{"id":15526592,"date":"2023-09-26T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golf.com\/?post_type=article&p=15526592"},"modified":"2023-09-26T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T15:01:04","slug":"inside-day-1-at-the-2023-ryder-cup","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/inside-day-1-at-the-2023-ryder-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Day 1 at the Ryder Cup: the Colosseum, pasta, early Marco Simone findings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to\u00a0GOLF.com\u2019s \u201cSeen & Heard<\/a>\u201d video series, in which we give you an inside look at golf\u2019s biggest events through the eyes and ears of our onsite crew. On deck this week: the 2023 Ryder Cup<\/a> at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome. Let\u2019s go!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When in Rome…tour the Colosseum and crush pasta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, that isn’t quite the saying, but that’s what our Sean Zak and James Colgan did first upon arriving in “The Eternal City,” site of this week’s Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming straight from last week’s Solheim Cup in Spain, Sean and James had to do the “absolute minimum of Tourism in Rome.” The first stop, of course, was for food, leading Sean to agree: the pasta is “just different” in Italy. The second was seeing perhaps the most iconic landmark in the city, the Colosseum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, onto the golf course where the DP World Tour has constructed a “Colosseum” of its own around the first tee at Marco Simone, which should make for another epic first-tee experience at one of the biggest events in golf.<\/p>\n\n\n

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When Claire Rogers and Dylan Dethier walked most of the course, Dylan observed that after the first six holes, there isn’t a hole longer than 330 yards and shorter than 450 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There are no mid-length par-4s,” Dylan said. “It’s either going to be drivable or a test.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Half-pars!” Sean chimed in.<\/p>\n\n\n

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