‘U.S. Open like:’ Shane Lowry details Ryder Cup scouting trip

This yr’s Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf Membership in Rome might seem like a U.S. Open to some.

At the least, that’s what Shane Lowry believes.

Lowry, together with the 11 different members of the European Ryder Cup staff, visited the Everlasting Metropolis to scout Marco Simone on Monday.

“The tough is fairly thick, however it is advisable hit fairways, and it is advisable hit greens, and it is advisable keep within the gap, and that’s the best way we prefer it,” Lowry mentioned of the golf course Tuesday.

“It’s fairly brutal in spots, nevertheless it’s no completely different to what you may see on the U.S. Open or one thing like that. In case you go decently off the fairways, that’s going to get very attention-grabbing, so yeah.”

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Ought to they miss the brief grass, these teeing it up within the biennial competitors might draw some gnarly lies.

The thick tough was truly a degree of emphasis for Staff USA when the Individuals scouted the course late final week.

However since this version of the Ryder Cup can be contested in Italy, the Europeans have the freedom of organising the course as the house staff. Usually, Staff Europe likes to slender the fairways and thicken the tough to make the course tougher.

They hope their course setup will stymie the Individuals but once more too, as Staff USA has not received the Ryder Cup on European soil since 1993.

“So I feel, look, they tried — just like the Individuals do, once they get their residence Ryder Cup, they try to arrange the golf course to go well with them, and I feel the vice captains try to arrange the golf course to go well with us,” Lowry mentioned. “In case you hit a very good driver and a second shot down the green — that’s what golf’s about. That’s how I see it.”

Becoming a member of Captain Luke Donald as Vice Captains for Staff Europe are Italian brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari, Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts, and former Ryder Cup captains Thomas Bjorn and Jose Maria Olazábal.

Every captain additionally made the fast journey, which undoubtedly helped the youthful gamers, particularly Ludvig Åberg, 23, and Nicholai Højgaard, 22.

“Particularly for the youthful lads yesterday, it was very, very cool,” Lowry mentioned.

“Simply to get everybody concerned and everybody seems like The Ryder Cup is nearly beginning and you already know as a result of if you get there the week of, and it’s your first Ryder Cup, even when it’s not your first Ryder Cup, the week goes by rapidly. So that you get in and earlier than you already know it, it’s Wednesday or Thursday, and also you perhaps really feel such as you haven’t actually acquired to do what you’d have favored.”

Now, the 12 Europeans will tee it up on the BMW PGA Championship, the place the DP World Tour paired every of the Ryder Cuppers collectively.

The European camaraderie will solely enhance in England, simply because it did Monday night in Italy when the staff joined collectively for dinner.

Maybe they are going to be adequately ready to deal with the thick tough, too.

The forty fourth Ryder Cup begins on Sept. 29.

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying Via. You’ll be able to observe him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Make sure to take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.