A few of our players were happier than they should have been. Harrington finally played the shot. He says, "I think all of you know I'm not a drinking man, but for this team, I'll do anything." That was the first I knew about playing Tiger. Allegations of cheating at a tournament on the precursor to the Asian Tour in 1985. It was funny. Who knows how many? Jeff Maggert/Hal Sutton, USA, 2 and 1, Darren Clarke/Lee Westwood, Europe, def. And Johnny's quote was, "I have a feeling he should've stayed home and sat on the couch, because he's not doing any good out there.". This is perfect." Julie Crenshaw: I happened to turn on the TV while we were getting ready. Apparently the guy has all kinds of badges -- NBA championships, that kind of stuff. Others did it together. I remember telling Jerry Higginbotham, who was working for Sergio [Garcia], "We're going to kick your ass tomorrow." Love: Justin ran straight to this TV guy [standing 25 feet left]. Just play your match. I birdied the next hole and won six, seven and eight to go 6 up. Jesper Parnevik, 3-1-1 As he got a little more dramatic, I noticed everyone was looking right at him. After two frustrating days of team play, the U.S. entered Sunday’s singles session trailing 10-6. All of a sudden, everything just flip-flopped. We had an instance [Saturday] when Davis and I were playing Jesper and Sergio. I said, "Bruce, I've been down in every match after the first hole. They emphasized there was going to be bleeding early on. They were going around the room that Saturday night and Tiger said, "See that can? Ken Brown (European vice captain): Everyone on our side was tired, but Parnevik looked the worst. Forget about that." Something like that. Europe You're going to win it. Colin Montgomerie/Paul Lawrie, Europe, 1-up, Darren Clarke/Lee Westwood, Europe, def. The 1999 Ryder Cup held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, caused great controversy. The 1999 Ryder Cup had a lasting impact on Tiger Woods thanks to Payne Stewart. What Ever Happened to Nikki DiSanto of 'The Big Br... 2002 Ryder Cup Winner, Match Scores, Player Records, 1999 Ryder Cup Winner, Match Scores, Player Records, 1997 Ryder Cup Winner, Match Scores, Player Records, 1995 Ryder Cup Winner, Match Scores, Player Records, 1993 Ryder Cup Winner, Match Scores, Player Records. My wife and I were sitting off to the side of the green toward the front -- I thought Mark had conceded Harrington's putt. He was standing on it the whole time. Paul Lawrie, 3-1-1 It was very unlike other Ryder Cups. Julie Crenshaw: I remember Katherine got into an accident on the way to the golf course. In 1979, Team Europe debuted in the Ryder Cup, replacing Team Great Britain & Ireland. That I was too lazy to walk 90 yards? I went up to have a look at the surface. Let's go have some fun." Jesper pitched in from 30 or 40 yards, and Sergio started running around. He was looking at it the way we were looking at it -- that they were going to lose the first six. That put the real pressure on Lehman [against Lee Westwood] and Sutton [against Darren Clarke] in the first two matches. I was nervous. Leonard: I didn't know about it until I got to the golf course Sunday morning. They needed to win 8 1/2 of 12 points to beat the Europeans, a total not achieved in the singles matches since the U.S. did it to win by six points in 1979. This time, the fall promised to hurt like no other. I saw no reason why we couldn't go over in the same van. Maggert was way behind against Lawrie. Brown: I tried to find a match where something good was happening -- it was a long way down the list. He tried so hard at Valderrama, but sometimes when you try that hard you get in the way of yourself. I walked to the side of the green -- I forgot he told me to hold the flag. Then she seemed to realize what she was doing and left. He was the funny guy, and there were guys who were serious and guys in between. The last 24 hours had unspooled an endless yarn of emotion, making a prophet of Crenshaw, turning a squad full of goats into American heroes. Andrew Coltart, 0-1-0 Miguel Angel Jimenez/Padraig Harrington, Europe, 1-up, Sergio Garcia/Jesper Parnevik, Europe, def. A re-telling of the epic tournament that took place at the 1999 Ryder Cup between the USA Team and the European Team. Hal Sutton, 3-1-1 Ben Crenshaw: It was a collective effort. I just love him. Whether you’re battling your best mate or arch nemesis, the Brookline performance polo will be placing you in the history books with legendary status. He had gotten himself together. Media Format : Color, NTSC. We did a bunch of stuff with the family, which looking back now was the greatest thing we could have done. Mickelson: I turned and grabbed [wife] Amy's face and said, "We won!" James: It's something that shouldn't have happened, and they pretty much agree. I remember getting all the way to the green and Harrington was still at his ball. The ball was tracking and I started following it -- when it went in, I jumped in the air and ran right to the next