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Make what you want of the American fans, but the most classless moment of the entire cup was Olazabal making Molinari and Tiger play out 18. Cup was won at that point, no need to play that out, should have just conceded it to Tiger in the fairway.
Tiger actually showed some class and conceded Molinari's putt to allow it to be over and for him to go celebrate with his teammates.
Jack Nicklaus conceded to Tony Jacklin back in the day when the U.S. had already retained the cup. Payne Stewart conceded to Monty at Brookline when it was won as well. Classless move by Olazabal.
That's bullshit, the cup was retained by that point, not won. With the hostile atmosphere and utterly classless behaviour of the American fans in shouting during Poulter's backswing in the final round it was nothing less than they deserved.
Olazabal walked the entire length of the 18th with Molinari to make him feel like he was still an important part of what was going on, where as he could have been jumping around with the rest of the team. Olazabal showed absolutely nothing but class behaviour during the entire competition.