Superb Sergio Garcia repays Thomas Bjorn’s faith at Ryder Cup

Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson showed up on Saturday afternoon in their foursome match against McIlroy and Poulter. He birdied two of the 17 holes him and Woods played in a 2&1 fourball loss to Molinari and Fleetwood on Friday morning, giving him just two birdies in 32 holes. “His pace looked a little bit slow walking”, US captain Jim Furyk said.

The Americans then won five of the next nine holes to wrap up an emphatic victory in the final match on Saturday and take the score to 10-6 in the home team’s favour.

Before the matches began, Reed, addressing how he relishes his role as the villain with the European players and their fans, said, “I think the biggest thing is I know it’s playfulness”.

US Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk has hosed down suggestions Tiger Woods is dealing with a back problem following his fourballs defeat alongside Patrick Reed. Molinari and Fleetwood bludgeoned Tiger Woods and Patrick Reed, and nobody besides Spieth and Thomas could find it.

Phil Mickelson got another Saturday off. USA captain Jim Furyk chose to sit the 48-year-old Mickelson in the afternoon foursomes matches.

SAINT-YVELINES-EN-QUENTIN, France-The 12 players that the USA took to France for the Ryder Cup represented its best hope for winning here in a quarter-century.

“It’s hard to say it’s not right at the top as a session, but then you’ve got to look at the other way and say this morning’s session wasn’t at the top”, said Dane Bjorn.

Woods toiled away in the afternoon with Bryson Dechambeau but the magic was not there and he was powerless to prevent a 5&4 defeat by “Moliwood”. You go full bore tomorrow. That makes for a dilemma: do you put those differences aside for the good of the team, or are they too great to overcome?

Fleetwood’s putter has stood out even more than his flowing locks this week, as he has teamed with Molinari to make a near-perfect duo. “Let me get my. honestly, let me get my breath”, stammered Casey after securing Europe’s seventh of eight straight wins at Le Golf National. “He’s been phenomenal these two days”.

Despite that, they returned to Le Golf National on Saturday to compete together in the same format and this time the result was worse.

The last pair to go unbeaten in its four matches was Americans Lanny Wadkins and Larry Mize in 1979. “We are so well aware of what’s standing across on the other side – the greatest players in the world”.

The duo of world No. 2 Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson added Europe’s other point Saturday afternoon with victory against top-ranked Dustin Johnson and 2018 double major champion Brooks Koepka as the U.S. struggled for a lifeline.

“I have a lot of belief in him, and I trust him as a player, but also trust him very much as a person. And I think it’s because of those two gentlemen, to be honest with you”.

Meanwhile Spieth was happy with his performance, saying: “I have been trending in the right direction as the season as gone on and I love this feeling”, he said. And you know, we came out today and chose to play him 36. It allowed him to maybe get some energy back, watch his teammates play a little bit, provide a spark as a veteran leader.

Indeed, after what happened at Brookline and Medinah, there’s no Ryder Cup lead as unsettling as 10-6.