Ryder Cup Fans Quick to Take Sides
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - After a week of  being charmed by golfers in practice, Ryder Cup fans were quick  to take sides Friday as the United States and Europe resumed  golf's greatest grudge match.
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Once the Ryder Cup matches begin Friday at Oakland Hills Country Club, the ideals of sportsmanship and civility will be more difficult to achieve than they are to talk about.
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A tale of the tape points to an early knockout in the Ryder Cup. Five Americans have won major championships, the best measure of poise under pressure. Europe doesn't have a major champion on its team for the first time in the last 10 matches. The Americans have seven players among the top 15 in the world. Europe has two.
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Staring down Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and the rest of the Americans, Europe got off to a stunning start Friday in the Ryder Cup...
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - Colin Montgomerie,  who has suffered much misery at the hands of American golf  fans, gave back some of his own Friday with another Ryder Cup  tour de force at Oakland Hills Country Club.
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STRAFFAN, Ireland -- There was a lot written and said about Tom Lehman's Ryder Cup rookies the past two months, and not much of it was good.
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Oh, how Match No. 2 in yesterday's singles proved a fitting contrast in emotions in the final act of the 35th Ryder Cup Matches.
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I'm with Hal Sutton. Eurofolk, stop whining about Brookline. &quot;We've apologized for five years,&quot; says the US Ryder Cup captain. &quot;So y'all need to forget about that. The American players, if we had to do it all over again, would not have run out on the green. We are going out there, and we are going ...
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Midway through Friday's Ryder Cup matches at Oakland Hills, English golf fan Sean Warden began to wonder: Was it tee time, or tea time?
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They were hoping for a sporting miracle yesterday, only it didn&#39;t materialize. Now, American Ryder Cup players must hope for a diplomatic miracle.
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*Neither captain expects a repeat of the last Ryder Cup played in the United States, when rowdy fans at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass.
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The dynamics of the Ryder Cup in the 21st century have changed. The presumption by most Americans that the United States has the better team, and therefore should win the Ryder Cup, has long since evaporated.
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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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1. Hal Sutton didn&#39;t lose the Ryder Cup for the US Those who blame him for the whopping loss -- and that includes some nationally known columnists -- either don&#39;t understand golf or match play, aren&#39;t current with today&#39;s players on both tours or are
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America should be an overwhelming favorite in the Ryder Cup golf matches that begin Friday on Detroit&#39;s Oakland Hills course that Ben Hogan once called a monster.
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Despite the Europeans&#39; six victories in the last nine Ryder Cups, players readily admit to being the underdogs this year. However, statistics would lead many to conclude the opposite is true.
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Beware - Vicious Dog. US Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton would do well to pin up such a sign in the American team room.