Xander Schauffele, sitting front and center, quickly grabbed the microphone: “I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but we’re just going to enjoy now. Of course, the continent-sized elephant in the room – like the following question – was still there to snatch that sentiment back down from such great heights: Do you feel like to really be that new wave you have to prove it over there? With Team Europe beaten so badly that it left Rory McIlroy in tears, it wasn’t difficult to feel like this new, young American core – led by Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka and at the time Dustin Johnson, and with so many rising stars under 30 such as Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, Collin Morikawa and Scottie Scheffler – had finally grabbed firm control of this biennial event. These Ryder Cup victory pressers usually provide ample entertainment value, for a myriad of reasons, but interspersed among the lubricated answers are moments that stick with us – and this one was no different. Ryder Cup Team as its members stumbled into the interview room that Sunday evening at Whistling Straits, having just recorded the greatest rout in modern Ryder Cup history, a 19-9 shellacking of the visiting Europeans. And the celebration had well begun for the victorious 2021 U.S.
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