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In this beautifully produced book, copiously illustrated with rare archive photography from the early years and stunning shots of recent contests, Dale Concannon takes us back to the Cup’s origins, when the wealthy seed merchant Samuel Ryder hit upon the idea of a golf tournament every two years between Britain and America-and was rewarded for his efforts with a crushing British defeat. He shows how the competition’s resurgence came at the end of the seventies, when prolonged American dominance and the emergence of scintillating new talents like Seve Ballesteros led to its reconfiguration as a US v Europe affair.
Since then it has been a seesaw battle, with breathtakingly close finishes and a ever-more-hysterical atmosphere, spilling over into gung-ho belligerence in the intensely fought "War on the Shore" at Kiawah Island in 1991 after the Gulf War, and then again at Brookline in 1999. But with the Ryder Cup moving to Ireland for the first time in 2006, such excesses have, as Dale Concannon shows, led to a reaffirmation of the Ryder Cup as the epitome of sportsmanlike demeanor at the same time as it is the most pressurized gladiatorial showdown for the world’s greatest golfers
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