"It's Still Possible" - Harrington On Europe's Ryder Cup Hopes
The Irishman hasn't given up just yet despite Europe being faced with a mountain to climb on Sunday at Whistling Straits...
The Irishman hasn't given up just yet despite Europe being faced with a mountain to climb on Sunday at Whistling Straits...
Padraig Harrington hasn't given up on lifting the Ryder Cup just yet but is aware his Team Europe will need a final day performance that would beat the Miracle at Medinah in 2012.
Europe trails by six points heading into the singles, where they need to win nine of the 12 available points in order to retain the trophy.
No side has come back from more than four points with a day to go in a Ryder Cup in the Europe vs USA era so if his side were to pull it off, it would surely be one of the greatest stories in sport.
"Six points is a tough one to make up tomorrow, but I think we were a half-point short of that in the Miracle at Medinah on Sunday, so we're just going to have to push for that tomorrow," Harrington said after Saturday afternoon's 2-2 fourball session.
"I'm sure they know they have a very tall order ahead of them, but it's still possible.
"At the end of the day, as I said at Medinah, it's only half a point more than we won in the singles at Medinah, and just individually -- it's not really that important in the sense of the team.
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"They have to just go out there and win their own individual match. There's nothing more they can do than that.
"They have to focus on that and not look at that bigger picture and focus on their individual self and play their game and win that and then just see how it adds up."
A look at the final day singles matches:
Europe need to win nine of the remaining 12 points to retain the Ryder Cup.
The score after two days of the 2020 Ryder Cup is USA 11-5 Europe.
Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!
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