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That was some golf tournament, the Ryder Cup never fails to deliver for excitement, but at least this year american fans could rejoice in having a victory.

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How fired up are fans for the Ryder Cup. Well over 68,000 of them came out to Hazeltine on the weekend before just to shop in the merchandise tent. How is that for an advance walk up in sales.

The 41st Ryder Cup was one for the ages, and no not just because the USA won for a change, like for the first time in 8 years. But is showed how much interest there is in golf, and how many people will show up to see a top level golf event.

It became apparent quickly and early in the week, that Ryder Cup continues to grow as event. The next question is will it outgrow itself, with the amount space for tents and fans it now requires. Paris in 2018 will be challenged, Whistling Straits and Kohler Company will be challenged in 2020, Italy will be in 2022, and Bethpage will be as well in 2024. There is no word yet on 2026 overseas, and 2028 back in america.

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My feature on Paris will coming soon, and it’s a good one. I spoke with some of the top officials in French golf, and they had a lot to say.

When the matches start at 7:35 in the morning and the amount of patrons on the grounds prior to 7 AM on a weekday in late September number more than 30,000 it’s amazing.

As someone who has now attended three Ryder Cups, I have seen nothing but growth at all of them. The Ryder Cup just keeps getting bigger. Where will it all stop. Good question, even Patrick Hunt the 2016 Ryder Cup Chairman told me (in an interview you will hear in a few days) that their could be a point coming soon, where tickets sellout, tents sellout and things get cut off even before the first tee shot is stuck or Ryder Cup week tee’s off.

The first tee as Thomas Pieters and JB Holmes prepare to tee off on Sunday.

I think Medinah in 2012 showed the world just how big the Ryder Cup could be, and now Hazeltine took a page from Medinah’s book and made it bigger.

Just about the time you think you will never see more people on a golf course in your life, along comes Hazeltine and then you do see more fans than ever before.

While it would be nice to say Medinah was the biggest ever Ryder Cup, sorry to say it no longer is. The course in Paris has been built stadium style with the Ryder Cup in mind, it will be interesting to see how that works out.

THE GOOD AND BAD from the 2016 Ryder Cup.

The good was an american win for the first time in eight years. The golf was exciting and kept the fans interested. After the first day the traffic backups around the golf course were not that bad. Security was tight but not ridiculous. The merchandise tent was busy all the time and they ran out of things, but they got replenished. On Sunday morning they had more to sell than Medinah did, the PGA of America and the vendors brought along a little more stock after seeing quicker sell out in 2012 and at the PGA Championship in 2015.

Food lines and porta-potty lines were not bad and keep moving. Hazeltine had more good viewing points than I expected them to have. One person even landed a plane on the water off the 10th hole and watched for there. The bleacher area’s were bigger and held more people, there was great walkways around the tents, so you could stay off the grass and not get run over by all the golf carts zooming around that had people in them doing, well who knows what.

There was great viewing area’s around the practice area’s, short game, putting green and driving range that was complete with the tunes playing. Do you like Prince music, you know he was from Minnesota, I have heard KISS more than enough for the rest of the year.

The opening and closing ceremony area was real nice. It was hard to see Hazeltines unique clubhouse with an 8 foot high orange fence around it. Working it was fun and not, the wireless network was not sufficient to handle the media demand. Audio from the interviews could have been at better levels, but hey that’s the way it is in the media compound at times.

But in the end, pretty well done. Hazeltine deserves another Ryder Cup someday, right after Medinah gets another one as well. RS

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