‘Every green we went up to, they were clapping’

SUPPORT isn’t how you say it but how you show it, and at the Ryder Cup the fans were going all out to wear their golfing hearts on their sleeves.

Some did it by leaving their homes at 5am and turning up at the K Club gates at 6am to see in a cold, damp dawn, while securing their place at the top of the queue.

Some picked a tee, climbed into the grandstand and dug in to wait for the game to come to them, even though the wait would last long, hungry, muscle-freezing, joint-seizing hours.