The Gardeners' World Blog

I don't know about you, but the Ryder Cup is my favourite sporting event of the lot.

While the Cheltenham Festival is full of triumph and heartache, a Test match is filled with nuance and intrigue, and the Olympics is sporting excellence personified, the Ryder Cup is a combination of all of that and more.

It grabs you by the throat on a cool Friday morning and doesn't let go until dusk on the Sunday evening; three days of unremitting pressure, drama and skill that can be won by the smallest of margins and lost by the slightest mistake.