As the players’ wives and girlfriends stand behind their men in France, Tadd Fujikawa’s struggles reinforce the sense that the men’s game is stuck in the past
The 42nd Ryder Cup started, like so many others before them, with the formal introduction of the wives and girlfriends. They were made to dress up like Stepford Wives and march in a parade on to the stage, where they made an immaculate backdrop for the opening ceremony. They spent the next hour sitting and standing, waving and clapping. They do not even get to stand by their men but have to line up behind them.
It is not really clear why the Ryder Cup feels the need to have them do this. It must be the only sporting event that makes a point of staging a parade for the players’ partners and putting out lists of “attending spouses”. It is, as they say at Augusta, a tradition like no other, and one they should have dispensed with a while back.
Written by Andy Bull at Le Golf National
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/27/ryder-cup-2018-opening-ceremony-wives-girlfriends-tadd-fujikawa under the title “Ryder Cup wives’ parade and pain of Fujikawa show golf is still out of touch | Andy Bull”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
