SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The new-and-improved Tiger Woods is approachable, healthy, competitive and above all appreciative. But if the last 48 hours in France have proven anything, it’s that he still doesn’t play well with others. The best player of his generation, perhaps of all time, added to the most confounding record in golf, losing all […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The last time the U.S. Ryder Cup team found itself on the wrong side of a 10-6 deficit heading into the singles session, Jim Furyk was on the other side of the motivational divide. Furyk was a member of the 1999 U.S. team that rallied on Sunday to beat Europe (14 ½-13 […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The present was pure pandemonium, but Henrik Stenson’s mind still flashed to the past. He’d just been swallowed in a bear hug by Justin Rose after he holed back-to-back pressure putts to win their foursomes match. He’d heard the giddy fans in the grandstand stomping their feet and singing, “Gooooooneeeee be the […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Jim Furyk, perhaps as much as anyone here at Le Golf National, understands the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat as it pertains to the Ryder Cup. The U.S. captain played crucial roles in the American comeback from 10-6 down at the 1999 Ryder Cup at Brookline, and he dropped […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – No American has spanned the Ryder Cup spectrum quite as extensively as Phil Mickelson. He’s savored wins and endured losses, and four years ago it was Mickelson who lit the flame that overhauled the entire thought process for the U.S. side. And so it was that with the tide rising against them […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Tiger Woods was on the wrong side of history this week at the Ryder Cup, and he’ll be happy he avoided Francesco Molinari in Sunday singles. Woods hasn’t been able to escape the Italian all year, first when Molinari won the Quicken Loans National and again at The Open at Carnoustie. Now Molinari […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Tiger Woods played both team sessions on Saturday at the Ryder Cup, at least temporarily shelving concerns that he’s been slowed by an injury this week. Despite losing both matches on Day 2, Woods didn’t appear hampered in any way and on a few occasions took vicious swings from the rough to […]
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Phil Mickelson has played in more Ryder Cup matches than anyone else in history. So, when U.S. captain Jim Furyk broke the news to Mickelson that he’d have to sit out all day on Saturday, he did the only thing he could do. “Gave me a pat on the back and put […]
Updated: 9:20 a.m. ET The United States’ 10-6 deficit through two days of the Ryder Cup prompted some second-guessing of captain Jim Furyk’s decision-making late Saturday and early Sunday. One of the biggest question marks entering the week was Furyk’s choice to split up the productive pairing of Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth, who had […]
Europe won back the Ryder Cup on Sunday, topping the U.S. at Le Golf National in Paris. Thomas Bjorn’s squad entered Sunday singles with a 10-6 lead and didn’t let up, eventually defeating Jim Furyk’s team 17 1/2 to 10 1/2. It was Europe’s sixth straight win on home soil and their seventh victory in the […]