There simply weren’t enough feel-good stories for Jim Furyk at Le Golf National. In the news conference on Sunday night in Paris, There was a sense that Furyk and the Ryder Cup (air quotes) “Task Force” had failed. The scene wasn’t much different than the aftermath that followed either the massive or heartbreaking road losses in 2006, 2010 or 2014.
But in Furyk's defense, it wasn’t the captain’s fault that Masters champion Patrick Reed would lose his game during the FedExCup Playoffs and go 0-2 as Tiger Woods’ partner in the Ryder Cup, or that Woods would be a shell of himself just five days after his first PGA Tour victory in five years, or that 48-year-old Phil Mickelson would come out pointless in what was probably his last Ryder Cup as a player.