tee. Approximately 20 times, and then stored it away. He does this "Deliverance" thing where he puts his hat on sideways and says, "Tom, they say you kiss the best, but now you've gotta go out there and kick some tail." You could see O'Meara pacing. You have to go to the source, however, and Jose said it was wrong, shameful, unsportsmanlike, whatever, but he also said it had no bearing on the outcome of his putt whatsoever. It didn't really look too good for Team USA heading into the final round of the 1999 Ryder Cup … I missed a short putt on 11, then I lost the next two holes. I said, "We can take care of that." *Just when the Ryder Cup seems incapable of taking drama to a higher level, something even more extraordinary unfolds, making 1999's Battle of Brookline a … Montgomerie: I've said a lot of things in my life, but I'm not stupid enough to say that. Trailing 10-6 after two days of uninspired play at The Country Club, ambushed by a European team many considered the ultimate underdog, a rattled United States squad stood at the precipice of its third consecutive loss. When I got to 17, I was wondering if that green was the same way. This time, the turning point wasn't on the golf course. I'm thinking, "Oh, I've got a team with such young wives; they didn't know they were supposed to give me that silver box." My shoulder was bothering me. I was trying not to make a mistake. It looked like he didn't realize what he'd done. Furyk: We were hanging out around the 18th green, and after Payne conceded his match to Monty, the crowd started closing in on us, the green started getting smaller and smaller. Life is short. It was a pretty amazing thing. Jean van de Velde, 0-1-0 I didn't make a big issue out of it, but I hit a poor second shot, ended up short of the green and pitched it up to about six feet. Furyk: I went from being really upset to thinking maybe we've got a strategy. Paul Lawrie: Some of our team felt the job was done. Shot: Infamous 'guy in the red shirt' from '99. I didn't think it was very short 20 years ago. Colin Montgomerie: We'd done a hell of a job to get 10-6 up. What happened shouldn't have happened, but it did. He had this grin on his face, shaking his head, like, "I can't believe he just made that." I bawled like a baby. Let's go." The United States swept the first six matches to take a 12-10 lead. Following the Team USA victory, the all-time standings were 24 wins for the United States, seven wins for Europe, and two draws. At the time, no Ryder Cup team had ever rallied to win from four points down in the Sunday matches. Riefke (Leonard's caddie): Seventeen was a putt you knew you were going to have at some point during the week, about 45 feet up the hill. He knew what he wanted to say, but I think he was trying too hard and got emotionally charged up about it. Love: He has more fun than people would expect, playing video games with Katherine Crenshaw [the Crenshaws' 11-year-old daughter], goofing around with O'Meara and some of the girls. Maggert: It was kind of surreal. Let's bring back the Cup for the people up there.". Ryder Cup Trivia. Furyk: Pate started off and said something really sarcastic, kind of a smart-ass comment, and it got us laughing, because that's his role. GOLF DIGEST MAY EARN A PORTION OF SALES FROM PRODUCTS THAT ARE PURCHASED THROUGH OUR SITE AS PART OF OUR AFFILIATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH RETAILERS. I went back five minutes later, and I guess he figured I wasn't going to give up, so he got out of bed. I felt the urge to watch him celebrate afterward, and he became a little more outgoing. He gets in the cart and heads back to the tee. Lehman: I made a 30-footer for birdie on 14 to go 4 up. Then Harrington walked to the green and was checking out the cup. He badly neede. The behavior of the American team and American fans was the subject of much criticism during and after the 1999 Ryder Cup, and not just the celebratory scrum by Team USA following Leonard's putt. One man did: Ben Crenshaw. Like putting a recipe together, you throw in a little of this, a little of that. Then I hit a good drive on 13 and Jose hit a quick hook. I'd never seen so much red in my life. I didn't do anything stupid -- I played my game and won a hole. -- President George W. Bush __ Love: We were getting P.F. Maggert: It might have been just one or two words, but it seemed like everybody in that room had one line that lifted us just a little. The competition format predominantly used from 1987 to 1999 was as follows: . I don't want to cramp your style." But I got there early enough so I could hang for a little bit, then I tried to use it as motivation. It was disrespectful to him, even though it was unintentional. Payne was doing everything he could to keep the people in line. Just swished it. Lehman: What I felt worst about was the fact that Jose Maria is one of the classiest guys in golf. Lehman: When I got to him on 12, Justin had a really good look on his face. Then I lifted the trophy over my head and said, "Let's raise the trophy to