PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The late British golf writer Peter Dobereiner never liked the idea of continental Europe being invited to take part in the Ryder Cup, regardless of the Americans winning all but one time over the previous 30 years.

He no doubt would feel the same if that were to happen with the Walker Cup .

“So the Ryder Cup is dead. It was quietly put down to prevent further suffering and the body was interred in an unmarked grave,” Dobereiner wrote for The Observer after the June 1978 decision that Great Britain & Ireland needed help.

That much was true, and Dobereiner conceded as much. “I only wish they could provide a new trophy and a new name for this new competition,” he wrote.

Golf has never been terribly keen on change.

So the Ryder Cup as Dobereiner knew it died

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