The moment it was announced that Team US would receive money for playing in the Ryder Cup , an undercurrent of unease arose between the two countries on either side of the Atlantic. The Ryder Cup has always been about nation and pride, but the US’s stance for more than two decades has somehow faltered towards a personal payment. Whether they are right or wrong to demand so is subjective, but one can’t deny that it has, somewhere or other, sown cracks in the spirit of the biggest showdown in Golf. Now that team Europe is finally in New York, with a few days remaining for the battle at Bethpage, Captain Luke Donald made his stance quite clear.

Donald, speaking to Sky Sports , pointed out that money is not part of his team’s motivation. “I wanted to get ahead of it and…talk to the 12

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