I enjoy the drama of the world's top golfers on good golf courses, so I probably will check in on the Ryder Cup from time to time on television this weekend.

But from watching just a little bit of the event Friday afternoon, I was reminded what I don't like about it.

During one snippet, a dude backed off a putt twice, checked it out from four different angles, missed it and then stared at it from two more angles. Talk about role models for slow play.

And the announcing also is insufferably dramatic, as if Nick Faldo's decision to select Ian Poulter and not Colin Montgomerie or Darrin Clarke is the first sign that all of Europe is in great peril.

It's golf. It's just a game.

I get the part about playing for one's country, or in the case of the Europeans, their contintent, but I don't think this event resonates with a whole lot of people outside of the golf community.

The United States is taking on the entire continent of Europe. If the U.S. wins, cool; if we lose, it was an entire continent of our allies. This is hardly the rivalry of US-USSR during the 1970s and 1980s. I think there would be a greater chance of an all-out brawl breaking out if the U.S. and Chinese gymnastics teams were in the same arena.

So, to me, it's good golf in an event that tries to be too self-important.

I am calling it now the most overrated event in sports, but maybe because it's the one going on now.

What do you think of the Ryder Cup?

Or what other sporting events do you think are overrated: Indy 500? The Rose Bowl, self-proclaimed "Grandaddy of them all," where the Big 10 champion goes to get swatted annually by a Pac-10 team? The Olympics, with its events people only care about every four years? The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which now means something, and its accompanying Chris Berman-fest Home Run Derby?