The U.S. team scuffles when the Ryder Cup is in Europe, and hasn’t won away from home in 30 years. Here are five explanations.
From Sam Torrance’s 22-footer on the 18th hole in 1985 to Graeme McDowell’s nerves of steel in 2010 to the Ryder Cup careers of Sergio Garcia and Colin Montgomerie, European squads have been deadly with the putter.
Courses like the Valderrama Golf Club or Le Golf National , for example, were considered tight tracks that favored accuracy off the tee over distance — rewarding the European players, the thinking goes, while penalizing the Americans.“This particular course can be manipulated quite a bit,” said Paul Azinger, who played in four Ryder Cups, of the Rome event, “and I feel like the chance for Europe to increase their home field advantage is pretty great.
But Europe’s Rory McIlroy noted there might still be some deviations, and a course setup can take advantage of those differences.“We maybe grew up a little differently … you can maybe tap into a little more of how we grew up playing the game rather than how we play the game right now,” said McIlory, who is making his seventh Ryder Cup appearance.
Added Brian Harman, another first-timer: “The best you can do is just acknowledge it and just move forward and try not to let it affect you as best you can. But it will affect you. You’d be silly not to think that — obviously the home teams in the Ryder Cups have been extremely successful, and a lot of that has to do with the fans. They can affect outcomes of matches.”Both sides extol the tightknit team atmosphere and the way the Ryder Cup turns 12 individual athletes into a team.
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