The shadow boxing is over now but every serious competition needs jeopardy and home teams cannot prevail time and again

Luke Donald can trumpet his side playing for love and glory while the hosts duck questions over their $500,000 each

Ryder Cup legends Sir Nick Faldo, Colin Montgomerie, Tony Jacklin and Justin Rose tell BBC Sport why and how Europe can win at Bethpage.

The former captain says ‘exponential’ investment has made this the best prepared European team in competition’s history

The shadow boxing is over now but every serious competition needs jeopardy and home teams cannot prevail time and again

Europe lead 5½-2½ after the first day of the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, with the visitors winning both the foursomes and fourballs sessions

Keegan Bradley faces scrutiny over player power and his own inflexibility after the captain produced curious pairings for the Saturday morning foursomes

Europe need 2½ points to retain the Ryder Cup after dominating the USA, whose supporters engaged in thuggish, moronic and personal insults

Europe's 6-2 demolition job of the US to take an 11½-4½ lead into the singles has seemingly made Sunday a formality.