The European Tour rocks on until early December, the Presidents Cup and RyderCupmatches trade midautumn time slots in alternate years, and Asian tours are picking up steam.
As late as 1997, Sports Illustrated paid big money for 20 VIP seats for clients to travel on the Concorde to Spain with the U.S. RyderCup team for the matches at Valderrama.
Miguel Angel Jimenez's awesome recovery from the sand trap at the sweet 16th nudged him towards a first full RyderCup point in eight matches since 2004 - finished off beautifully at the signature 18th with a textbook birdie.
In 1987 Ballesteros began what became the most successful partnership in RyderCup history -- out of 15 matches together, he and Olazabal won 11, halved two and lost two.