Torrance is still deliberating whether to end his captaincy with that sweet victory at The Belfry.
Carved swags encircle the drum beneath the dome, reinforcing the free-standing columns that surround the belfry below.
He was impotent at The Belfry after Curtis Strange sent him out last.
"I always have a great buzz at The Belfry and maybe that's why it's going so well, " Casey said.
Graeme Storm, another Englishman, equalled The Belfry course record with an eight-under-par 64 to nestle amongst a group of players on six under.
So it was with great pleasure that my meeting with McGinley at the Belfry this week was a relaxed affair in familiar surroundings.
Mr. Torrance narrowed fairways, chopped the longer grass known as rough around the greens and added bunkers at The Belfry golf course in England.
The US has not won in Europe since The Belfry in 1993, one of three Ryder Cups in which Pavin appeared as a player.
Two years ago, ahead of Europe's triumph at The Belfry, Woods was quoted as saying the American Express Championship was more important than the Ryder Cup.
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The half-dozen columns supporting it recall those around the belfry outside, while a tall curtained arch framed by giant pilasters and entablature echoes the portico facade.
There are increasing fears that major golf venues like the Belfry near Sutton Coldfield may miss out on lucrative tournaments as the game's highest earners stay away.
The 46-year-old made his debut in the historic American loss at The Belfry in 1985 and played again at Muirfield Village in 1987 before a 12-year gap.
The likes of Carnoustie - the venue for the 2007 Open - St Andrews and Muirfield fall into the category of a links course while the Belfry, for example, does not.
Price, a Ryder Cup winner with Europe at the Belfry in 2002, needs a strong final round as he bids to move 26 places up the money list to 115th in order to retain his Tour card.
He was a member of the first European team in 1979 and was a key figure in its breakthrough victory at The Belfry in England in 1985, which was the first year the Americans did not win the title since 1957.
Martha had been supportive, not just understanding that Eva needed a hobby but getting it getting, without having to be told, the whole thing about the lighted church and the belfry and that magical resonance of the bells ringing out over the fields and the village green.
Phil Price was the last Welshman to play in a Ryder Cup - when he helped Europe beat the United States at The Belfry in 2002 - and he followed in the footsteps of fellow Welshmen Ian Woosnam, Brian Huggett, Dai Rees and Dave Thomas to play in the biennial showpiece.
It was a pagan desire, she thought, and it was a pagan place: a dark garden of yews and straggling roses and, at its center, the stone church, with its altar and its font and, above it all, the bells, suspended in the chill air of the belfry, heavy and still, waiting to be brought to life.
The heavy volumes of belfry and encircling columns recall Benjamin Latrobe's weighty towers on his Baltimore cathedral from a decade earlier.
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