SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – After his team was thoroughly dominated in the second session of the Ryder Cup, Jim Furyk is doubling down. Furyk opted to stick with the same four pairings that gave his team an early 3-1 lead, putting out a nearly identical fourballs lineup for the second straight day. He’ll be banking on […]

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The smiling, bouncing, ebullient Rory McIlroy has gone missing this year. The brooding started when he got blown away by Patrick Reed at the Masters. It continued with forgettable final rounds at Carnoustie, Firestone and Aronimink. And it rolled right into the Tour Championship, where on Sunday, with a face-to-face showdown against […]

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Surely, the temptation was there. Thomas Bjorn had just watched months of planning and four days of on-site preparation begin to crumble before his eyes. In the span of a critical hour during the opening session at the Ryder Cup, Bjorn’s European squad went from eyeing a 3-1 lead to staring at […]

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Should the U.S. go on to lose this Ryder Cup, Jim Furyk’s decision to put Phil Mickelson out in Friday’s foursomes session will be one of the most popular targets for second-guessing. Mickelson didn’t come into the matches with much current form to speak of, and his erratic play off the tee […]

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Six days after winning the Tour Championship, Tiger Woods finds himself in the role of underdog as he looks to help extricate the Americans from an early Ryder Cup deficit. Woods and Patrick Reed lost their opening fourball match against Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari, and with the four men again set […]

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The United States wouldn’t have had to play a little bit better Friday afternoon; it would have had to play a lot better, and the Americans might still have gotten blanked. “If you look at the scores, I realize it’s match play, but the European side played very good golf this afternoon,” […]

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Jim Furyk wanted to make one point abundantly clear on Friday night, after his U.S. team was swept in a session for the first time in 29 years. “We’ve played for eight points so far out of 28,” he said. “The event is still pretty young.” But in a match between two […]

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Given another lopsided alternate-shot effort, perhaps the Ryder Cup task force should have mandated some sort of foursomes curriculum for all potential U.S. players. Following a blazing start to this week’s matches the Americans tumbled over a familiar hazard on Friday, dropping all four afternoon matches to head into the weekend in […]

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – For just the second time in his Ryder Cup career Tiger Woods sat out a match, taking to the sidelines after he and Patrick Reed lost their morning four-ball match and leading some to question if his health was an issue. Although Woods took to the course for the afternoon session to […]