The one parallel with Tiger than Scheffler doesn't want is at the Ryder Cup

Every US mis-step at the Ryder Cup has been magnified while Europe’s Luke Donald and his team never seemed to put a foot out of place

Scottie Scheffler: Desperate for a spark, captain Keegan Bradley teamed up his two biggest stars – Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau – in the Saturday four-balls. It didn't work.

THE best golfer in the world stood on the 18th fairway with a wedge in his hand and watched his ball miss the green that he absolutely had to hit. It was a shockingly poor shot at the worst time. The match – and in all likelihood the Ryder Cup – was lost in the balance.

Scottie Scheffler isn’t the only American having a no good, very bad Ryder Cup. But the world No. 1 is the American who could least afford to go pointless in the first four sessions as the Europeans built a record-setting and unassailable seven-point lead (11½-4½).