ATLANTA (AP) -- Here's one argument against the notion that money is ruining golf: The PGA Tour is playing for $69 million over the final month, and all anyone seems to care about is an exhibition that doesn't pay a dime.
Maybe it would be different if the Americans had won the Ryder Cup more than twice over the last 20 years.
They have stopped at nothing this time in a desperate bid to get it right, even though the outcome can easily hinge on a 45-foot putt like the one Justin Leonard made in 1999 at Brookline and Justin Rose made in 2012 at Medinah.