World's leading duo McIlroy and Scheffler look like two tired men as big clash falls flat

By yesterday morning the temperature had dropped at Bethpage. The weathermen said it was the hottest day yet on the course, but it still felt like the fever that had gripped the place for the last two days had broken.

- Andy Bull Bethpage Black

Scottie Scheffler lost all four of his matches in the first two days

For all Keegan Bradley's big talk overnight about how his team could still win even though they were trailing by seven, no one here in the morning seemed to be buying what he was selling, and while this European team, and Rory McIlroy in particular, still had to put up with plenty of abuse, and catcalls during their backswing, the hecklers' hearts weren't really in it.

It's hard to say 'you suck' and mean it when your team has been on the wrong end of the sort of beating they took over the first two days of this competition. It got easier when all that red started flashing up on the leaderboard at the back end of the day when the US team's putts finally started to drop for them.

McIlroy still had to step away from the ball while playing the 1st. Somebody shouted out "Fuck you!" in the silence that fell before his putt. But this time a couple of burly policemen waded into the gallery and the crowd around the heckler started chanting "Get him out! Get him out!"