| How did a former potato field in the English heartland come to be the site of four of the past five European Ryder Cups? |
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| Three Ryder Cup team-mates will contest the Madeira Island Open this week, all looking to kick-start their careers. |
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| Instead, her IQ of 109 took her to Ryder Brow Secondary Modern, where she was in top streams despite poor attendance. |
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| I don't argue, but watch through the wing mirror as Ryder walks away with three large, black figures. |
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| Unlike the European Ryder Cup side, most of the players in the President's Cup play against each other week in, week out on the PGA Tour. |
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| Kirton talks a good game, and one which will be badly needed if Scotland is to awake to the realities of Ryder Cup bidding. |
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| Former singer and frontman Shaun Ryder went on to form Black Grape with Bez and former members of other Mancunian bands. |
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| The 40-year-old's Singapore success ends a barren spell for the Ryder Cup star. |
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| It is packed with package deals for the Ryder Cup and interestingly, features hotels well away from the Co. Kildare venue. |
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| Her voice was flat and emotionless and Ryder wanted to kick himself for making her sound like that. |
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| Fifteen minutes later the gig descended into a scrum with Ryder and Bez brawling on the floor. |
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| The X factor is the fans, says Andrew Coltart, a European Ryder Cup rookie two years ago. |
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| A sufferer of birth anoxia, a lack of oxygen to the brain at birth, people were amazed by how Mr Ryder managed to live life to the full. |
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| Turns out he's been snapped stepping out with Star Wars action figurine Natalie Portman and the winsome Winona Ryder. |
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| When they reached her room, Ryder let Harry and Corrie in, Harry setting the boxes down on the coffee table. |
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| Winona Ryder plays a dying young woman who is romanced by silver fox Richard Gere in this drippy, luxe love story directed by Joan Chen. |
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| This is a hole for those with nerves of steel, and will truly sort out the men from the boys in the Ryder Cup. |
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| A groundsman yesterday sweeps dew off the lawn at Oakland Hills Country Club, with the Ryder Cup standing at right. |
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| Though Walton bogeyed the hole, Haas lost the match, and Europe won the Ryder Cup. |
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| Meanwhile, Ryder Cup hero Paul McGinley got the helping hand he was looking for to give himself a chance of victory. |
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| But then Leif and Ryder wouldn't have looked so surprised when I made the comment about them effing me up. |
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| I entered the kitchen and found Ryder humming to himself and saw that the aroma I had smelt was him cooking bacon in a pan. |
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| Each hymn at the funeral service was chosen because it was a favourite which Mr Ryder would play on his trumpet. |
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| When arrested, Ryder was found to have not only store merchandise in her purse, but a virtual pharmacopeia. |
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| Corrie had opted to go with Ryder to the supermarket while Harry remained behind to house-sit. |
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| Parson wondered if Ryder would get mad if he gave her some food, she looked awfully skinny. |
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| Secondly, Ryder recurrently nailed the more pained aspects of the human condition with laser-like insight. |
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| Ryder unlaced Kit's boot as gently as possible, before taking it off her foot, along with her sock. |
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| The former Open champion originally planned to play in the event after working as a television commentator at the Ryder Cup. |
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| If anyone doubted his right to be a Ryder Cup player, let alone a hero, that result speaks for itself. |
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| Merrick was muttering obscenities and Ryder under his breath while she finished up. |
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| Adding to the golf mania in the month will be the Ryder Cup at the Belfry, a real pipe-opener for Mt. Juliet. |
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| Ryder didn't bother telling the child that they had prime ministers in Australia, not presidents. |
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| This time around, perhaps reinvigorated by his assistant captaincy at the Ryder Cup, he has performed, well, like a man possessed. |
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| The Ryder Cup has been pumped up to mean more than it really does, besides an exhibition for pride and bragging rights. |
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| The Ryder Cup has not just been a battleground for the rival teams, the competition has also fuelled some bitter internal feuds. |
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| The Ryder Cup trail has often been tortuous, twisting and downright tedious, but the rewards to the Scottish economy are expected to be enormous. |
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| Ryder then jumped into the back seat, shimmying into the middle and buckling up the waist belt. |
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| Ellen has no plans to retire and hopes to be one of the happy band raising money to support Sue Ryder homes for many years to come. |
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| It wasn't the normal custom within Ryder, and it shook things up right away. |
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| The antagonism from the galleries at the last Ryder Cup in Boston was over the top. |
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| Ryder tied the two ends of her daisy chain together to make a loop and sat it up on her head like a crown. |
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| Montgomerie, of course, is no certainty to play in the Ryder Cup, but if he fails to qualify, a wild card will surely be his. |
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| Ryder pointed to the lack of strong and cohesive global rules on company behaviour as a major factor in the stagnant world economy. |
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| But home cooking and easy Antipodean living lured Ryder from his lair. |
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| Still, Ryder insisted that if Burton and Keaton had passed, she would have, too. |
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| I have gone at it pretty hard this year, even in my off weeks, because I've been preparing for other events, so I'm not sure what my energy level will be after the Ryder Cup. |
