united states has scored the most points in the ryder cup.
united states has scored the most points in the ryder cup.
who has scored the most points in the ryder cup?
united states
despite his outstanding success on the pga tour, woods had little success in the ryder cup early in his career. in his first ryder cup in 1997, he earned only 1½ points competing in every match and partnering mostly with mark o'meara. costantino rocca defeated woods in his singles match. in 1999, he earned 2 points over every match with a variety of partners. in 2002, he lost both friday matches, but, partnered with davis love iii for both of saturday's matches, won two points for the americans, and was slated to anchor the americans for the singles matches, both squads going into sunday with 8 points. however, after the europeans took an early lead, his match with jesper parnevik was rendered unimportant and they halved the match. in 2004, he was paired with phil mickelson on friday but lost both matches, and only earned one point on saturday. with the americans facing a 5–11 deficit, he won the first singles match, but the team was not able to rally. in 2006, he was paired with jim furyk for all of the pairs matches, and they won two of their four matches. woods won his singles match, one of only three americans to do so that day. woods missed the 2008 ryder cup competition altogether, as he was recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee. despite woods' absence, the united states team posted its largest margin of victory in the event since 1981. in 2010, woods had a successful ryder cup going 3–1–0. he played all team matches with steve stricker and defeated francesco molinari 4&3 in his singles match where he made 9 birdies. however, europe won in a very close match, 14.5 to 13.5. in 2012, paired again with stricker, both players struggled going 0–3–0 together for the week. for the first time in his career, woods would sit out a session in the ryder cup. himself and stricker were the only americans who did not have a point going into the sunday singles. in his singles match against francesco molinari, woods was 1 up on the 18th fairway. after seeing martin kaymer clinch the ryder cup for europe, woods conceded the hole after missing his par putt. he would halve the match giving europe the outright victory, and finish his week at 0–3–1. in 2018, woods was initially named a vice-captain by jim furyk. despite only playing half as many events as his peers, woods still finished 11th in the final standings and was subsequently chosen as a captain's pick. paired with patrick reed for the two four-ball sessions, they lost each time to tommy fleetwood and francesco molinari, who went 4–0 together for team europe, with molinari going 5–0 at the event. in his saturday afternoon foursome match, he again lost to the european duo, paired this time with bryson dechambeau. woods would also go on to lose his singles match to jon rahm 2&1 to mark the first time in his career that he lost every match he played in one ryder cup tournament. europe would defeat united states by a score of 17.5 to 10.5. in the 8 ryder cups that woods competed in from 1997 to 2018, he won 14.5 points from a possible 37.
professional golf career of tiger woods
rocca was the first italian to play for europe in the ryder cup, and remained the only italian to do so until 2010, when francesco molinari qualified for the ryder cup held in celtic manor and edoardo molinari was a captain's pick. he appeared in 1993, 1995 and 1997, and had a 6-5-0 win-loss-half record, including 1 win and 2 losses in singles matches. that one singles win came in a crucial match against tiger woods in the 1997 ryder cup at valderrama, which rocca won 4 & 2 to help europe claim the cup. the victory against woods was one of woods' first losses in singles play. his 53% winning record in the cup is one of the best in european team history. during the 1995 ryder cup, rocca made a hole-in-one on oak hill's sixth hole, only the third ace in ryder cup history. in 1999, rocca almost qualified for the ryder cup again after he won the west of ireland golf classic.
costantino rocca