Forget the cheap $130 green fees or the fact that Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open here in 2022. The first thing any amateur golfer in Farmingdale, New York, will tell you about Bethpage Black is to check out for the warning sign.

It reads: "WARNING -- Bethpage Black is an extremely difficult course which we recommend only for highly skilled golfers."

It is an omen to any player out on one of the most unique courses in the U.S., and none more so than the stars on Team Europe and Team USA battling it out for the 45th 2025 Ryder Cup this weekend.

Not many courses are made like this one. For a start, it is a publicly owned municipal course, one of five in the Bethpage State Park, meaning that when it was designed, they didn't need to make it super playable -- everyday members wouldn't want to

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