All Quiet As the Ryder Cup Points Race Hots Up : Alan Campbell Ponders Bernhard Langer's Silence As the Contenders Battle for Team Places

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DON'T berate yourselves if you hadn't noticed. The 35th Ryder Cup will be played at Oakland Hills, on the outskirts of Detroit, next month, but the build-up has been about as exciting as Michael Schumacher's procession towards another Grand Prix title.

Funny that. The stereotype of Schumacher's Teutonic efficiency could equally be applied to Bernhard Langer. As a player, the German pursed his lips and got on with the job in a quietly efficient manner, and now the European Ryder Cup captain is applying the same principles to his new duties.

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All Quiet As the Ryder Cup Points Race Hots Up : Alan Campbell Ponders Bernhard Langer's Silence As the Contenders Battle for Team Places

Whereas Sam Torrance, his predecessor, lived and breathed the Ryder Cup, Langer's approach has been much more remote, both literally and geographically. The media have not had the same access to the captain, who spends most of the year at his home in Florid...

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