Europe’s caddies were baking at the opening ceremony and Gareth Bale needed rescuing from a bunker
Europe were generally reckoned to have “won” Thursday’s opening ceremony, thanks to their captain Luke Donald’s excellent opening address, which began in respectable Italian. That was the result of months of Duolingo lessons, but not everyone in Team Europe was entirely happy afterwards. Some caddies were heard grumbling that they had been kept in the sun throughout the one-hour ceremony – in 31C (88F) heat – while their US counterparts were given the side that was in the shade.
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