Sir, – I am a sports nut. I love sport. I am involved professionally in sport and in particular golf. But I can’t tolerate the Ryder Cup. I believe that there is already too much money in sport and in particular golf.
Then you have this elite event. Essentially this is an exhibition match played by 24 multimillionaires over a weekend and all the players talk about is the "pressure of the Ryder Cup". These are people fortunate enough that they will never experience pressure the way the rest of us do in our work and lives. Yesterday you noted the "pressure the caddies are under" in the Ryder Cup ("No one gets closer to the action than the Ryder Cup caddies", September 23rd). Oh, come on! Enough! – Yours, etc,
NEIL O’BRIEN,
Clontarf,
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Dublin 3.