Fair-weather golf fans are welcome: this weekend the Ryder Cup rules the world | Max Rushden

Once every two years this individual sport becomes a team game and there is nothing quite like it, for players or spectatorsThe German commentary of Martin Kaymer’s birdie putt on the 18th at Medinah – the one that goes six feet past – is wonderfully understated. “Ayeee.” Not whispered. Not yelled. Just spoken, encapsulating how so many of us felt as that ball kept on rolling. And then silence. And then the agonising wait for Steve Stricker to line up his par putt,