RYDER CUP TEE ROOM

BLOOD BOTHER

BROOKS KOEPKA was shaken after his wayward drive on the fifth left a female fan poleaxed with blood running from her face. Such things are likely to happen on a tight course with 50,000 people watching. The woman was bandaged (right) and taken to hospital but discharged without serious injury.

EISENHOWER POWER

MUCH has been made of how the Americans have only played this course eight times between them as professionals compared to the Europeans’ 233. But the player on either side with the oldest memory of Le Golf National is Tiger Woods, who helped the USA lift the amateur Eisenhower Trophy back in 1994 when he was 18. RECOGNISED by the crowds yesterday were Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and current French No 1 Lucas Pouille from France’s main summer sport of tennis. Walking around unbothered was the ever low-profile figure of Stefan Edberg, supporting fellow Swede Henrik Stenson.

STEADY, EDDIE

IT IS a shame that world No 49 Eddie Pepperell did not make the European team, if only for his tweets. At the height of yesterday afternoon’s beatdown he said on social media: ‘The last time I felt this excited was on Tuesday, when I was in Ann Summers.’ IN the end, only two of yesterday’s eight contests went all the way to the impressive 18th hole. It is a fitting setting for a climactic finish, although figures from the last three Ryder Cups show that on average only 10 of the 28 matches ever make it that far.