FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Rory McIlroy didn't get it quite right when he said winning the Ryder Cup on the road was one of the greatest accomplishments in golf. He left out “for the Americans.”

McIlroy offered this observation a month before the 2023 matches in Rome, and it made perfect sense. The Americans had gone 30 years since last winning the Ryder Cup on European soil . Does anyone think it will be any easier two years from now in Ireland?

Yes, it had been since 2012 that Europe won away from home. But that's only two road losses. One was at Hazeltine in 2016 with a team that had five rookies who never played another Ryder Cup. The other was at Whistling Straits in 2021 with a team in transition (four players in their 40s) and virtually no European fans because of COVID-19 trave

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