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Article: RYDER CUP TEAMS
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 17, 1995
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The captain: Lanny Wadkins
A respected figure and an ideal figurehead to rise above the
jingoistic excesses which have, in the past, attached themselves to
the event. Not that he is completely above Ryder Cup excitement
himself, as he confessed recently: "I'm going to have enough
stomach acid to wear the chrome off a set of irons before the
week's over." He is a friend of Gallacher's - the two have been
communicating across the Atlantic by phone - and he started his
Ryder Cup playing career against Gallacher in 1977. Victory there
was the start of an outstanding Ryder Cup record; he had won seven
straight matches until Gallacher beat him in the singles two years
later. He is ...