Rookies rule after halting American comeback

ONLY Europeans with selective amnesia fail to remember the final day of the 1999 Ryder Cup when the Americans’ incredible momentum played Europe off the Country Club course at Brookline.

Having fallen 6-2 behind on Friday, they desperately needed a repeat of those daring deeds at Oakland Hills over the weekend and nothing was surer than they would come out fighting on Saturday morning.

If they didn’t, they’d have been as dead as the previous day’s news. They did and for much of the session it looked like they would win all four matches.