• Remember that the Ryder Cup was created to celebrate golf, not sow division.
The 1969 Ryder Cup, at Royal Birkdale in England, was also bitterly contested. On the 18th hole, with the U.S. having won enough points to secure a tie and retain the Cup, Jack Nicklaus, as tough a competitor as there ever was in golf, conceded a three-foot putt to Tony Jacklin, allowing that year’s competition to end in a tie.
If Nicklaus did that at Hazeltine or Bethpage Black, he would have heard the same vulgarities that rained down on Lowry this week.
