Press Watch: Mcginley knocks Tiger and co off America's front pages
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Your support makes all the difference.There was no Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson on the front page of The New York Times yesterday. It was a leaping Paul McGinley who featured in a photograph under the headline "Europeans Flying High".
The Irishman's dance was described by The Washington Post as "like a penguin in a great hurry to cross an ice floe". Clifton Browne reported: "The United States Ryder Cup team was rocked by one emotional wave after another, trapped in a storm from which it never escaped. Sam Torrance spun a clever web, and the American team could not escape. Torrance stacked the deck early and dealt his team a winning hand."
The Post confined its report to the sports supplement with the headline "Europe's Glorious Day" and a sub-headline "Unbeaten Montgomerie Paves Way to Upset of Heavily Favored Americans". Thomas Boswell wrote: "The prime cause for golf's explosion in popularity is the arrival of Tiger Woods, probably the world's best athlete. But another huge reason was on display yesterday. The Ryder Cup is as shocking, kaleidoscopic and dramatic as any event in sports."
McGinley also made the front page of The Boston Globe, which wrote: "Oh, how they played. Oh, how they responded to the huge galleries that chanted and sang and screamed out support at every tee box, along every fairway, and at every green. Oh, how they humbled an American team that was able to win just two of the 12 matches."
At home, the Western Mail understandably concentrated on the Welshman Phillip Price. Under the front-page splash "USA Priced out of the Ryder Cup", Paul Williams wrote: "Price, Pontypridd's Man of the Year in 1994, was never intimidated."
Perhaps the last word should go to L'Equipe which, with no French interests at The Belfry, took a cosmopolitan view. Its headline declared "Vive L'Europe Unie!"
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