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ROME — All roads led to this, huh? Prior to Friday, no American team ever failed to win a match on a single day of play in the Ryder Cup. GO DEEPER Ryder Cup analysis: 10 notes to know on Europe's record-setting day Yet, here came U.S. captain Zach Johnson early Friday evening into a press conference at Marco Simone, …
— A playoff was looming Sunday in the U.S. Open, just like it always does at The Country Club, when Matt Fitzpatrick sized up his shot from a bunker left of the 18th fairway. Fitzpatrick hit 9-iron that started around the steep lip — a “squeezy fade,” he called it — carried the front bunker and settled 18 feet away, …
