Sorry Seve, Europeans went the full Monty

An admission: Notwithstanding those unsporting protestations last week, I did, despite all the hideous codology associated with the event, eventually give in to the lure of the Ryder Cup.

So much so, that I simply cannot wait for the second semi-final between Asia and Africa, whenever that’s down for decision.

Most of the credit for Europe’s win seems to have gone to the late Seve but the crucial steps on this fairway to heaven might well have been taken by Monty, whose commentary underlined, time and again, that there might be no ‘I’ in team, but there is in ‘captaincy’, certainly on his watch. You suspect the prospect of Colin forever telling the world what he did, and would have done, differently could have been motivation enough to edge the European lads over the line.