The main news ahead of the Ryder Cup, to be held in Wales next week, has been about the players ban on using social media before or during the event.

To the likes of Ian Poulter, Stewart Cink, Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell, Zach John and Bubba Watson this may be a hard thing to achieve due to their love affair, particularly with Twitter.

It has been taken by both team captains that players will concentrate just on the golf for the event and be allowed to get back to their digital ways immediatley afterwards.

“Tweeting and social network sites can get one into trouble,” said Montgomerie

“The team has come to a consensus not to do it,” said fellow tweeter Pavin on the temporary ban, “it can be a little bit distracting sometimes, and I think it is important to focus on the Ryder Cup and playing in the matches.  We’ve decided to not tweet this week, but a week today I am sure tweeting will be all over the place.”

Montgomerie added: “It’s not a ban as such, we’ve just asked the players not to and they agreed.  Pieterson’s error led me to change my view on players tweeting.”

A very cautious approach that is not ideal from a social media pureists point of view but perhaps sensible given the heated affairs of previous Ryder Cups (the early celebrations by the US team last time out to name just one).

This does not mean there will be no social media activity, god no.  The BBC and other news agencies will be there in force making sure Twitter is jammed with the latest scores, gossip and movements.  I’m the Ryder Cup itself will have social media integrated into it to make it a great consumer experience.

What do you think of the approach taken by the teams?