the two guys who have meant the most to Davis. Coltart: I have absolutely no doubt that I was being directed to a very strange place -- where people were pointing was almost like a rock face. 1999. He said, "Well, we need everything we can get.". We all do things in our career we shouldn't do. Sutton: First hole, I hit the green about 20 feet left and [Clarke] misses 25 yards right. Jim Furyk is a big Pittsburgh Steelers fan, so we had a clip from their coach [Bill Cowher]. I kept telling Justin, it's only going to take one shot to rattle this guy -- I knew Olazabal's tendencies. Vijay Singh has had a long and very successful career as a pro golfer, including three major championships and a 2004 season in which he won nine times on the PGA Tour. Actually, he did more than the right thing. Sergio Garcia, Europe, 4 and 3, Paul Lawrie, Europe def. Team Europe's rookies included Sergio Garcia and Padraig Harrington. He ain't sleeping. Furyk: There were videotapes every night. We're both putting for par. Julie Crenshaw: So Steve brought him in and we were making him take shots. Higginbotham: Bruce doesn't let it go that easy. I wasn't pacing yardage at all. It's hard to lose a ball in a tournament, never mind a Ryder Cup, but it happened. Right on my backswing, somebody said something. James: The decisions all week were not made by me talking to one or two guys in a corner. Andrew Coltart: I was walking to our van when Tom Lehman came out and got in with me. Coltart: I got an amazing reception on the first tee. This was the first time I thought there was a problem. She was a controversial figure for viewers, polarizing for fans. It brought home how much pressure there was and how uncomfortable a feeling it was. I was like 3 up after six. I know what I'm going to say." It was one of the greatest moments I've had in golf. Jim Furyk/Phil Mickelson, USA, Justin Leonard/Davis Love III, USA, halved with Colin Montgomerie/Paul Lawrie, Europe, Miguel Angel Jimenez/Jose Maria Olazabal, Europe, def. We had to wait a minute or two before we could play. He wished his dad could have been there to see him play. Olazabal: It was that incident that somehow ... "spoiled" isn't the word. Montgomerie: I'll always have great respect for Payne Stewart. He took a lot of time off. Parnevik: I had so many American friends who apologized to me for being Americans that day. It wasn't some lag putt that just happens to go in. 10!" He never lost faith." Consecutive Seasons Winning on PGA Tour: The All-T... PGA Tour Westchester Classic (Buick Classic), 1991 Ryder Cup Winner, Match Scores, Player Records, 1989 Ryder Cup Winner, Match Scores, Player Records, Golfer Dan Sikes: 'Unsung Hero' of U.S. Then he left. Those two points became critical. Coltart: I was at the side of the green when Mark holed the putt for 4. When Mark made his, I thought the hole was finished and we were moving on [to the 18th tee]. Darren Clarke, Lee Westwood, Europe, 3 and 2, Sergio Garcia/Jesper Parnevik, Europe, def. Sergio was one of the worst. I looked at them and said, "I can't talk to you guys." It appears on every page of golfcompendium.com. Darren Clarke/Lee Westwood, Europe, 2 and 1, Sergio Garcia/Jesper Parnevik, Europe, halved with Davis Love III/David Duval, USA, Justin Leonard/Hal Sutton, USA, halved with Miguel Angel Jimenez/Jose Maria Olazabal, Europe, Paul Lawrie/Colin Montgomerie, Europe, def. THE 1999 RYDER CUP. George W. Bush, then governor of Texas, sparked the team with his Alamo speech. After a five-minute search, Coltart's ball was not found, dropping him to 3 down against Woods, who won the match on the 16th green. I could hear people talking, getting lathered up. That got us rolling. Lawrie: I remember Mark and Sam [vice captain Torrance] were very adamant: Don't watch the board. The next day, friends in the gallery were saying, "I heard about your speech last night." Ben Crenshaw: There was some funny stuff, some serious stuff -- it kept your emotions going. They look like Domino's pizzas with everything but the anchovies." Tom Lehman/Tiger Woods, USA, 2 and 1, Davis Love III/Payne Stewart, USA, halved with Padraig Harrington/Miguel Angel Jimenez, Europe, Jeff Maggert/Hal Sutton, USA, def. Payne Stewart, 0-2-1 Love: They had a big scoreboard on the driving range with all the matches. The Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. Golf Tours, 1987 Ryder Cup Winner, Match Scores, Player Records, 1985 Ryder Cup Winner, Match Scores, Player Records, Bonnie Bryant, LPGA's First Left-Handed Winner. Davis Love III: On Saturday night, we finished right before dark and had a little meeting to decide where everybody should play. Golfers getting naked — on camera. A pivotal moment occurred when Woods and Coltart, playing in the fifth pairing, reached the ninth tee. The improbable U.S. victory sent a mass of humanity rumbling toward the clubhouse, where the celebration truly began. Justin Leonard, 0-1-3 Payne Stewart, USA, 1-up, Jim Furyk, USA, def. I didn't want to three-putt the darn thing, so I cozied it down