Intriguing History of Contests Against the Us Strewn with Joy, Tantrums and Early-Morning Runs

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WHILE the Ryder Cup can sometimes seem a curiously modern obsession, dating back perhaps only as far as the Eighties, it is anything but a new- fangled idea, even if a dramatic shift in emphasis occurred in 1979.

That was the year that the Great Britain and Ireland team became Europe in order to seek to arrest a decline in the competitive nature of a tournament that America had come to dominate to such a degree that their best players couldn't even be bothered to pencil it into their schedules.

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Intriguing History of Contests Against the Us Strewn with Joy, Tantrums and Early-Morning Runs

As this weekend proves, things have changed. Now the sporting world is required to stop and salute the juggernaut as it rolls into a buttressed venue that is afforded instant renown. The K Club in the Irish village of Straffan is just the...

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