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The 2016 Ryder Cup will be held from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota. And unlike at standard golf tournaments, where the players can wear their own outfits, the Ryder Cup features team uniforms. The American teams official outfitter, Ralph Lauren, recently unveiled this years designs.Pretty straightforward golf attire, right? But lets take a slightly deeper dive and examine five things to know about the Ryder Cup uniforms:1. You wont see any makers marks. If you were watching the recent US Open tennis tournament, you probably noticed that the Ralph Lauren logo was pretty hard to miss on the ball boys uniforms. Ditto for the recent Team USA uniforms for the opening and closing ceremonies at the Rio Olympics. But although Lauren made the Ryder Cup uniforms, you wont be seeing the companys logo. The logo of the teams official cap supplier, New Era, also will be absent. Why? Because the golfers all have their own endorsement deals with various manufacturers (Nike, Under Armour, etc.) and cant be seen wearing the Lauren or New Era marks. So the Ryder Cup is one of the few remaining corners of the sports world that doesnt feature lots of corporate sportswear branding.2. This is the first time the uniforms are available for sale. Perhaps even more surprising than the logo situation is this: Authentic Ryder Cup attire has never been offered for sale until this year.Prior to 2014, the captain would always choose the uniform supplier, said Michael Quirk, senior director of merchandising and licensing for PGA of America. So in 2010, it was Corey Pavin, and he chose Peter Millar; in 2012, it was Davis Love III and Ralph Lauren; and so on. That basically didnt allow for the creation of an ongoing retail program, because there was no continuity, no consistency.Ralph Lauren was retained as the American teams official outfitter in 2014, with a long-term deal that runs through 2020. But authentic gear was not offered at retail in 2014. There was still a little sensitivity about selling the exact players uniforms, Quirk said. There was the thought that those should be reserved for the players. So the 2014 retail versions included the Lauren logo and in some cases the letters USA were swapped out for Laurens RLX.But this year the merchandise line will be exactly the same clothing that the golfers are wearing. If Phil Mickelson is out there and gets a stain on his shirt during the second hole, we can go to the merchandise tent and get him a new one, and itll be the same exact thing, Quirk said.3. The captain and his wife help to create the designs. Tradition holds that the Ryder Cup captains wife is involved in shaping the teams look. That raised an interesting situation this time around, because this years captain, Love, was also the captain of the 2012 team, so he and his wife, Robin, have been through the uniform process before.In 2012, I did pretty much all the mens clothing myself, with a little bit of Davis looking at pictures at home and giving feedback, Robin Love said. But this time, hes been much more hands on with the guys stuff. We went to the Ralph Lauren offices in New York in the summer of 2015, and they had lots of patterns, sketches, fabrics and shirts for us to look at, which was great. It made it much easier.Davis Love focused more on the uniforms from a golf performance perspective. We wanted to make sure the clothes are comfortable for the team to walk, swing and spend a full day in, even in inclement weather, he said. But uniform designs also promote team unity and pride. The Friday pinstripe pants have a USA logo on the pant leg, there are stars and stripes incorporated into the camouflage design on the knit and outerwear pieces and even an American flag etched onto the back of the belt buckle that the team will wear all week.Ralph Lauren is also making the clothing that the golfers wives will wear, and Robin Love is particularly excited about a new development on that front: Whatever bottom the guys are wearing, the wives can match it. If theyre wearing navy pants, we have navy pants or navy shorts. If they have a red and blue striped shirt, so do we. Thats new. The wives have never been coordinated with the guys like that.4. And speaking of the captain ... Up through 2012, the Ryder Cup captain wore the same clothing that the golfers wore. But this year, for the second consecutive time, the American captain will have his own uniform. 