Hard to make sense of the Sunday mayhem at the Ryder Cup

BETHPAGE, N.Y. — Team Europe left Bethpage Black with the Ryder Cup, and Team U.S.A. miraculously managed to leave New York with its pride intact.

As late afternoon shadows grew, so did the American side’s chance of pulling off the most impossible comeback in golf history. The knock on the U.S. was that their members don’t know how to play as a team, and on Sunday they almost proved that they didn’t have to.

With Europe entering singles play needing just two of a possible 11 points (the Viktor Hovland-Harris English match was halved due to a neck injury for Hovland), it wasn’t until the eighth match of the day that any player on either side could finally exhale. Shane Lowry secured the Ryder Cup by rolling in a six-foot birdie putt on the 18th to win the hole and tie Russell Henley, earn