Ryder Cup like US presidential election

This whole Ryder Cup thing is starting to feel like the US preseidential elections. The talk has been going on for an extraordinary amount of time. Far longer than is worthy for the event. We’ve got the captains now trading blows in order to convince the viewing public that their team has a better chance of winning and even Ryder Cup formats being changed to gain a better advantage.

As a lover of golf I’m looking forward to watching but from a side of the planet that has no huge emotional investment in the event, can we just stop talking about it and start the thing?!

Surely there’s not more at stake than the election?