Ryder Cup performance

Despite his outstanding success on the PGA Tour, Woods has had minimal success in the Ryder Cup. In his first Ryder Cup in 1997, he earned only 1½ points competing in every match and partnering mostly with Mark O'Meara. Costantino Rocca defeated Woods in his singles match.^[195] In 1999, he earned 2 points over every match with a variety of partners.^[196] In 2002, he lost both Friday matches,^[197] but, partnered with Davis Love III for both of Saturday's matches, won two points for the Americans, and was slated to anchor the Americans for the singles matches, both squads going into Sunday with 8 points.^[198] However, after the Europeans took an early lead, his match with Jesper Parnevik was rendered unimportant and they halved the match.^[199] In 2004, he was paired with Phil Mickelson on Friday but lost both matches,^[200] and only earned one point on Saturday.^[201] With the Americans facing a 5–11 deficit, he won the first singles match, but the team was not able to rally.^[200] In 2006, he was paired with Jim Furyk for all of the pairs matches, and they won two of their four matches.^[202] Woods won his singles match, one of only three Americans to do so that day.^[203]