whe will azinger pay his fine

I feel Faldo has been much maligned and Jacklin got it about right.
His list on day 3 got us after the opening finishes within a point, and it was the middle order (all by right yeam qualifiers) who lost it to some excellent US play.

AZINGER SHUD BE BANNED AND FINED FOR INCITING CHERRS FOR OPPONENTS MISSED SHOTS

I'm sure Monty and Clarke could well have been there had Faldo had 4 picks instead of 2 and certainly Westwood would have played better had he had Clarke there. Luke Donald would more than likely have played had he not been injured, which would have had a positive effect on Casey. However, I'm not sure if some of the negative comments are coming from people who actually watched it. The golf was stupendous - nobody really 'lost' their matches, they were 'won'! What can you do when the likes of Boo are 7 under after 10 holes?! Apart from the odd stuffing like Garcia's, all the matches were pretty close and the crowd played a big part in that. It's amazing how often the harder putts go in on the home team's side as opposed to the visiting side. It must make all the difference when you're standing there over one and 40,000 people are right behind you and willing it in rather than willing you to miss. I thought the crowds were great, the golf was great and the Ryder cup is alive and well! The US players surpassed themselves, they all seemed to have wanted to be there and looked like they have found that team spirit that seemed to be lacking for the last few Ryders - Azinger has to be congratulated for that. However, roll on 2 years for the European revenge!

I have no idea why all this @#$% is being written about Nick Faldo. If three of your biggest stars don't play well, what do you expect. The decision he did make about picking Poulter was the right one...so the thing you really can hold him against, he did well in. In addition a lot of matches were very close and if things had gone just slightly differently or if this year had been on European soil, then the results could have been very different and then everyone would be writing about how brillant he was. Just because the team lost doesn't mean that someone is automatically useless.

I would like him to have a chance to put this right in the future...who knows Tiger might be back and that will give Europe a real chance of winning then!!!

Kevin, I noticed that you forgot to mention the fact that Faldo's wildcard Poulter picked up four points for Europe over the weekend. Had he been as lame as Harrington, Westwood and Garcia then I guess you'd have room to complain.
Also the you forgot to mention that the Americans played some stunning golf and never let Europe get their necks in front.
Its easy to criticise people who have always attracted criticism, but maybe you should take a step back and look at it again. Cos I think you'll find that actually Faldo made a lot more good decisions than bad.
Had Garcia and Westwood gone out on saturday morning and got mauled, Faldo would have been blamed for that....He made the difficult decisions to attempt to get Europe back into it. At the end of the day had some of the other players who were there by right been able to compete with the likes of Weekley, Holmes, Furyk, and Perry then Europe would have won. As it is the only Europeans other than Poulter who competed were Rose Karlsson and McDowell.

Faldo was a total disgrace. He dropped Monty and Clarke - the soul of the team - and did the damage right there. You just had to look at the EU team - no life in their faces. Then Faldo screwed up completely on the last day – what sort of backwards logic was he applying there? Finally, he wasn't even gracious in defeat and didn't congratulate the US team properly. He should be kicked out of his captaincy for ver.

Jacklin, in not criticizing Faldo, is being a coward. He is simply thinking of his own vested interests in Golf, and is doing damage to the credibility of objective value in the Ryder Cup as a competition and on paving the way for future captains to screw up and not be held responsible.

The bottom line is that Faldo was a vacant, stupid captain with no strategy, no soul, no sense of the big picture and no loyalty.

Kevin Nolan,
Dublin.

Faldo is the best british golfer in modern times. Why do the pundits keep knocking him? is it because they are jealous. I thought some of the comments on 5 live by a former captain were totally out of order.

Lets not forget we do not have a devine right to always win. The law of average says the US would win sometime and now this fuels the next Rydet Cup in Wales to be just as good. The golf on Sunday was at its best. Poulter was great as was all of the young guns.

Perhaps it would help to retain a level playing field if Ryder Cup rules stated how many picks each captain was allowed. If not, then it makes sense to provide the European captain with as much flexibility as the USA captain. It's rather too simplistic to presume that players dominating tour competitions throughout the previous years will automatically perform in this type of event (has Tiger really done himself justice in previous Ryder Cups? - although you would leave him out deliberately at your peril!)