Des Smyth
Former Ryder Cup vice captain on BBC Radio 5 live

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Well Luke Donald has just done such a good job that if he feels he can do it one more time then why not?

He’d be a great captain in Adare if that’s what he wants.

The players would love him but if not then I think it would come to Justin Rose.

Justin wants to be on that team in two years and you had that situation in America where Keegan Bradley I thought was picked too young to be the captain.

And really he should have been playing last week. But you can’t do both, it’s not possible. So you have to pick someone who is just past that point.

I don’t know if Justin is yet, he’ll show us in the next two years. But Luke is and is happy with the position he’s in.

I’d be delighted if Luke went for one more time.

Craig Nelson
BBC Sport reporter

And so we look forward to the next Ryder Cup in two years' time at Adare Manor in Ireland.

Luke Donald has led Europe to back-to-back victories, could he make it three in a row?

I will leave you with Des Smyth's comments on the decision facing Donald...

Padraig Harrington
European captain at the 2021 Ryder Cup on BBC Radio 5

There’s two themes to Lowry's composure.

Firstly, experience, being there and doing it and then it's about having a fall and wanting to go back. Losing, things going wrong and all you want to do the next day is get back at it and put your neck on the line.

The guys who finish 10th in a tournament and pat each other on the back because they’ve won £200,000 – they’re just not winners. The guy who is devastated on Sunday to shoot 74 when he went out leading but wants to go again at it – that’s a winner.

Craig Connelly
PGA & European Tour caddie for BBC Radio 5 live

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Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. I phoned a few of the guys last night, some of the caddies and the backroom staff and I could barely make them out. I think the champagne was out, I wouldn’t say it was flowing because I think they drank it all to be honest.

I couldn’t see a way back for the USA because I thought at the start of the week that it seemed to me the European team were the ones in form, individually, and then collectively and I thought the Americans were done. But all credit to them, they fought back and they’ll definitely have to have a look at how the pairing systems work.

There’s always a moment in the Ryder Cup where it looks like the momentum is swaying and it went America's way. I was shocked to see it go down to Shane’s match. I was really surprised they fought back.

But you could tell the Europeans were on the ropes [from the heckling]. They were down, like the Rocky moment where he's down on the canvas trying to get up. It was shocking scenes but that was to be expected.

Iain Carter
BBC golf correspondent on BBC Radio 5 Live at Bethpage Black

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That was one of the most dramatic days in Ryder Cup history, I think it’s fair to say.

It really was a very spirited American fight back and it took really scrappy half points from Shane Lowry and Tyrrell Hatton to get Europe over the line. Really dramatic stuff. It got really scary near the end.

But Lowry’s reaction after he made that final putt was incredible. The explosion of emotion, he started thumping the badge on his chest right on his heart, waving his arms and jumping up and down. An extraordinary outpouring of relief and joy.

I spoke to him immediately afterwards and he was in pieces. It was one of the most powerful interviews I’ve ever been involved in and he said “I’ve not been playing well all summer but I said to my caddy four or five holes in that I’ve got to do something here” and sure enough he did and admitted that he’d been in a lot of great moments in his career but this was “right up there”.

It looked like Tyrrell Hatton would be the one to get Europe over the line, and that's how it proved.

His birdie on the 12th had drawn him level with Collin Morikawa and the two were unable to separate themselves.

If the Englishman could match Morikawa's score on the 18th, the trophy would be won.

The American's lengthy birdie putt missed.

Hatton had two putts to win the Ryder Cup from 20 feet.

He cosied his birdie try to tap-in. Morikawa conceded. The celebrations could properly begin.

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Peter Scrivener
BBC Sport senior journalist at Bethpage

The emotion flooded out as Shane Lowry jigged and wheeled across the green.

He had been embroiled in several spats with the fans during his round with Rory McIlroy on Saturday so you could understand his levels of celebration as American fans began to flood out of the course.

But Europe had not come for the tie and retention though - they wanted to win the Ryder Cup outright on American soil.

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BBC Radio 5 Live

"I didn't think it was going to come down to me," Shane Lowry told BBC Radio 5 Live, after being picked to play in the eighth of 12 matches in Sunday's singles.

"When I was going down the sixth hole the scoreboard looked amazing - blue everywhere.

"Obviously, the US team did a great job in coming back and it was hard out there.

"The whole week we had our team-mates beside us, but you were out on your own today and it was incredibly difficult.

"We knew the crowd were going to make it difficult for us, and they did.

"I went two down at 13 or 14 and I just said to Darren [Clarke] I had to do something here.

"The boys, you know, we were struggling.

"I said I have to do something and I hit three of the best iron shots I have hit in my life and obviously I holed that putt.

"Ahhh, I'm shaking, I was shaking over it, you know. Yeah, the Irish and the Ryder Cup...there's something about it."

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Peter Scrivener
BBC Sport senior journalist at Bethpage

Shane Lowry looked set to lose his singles match but birdied the 15th to drag opponent Russell Henley back to a one-hole lead and they became the fifth match of the day to head down 18.

