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For first time ever, U.S. is underdog

By Ron Sirak
GolfDigest.com

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

The best thing the United States has going for it in this Ryder Cup is the fact it's played on grass. On paper, the U.S. team doesn't have a chance, which is sort of scary because the European side has, for the past 10 competitions at least, always had the intangibles on its side. Suddenly, those seven European victories in the past 10 competitions no longer appear as aberrations but rather as an established indication of the relative strength of the two sides in team competition. Consider thi ...

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