FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Two days into what is proving to be a bloodletting at previously indomitable Bethpage Black, the United States Ryder Cup team sits 7 points in the negative (11.5 to 4.5) necessitating quite literally the greatest comeback in the history of the event in order to avoid its most embarrassing performance out of 45 iterations of this grand, biennial golf celebration, which dates back to 1927.

Barring something miraculous (for the Americans) and/or calamitous (for the Europeans), this Ryder Cup is a wrap. Europe has won the Ryder Cup just four times on U.S. soil (1987, 1995, 2004, 2012), but a fifth conquest appears inevitable.

Sunday may well amount to a six-hour celebratory strut for Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm, Justin Rose, Shawn Lowry, captain Luke Donald a

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