Team USA’s Dustin Johnson became the fifth player in the
history of the Ryder cup to close out a 5-0 tournament. He is also the first
American to do so since 1979.

Johnson closed the tournament with a 1-up win over Paul
Casey and wrapped up the game after the United States had already secured the
cup. Johnson joins Larry Nelson, Arnold Palmer, Gardner Dickenson, and Francesco
Molinari on the shortlist of players to go 5 for 5.

Johnson’s victory gave the United States 17 1/2 points,
three over the threshold it needed to win the event, and one short of its
biggest Ryder Cup blowout in the modern era, which began in 1979. The US led in
one match and was tied in two others still on the course. So the blowout may be
surpassed after all.

Earlier, Collin Morikawa made birdie on number 17 to go 1-up
in his match against Viktor Hovland and guarantee the Ryder Cup title for the
United States with at least 14 1/2 points locked in over Team Europe. This is
only the fourth time in the last 13 tries that the US has won the title.

The Team United States led in five of the remaining matches.
The youngest American team ever may well surpass the record of 18 1/2 points
set by the 1981 US team in what was the biggest American rout of the modern
era.

Patrick Cantlay defeated Shane Lowry 4 and 2, Scottie
Scheffler beat world number 1 Jon Rahm 4 and 3, and Bryson DeChambeau beat
Sergio Garcia 3 and 2 to set the stage for Morikawa, who hit his tee shot on 17
to 3 feet to set up the birdie putt.

“I woke up this morning and I was trying to tell the guys,
‘Let’s get to 20 points,’ because this is going to be the next era of Ryder Cup
team for the US side,” Cantlay was quoted by the Associated Press as
saying.

“We’ve got a lot of young guys. I think they’re going
to be on teams for a long time, and I wanted to send a message,” Cantlay added.

Now it is just a matter of the final margin.

(With AP inputs)