Thriving across 11 one-on-one matches, the U.S. unintentionally proved the point its team has been forced to relearn every two years: The Ryder Cup is about the collective, not the individual.

Golf legend Tom Watson called out United States fans for the way they treated the European team during the Ryder Cup.

It has been a matter of total European domination at Bethpage Black. 11.5 to 4.5 is a score representative of that. When you consider that the Americans saw Scottie Scheffler become the first player in this format of the Ryder Cup to lose their first four matches … it just wasn’t ever going to be their tournament.

Barring something miraculous (for the Americans) and/or calamitous (for the Europeans), this Ryder Cup is a wrap. Europe has won the tournament just four times on U.S. soil (1987, 1995, 2004, 2012), but a fifth conquest appears inevitable.

A Ryder Cup that was a wipeout for the first two days turned thrilling on Sunday, as the Americans sought to erase a seven-point deficit. They came close — Lowry’s 14th point clinched the retention of the Cup, and then Tyrrell Hatton halved his match with Collin Morikawa to win it outright for Europe. The final score was 15-13.

It might be fair to say nobody was going to beat a Ryder Cup duo on a roll — one that's so good, it has its own nickname, "Fleetwood Mac."

The top players on the United States and Europe will go head to head as the Americans aim to avoid a historic loss

Even before things completely fell apart for the United States on the first day of play at the Ryder Cup on Friday, NBA legend and golf superfan Michael Jordan could tell the Americans were in trouble.