By cheating and modifying the course.
Drood, seriously, how many times do you need to be told that you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to the course changes?
The better team won and it was the best Ryder Cup for years. The course changes partly made it so - we didn't have to watch people hacking it out of tall grass all day, but instead we got to watch them demolish the place in very entertaining style.
For all Zinger's disappointment that he wasn't playing, I think Tiger's absence made the biggest difference. It's the first time the US has looked like a team since 1991.
Drood, no disrespect but I have to agree with the majority. You have no clue as to what you're babbling about. No one cheated, the game was played on a level playing field and the better "team" won.
I was actually invited to Kentucky to go to Valhalla and see the Ryder Cup live. I spent the majority of my time at the club house getting my drink on with the fellas but we saw the Kim - Garcia match on Sunday even though we were bombarded with the masses and I have to tell you, it was one of the most lopsided losses that I've seen in golf in quite a while. We were able to see some of the other rounds but with so many people there in support of the US team but it was nearly impossible to get a good view of what was going on.
The US won fair and square and celebrated like if it was 1999.
"... and celebrated like if it was 1999."
Thankfully not. They celebrated perfectly appropriately this time, and not until they'd actually won.
My only experience of actually being at a Ryder Cup was pretty similar - 40,000 people trying to watch four games of golf makes it a bit tough to get a decent view.
I enjoy seeing the Yanks get humiliated at the Ryder Cup as much as... well, anyone who's not American. But I'm glad they won this one, and won it in the way they did. They were the better team, the people who came through weren't necessarily the big names -- as dyams said, the Americans won it the way the European team won it after so many barren years. People on the other side of the pond whining about Faldo are out of line too.
So, it's competitive again, and that's all good. See you all for an arse-kicking in two years' time.
