GREATEST TEAM OF ALL TIME
Bjorn hails Ryder Cup heroes... but now he has to get a tattoo!
VICTORIOUS Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn hailed his magnificent team as the greatest European side of all last night — but was left cursing the one mistake he made all week.
The big Dane had told his team that if they won by a large margin he would get a tattoo done of the scoreline, and his team-mates left him in no doubt they expect him to keep his side of the bargain after their 17½-10½ thrashing of the Americans.
‘What I will say is that it will be going on a part of my body that only
Grace (his partner) will see,’ said Bjorn. ‘That was definitely the worst decision I made this Ryder Cup.’ ‘No, it was the best,’ teased Sergio Garcia, who won his singles to become the all-time leading Ryder Cup points scorer. Modest Italian Francesco Molinari clinched the winning point to become the first European to win five matches out of five. ‘This was even better than winning the Open in July,’ he said. For Bjorn, the victory felt extra-special after his four wildcard picks all showed their class, with Garcia, Poulter and Henrik Stenson winning their singles matches and Paul Casey chipping in with a half-point. ‘I’m not very good at maths but I think if you add up the points they contributed over the three days, it probably comes to the difference between the two teams,’ he explained. ‘I think I’m entitled to say I got it right.’ Opposite number Jim Furyk was dignified to the end. ‘We got beaten by a better team and Thomas was a better captain,’ said the American.