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Lee Westwood enters Ryder Cup on verge of history (The Associated Press)

Related Topics: Lee Westwood, Ryder Cup, Nick Faldo

CHASKA, Minn. (AP) -- Over the last two decades of European dominance in the Ryder Cup, perhaps no player has personified the team's seemingly baffling advantage over the Americans more than Lee Westwood.

When the individual sport adopts the team dynamic for one weekend every two years, the 43-year-old Englishman who has never won a major championship almost always seems to rise to the occasion.

He enters his 10th Ryder Cup with a 20-15-6 record, having felled some of the biggest American stars along the way. He needs 2 1/2 points to surpass Nick Faldo - Westwood's first partner back in 1997 - for the most career Ryder Cup points.