DESPITE THE WARNINGS, BETHPAGE IS AN EXPERIENCE NOT TO BE MISSED

The Ryder Cup is arguably golf’s biggest showpiece and the events of the past week at Bethpage Black should silence anyone who thinks otherwise.

- S. Murali

Some rowdy fans hijacked many of the headlines but the real show was provided by 24 world-class players trekking a monstrous yet majestic public course an hour outside New York.

Television does not do justice to the sheer scale of the Black course. Almost every other green and tee box is perched atop a hill that could well function as a ski slope with the right amount of snow applied.

For three days, I watched in amazement as men like Bryson DeChambeau and Rory Mcllroy blasted drives into the stratosphere, allowing them to hit short iron approach shots into par-four holes measuring well over 420 metres.