The US Open heads to Brookline this week and is the scene of one of the most famous battles in golf history.
There is division among the golfers at the moment with a number joining the breakaway LIV Golf series, backed by the Saudi Public Investment fund.

It will make for a ferocious US Open contest on the course in Massachusetts, and that is what The Country Club is known for.
The 1999 Ryder Cup was held at Brookline and was one of the most dramatic and memorable in the tournament’s near 100 year history.
The famous ‘Battle of Brookline’ saw an incredible comeback by Team USA on the Sunday to claim the trophy from Team Europe, 14.5-13.5.
Heading into the final round singles, Europe were leading 10-6 and needed just four points to retain the Ryder Cup.
But the star-studded American team, that featured the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk, rallied to win the first six matches before going on to claim victory.

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It was remarkable it was ever that close with the American’s 10-strong team all inside the top 16, while Europe had just two players in the top 20. Such is the beauty of the Ryder Cup, though.
The victory was not without controversy with USA prematurely celebrating on the 17th green after Justin Leonard holed a 45-foot putt, despite Jose Maria Olazabal still to complete the hole.

Veteran broadcaster Alistair Cooke described the last day as a ‘date that will live in infamy’ and said it had ushered in the ‘arrival of the golf hooligan’.
What plenty of people will remember from the 1999 was the unique, and downright hideous, shirts Team USA wore on that final day.
Those burgundy shirts featured various portraits of Ryder Cup winning US teams from the previous six decades, as well as multiple images of the trophy.
Captain Ben Crenshaw personally oversaw the design and said: “A lot of thought went into those shirts.”

Crenshaw was a man not short of confidence having famously predicted a comeback on that final day. The confidence of a man to create a shirt as hideous as the one he did.
As well as the overall burgundy colour, it featured beige trim around the collar and sleeves.
It did the trick, though, and that final day comeback in 1999 was the first time a team has overcome a four-point deficit, with that being matched in 2012 in the Miracle at Medinah.
On the shirts, Furyk said: "It wasn't a beautiful shirt, but I thought it was cool. It had a lot of emotion and time spent on it by Ben."

The original shirts are rarely seen, while one sold on eBay in 2016 for around $2000. So what happened to the rest of them?
Most are in the players’ houses, collecting dust with various other mementos from their illustrious playing careers.
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A few admitted they had no idea where they were, when asked by ESPN five years on from the Ryder Cup.

While Woods admitted: “I threw it in the fireplace over Christmas and burned it. It was sooo ugly. It provided more warmth for the house."
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