US enter ‘realm of embarrassment and humiliation’

DEBACLE, embarrassment and humiliation is not how Fáilte Ireland would have envisaged the reviews of the first Ryder Cup on Irish soil, but thankfully for them the American media was only referring to the efforts of its own team.

“We have entered into the realm of embarrassment and humiliation,” wrote Bob Ryan in the Boston Globe.

“The US has lost five of the last six Ryder Cup competitions, and it could easily have been seven of eight.”