Both players found the green with their second shots.

Henley putted first and missed.

Lowry, from eight feet, had a chance to win the hole, halve the match and reach the 14 points Europe needed as holders to retain the trophy.

It dropped. And Lowry exploded..

Hosts United States trailed 11½-4½ heading into Sunday's singles, meaning Europe needed just three points from 12 matches to clinch victory.

No side had ever come from more than four points back to win.

But the Americans put up an astonishing fight, losing just one of the day's first seven matches, winning five of them and finishing all square in the other two.

With the remaining five matches still out on course hanging in the balance, the score stood at 13½-10½ in Europe's favour.

Europe's first objective was to reach 14 points, to retain the trophy, but who would hand them the half a point they needed?

Stand up Shane Lowry...

For those of you who want to relive those key moments, here's the highlights of Sunday's thrilling finale...

Craig Nelson
BBC Sport reporter

Right, Nicky Campbell's phone-in has now ended.

There is no doubt that the hostility faced by European players at Bethpage Black provided the most contentious talking point of the Ryder Cup.

But the team came through that with their heads held high and Luke Donald and his players will not want abuse from a section of US supporters to detract from their achievement.

So let's continue on a more positive note in our final hour as we bring this page to a close.

Please get in touch with your highlight of the weekend as we recap the key moments that helped Europe win the Ryder Cup in America for the first time since 2012 and only the fifth time in the competition's current format.

BBC Radio 5 Live

Golf pro Matthew Baldwin on the abuse directed towards Europe's players: “I think it’s a very different sport to the likes of football, where you’re always reacting to like a cross or something. In golf you’ve got to mentally prepare for each shot.

"Hearing abuse as you’re preparing to try and hit a shot would be quite off-putting and, within reason, a lot of the lads had the right to respond how they did.

“It clearly didn’t affect Rory [giving it back to the fans] so, what the crowds were attempting in that particular instance didn’t work.

"But I think there’s a line that you cross. It’s all well and good having banter, but when it’s personal and directed at your family it’s a bit much."

On playing with Tommy Fleetwood: “I grew up playing with Tommy. He’s a great lad, who’s never changed how he is with anyone. He was fantastic to have up front, he got four points out of five and he’d be disappointed he didn’t get the one against Justin Thomas. He’s the epitome of the Ryder Cup.”

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Former European Pro Tour player and broadcaster Sophie Walker on the American supporters going too far: “The ‘banter line’ was crossed. The abuse has been going on for ages but now you’ve got the videos where you can go viral and you have people going ‘yes I’ll say something and make my mate next to me laugh’ and next thing you know it’s going to be on the internet and it’ll go viral and 'how cool is that'.

"It wasn’t all the fans, it was a small minority, but to go on about people’s weight, personal lives it’s not right at all.

"The trouble is the US team have one song ‘USA, USA’ and they didn’t have much joy on the golf course to cheer about so they decided to turn it on the European players who were fully expecting this.

"I remember speaking to McIlroy's security guard at the Rome Ryder Cup two years ago and he was already talking about it so this was all planned for. The European players weren’t supposed to react, that was what Luke Donald had asked them to do, but it just boiled over because it got really, really personal.”

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Europe's golfers had gone into this Ryder Cup with their eyes wide open.

Captain Luke Donald, who made just one change to the side that beat the United States in Rome in the previous Ryder Cup, had gone to great lengths to prepare his players for the atmosphere they would face in New York.

But how do you prepare someone for an experience like that?

The stats suggest that, with or without the cranked up hostility at Bethpage Black, winning the Ryder Cup away from home is never easy:

• Only 37 European players had tasted victory away from home before this tournament…now 47 names are on that list - Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose were in the last European team that managed it - at Medinah in 2012.

• Europe have won an away Ryder Cup in the last five decades following: 1987, 1995, 2004, 2012 and now 2025

• The home side had won eight of the previous nine Ryder Cups (Europe won in Medinah in 2012)

• This is only the seventh away win in the 23 matches since Europe joined in 1979 (Europe 5, USA 2).

• USA have won just two of the last eight Ryder Cups and will now head to Ireland aiming for a first away win since 1993 and only their third in total since Europe joined.

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Journalist and broadcaster Heather Dewar on the hostile American crowd: “There’s a big difference between friendly banter and extremely personal [abuse] which is what we saw here. Abuse being directed towards Rory McIlroy’s wife, a drink being hurled at her and I saw the shock and horror on her face.

"In golf, every single shot counts so if you’re disrupting a player before they potentially take the most important shot of their career - it's massive. It has a massive impact and there is no fairness. Sport is supposed to be about fairness.

"Then I think the other question is at what point does this become dangerous? Because we’re in a bit of a febrile atmosphere in sport at the minute, for instance seeing Emma Raducanu and her stalker – at what point does it become dangerous?

"A big rowdy American crowd, a lot of alcohol, and there wasn’t that kind of security - you never know when you might have a nutter in the crowd who decides to play it their own way.

"You can’t account for that and it’s how the players and their families feel that needs to be taken out of this."

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