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| Next week's Ryder Cup will get top billing to be certain, but this week, golfers will recognise the 2002 Solheim Cup for more than its pre-match bickering and parallel talent. |
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| We'll get Ashley and Ryder together and go parasailing or something. |
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| With no requalifying for the Ryder Cup, no wild-card picks and no apparent animosity, the only thing to talk about has been how poorly many of the team members are playing. |
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| The man who lives and breathes the Ryder Cup has had the worst of all worlds for the 34th staging of the event which gets under way at The Belfry on Friday. |
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| Her character in the film is supposed to ice skate in a pivotal scene, but Ryder didn't know how to ice skate, nor was she remotely interested in learning. |
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| But Howell birdied the 17th to square the match and Casey's par on the last earned the European pair a significant victory on their Ryder Cup debuts. |
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| When the Ryder Cup was originally scheduled for last September, the Americans were red-hot favourites with even the most optimistic European golf fan. |
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| The Ryder Cup is eight months and 7500 miles away from the Mercedes, where whales breach offshore, the trade winds blow and golf is anything but that long walk spoiled. |
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| When we won the Ryder Cup in 1985, it was an absolute racing certainty. |
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| The lesson of the golf at Bighorn may be the Ryder Cup warning that there is nothing more difficult than foursomes when your partner is playing a little better than you. |
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| Ryder pulled the unlit cigarette from behind his ear and lit it up again. |
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| Beyond Rapace or an unknown, who that was ranged from Ellen Page to Kristen Stewart to Winona Ryder. |
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| And Witherspoon and Zellweger both have bwr's Nanci Ryder as their longtime PR woman. |
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| He's also a highly qualified referee, officiating at the 1996 Open at Royal Lytham and St Annes and the Ryder Cup at Valderrama the following year. |
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| No doubt he will be able to call on his band mate Shaun Ryder for support in his campaign. |
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| If his colleagues on the European Tour believe binning his good luck letter prior to the Ryder Cup is acceptable behaviour, that says more about them than him. |
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| And Elwin Roberts, an engineering technician, spotted a Ryder at the lake about six hours before McVeigh had his. |
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| In recent years, however, Ryder has returned to the screen in a series of smaller, quirkier roles. |
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| The biennial golf competition, the Ryder Cup, is named after English businessman Samuel Ryder who sponsored the event and donated the trophy. |
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| All matches were covered live in the United States, a first for a Ryder Cup in Europe. |
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| Now Winona Ryder has told The Daily Beast that she may be on board, too. |
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| Bell workshopped the Ryder role on stage in New York and Los Angeles. |
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| At Ryder, Habib used sign-ons as a way to attract key talent to the transportation company. |
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| Ryder rode beside her, pleased at her pleasure, knowing that he'd surprised her but good. |
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| These include the 1958 Commonwealth Games, the 1999 Rugby World Cup and the 2010 Ryder Cup. |
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| The Ryder Cup in golf was originally played between a United States team and a team representing Great Britain and Ireland. |
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| Keith Harris as Charles Wesley, and the Golden Globe winner Kevin McCarthy as Bishop Ryder. |
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| But Ryder is almost a year old now, and the new mom made time to host an apres-ski bash for Ralph Lauren's new Aspen, Colo. |
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| The Belfry in the English Midlands has hosted the Ryder Cup more times than any other site. |
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| Harig also added that the PGA European Tour extracts significant concessions from Ryder Cup venues. |
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| Having won 23 of his matches, lost 19, and halved 4, he also holds the record for having played the most Ryder Cup matches. |
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| In addition, Rose qualified for the European team at the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National, marking his fourth Ryder Cup appearance. |
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| The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. |
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| The Ryder Cup is named after the English businessman Samuel Ryder who donated the trophy. |
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| The Ryder Cup involves various match play competitions between players selected from two teams of twelve. |
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| For the 2014 Ryder Cup both teams had 9 players qualifying based on performances with the remaining 3 players selected by the captain. |
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| For the 2016 Ryder Cup there were a number of changes from 2014 in the American system. |
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| Held at The Belfry in England, the 1989 Ryder Cup saw the rising of tensions in the series. |
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| The first video was presented as a highlight reel of past Ryder Cups, but reportedly showed only Americans. |
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| Italy beat Germany, Austria and Spain to win the bid for 44th edition of Ryder Cup. |
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| It had been his intention that the match would be the first Ryder Cup but it was later decided that the match would not be an official contest. |
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| The first official event did not take place until 1927 for which Ryder donated a gold trophy. |
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| Friction with his father led Ryder to move south to London to join a rival seed merchant. |
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| The intense competition of the 1991 Ryder Cup is widely regarded as having elevated public interest in the series. |
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| The 1999 Ryder Cup held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, caused great controversy. |
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| The 39th Ryder Cup, held at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois, saw an extraordinary collapse by the Americans. |
