Ryder Cup success with Europe made all the more sweeter by silencing US crowds, says Paul Lawrie It's pretty tough when someone is screaming and blowing in your ear that you're a loser, but there's not much you can do. Paul Lawrie and son Craig fly to Gleneagles for official Ryder Cup handover It makes it all the more satisfying on Sunday night when you're standing there with the Ryder Cup in front of you and they are not. I think it helps us, to be fair. I think they (the American team) said it's the same when they come here. Apparently that's how it is, but I can't see that. Lawrie showed it did not affect him by being a brilliant six under par when he beat FedEx Cup winner Brandt Snedeker 5&3 as Europe staged their spectacular Ryder Cup fightback. That came after he had been omitted from both sessions of foursomes and had lost in the fourballs first with Swede Peter Hanson and then with Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts. I played every match in '99 and got into it very quickly. It's a wee bit harder when you're left out the first morning," he said. The pressure was probably a little bit more this time. Sunday morning was pretty intense to be fair. But during the team meeting on Saturday night when we had the pairings in front of us Jose was going through them one by one and said he felt we could all play well enough to win. He firmly believed we could all win, never mind eight or 8 1/2 points. He was absolutely brilliant the whole week. He was very hands-off when you were playing. He didn't get involved in things unless you kind of asked him, but at every meeting he was very positive. A couple were pretty emotional when he was telling things that had happened and what the Ryder Cup meant to him. At one of them, I think it was Friday, pretty much every player was crying. Man, you could just see it oozes out of him. He's very emotional. It was nice for him to be a winning captain. I think that's what we were all trying to do - make sure he wasn't a losing captain. I answered 100-odd texts and then there was another 100. I didn't know that many people had my phone number! And since I arrived here I can hardly get a ball hit for people coming up kind of slapping you on the back. It's been lovely. Lawrie faces a different challenge this week. The Dunhill event has a pro-am format and he is competing alongside his 17-year-old son Craig, a scratch handicapper who has competed in the Scottish boys championship and who caddied for his father at the Scottish Open in July.