{"id":63684,"date":"2025-08-12T09:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63684\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:59:12","slug":"legends-of-the-ryder-cup-golf-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63684\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends of the Ryder Cup | Golf | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT IS A question sure to trigger a thousand flashbacks in the minds of golf lovers the world over.<\/p>\n<p>What single moment in the 98-year history of the Ryder Cup best encapsulates its sheer magic?<\/p>\n<p>Is it Jack Nicklaus\u2019 1969 concession of a slippery three-foot putt to Tony Jacklin at Royal Birkdale, dubbed one of the greatest acts of sportsmanship as the transatlantic contest ended in a first tie?<\/p>\n<p>Or Sam Torrance standing arms aloft in the lengthening shadows of The Belfry\u2019s 18th green in 1985, his match-winning putt \u2013 \u201cnot a million miles away\u201d as Peter Allis assured enthralled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/bbc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> viewers \u2013 nestling in the cup?<\/p>\n<p>What about Jose Maria Olazabal\u2019s impromptu Flamenco dance at Muirfield Village two years on, amid the Champagne-drenched celebration of a first European win on US soil?<\/p>\n<p>We could go on. And on, and on. Legends everywhere you look \u2013 and we celebrate them in this Daily Mirror special edition as Europe and the USA prepare to do battle again at Bethpage Black in New York towards the end of September in golf\u2019s greatest event.<\/p>\n<p>The great Tom Watson once said: \u201cThe Ryder Cup creates idols. It creates legends. It creates memories that last.\u201d He was spot on.<\/p>\n<p>Purchase your copy now <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.regionalnewspapers.co.uk\/legends-of-the-ryder-cup-4898-p.asp?utm_source=nativearticle&amp;utm_medium=articlelink&amp;utm_campaign=rydercup_standalone\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IT IS A question sure to trigger a thousand flashbacks in the minds of golf lovers the world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,6673,13261,82,40971],"class_list":{"0":"post-63684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-golf-section","12":"tag-ryder-cup","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-tournament"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}