Bleacher Report: Why Has Team Europe Dominated Team USA at the Ryder Cup?

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Losing is the great American sin. A Harvard-educated author of young adult fiction, John Tunis, said that first. Losing is what America has done in the Ryder Cup.

With Tiger Woods. Without Tiger Woods, who is not on the team that this week in the rolling countryside of Perthshire will face Europe. With a deficit going into the last of the three days of play. With a lead, as was the situation last year at Medinah

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Bleacher Report: Tiger Woods Making the Right Choice with Ryder Cup Withdrawal, Lengthy Absence

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

The suspense has ended. Inevitability won. Tiger Woods lost. The U.S. Ryder Cup team lost. If an athlete, a sportsman, is unable to play, then there’s nothing to do but make the concession. And so Wednesday, Woods, tenacious, finally gave in.

Per the PGA of America, he withdrew his name from consideration for the Ryder Cup matches at the end of September because of the injury to his back.

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Global Golf Post: Second To None

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

MEDINAH, ILLINOIS — It was a song by Sinatra. Our kind of town, Chicago was. A poem by Sandburg. The City of Big Shoulders indeed.

Chicago, specifically the suburb of Medinah, got its hands and its passion on the 39th Ryder Cup and turned it into a huge, noisy, joyful carnival of sport.

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RealClearSports: Mahan Doesn't Deserve All the Blame

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

NEWPORT, Wales -- It's time to stop knocking Hunter Mahan. He didn't lose the Ryder Cup, the U.S. team lost it. He didn't lose the Ryder Cup, the Europeans won it.

He wasn't going to beat Graeme McDowell down the stretch. Graeme McDowell wouldn't let him.

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Global Golf Post: Of Rain, Lisa Pavin and Other Things

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

NEWPORT, WALES -- Good sportsmanship? Maybe the Ryder Cup is a bad idea. At least for the United States, being blamed for all the ills that beset sport, except the weather for which Wales and Great Britain are entirely responsible. Glub.

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