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September 30, 2018
Europe hold firm to recover Ryder Cup with 17.5-10.5 triumph
Their medium-term four-point lead was whittled down to only one when Jim Furyk's side won three of the best five matches, yet Thomas Bjorn's unified Europe had the high ground in the center request of the singles draw and triumph was anchored in fitting style when Francesco Molinari turned into the primary European to win five calls attention to of five.
With Henrik Stenson and Garcia both nearly including further focuses, Molinari won his record-breaking match when the hapless Phil Mickelson pulled his tee shot to the sixteenth into water and shook hands with the Open boss on the tee, and Europe proceeded to win by a persuading seven-point edge.
Justin Thomas won his fourth purpose of the week in the opening singles when Rory McIlroy made a wreck of the last gap and was compelled to surrender crush before the match had got to the green, while Webb Simpson and Tony Finau put more red on the board with great looking wins over Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood individually.
That annihilation for Woods was his 21st in his eight Ryder Cup appearances and left him tied for the most in general misfortunes, however Mickelson before long lost his 22nd match with, potentially, his last shot in the opposition.
The last day of the 42nd version of the masterpiece started in magnificent conditions and with Europe loaded with idealism in the wake of overwhelming the opening four sessions, however the pressure was apparent halfway through the singles when the anticipated scores all of a sudden read 14-14, an attract coming about Team USA holding the trophy.
Europe's open man was compelled to surrender in the wake of taking five shots to achieve the green, while world No 2 Rose was likewise unwell and drooped to three down after eight openings against Simpson, a deficiency that the Englishman was not able paw back.
Fleetwood, the main freshman to win his initial four matches in the Ryder Cup, couldn't imitate his type of the initial two days and Finau exploited his adversary's blunder strewn begin, with the American at that point putting the sledge down with four birdies in five openings from the seventh and wrapping up a noteworthy 6&4 win.
In any case, Casey leveled his conflict with Koepka with a heavenly birdie at the seventeenth and came extremely close to holing from 25 feet for another at the last, while Rahm was pegged back by a Woods hawk at nine and a birdie from a week ago's Tour Championship victor at 12 took him back to all-square.
Woods, in any case, instantly missed the following two gaps to hand the preferred standpoint straight back to the blazing Spaniard, who was diminished to removes when he shut the match with a dazzling way to deal with 17 and changed over the shot.
Spieth couldn't recuperate from three straight early intruder and drooped to a dreary thrashing to give Olesen his first Ryder Cup point, before Garcia added to the rundown of records broken throughout the week when he held off a flighty Fowler to procure his place at the highest point of the focuses won group table - 25 and a half.
Garcia's win was in the bank minutes after Molinari topped a stupendous, and five-star, third Ryder Cup execution, while Stenson making the most of his third win out of three when he clobbered Bubba Watson to win the eleventh match 5&4.
Patrick Reed rescued some pride when he demonstrated excessively solid for Tyrrell Hatton, while Alex Noren adjusted off Europe's ninth triumph in 12 challenges with a tight prevail upon Bryson DeChambeau, holing a noteworthy 40-foot birdie putt on the last green to coordinate the American's three and grab a one-up win in the last experience of the 42nd Ryder Cup.
