Ryder Cup diary: Caddies grumble in the heat while Bale misses the bunker

Europe's caddies were baking at the opening ceremony and Viktor Hovland's language embarrasses Sky

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.