BETHPAGE, N.Y. — It never has been easy to win a Ryder Cup on foreign soil and Team Europe knows that’s not going to change this week in New York.

Golf’s most raucous affair begins Friday at Bethpage Black, where a win by the U.S. squad would mark a record-setting six home wins in a row for teams at the biennial event. It has been 13 years since a road team left with the trophy, the most recent being Europe’s 2012 Miracle at Medinah comeback win.

Without a doubt, the home crowd can play a role in the outcome and this week it’s quite likely no European players will have more to deal with than the Irish duo of Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry.

Two years ago in Italy, things took a strange turn when the Ryder Cup nearly ended with a fist fight in the parking lot with McIlroy and Lowry in the m

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