Column: Ryder Cup Promised Much But Delivered Little
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - Bigger than the  Olympics boasted one paper. Excitement is a gimme promised  another.
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Europe again proved to be the best in the Ryder Cup Sunday with its biggest romp over the Americans. The final blow was a scene all too familiar at Oakland Hills: With the cup already won, Padraig Harrington made a 25-foot par putt on the 18th hole of the last match that only counted in the record books.
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In the wake of America&#39;s crushing defeat in the Ryder Cup there were calls for the annexation of the Pacific island of Fiji. Having the world No 1 on their team might or might not have helped the US at Oakland Hills.
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Hal Sutton anticipated the question. He had formulated an answer, too, long before he arrived in that Milwaukee hotel ballroom to announce his captain&#39;s picks and finalize the US Ryder Cup team.
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Colin Montgomerie will never forget September 2004 but his accountant may not look at it so fondly. Monty had the glory of holing the winning putt at the Ryder Cup but by the traditional
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WHEN Europe came away from the Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills, Detroit, in September with a record 18Â½-9Â½ win over the United States, they left behind a nation questioning what had gone wrong
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What started with the debut of a &quot;dream team&quot; turned into a nightmare of a Friday for the United States at the 35th Ryder Cup Matches.
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Tom Lehman will be disappointed. The   captain of the American Ryder Cup team joked last month he   would not turn up to the event's opening ceremony in Ireland   next week if Irish rockers U2 were not there.
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On paper, this looks like a runaway. As we gear up for the 35th running of the Ryder Cup, the US team can take solace in the fact it has five major winners on its 12-man roster and Europe has none.
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STRAFFAN, Ireland -- Our lads have got their private jets, their sumptuous homes, their seven and eight figures socked away in the bank, and, with this group anyway, their 17 majors. What they do not have, for the third straight time, is possession of the Ryder Cup.
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European Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer said the US team will have to come up with more than it showed Friday to win back the Ryder Cup.
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No points were won or lost -- after all, the Ryder Cup doesn't begin until tomorrow -- but there was a clear loser to yesterday's action at the K Club.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich.  - The words were there  but the conviction was missing as members of the U.S. team  vowed to produce another Ryder Cup miracle Saturday.
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IN the Ryder Cup, the Americans may still have the name, but the Europeans continue to have the game. None of the golfers on the European team have won a major championship while the Americans
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - The words were there  but the conviction was missing as members of the U.S. team  vowed to produce another Ryder Cup miracle Saturday.
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STRAFFAN, Ireland -- Favorites or underdogs in the Ryder Cup, it doesn't matter to the Europeans. They boasted of having their best team ever, then backed it up in dominant fashion by turning the Ryder Cup into another rout Sunday to win for an unprecedented third straight time.
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Europeâs stunning victory over the USA in the Ryder Cup has left the American press wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth about exactly just how the supposed underdogs walked away with a comprehensive 18 1/2 9 1/2 win.