“The pin on 17 is an absolute joke”, he declared.
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“It does hurt. We would definitely like to be feeling what the Americans are feeling right now, but they haven’t felt this for awhile”.
NOT YOUR AVERAGE SPECTATORS: One way to gauge how much the US win meant: Few people were more emotional about it than Woods and Bubba Watson – and neither hit a shot. Even though McGirt doesn’t want to play the HSBC Champions this year, the fact that he is eligible means he can not play a PGA Tour event the same week.
Emotional U.S. assistant captain Bubba Watson wept on the shoulder of captain Davis Love III as the two hugged on the 18th green. “I’m so happy for this team”.
It was awesome to watch for the fans, jammed fairways and crowded around greens to cheer on the home team. “And I’ve known that these guys have had this level of performance in them for some time”.
Spurred on by heckling from the United States crowd, Rory McIlroy bared his teeth at the 2016 Ryder Cup and formed a one-two punch with Thomas Pieters before finally running out steam on Sunday. He sold the idea of bringing back Love as the front man in hopes of instituting a long-term plan that provided continuity with a task force that included Tiger Woods, Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker and Tom Lehman.
Won one of the biggest titles in the game at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in 2015 and took a four-shot lead into the final round of the US Open at Oakmont in June, before finishing joint second. “That’s going to require a whole different level of play, of solidarity, of fortitude and we are going to have to build on this in two years if we want to try to retain the Cup”.
“All the energy I expended this week, it caught up to me on the back nine today”. It’s just a matter of trying to get one-up on each other.
Cool, dude. Well I’m off for a dinner of hot dogs, cookie dough and America if you want to eat away some sadness.
Mickelson has never been a captain’s pick in the Ryder Cup.
“There’s nothing like it, to be able to win but win for your country and for your team and your captains”, Moore said. “And our team won”.
“I was just like, ‘You know what guys, I’m not doing it this week'”.
Victorious captain Davis Love hailed a change in attitude after the United States won the Ryder Cup for the first time since 2008 and inflicted Europe’s heaviest defeat for 35 years.
“They had pressure on them for the last two years”. They were 1 up through 12 holes.
In the midst of it all, Reed danced and screamed “Come on!” and fist-pumped, mimicked the elaborate bow McIlroy made to the crowd on Friday, wagged his finger after holing a birdie putt on top of McIlroy’s – and the Irishman responded by cupping his ear and mouthing “I can’t hear you” to the crowd, and at one point shushing them the same way Reed had done to the European spectators two years ago. No gut-punch choke like Medinah in 2012.
Needing five points from the 12 last-day singles matches, the Americans sealed victory over Europe when Ryan Moore beat Lee Westwood in the seventh match of the day.
Reed outdueled and outshouted Rory McIlroy for a 1-up victory, and by then the back end of the scoreboard was filled with American red.
Darren Clarke’s side needed to overturn a three-point deficit in Sunday’s 12 singles matches at Hazeltine to claim an unprecedented fourth straight win in the biennial contest.
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Despite losing his intense singles showdown on Sunday to Patrick Reed, McIlroy seemed unaffected by it all and urged his team to take it all “on the chin” – although he did note being able to start drinking at half 7 in the morning hardly helped the situation.
