
For 3 days, Ryder Mug fans make golf feel like football, shaking an usually solemn sport and also transforming a quiet fairway right into a jam-packed stadium. Ben Crenshaw knows that power well. A four-time Ryder Cup player-- as well as two-time Masters champion-- he was captain of the 1999 U. S. group that placed one of the greatest resurgences in the event's history. Down four factors heading right into the last day, Crenshaw's American squad rallied on Sunday at the Nation Club in Brookline, Mass., to win by one point.
"The ups and downs of the tone of the group is a remarkable point to enjoy," Crenshaw claimed. "Feelings can change extremely swiftly. As a player you know what's taking place. You type of sense it by instinct."
That mid-day in 1999, the vital shot was made by the American Justin Leonard that sank a 45-putt on the 17th opening at Brookline. The crowd erupted. "There was no one on the face of this planet that would certainly have provided Justin Leonard an opportunity to make that putt," Crenshaw claimed. "Seeing it enter, it resembled a lightening screw. We lost our composure. We had to excuse that. However it was simply in the moment."
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