Golf isn’t the biggest thing in Minnesota right now – that privilege belongs to the knife-edge presidential race – but for this weekend, at least, it will be a close second.
The Hazeltine National is playing host to the 2016 Ryder Cup and while the American fans are busy preparing their ballot papers for Hillary Clinton, the European team will be convening for the first time since Brexit. The Ryder Cup is the only major sporting event that involves Europe playing as a team, as they take on the United States in a series of golfing challenges.
If the event ought to have more symbolic resonance this year, there has been surprisingly little discussion on it. The European team, led by Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke, are getting on with business. Clarke said, earlier this year, that ‘it makes no difference to us whatsoever because the UK is always going to be part of the European continent’.
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