CHASKA, Minn. –– At a Golf Channel taping of “Feherty Live: Countdown to the Ryder Cup” inside the quaint Orpheum Theater in downtown Minneapolis on Monday night, host David Feherty was reeling off some odd statistics to his guests, Davis Love III and Darren Clarke, captains of the 2016 U.S. and European Ryder Cup teams, respectively. The occasion? Believe it or not, the 41st Ryder Cup, to be staged at brawny Hazeltine National, is one year away.
Feherty, a Northern Irishman who now proudly proclaims his status as an American citizen, noted off the cuff that in the last 17 Ryder Cups, the U.