Azinger and Sam Torrance, Olympian Michael Phelps and NBA great Michael Jordan.

Video Highlights of Morning Foursomes

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THE 2012 RYDER CUP IS TIED 2-2 after the Friday Morning Foursomes matches. If you missed all or any part of the action, you can watch the key moments here.

Phil Mickelson may be the most fortunate player on the U.S. team. Why? Because Lefty gets to play with Keegan Bradley. Bradley was aflame this morning.

I watched the end of the Justin Rose-Ian Poulter vs. Steve Stricker-Tiger Woods match. The Englishmen closed out Stricker and Woods on the 17th hole.

Tiger did not look good. Poulter holed some big putts on the final holes to seal the win.

Fourball matches are now on the course. The lineup:

Simpson-Watson vs. Lawrie-Hanson
Mickelson-Bradley vs. McIlroy-McDowell
Johnson-Kuchar vs. Rose-Kaymer
Woods-Stricker vs. Westwood-Colsaerts

Bradley Fighting Vehicle Rolls On at Medinah

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HOW DO YOU SIT THESE GUYS down? The dynamic duo of Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley won their third consecutive match this morning in foursomes to stretch the U.S. lead at the 39th Ryder Cup, albeit momentarily, to 6-3.

There is apparently no slowing down Phil and Keegan. They recorded seven birdies in 12 holes in the alternate-shot format to dispatch Lee Westwood and Luke Donald 7 and 6.

“I’m just thrilled to get to share this with Phil,” Bradley told NBC’s Roger Maltbie. “It’s brought our best golf out,” said Lefty about the partnership and atmosphere.

Will U.S. Captain Davis Love send out his strongest pair this afternoon, or will he rest them?

Love said his philosophy is to not allow any team member to play every match. (For example, Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker sat out this morning.) But I’m thinking the captain might make an exception in this case. At the least, maybe he puts Bradley out with someone else and lets Phil rest up for tomorrow’s singles.

Here's a Peek at MY Day. How Was Yours?

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I'm the Special Events coordinator.  Which means I worry about President's Cup games, and dog agility demos, and Kids Corner, and Sled Dog demos, and HorsePlay, and the falcon guy, and all those other things that make the Dansko Fair Hill International the true family fun experience that it is.

It also means that I saw about three horses running cross country today.

So, if you spent your day watching cross country here at the Dansko Fair Hill International - here's what you missed!

President's Cup, Mug Shuffle race

Tracking dog demo (they will return at 10AM Sunday!)

Outrider

Hey, look!  A horse!

Someone's (full disclosure, totally mine) cute kid, playing in the corn pool by Kids Corner

Flyball demo

Ray Owen concert

Mini horse demo

More minis.  This little girl is nine years old, I believe

More minis.  They will be back on Sunday at 11 and 1:30.

Another horse

Sled dogs patiently wait for their demo

Play-doh and face painting in Kids Corner

Cute small bead stringer in Kids Corner

PRO rider Courtney Cooper does a talk "About Eventing" after riding her two star cross country course

Falcon guy

More kids in the corn pool

HorsePlay (done by a local 4-H group)

More HorsePlay

Hooking up sled dogs

And off they go

More sled dogs.  They will be back at 12:30 on Sunday

HorsePlay takes a bow after a great show

Another Ray Owen concert, with audience participation

Stick horse racing at Kids Corner.  Kids Corner is open Sunday, too!

Another flyball demo

More flyball

Cute coffee advertiser

Presidents Cup games - balloon race

More balloon race

Games riders have ridiculous vaulting skills

Presidents Cup games - sack race

More sack race

I think this game was called Five Flag

Entire group of Presidents Cup kids head back home after afternoon games

Brother and sister Sarah and Dexter Lipps, members of the Heartland Region Star Blazers team, from Illinois

A thousand thank you's

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The excitement of Dansko Fair Hill International 2011 has come to an end. This has already been stated, and will be stated several more times in various forms, but thank you to all of our wonderful and dedicated volunteers who made this one of the best events in years! Also thank you to Eventing Nation for linking our blog on multiple occassions, it accounted for nearly half of all viewership!

We will try to post pictures from the final day of competition at some point in the next few days, but for the time being everyone is taking a well deserved rest!

Thank you again to everyone who volunteered and supported this wonderful event.

Friday Pictures from Shannon Brinkman

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OK, I am running out of steam here.  I'm going to post some of Shannon Brinkman's lovely photos from Friday and let you know who is in the picture, but you might need to check the SCORES or check EVENTING NATION to get any more details.

Enjoy!  And, again, Shannon's pictures are not to be reproduced in any way.  Shannon's got a trailer in the stabling area on Saturday and Sunday - riders swing by to say hi and look at (and buy) some pictures!

Becky Holder and Can't Fire Me.  We met Becky, briefly, back in the barn on Tuesday

Boyd Martin on Ying Yang Yo, currently top placed in the Three Star.

Bruce Davidson and Andrea Leatherman

Courtney Cooper and Who's a Star, currently second in the Two Star

Debbie Adams and D. A. Bjorn, tenth in the Young Event Horse five year old division

Jan Byyny and Inmidair, currently fifth in the Three Star

Jessica Bortner-Harris takes her Two Star mount, Win the War, for a walk

Karen O'Connor and Veronica, currently third in the Three Star

Kelli Temple and Corneel, winners of the Young Event Horse four year old division

Kelli Temple and Doug Payne take a victory gallop after the Young Event Horse  awards presentation

Kendall Lehari in the Two Star

Lisa Barry and F.I.S. Prince Charming

Susan Beebee and Wolf, current leaders in the Two Star

Will Coleman and one of his FOUR mounts in the competition.  Will has three horses in the top twenty in the Two Star, and he and Twizzel stand fourth in the Three Star.  Busy guy!

And finally a cute parting shot of Will Faudree