Well, that was hideous. Some quick-hit points:

Six wins in 28 matches is embarrassingly bad.

Casey was the MVP of the European team after Stewart Cink beat the crap out of Sergio on Sunday.

I would give Stewart Cink the American MVP nod even though Tiger outscored him. Woods needed to win Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. Cink picked up at least a half-point in four matches. That's pretty remarkable, not mediocre as I thought earlier.

The course is amazing and the final three holes are outstanding. Seventeen became one of my favorite holes in golf.

If you weren't loving what happened with Darren Clarke on Sunday, you are a scumbag.

I don't fault Lehman for much (didn't use Verplank properly), that was all on the players for failing to perform. Couple that with strong European play and you get slaughtered.

Mickelson was terrible. 0-4-1, you can't imagine worse. Pretty telling when Lehman put him out 10th when he needed studs early.

DiMarco wasn't much better. My college Film as Art professor always said Steven Seagal was the worst actor because Jean-Claude Van Damme got a dispensation for having an accent. DiMarco gets a dispensation because Lehman had to pull him from the Saturday foursomes.

There is going to be a lot of drinking on the European team because this was a better win than in 2004. Winning all five sessions was impressive.

One factor I'd look forward to changing for the American side is to play courses they are more familiar with than Europe. The other team plays all of their Ryder Cup courses on their schedule. We play major championship venues in the U.S. A lot of Europeans play the PGA Tour, but we have no home-field edge other than the crowd. Don't think these European sites don't help them.

Finally, get used to this because that European team will return at least nine guys in two years and Donald, Garcia, Casey, Stenson and Howell are all young.

Column on Tuesday.