GOLF | DAVID WALSH
US are overwhelming favourites to win the Ryder Cup – but Ian Poulter gives us hope
Two interviews may hold clues that we could yet have an upset to rival the Miracle of Medinah
The Sunday Times
There are things that cannot be forgotten. At Medinah Country Club on a Saturday afternoon in late September 2012, I followed the last four-balls match in that Ryder Cup. Rory McIlroy and Ian Poulter against Jason Dufner and Zach Johnson. The American pair were two up with six to play and it looked like their team would take an 11-5 lead into the singles.
That would have been too great a deficit. McIlroy made birdie on 13 to keep the lead down to two holes and then Poulter morphed into some kind of golfing god. He birdied the closing five holes and won a match that had been lost.
“We have a pulse,” Poulter said after walking off the 18th green, referring to the Europe