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My Five: Biggest Ryder Cup Goats
Golf Digest Senior Writer Jaime Diaz's personal ranking of the biggest Ryder Cup goats
Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson each managed to dodge all-time goat consideration when they both won singles matches to earn their first points at Celtic Manor. Here are the five players they didn't displace.
1. Costantino Rocca
0-2 record at The Belfry, 1993 (U.S. wins 15-13)
Hidden by captain Bernard Gallacher until the Saturday afternoon four-balls, the first Italian ever in the Ryder Cup played Davis Love in the seventh match of the singles. With Europe needing only 2 ½ points in the final six matches to win the cup, Rocca was 1 up on the 17th hole, and had a 20-footer to win his match. Instead, he three-putted to lose the hole, nervously rushing a three-footer. Rocca then drove poorly on the 18th and bogeyed to lose, 1 up. Said one German fan, "Italy cost us two world wars. Now they have cost us the Ryder Cup."
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