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...Massachusetts the U.S. squad is again very, very heavily favored. It includes the world's top players--No. 1 Woods, No. 2 David Duval, No. 4 Davis Love III (if his balky back permits) and reigning U.S. Open champ Payne Stewart. The only marquee names on the Euros' bags are current Masters champ Jose Maria Olazabal and the blustery Scot Colin Montgomerie. Stewart told Golf Digest, "On paper, they shouldn't [even] be caddying...
...hole a shoot-out--and many of the U.S. pros do not. The ever helpful Monty explained, "We all come from more of a teamlike society than the Americans. They are brought up to be individuals, which isn't wrong of course. It's just the way they are." Duval can only counter with, "I don't see it as the be-all, end-all," and Woods has said of his Ryder experience, "I played in only one and didn't enjoy it at all." Small wonder. He won only one of his five matches at Valderrama...
Several U.S. pros, Woods and Duval among them, have been griping that they aren't fairly compensated to be embarrassed like that. Well, they're not. Twenty years ago, these matches had no commercial value. Now sources say the event will generate $63 million in revenues, some $17 million of which will go to the PGA of America and $5 million to $6 million of which will go to the host club. The U.S. players, meanwhile, each get a $5,000 stipend, which is clearly unfair, whether they plan to invest it in more greater-Orlando real estate...
...more than enough to thrill recalcitrant players like David Duval and Tiger Woods, who had made this the hardest America's Team to like this side of the old Dallas Cowboys with their griping that they didn't even get out of bed for $5,000, so why should they play golf for the U.S. for that paltry stipend? Team captain Ben Crenshaw was very publicly not amused, and the whole controversy threatened to wreck a team so clearly superior to its European opponents that member Payne Stewert told Golf Digest "On paper, they shouldn't (even) be caddying...
...Sunday all the fighting was forgotten. Here was Duval pumping his fists and playing to the crowd as he dominated his European opponent. There was Woods spraying champagne with Leonard on the 18th green. And there was Crenshaw failing to hold back the tears after the victory. "I never stopped believing," he said, and neither did his players, for whom Samuel Ryder's 17-inch gold trophy, at least on this Sunday afternoon, was priceless...