Posted on 09/30/2012 5:42:19 PM PDT by the scotsman
'Europe's golfers produced a stunning final-day comeback to win the Ryder Cup at a shell-shocked Medinah.
With the United States requiring only four points from the 12 on offer, Europe somehow secured eight and a half to clinch a historic 14½-13½ win.
Martin Kaymer sank a five-foot putt on the 18th green to get his team to the 14 points needed to retain the trophy, before a Tiger Woods bogey in the final match gifted them overall victory.
The win matches the record recovery of Ben Crenshaw's US team in Boston in 1999 and is the best from a European side in the Ryder Cup.
It was a fitting tribute to the late Seve Ballesteros, the man who did so much to reinvigorate the competition and whose trademark colours the side wore on the final day.'
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Actually we went into Sunday with 10 points, so we needed 4 1/2 more to win.
I’ll type slowly so you understand. The ‘yips’ and no nerves are bad things in golf, making winning virtually impossible. By definition a golfer with 16 PGA tour wins (including last years FedEx cup) does not suffer from these maladies. You don’t have to be good at golf to understand that, it only requires being good at logic.
zactly..thanks for the correction. I knew there had to be a half in there somewhere. Wondered about it specially coming from the BBC
Tiger, Jim Furyk, and Steve Stricker totalled one point I believe. Ugh... Hate to lose to the Euros, but the USA holds two of the four major titles for 2012 (Bubba Watson: Master’s; Webb Simpson: US Open).
Furyk looks to me to definitely have the "yips" and he has problems closing out tournaments. He had the U.S. Open in hand before shanking one into the woods that barely went 100 yards. Yes, he did win a lot in the past, and he won the Fedex 2 years ago (last year's winner was Bill Haas, not Furyk). All golfers eventually succumb to pressure and the yips, otherwise they'd excel into later age. Vijay Singh was winning a lot into his 40's before the yips got him. A belly putter has not quite cured him of it yet. And remember that Furyk was a captain's pick. He did not do well to qualify on his own. Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo and other veterans have commented about how the yips become much more prevalent with age.
I hope Jim Furyk rebounds next year. I've pulled for him many times, but I really was hoping Love would not pick him for the Ryder team. I don't know if Jim's issues this year are physical or mental. Maybe it's both. I think that choke in the U.S. Open this year was like Phil's at Winged Foot. It seems to have affected his play from then on out.
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