00:01Hello, it's Martin Dempster, the Scotsman Golf Correspondent here, coming to you from Bethpage State Park, venue for this week's 45th Ryder Cup.
00:12And today was the first day, the fans were at the course in the build-up to this contest, and the excitement is certainly building.
00:24And the Europeans, they played 18 holes today, wasted no time launching a charm offensive with the American fans.
00:35From the very first hole, they were signing autographs, happy to do so.
00:41That was something that Bernard Langer really stepped up when he led Europe to victory at Oakland Hills in Detroit in 2004.
00:50And the Europeans have repeated that in every match on US soil since then.
00:57The favourite of the Europeans, there's no doubt about who that is, it's Rory McIlroy, very popular in America.
01:05And even more so, of course, since he won the Masters in April to become just the sixth player to complete a career Grand Slam.
01:12Bob McIntyre, he was out today with Sepp Stracca, Rasmus Hojard and Victor Hovland.
01:20The quartet were being watched by Thomas Bjorn, one of Luke Donald's vice-captains here.
01:29McIntyre looks very relaxed indeed, as was the case in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth a couple of weeks ago.
01:38He's in the interview room at 8am American time on Wednesday morning.
01:46It'll be interesting to get his views on how he's felt in preparation last week here.
01:53And then headed off to spend some time just honing his game in preparation for what will be a second Ryder Cup appearance.
02:03One big change had been announced by the organisers of PGA America due to inclement weather in the forecast on Thursday.
02:13The opening ceremony will now be held at 4pm on Wednesday.
02:18However, the two captains, American Keegan Bradley and his European counterpart Luke Donald,
02:25will still announce their pairings for the first session on Thursday afternoon as scheduled.
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