PARIS, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Tiger Woods accepted responsibility for the American defeat at the Ryder Cup after slumping to a fourth straight loss at Le Golf National, beaten 2&1 by Jon Rahm in the singles on Sunday. “It’s frustrating because we came here, I thought we were all playing pretty well, and I just didn’t perform at the level that I had been playing, and just got behind early in the matches and never got back.”

The former world number one headed to Paris in high spirits after capping a magnificent comeback season from injury with his first title since 2013 at the Tour Championship last week. The world's greatest golfer has only been on the winning side once in his previous seven appearances at a Ryder Cup and he must already have begun to sense that he wasn't about to make it twice any time soon. Woods knew he needed to sink his six-foot putt to give him and Reed even a faint chance of salvaging something from their match against Europe's 'Moliwood' dream team of Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood, who had already beaten him in one match at this Ryder Cup and would go on to crush him in another. There was still an atmosphere of euphoria in the crowd who had seen Tyrrell Hatton and Paul Casey add to what was starting to look like an insurmountable European lead by closing out their match against Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler on the 16th a few minutes earlier.
In golf, Team Europe retains the Ryder Cup, defeating Team USA 17½–10½ at Le Golf National near Paris.