Ryder Cup row Ben Crenshaw, the winning Ryder Cup captain two years ago, has followed his opposite number at Brookline, Mark James, into print to refute allegations in James's own controversial account of the match, Into the Bear Pit . The publication of Crenshaw's autobiography, A Feel for the Game, will no doubt further spice up matters for this September's match at The Belfry.
Personal attacks have no place in golf.
Ben Crenshaw holds the Ryder Cup after the 1999 win. To say that the Americans have tarnished the game and endangered the future of golf is a bitter statement. We need to rise above this whole thing. Let's leave it at that. The golf we played energised the crowd, not the other way around.