there and barely missed on the low side -- it goes about 18 inches past. There was silence. I am not getting up." The 33rd Ryder Cup Matches, also known as the "Battle of Brookline", were a golf competition held September 24–26, 1999, in the United States at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb southwest of Boston. To search Golf Compendium, look for the little magnifying glass icon in the upper right. These are the people I spend the most time with. But he had on a red shirt, and I was like a bull. I got back early, went right in and dived into the food, grabbed a plate and sat down at the end of this giant table for 20. While every Ryder Cup has been freighted with misadventure, the 33rd match between the USA and Europe at Brookline was weighed down by the excess baggage of controversy and chicanery more damagingly than any other tournament I’ve covered. Let's lift the trophy to the heavens. I wasn't going to let Tiger see me hiding. Johnny was very negative toward us. I thought it was fantastic. If I was ever quoted as saying it was over, it was rubbish. Crenshaw: I just could not believe Mark James sent them out three in a row. I was trying to say, "I've seen some really good golf out of my team. Love: Everybody starts piling in back at the hotel, saying, "Did you see what he said?" Tiger Woods, 2-3-0, Previous and next: and high-fiving each other. It was a nice way to meet the day. So it's like one shot. O'Meara: I thought I showed good sportsmanship. If my ball had gone up there, it would've had to come back down, too, but they kept sending us farther and farther up the hill. And then he downed the shot of tequila. America's top-heavy lineup was decimating the weary Europeans, turning the left side of the scoreboard into a blaze of Old Glory. I slept very well that night. Love: It was the way he ran at the TV guy -- it kind of sucked everybody off the front of the green and everybody from the back. So we bought it and wrapped it in the worst brown paper you can imagine. We're on our hands and knees looking near this rock face. Suddenly we were one behind, not four in front. Bruce Lietzke: Those were like three automatic points to me -- they were going against Mickelson, Love and Tiger. We know comfort is King when it comes to polo shirts and our performance fabric will keep you cool and crinkle … Miller: If there was a moment in my TV career I wish I could do over, it would be the Justin Leonard comment. Tiger's real quiet. Love: I was at the front of the green, because I'd been following Justin; everybody else was behind the green. Some cried alone. Hang onto my hand as hard as you can." Justin looked at me and and we both sort of said, "OK." So Phil sat in a dead silence with his head down, concentrating, seeing the vision of us winning. Ben and I both said, "We've got to get this for Tiger!" Melissa Lehman: He gave this speech about the Alamo, but it wasn't any one thing that was said. We had about 20 people up there, and I thought it might cave in. I have a beer now and then. I was gonna hole it. Olazabal: It was a huge putt, a very long putt. I've been out here since No. Golf Digest spoke at length with 37 key figures: all 11 surviving members of the U.S. team, European captain Mark James and members of his team, players' wives and caddies, Ben and Julie Crenshaw, and U.S. assistant captains Bruce Lietzke and Bill Rogers. Jean Van de Velde: I didn't want to be in one of the last groups. Jean Van de Velde, Europe, 6 and 5, Tiger Woods, USA, def. The great thing about match play is, you can tell a lot about your opponent by the way he acts before you tee off. I was surprised, and it was generous of Mark to give it to me under the circumstances, but on any other day, you're going to tell the guy to pick it up. O'Meara: I think he's slowly accepting the responsibility of being a leader, a guy who needs to stand up and make the call so young players can rally around him. Tom Lehman, 2-1-0 That was the last time I saw him. I wouldn't have dreamt of going on the green at that stage. There were so many things the guys really enjoyed, and that was one of them. Harrington: At that point, Mark James appeared. O'Meara: I was one of the last players to run down the side of the green, just off the edge of the fringe. Brown: There were a lot of tears on our side. Eventually, they said, "Sorry, your five minutes are up." The course has previously hosted three PGA Championships (2004 won by Vijay Singh, 2010 won by Martin Kaymer and 2015 won by Jason Day). Then I realized by his expression that it wasn't over, that we needed to get back. Hal says, "Hey, I invented that! I'm doing everything I possibly can to keep him focused. We sent her back to the clubhouse until she felt ready to go out. Ben had the idea of doing a patriotic movie clip, which starts with George C. Scott in "Patton." So Ashley Sutton gives me this golf broach. I mean, the American players didn't like them, either, but we didn't want to hear them saying that. Pate: I was sitting there in pain, and I