There’s been a lot of mileage out of just a two-foot putt,” he recently told Golfweek.
Back then, the team from over the pond was comprised of the best golfers from Great Britain and Ireland (players from continental Europe were added in 1979). The matches had been lopsided in favor of the U.S. heading into 1969, with the Americans winning 14 of the first 17 encounters. But in 1969, the match in England was a tense confrontation rife with controversy and marred by shredded nerves and frayed tempers.