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/ 24 September 2006
Europe retained the Ryder Cup in emphatic style on Sunday as they beat the United States by a record-equalling 18-1/2 points to 9-1/2 at the K Club to claim the trophy for a third successive time. Swedish rookie Henrik Stenson had the honour of clinching the point that guaranteed victory before the Europeans completed a memorable week with their best-ever performance in the last-day singles.
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/ 24 September 2006
Although American Stewart Cink won the first point in the last-day singles, holders Europe were cruising to Ryder Cup victory at the K Club on Sunday. Colin Montgomerie beat David Toms one up in the top match to maintain his remarkable eight-match unbeaten singles record in the biennial competition and stretch Europe’s lead to 11-7.
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/ 23 September 2006
Europe, inspired by an irrepressible Sergio Garcia and a hole-in-one from Paul Casey, charged into a 10-6 lead over the United States on Saturday. Garcia made it four wins from four matches this week and a remarkable eight out of eight in his foursomes career when he and Luke Donald eased past Phil Mickelson and David Toms 2 & 1 at the K Club.
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/ 23 September 2006
World number one Tiger Woods lost his second successive match as holders Europe grabbed a 7,5-3,5 lead after three of the four morning fourballs of the Ryder Cup on Saturday. Woods was well below his best on Friday and again sprayed the ball all over the K Club course on the second day as he and Jim Furyk were beaten 3 & 2 by wildcards Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood.
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/ 22 September 2006
Tiger Woods again struggled to transfer his imperious tournament form into the team test of the Ryder Cup on Friday, but this time managed to emerge with a point from the opening fourballs match. In the previous three Ryder Cups the world number one had lost in opening pairs play but stopped the rot on Friday when he partnered Jim Furyk.
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/ 21 September 2006
He’s made all the right noises and done all the proper things — all that’s left now for Tiger Woods is to deliver when it matters most at the Ryder Cup. The world’s foremost golfer clearly wants to erase the one blemish he has on his peerless track record and he has decided that now is the time and the K-Club outside Dublin is the place to do it.
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/ 20 September 2006
A disgruntled Tiger Woods has lashed out at a pornographic website for publishing false links to his Swedish wife Elin, a former model. ”It’s unacceptable and I don’t want it to detract from this event,” the American world number one told a news conference on Wednesday in the build-up to this week’s Ryder Cup at the K Club in County Kildare.
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/ 20 September 2006
Fears that the 36th Ryder Cup could be disrupted by bad weather mounted on Wednesday when gale force winds forced organisers to close the K Club course to spectators and non-essential staff. Both the European and United States teams were forced to remain in their locker rooms as practice rounds scheduled for the morning were postponed.
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/ 19 September 2006
Ian Woosnam gave a first hint of his Ryder Cup thinking on Tuesday morning at the K-Club when he sent out his six pairings for the first fourballs practice session. Woosnam teamed up veteran Colin Montgomerie with Englishman David Howell in his first group, allying the Scot’s huge experience in the competition with the Englishman’s fine recent form.