The headaches from an after-party that finished at 4am had barely healed in Rome when talk began to shift to the next Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in New York.
In contrast to Whistling Straits, where Europe suffered a record defeat in 2021, the team are riding a crest of a wave, to the extent that Rory McIlroy declared they would win on American soil in two years' time.
