Ryder Cup players will ‘come out of the tunnel’ to make entrance at 1st tee

I wrote on Thursday that one of the reasons the Ryder Cup was the best event in golf is that it’s the only competition that comes close to approaching the atmosphere at some of the other sports.

And it starts at the first tee, where the European Tour has set up a football or futbol style “coming out of the tunnel” entrance to the enormous horseshoe-shaped grandstand.

We already know the stands are full -- they were almost two hours before the first match and well before the sun was up in Scotland. It’s estimated that the crowds around the first tee will approach three thousand. And according to Golf Channel, the crowds beyond the tee are 10 and 12 deep lining the ropes around the green.