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| However, Jacklin may be best remembered for his involvement in the Ryder Cup. |
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| In the 1890s, Samuel Ryder started to sell packets of seeds through the post, priced at one penny each. |
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| When Ryder took his family to Dorset for their annual summer holidays, he played golf at Came Down Golf Club. |
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| Ryder saw Mitchell as the man who could beat the Americans in the Open Championship. |
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| Marjorie's daughter, Mary Moore, still regularly attends Ryder Cup matches. |
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| Such organisations include Marie Curie Cancer Care, Sue Ryder Care and Macmillan Cancer Support. |
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| McDowell also won the crucial match in the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in Wales. |
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| Paul McGinley captained the successful European team for the 2014 Ryder Cup. |
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| Alongside the biennial Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup team competitions, the majors are golf's marquee events. |
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| The United States plays Europe in the Ryder Cup and an International Team representing the Rest of the World in the Presidents Cup. |
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| It was the 17th time the Ryder Cup had been staged in Britain, but the first time in Wales. |
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| Having faced John Ryder, he's also done a lot of work on Southpaws, so that aspect of the fight shouldn't be a problem. |
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| The firm will ferry Americans travelling to the Ryder Cup this autumn from Manchester airport to Welsh Rarebits hotels of distinction where they will stay. |
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| Ryder was elected to the St Albans town council in 1903, as a Liberal. |
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| The finances of the European Tour are heavily dependent on the Ryder Cup. |
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| In February 2016 the statue The Kiss by Sophie Ryder, which was planned to be in place until July, had to be moved because people kept walking into it while texting. |
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| In the last 12 months Ryder has had surgery on his abdominal wall, and has suffered an inflamed shoulder, a calf strain, an injured elbow and a finger injury. |
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| During a 1995 Ryder Cup match, Tom Lehman was critical of Faldo for not clearly telling him to pick his ball up when it was a foot away from the hole. |
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| The 2006 Ryder Cup was held at The K Club in County Kildare. |
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| Defenceman Nathan Ryder is expected to return after a broken wrist and fellow blueliners Martin Crammond and Ally Brummitt are also back in action. |
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| So on the menu for the official Ryder Cup media reception, hosted by the country's two tourist authorities, were Indian samosas and Chinese spring rolls. |
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| Ryder suffered from poor health in later life, and spent some time in South Africa and with his elder daughter Marjorie in Rhodesia, where she had emigrated. |
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| The selection process for the Ryder Cup players has varied over the years. |
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| Drayton Reservoir fishery manager Mark Ryder says that banning the use of keepnets at the Daventry 'bagging' water was one of the best decisions he's ever made. |
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| The Belfry near Sutton Coldfield is the headquarters of the Professional Golfers' Association and has hosted the Ryder Cup more times than any other venue. |
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| A concert, dubbed 'Welcome to Wales', was held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 29 September 2010, two days prior to the beginning of the Ryder Cup. |
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| The Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. |
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| On 14 December 2015, Rome announced as the host of 2022 Ryder Cup. |
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| The best bet is McDowell, a little bulldog in matchplay who will forever be known as the hero who sunk the winning putt in the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor. |
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| The Ryder Cup matches were always covered by the BBC, whether in Britain or in the United States, even prior to the British team's merger with Europe. |
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| In the United States, the Ryder Cup was first televised live at the 1983 matches in Florida, with ABC Sports covering just the final four holes of the singles matches. |
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| In 1989, USA Network began a long association with the Ryder Cup, by televising all three days live from England, the first live coverage of a Ryder Cup from Europe. |
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| In the previous the Ryder Cup had been two wildcard places on the European team, but on 12 May 2009 it was announced that this had been increased to three. |
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| Winona Ryder plays a female auton. The character Distephano names her as an auton, loosely defining the term as being designed by androids. Machines manufactured by machines. |
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| Ryder first worked at a shipping firm in Manchester, and then for his father, whose business has expanded to include a Nursery, florist, and seed merchant. |
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| The Red Ryder may have paved the way, but the performance of today's airguns has far surpassed the lever-action and pump-pellet guns just a few decades ago. |
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| In 1929 the first Ryder Cup of Golf to be held on British soil was competed for at the Moortown Golf club in Leeds and Wetherby has a National Hunt racecourse. |
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| Cup vely wild derne Some say Ryder Cup captaincy is massively over-rated. |
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| Because of the changes, there were a number of Ryder Cup firsts. |
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| There's some unusual audience participation when Warwick singersongwriter Anna Ryder organises a mass performance of the Blue Danube Waltz on drinking straws. |
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| The Ryder Cup was not played in these scheduled years due to the war. |
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| In 2001 the PGA European Tour decided to put out the Ryder Cup hosting rights from 2018 through 2030 to a competitive bid process throughout Europe. |
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| He was also the most successful European Ryder Cup captain ever. |
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| The most famous of these competitions is the Ryder Cup in golf. |
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