Ryder Cup has power to divide -- or unite -- during fraught and fragile time in the US
This week’s Ryder Cup is an example of that. It’s the biennial U.S. vs. Europe matchup on the golf course — an affair that has grown more contentious, occasionally uncomfortable and at times alarmingly petty over the past four decades. This year’s edition has the added intrigue of being played in front of what is historically one of golf’s most bombastic and least-forgiving crowds that will converge at the country's toughest public course — Bethpage Black on Long Island.
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Five more Epson Tour players graduate to LPGA, including U.S. Women's Open Cinderella
New Yorkers relish their sports and are ready to be loud and liquored up at their beloved Bethpage
New York sports fans have been so starved for something to celebrate that they poured out of Madison Square Garden onto the streets and snarled city traffic in May, all because the Knicks simply got out of the second round of the NBA playoffs. The U.S. squad playing in the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, a place revered by locals in ways no arena ever could, could be it. The Americans might as well trade their red, white and blue for Yankee pinstripes, because their support comes New York style: loud, loyal and liquored up.
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Who's leading after the first day of the Junior Ryder Cup in New York?
Zola given Ryder Cup role and helps coach Team Europe
Italy and Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola will be part of the Team Europe set-up for the 2025 Ryder Cup, and has also weighed in with pieces of coaching advice to the likes of Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleet...
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Ryder Cup: Bethpage Black's warning sign lays out exactly 'what you're going to get'
