Ryder Cup secrets revealed as big hitters lift lid on REAL reason for Team USA suffering 30 years of spankings

Over the pond many viewed Boston Red Sox's improbable run of 86 years without a World Series title as the longest barren streak in North American sports.

And it would remiss to compare Team USA's barren run on away soil in the Ryder Cup to the failures of Fenway Park, however, a run of 30 years without a triumph in Europe has the American experts scratching their heads in unison and asking 'why can't we beat them away from home?' Let's first look at the record since that win at the Belfry in 1993, and it doesn't make for pleasant reading for those wrapped in a star spangled banner. It has been six successive defeats in Europe for Team USA while there have been three away triumphs Stateside in an era of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.

Zach Johnson and his 12 fighters step into a Roman Coliseum and aim defeat a team which is in-form and fields three of the four best players in the world in John Rahm, Rory McIlroy and Viktor Hovland. And now those in the know open up on what makes playing in Europe such an overbearing challenge for the A-listers from across the pond.

Speaking in Golf Magazine, caddie and now analyst John Wood said: "If you watch them, it’s a very, very disciplined approach. They work hole locations together with their partners during the practice rounds. The two caddies, the two players, they’ll all work it together.

"Once they get into the tournament, they’ve got all those putts read. We’re sitting there surprised they make everything. You watch guys like Colin Montgomerie, Sergio [Garcia], guys over the years who have been good putters, but in Ryder Cups they become great putters,"

And that was a sentiment shared by former PGA Tour winner Jim Gallagher Jr who believes the hosts will once again thrive in