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The definitive story of the Ryder Cupthe event that pits the best golfers from America against the best from Europeexploring the modern history of the tournament that led to the showdown at Whistling Straits in 2021.
The task facing Steve Stricker at the 2021 Ryder Cup was enormous. It was his job, as the American captain, to stare down almost 40 years of Ryder Cup history, break a pattern of home losses that had persisted almost as long, and reverse the tide of European dominance in one of golf's most tense and emotional events. This was the epitome of a must-win, but it was also something morein the entire 93-year history of the event, no American side had ever faced this kind of pressure. Starting on the morning of September 24, those 12 players competed not just for a Cup, or for pride, but to save the reputation of the U.S. team itself.
The great mystery of the Ryder Cup is that America loses despite having superior individual talent. The European renaissance began in the 1980s, led by the brilliant Tony Jacklin and Seve Ballesteros, and since then, the U.S. has suffered a slew of embarrassing defeats abroad and at home. The signs in 2021 werent good: Tiger Woods was out after his horrific car crash, Patrick Reed (Captain America, to his supporters) was hospitalized with double pneumonia weeks before the event, and America had to rely on its rising starsincluding Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka, who spent most of the year immersed in an escalating feudto prove their mettle. Meanwhile, the European team had a few major stars of its own, like Jon Rahm, the world no. 1 and the first Spanish player ever to win the U.S. Open, and Rory McIlroy, the four-time major winner. Throw in the complications of a global pandemic, and the stage was set for one of the strangest Ryder Cups ever.
Following the drama in Wisconsin while deconstructing the rich history of the tournament, The Cup They Couldn't Lose tells the story of how the U.S. defeated Europe in record fashion, restored their status as golfs global superpower, and transformed their entire way of thinking in order to truly understand the nature of the Ryder Cup.
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Copyright 2022 by Shane Ryan
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The Ryder Cup is a three-day competition pitting the best golfers from the United States against the best from Europe. It has been staged every two years since 1927, with a lapse from 1937 to 1947 for World War II. It was delayed by a year in 2001 after the September 11 attacks, putting the Cup on even years, and is now back in odd years after another one-year delay in 2020 for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Each team fields twelve players, a mixture of automatic qualifiers and captains picks, the balance of which has changed over time. The event uses the match play format, in which the score is kept by holes won and usually listed in reference to the winning team. As an example, if the American team wins holes one through three, they are 3-up, and if Europe wins the fourth hole, the US falls to 2-up. The match ends when one team has established a lead that is greater than the number of remaining holes. Thus, if a team wins by the score of 3&2, it means they were 3-up with two holes to play; it was no longer possible for the other team to beat or tie them.
On Friday, the first day of competition, there are four two-on-two matches of four-ball (each player plays his own ball, and the best score wins the hole for his team) and four two-on-two matches of foursomes (teammates alternate shots). Each match is worth 1 point. If a match is tied after eighteen holes, the match is halved, and each team receives half a point. The home captain has the right to choose which session is played in the morning and which is played in the afternoon, and its also up to each captain to choose which eight players compete in each session, and which four sit out. This format repeats on Saturday, and on Sunday, all twelve players from each team square off in a singles match. In total, 28 points are at stake16 from pairs matches, 12 from singles. The team that holds the Cup needs to win half of these points, 14, to retain the trophy, while the team trying to take the Cup back must win 14.5 points.
The Ryder Cup venue rotates every two years between the United States and Europe. It is organized in the United States by the PGA of America, which is distinct from the PGA Tour, and in Europe by the European Tour. The 2021 Ryder Cup took place in late September at Whistling Straits Golf Course on the western shore of Lake Michigan, a few miles north of Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
After a blowout win in Paris in 2018, the Cup was in European hands. The Americans had to win it back.
Youve probably heard this in press conferences, where losing captains and players will say, Well, the other guys just played better. Can you imagine if someone said that in the defense world? The general has to go and explain why he lost the war, and he says, Well, the other guys just fought better. Or in the business world, the CEO has to explain why he lost a million dollars and he says, Oh, the other guy just sold more widgets. I got tired of hearing it. Yes, theres variance in results. Yes, theres unpredictability. But the Ryder Cup fundamentally is an organizational and a management challenge. Its a collective action problem. How do you channel the talents and abilities of a large group of people into a common goal? The reality is that winning Ryder Cups is making lots and lots of right decisions enough times to increase your chances of winning.
Jason Aquino, founder of Scouts Consulting Group, Team USAs strategic analysts
You know, if I could put my finger on it, we would have changed this shit a long time ago.
Jim Furyk
On Saturday at the 2021 BMW Championship in Maryland, another merciless scorcher of a day in a long, hot August, I sat on a stone wall by the clubhouse and waited for Kevin Kisner to finish his round.
Id alerted the PGA Tours media officials that I wanted to speak with him, but I was dreading it, and they werent thrilled about having to ask. Two weeks earlier, Kisner had won the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, reviving his hopes of making the Ryder Cup team for the first time. The great irony of Kisners career is that he is one of Americas best match play golfers, but has never made a Ryder Cup team. He checks all the boxessmart, combative, and with the kind of relentless game that wears his opponents down. He holds a 16-6-2 career match play singles record, with a win at the 2019 WGC Match Play and a second-place finish a year earlier, and a 2-0-2 mark the one time he played a Presidents Cup. His list of conquests reads like a whos who of great match play golfers: Matt Kuchar, Francesco Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen, Tony Finau, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, and Ian Poulter.
But hes never managed to play well enough to qualify for the Ryder Cup at the right time, and though hes seemingly in the discussion every year, hes also failed to earn a captains pick. If he were European, its possible hed be a Poulter-like figure, because his skill and rsum would have landed him on several European teams, and their captains tend to value match play as a distinct discipline. In America, he has been lost in the depth of talent and the inability of captains to see his value.
History seemed to be repeating itself in 2021. A few days after his win in Greensboro, I was the only media member to show up for his virtual press conference, which clearly annoyed himThanks for valuing my time, he grumbledand almost as quickly as the Kisner Ryder Cup buzz grew, it seemed to fade. He missed the cut at The Northern Trust the next week to start the PGA Tours playoffs, and while I waited for him by the clubhouse at the BMW, he was on his way to finishing in a tie for dead last.
We didnt yet know that Steve Stricker, the US captain, was focused on players that fit the profile of Whistling Straits, which rewarded length, and that Kisner, a shorter hitter, wasnt on his radar. But the writing was on the wall, and it was another piece of sad ironyin this case, Stricker was smart in his thinking, but in 2018, when Kisners profile fit Le Golf National to perfection, captain Jim Furyk used his picks on long hitters who spent the week flailing around in the thick Paris rough. Always, it seemed, Kisner was on the wrong end of Ryder Cup fortune. (Later, Furyk recognized that Kisner was exactly the kind of player hed needed in Paris.)
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