Europe are the ones using motivational videos in the final countdown to the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor – and a talk by Welsh rugby legend Gareth Edwards - but the Americans have been spoken to in their team room by a decorated fighter pilot back from Iraq.

Tiger Woods led from the front today as the United States began preparations for their Ryder Cup defence at Celtic Manor.

DESPITE advances in the past 100 years, Ireland remains one of the least wooded countries in Europe with only 10% of our land planted with trees compared to the European average of 40%.