BREAKING NEWS: Bethpage Black is REALLY hard.

Well, particularly, if you’re a gangly 6ft 3ins, fair-weather high-handicap golfer feeling very nervous with no warm-up in front of a Ryder Cup hero.

As Team Europe and Team USA prepare to tee it up at the notoriously beastly course in Long Island, SunSport tried its best to see what some of the world’s best golfers are in for.

What followed was nothing short of an embarrassment, a humiliation and serious question marks hang over me even being allowed on site in New York to cover this tantalising Ryder Cup as a reporter.

Much has been made of the selection for the upcoming Ryder Cup - both the location in New York and also the notorious course.

Two years on from Europe’s victory in the shadows of the Colosseum in Rome, Bethpage Black will

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