wanted to go get my back worked on. Just an amazing group. note: This remembrance is the second in a series to highlight noteworthy Ryder Cup matches, during the week the biennial event was to be played at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin. Then Justin putted before Ollie on the next hole and made it for birdie. I didn't think it was a big deal, and I hope they didn't think it was, either. Colin Montgomerie, 3-1-1 Steve Pate/Tiger Woods, USA, 2 and 1, Tom Lehman, USA, def. (Had the score ended in a 14-14 draw, Europe, as the defending champion, would have retained the Cup.). I know he started getting prepared a couple of weeks before, but after all that time off, he didn't do his best. Lehman: I was nervous, being first off. Something like that can put you over the top. David Duval: Our best guess was that they were gonna go from strongest to weakest, period. Hal was the same way. Steve Pate: I was putting pretty well that week, but I couldn't hit the clubface. 55 LOGO GOLF BALLS - COLLECTION, RARE, Congressional, US Open, Ryder Cup, Pebble Sutton: Tiger always seems guarded, but he didn't seem guarded sitting on that piano. He never lost faith. Wednesday night at the gala, she's in a long dress, he's in his tux, and they're playing. That was the first time all week a ball had reacted like that. Sutton: Darren was a gentleman. I couldn't help but look over at Jose. Click that icon and type in your search term. Julie Crenshaw: How brilliant was that? He had trouble focusing. When it got on top of the hill and started moving, I knew it was pretty good. Lawrie: In the team room Friday night, James apologized to the three guys who hadn't played that day and said, "I'm really sorry, but it doesn't look like you'll play tomorrow. Format. That's the way I look at it. Ben Crenshaw: Lehman was getting stretched in the back of the locker room. -- Caddie Ricci Roberts __ Coltart: I'm not sure someone stood on it, but it was half under the ground just off the fairway, maybe 20 yards from where they sent us to look. I found myself leaning on my club and looking at the board more than I was hitting balls. He said it as sort of a joke, and we had heard about it. We look back at the 1999 Ryder Cup at Brookline, dubbed the "Battle of Brookline". We all said, "Hey, if we're going to win this thing, we're gonna have to get on them early and get on them hard.". I go back there and put my hand on his chest, and I say, "Big Tom, we put you in this position [the first match] because we believe in you." His face was a picture. Profile of Colleen Walker, LPGA Major Winner, 2008 Ryder Cup Winner, Match Scores, Player Records. She came to the first tee shaking. Mark gave Padraig his putt, which was the right thing to do, given what Tom had just done. She had that doe-eyed look on her face, and then she burst out crying. Right when I sat down, Ben started shaking his finger, saying, "I'm going to leave you with one final thought ... ". We went up to the team room, and that's when I really started to believe, "Hey, this could really happen.". After we got done reading the putt, I was thinking it was a perfect read. Hicks (Stewart's caddie): The abuse from the gallery on Colin was bad -- it was awful. Everybody talks about four points. I really don't know why -- I certainly wasn't. his Uncle Sam hat and chili-pepper pants. So I got back to the tee and hit another drive, and lo and behold, the first ball appears. With Mike Aitken, Jim Awtrey, Chris Bower, Clifton Brown. Darren Clarke, 2-3-0 (Payne Stewart, for example, suggested that the European players ought to be the Americans' caddies.). Lawrie: A lot of players were crying. Mickelson: I felt bad for Jarmo, Van de Velde and Coltart, because they'd played some great golf throughout the year to make the team, then didn't get the chance to showcase their abilities. Jose Maria Olazabal, 1-0-2 That got as loud a roar as anything on the golf course. Two down at the time, Coltart drove his ball into the rough. Parnevik: When they start screaming, "Shank it, you fat pig! I remember Davis' reaction when Ben started wagging his finger, which is so uncharacteristic of him. Leonard, winless in six Ryder Cup matches in his career coming in, trailed Olazabal 4-up after 11 holes. NBC tried to get into our room. They didn't want Justin to be out there all by himself getting crushed, getting beat and picked on. I realized it was my match or Justin's, and that if I could finish Padraig off, we'd win. The rest of us just kind of sat around. It was strange -- just him and me chatting, then he got up and walked out just as Darren Clarke was getting in. If he'd holed his putt, I don't know what would have happened. Then we saw their lineup a while later, and that wasn't the case. I want you to know I love this man.". I knew him, but I didn't know him like that. Let's go out and whup some ass tomorrow." Before Darren and Hal left the green, Bruce Edwards charged across the green screaming his head off.
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