2014 was the first time we did that, with more of that distinguished look, Quirk said. It was a question of, Do we want to be like MLB [in which the managers wear the same uniform as the players] or like the NFL [in which the coaches have their own attire]?No photos of the captains attire have been released yet, but you can get a sense of the look from these sketches.5. Party like its 1999. No discussion of Ryder Cup uniforms would be complete without a mention of the bizarro shirts that the American team wore in 1999. Widely ridiculed at the time, theyve now become something of a so bad, its good sentimental favorite. Could something like that ever be revived, or at least used as the inspiration for a similarly bold design?That shirt did its job because everyone talked about it, and now were still talking about it 17 years later, Quirk said. A current-day version of that shirt? Its definitely possible.Robin Love said those shirts generated a lot of attention -- not all of it negative -- back in the day. I cant tell you how many called us after that Ryder Cup and said, Can we have that shirt? Can we have Davis shirt? Is it for sale somewhere? she recalled. Sure, it was crazy, but when everybodys wearing it, you really dont worry about it too much.Something to keep in mind for future Ryder Cups down the road.Paul Lukas writes about uniforms for ESPN.com. If you liked this column, youll probably like his Uni Watch Blog, plus you can follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Want to learn about his Uni Watch Membership Program, be added to his mailing list so youll always know when a new column has been posted, or just ask him a question? Contact him here. Montravius Adams Super Bowl Jersey . Louis Blues absence from top spot in the TSN. 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Shell be joined there by big sister?Venus,?who is back in the?Wimbledon quarterfinals for the first time since 2010.?Serena Williams, the defending champion, dominated down the stretch once the Centre Court roof was closed because of rain, eliminating two-time major title winner Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-0. Williams won 24 of 29 points in the second set and finished with a 43-8 advantage in winners.The No. 1-seeded American slipped during a point while she was getting broken to trail 5-4 in the opening set of the fourth-round match. Kuznetsova then served for the set, but Williams broke right back to make it 5-all. Thats when play was delayed for nearly 30 minutes while the retractable roof was shut.After they resumed, Kuznetsova did not take a game.It was really tricky out there, Williams said. Even though it wasnt raining hard, it was dewy on the grass. You can fall really easily.Venus Williams, a five-time Wimbledon champion, beat Carla Suarez Navarro 7-6 (3), 6-4 on No. 1 Court on Monday.?Williams last won the title at the All England Club in 2008. She reached the fourth round last year, but lost in the third round the year before. She will next face?Yaroslava Shvedova?in the quarterfinals.Yeah, its been a few years. Missed a year or two. But Ive been here before. Im not, like, a deer in the headlights, Williams said. So, of course, I want more. Thats what anybody would want in a quarterfinal.Serena Williams, seeking her seventh Wimbledon title and 22nd Grand Slam trophy overall, next faces 21st-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia. Pavlyuchenkova reached her first Wimbledon quarterfinals -- and first at any Grand Slam tournament since 2011 -- by eliminating CoCo Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-3.Pavlyuchenkova had only seven unforced errors, 15 fewer than No.dddddddddddd 27 Vandeweghe, and broke the American five times. Vandeweghe, a 2015 quarterfinalist at the All England Club, had lost serve only twice in the first three rounds this year.Earlier Monday, third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska?fell to Dominika Cibulkova 6-3, 5-7, 9-7 in the fourth round and Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Misaki Doi of Japan 6-3, 6-1.Radwanska, a finalist at the All England Club in 2012, struggled at this years tournament. In the second round, she had to save three match points before beating Ana Konjuh in three sets.She also saved match points against Cibulkova -- one in the second set -- and wasted a match point in the third.Cibulkova served out the match on her third attempt, even though she was warned for a time delay after catching one of her ball tosses. On her third match point, Cibulkova hit an inside-out forehand winner, then dropped face-first onto the grass, her chest heaving.I was really crying, she said. It was so emotional.The 18th-seeded Cibulkova reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals once before, in 2011. Her best result at a Grand Slam tournament came in 2014, when she reached the Australian Open final, losing to Li Na.Kerber, a German seeded fourth, reached the semifinals at the All England Club in 2012 and also made the quarterfinals in 2014. Last year, she lost in the third round.Kerber won her first major title this year, beating Serena Williams in the Australian Open final. If Kerber wins the Wimbledon title and Williams fails to reach the semifinals, she would take over the No. 1 ranking.She will next face No. 5 Simona Halep, who beat No. 9 Madison Keys 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3.The Associated Press contributed to this report. ' ' '