Brailsford wins Ryder cup for Europe

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"He was very inspiring, very motivating," Sergio García said last night. "He got everyone involved and made sure no one was left out." But had the whole thing gone wrong in the final hour of the tournament, all sorts of reasons would have been advanced to explain the failure, most of them laid at the captain's door. Somehow it all came right. And in the aggregation of marginal gains, who can tell which of them made the crucial difference?