US Ryder Cup team desperately searching for soul that was sold to the Saudis

As the Ryder Cup returns to American soil for the first time since LIV disrupted golf, Keegan Bradley's team are searching for their identity. 

Justin Thomas shrugged off suggestions he could be a leader for Team USA in the Ryder Cup. Could Bryson DeChambeau, who seems more concerned with promoting his YouTube channel, be the man to give the Americans some aura? Pic: Mike Egerton/PA Wire.

From small seeds and all that. A lunchtime walk through the Ryder Cup Shops, a cavernous 61,000sq ft cathedral of capitalism on the left of the main gates at Bethpage Black, would leave you wondering.

What, for starters, would Samuel Ryder make of this voracious profiteering? He’d most likely be wildly impressed. The man behind this whole circus was, after all, a businessman and entrepreneur before he ever organised a golf tournament. The money made selling garden seeds through the post was what funded his ventures in sport.