SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Both Ryder Cup captains clearly used the same philosophy with their respective singles lineups: Start with firecrackers and hope it spreads to the rest of the team. Of course, since Europe has a 10-6 lead, the missions are completely different. Jim Furyk hopes his American team throws a bunch of red on […]
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SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Turns out U.S. Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk’s idea to break up Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed wasn’t so bad after all, at least for Spieth. On an American team that is underperforming at almost every turn, Spieth and new partner Justin Thomas have played great together and have recorded a 3-1 […]
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 – Go back through the European Ryder Cup history books and take your pick. Seve and Ollie. Faldo and Woosie. Clarke and Westwood. All decorated champions, but none can match the unexpected heights reached this week by, of all people, Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari. The 2018 Ryder Cup appears headed toward a […]