But money is the last thing on their minds standing over a 6-foot putt to square the match in the Ryder Cup. This was always about economics. It surfaced in 1999 going into matches at The Country ...

Keegan is from the Northeast, and we’ll take his lead.” The pay-for-play issue became prevalent leading into the 1999 Ryder Cup. Mark O’Meara, one of the players who brought awareness to the ...

Former PGA of America chief executive has offered his unfiltered opinion on the subject of U.S. Ryder Cup players being ...

And then, acting on nothing more than a hunch, he tweaked it one more time. One thing the captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team never did, though, was give up on his golfers. Not when they fell ...

the PGA of America Board of Directors has voted to increase the allocation to the members of the U.S. Ryder Cup team from $200,000 to be directed to charities — a figure unchanged since 1999 ...

NASSAU, Bahamas — Tiger Woods is in favor of U.S. Ryder Cup team members sharing more in the immense profits the event generates but insisted it is always been about earmarking the money for ...

The pay-for-play topic first arose in 1999 when David Duval ... on the revenue they produced for the PGA of America in a Ryder Cup that was fast growing into one of golf's biggest revenue sources.