Hunter Mahan Unable to Seize His Ryder Cup Moment

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NEWPORT, Wales -- Twenty-eight-year-old PGA Tour player Hunter Mahan won twice this season, bringing his career victory to three.

Nothing along the way, however, prepared him for Monday afternoon in the Ryder Cup.

When pairings for the tournament-ending 12 singles matches were announced, Mahan's role as closer hardly seemed to be of major importance.

With Europe leading by three, conventional wisdom suggested the result would be long-ago settled before the day's final match was even close to being complete.

That wasn't the case. As things turned out, with the U.S. and Europe tied 13 ½-13 ½, Mahan and Europe's Graeme McDowell were the only two golfers left on the course.

"Yeah, it could be a match nobody knows about or the biggest match of your life," Mahan said. "I think about 10, we started to think that it would come down to us."

 

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