The group of college friends call themselves “Guardians of the Cup,” and they’re ultra-enthusiastic supporters of Team Europe in the Ryder Cup. “Once a Guardian, always a Guardian,” said Teddy Shuttleworth, raising a plastic cup of champagne Sunday evening to his old pals from Nottingham University in England who made the trek to Wisconsin for the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. They first got together for the 2006 Ryder Cup at the K Club in Ireland, missed the 2008 version at Valhalla in Louisville, Ky., but in 2010 reconvened — for the first time in uniform — at Celtic Manor in Wales. “If you live and die by the result, you’ve probably got some … There are more important things for us as fans than golf. Yeah, of course I would have been in a much better mood had we retained the cup.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 27, 2021 19:39 UTC