Group Europe captain Luke Donald stated Thursday he wasn’t taking a swipe at the USA squad when he stated the Ryder Cup “isn’t about prize cash or world rating factors. It is about delight.”
This 12 months, U.S. gamers are getting $300,000 every to donate to charity together with a $200,000 stipend, which they’ve stated they will additionally donate. Donald’s gamers don’t get something.
“It wasn’t directed on the U.S.,” Donald stated. “My speech was directed at my gamers. I wrote that speech six months in the past. We’ve been very constant the place we stand and what we play for. We’re not involved about what the U.S. are doing.”
U.S. captain Keegan Bradley additionally clarified remarks he made Wednesday, his a few Ryder Cup that occurred greater than 25 years in the past.
Bradley stated Thursday he made an “trustworthy mistake” when he stated European stalwart Justin Rose’s identify when he meant Justin Leonard, the American who sank the successful putt in 1999.
The blunder got here as Bradley was telling a narrative about how, as a younger golf fan, he was close to the seventeenth inexperienced in Brookline, Massachusetts, when Leonard made the 45 footer. Besides, he slipped and stated Rose had made it.
“Anyone yelled out Justin Rose proper earlier than I learn it and stated it,” Bradley stated. “I did not even know till I used to be achieved.”
Data from The Related Press was used on this report.
