Farmingdale, New York | There will be enough time – the next two years sounds about good – to fully dissect the American destruction in this Ryder Cup, but on the eve of a coronation it feels appropriate to recognize the utmost sparkle of Europeans on a Saturday of their dreams.
They won six of the eight two-day competitions and for a large part of the cloudy afternoon, the Europeans had to have felt something like a perfect match against the Americans, because they did everything, but the silence of some of the coarser voices in the New York galleries planning to maintain an unflagging stereotype.
Officially, Europeans have a 11½-4½ lead in the Sunday Singles, which means for every eternal optimists on the American side, there is still technical chance of the biggest comeback in the history of Ryder Cup. It is the biggest lead that comes in the Sunday Singles since Continental Europe was invited to the party in 1979.
“I didn’t really imagine this,” said Luke Donald, about to go 2-0 as the leader of the European team.
Here is mathematics: the Americans must win 9.5 of a possible 12 points to prevent them from being only the second home team in the last 10 Ryder Cups to lose at home and they need a full 10 points to win because a draw would enable Europeans to retain the cup.
Given that Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood are 4-0 and Jon Rahm has three victories, Sunday feels like a formality. However, it does offer World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler A last chance to win a point, something that has escaped him so far in his 0-4 performance this week. No American has ever lost five games in a Ryder Cup, at home or gone.
In four games, Scheffler only played two holes with the lead. In the course of Saturday, the Americans were in charge for only 14 of the 136 holes played.
Asked for his Saturday report to his team, said the American captain Keegan Bradley, a passionate fan of all things Boston, that he will remember them how the New England Patriots Super Bowl Li won with a remarkable comeback against the Atlanta Falcons.
“28-3. I was in that super bowl,” said Bradley, reminding of the second half of the patriots.
“The quality of golf was exceptional.” – Justin Rose
If the difference between the two parties could be found in a single match, this was the 3-and-2 four-balls victory Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood on the American super duo of Scheffler and Bryson Deschambeau.
Rose and Fleetwood Birdied six of the first eight holes and made 11 birdies in general in an enchanting performance. Forget that Bethpage Black has lost a large part of his poison with short rough, rain softened vegetables and rules for cleaning up lift and place. Rose and Fleetwood deconstrated both the course and their opponents.
“The quality of Golf was exceptional,” said Rose, who was involved in a small fabric with the caddies of his opponents late in the game.
Preparation to hit a 15-foot Birdie putt on the 15th hole, Rose had to wait until the Caddies prepares for their players. Eventually Rose asked them to step aside.
“I am really disappointed that this should be the conversation point at the end of a really cool match; the level of golf was incredible,” Rose said.
“I was waiting for Putt, the boys clearly worked on their lecture, clearly by much of their kind of anything, calculations and pieces and bits, so I waited a few seconds and then I had the feeling that they came up again and … I had something like:” It’s my putt, right? ” Or how I said it.
“Maybe I didn’t say it so much if I could have said it right now, but there was by no means a lack of respect or something like that, but it was clearly the wrong way.”
It was an emotional moment speckled with them in a Saturday. The pro-American crowd, at least a loud part of it, did not stop going to the Europeans, in particular Rory McIlroy.
Asked if the galleries went over the line, McIlroy said: “When you play a road Ryder Cup, it is really, very challenging. It is not for me to say. People can be their own judge or they took it too far or not. I am just proud of us that we can win today with what we had to endure.”
From Saturday with a three -point lead, the Europeans built up in the morning and won three of the four morning games.
Any flickering hope that the Americans had to minimize the damage before lunch ended on the 17th Green when Viktor HOVOLAND showed the Americans through a 13-foot par putt in Holt to give a 1-up lead over Scheffler and Russell Henley, who could have generated a fist pump that a horse could have taken down.
“I think I went black there for a few seconds,” said HOVOLAND, who got himself four balls from the afternoon because of the repetition of a neck problem that sometimes disturbed him this year.
“It was intense. It was like something I’ve never experienced before. But this is what I live for. This is it.” – Shane Lowry
Scheffler and Henley made six Birdies in their foursomes match, normally good enough to win, but HOVOLAND and Robert Macintyre made another one, interrupting a theme that developed early and walked the day on Bethpage.
In an always desperate situation in the afternoon, the Americans were unable to shift the momentum. When Shane Lowry held a long eagle potting on the par-5, he made a roar that was heard 30 miles away in Manhattan.
“It was intense. It was like something I have never experienced before. But this is what I live for. This is it,” Lowry said.
“To be honest, the reason I get up in the morning, for things like this. This is what I like to do. I love to be part of this team. I really want us to win this tournament.”
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