These Insane $750 Ryder Cup Tickets At Bethpage Next Year Are About To Completely Ruin Home Field Advantage For The Americans
Gary Kellner. Getty Images.One of the great things about the Ryder Cup, as long as you're not asking Patrick Cantlay, is that players aren't paid to play. Yet if you ask anyone who has played in it before, besides Patrick Cantlay, it's one of the most important tournaments of their careers. Because they're playing for the love of the game, the love of their country, and the love of all their teammates. The Ryder Cup isn't about money, it's about pride and country.
Well, that is of course, unless you're trying to go to the event. In which case it's about money. It's about a lot of goddamn money.
Seven-hundred fifty smackeroos just to get through the gate. Thanks, Obama.
The US hasn't won a Ryder Cup in Europe since 1993. The only time we win this thing is with the help of an unhinged American crowd that isn't afraid to get after the European players a little bit. They spanked the balls off the Europeans in 2021 at Whistling Straits. They curbstomped the Euros in 2016 at Hazeltine. Now they have a chance to get all those dirtbag New York fans to show up and "Bing Bong" their faces off at Bethpage Black next September. But $750 just to get into the gate? They are pricing out all the fans who would actually make a difference out there.
Rich people just don't get it. The Yacht Club crowd always thinks they're above acting like maniacs at sporting events. This shit doesn't actually mean anything to them. They are there purely for the entertainment and social aspect of it. They don't have the passion or the lunacy. That course is going to be dead while all the patrons are stuffing their face with caviar and washing it down with a glass of champagne. If you want to beat the shit out of Europe again at the 2025 Ryder Cup, you need a bunch of goons out there slugging 30 beers and crushing 30 hot dogs. They need to abandon any shred of human decency they had before getting to the course. And you're just not going to get that with a crowd who is willing and able to fork over $750 for a single ticket.
We have 11 months at this point for either A) the price gouging to stop or B) for rich people to completely change how they act in society. Honestly I don't know which one will be easier to accomplish in that timeframe.