It’s been nearly three decades, but I still remember vividly the most disappointed I’ve ever been while attending at a golf event.
It was late September 1995, a cold, rainy weekend in Rochester, New York. Somehow, the U.S. Ryder Cup team lost to Europe in a stunning final-day collapse. It was miserable.
Do you remember the likes of Howard Clark, Philip Walton, Mark James and David Gilford? Yeah, well they beat Peter Jacobsen, Jeff Maggert, Brad Faxon and Jay Haas in singles as Europe rallied to win by a single point, 14.5 to 13.5, a result that would have been reversed by just one more U.S. victory…