Day Lewis Trophy

The Day Lewis/Ryder cup challenge, was held on Sunday. 36 people took part in a team match play, playing singles, greensomes & 4BBB.All entered into the spirit and dressed in blue or red. Great fun was had back in the club house when the trophy was presented to the winning side. The boys in blue, Paul Stephens, & Kevin Lucas presented Lesley Crick, with the trophy.

Three ladies entered and played for the reds. Lesley and Ros Tunbridge, took hold of the cup with joy for the red team. Hope to see you all for the rematch next year.

Ryder Cup 2014: How Captain Paul McGinley out-thought USA

Even when the Ryder Cup had been safely delivered back to the European team room, Paul McGinley was ensuring his team made the most of a remarkable week.

At the after-match celebrations the inspired European captain told his players to go easy on the alcohol. "Don't go overboard," he told them. "Make sure you are able to remember this for the rest of your lives."

It was typical of the Irishman.

His thorough, intelligent and measured approach was the difference between his team and the fractured American setup led by Tom Watson.

"Don't go overboard" were the words of advice from the European captain to his team after their win

Leadership is everything in the Ryder Cup. Yes, it comes down to the players to sink the putts, but for that to happen effectively their mood, motivation and readiness has to be at the highest level.

And it is the captain who can make sure this is the case.

From before he was appointed, McGinley's every thought and move was designed to create such a platform for his European team.

These are multi-millionaire individual sportsmen for whom there is always next week to provide opportunities of glory and remuneration.

The theory goes that they shouldn't need motivating to perform at a Ryder Cup. It is, after all, the biggest show in golf and commands the game's largest television audiences.

Martin Kaymer did not lack passion on his singles match on the third day, beating Bubba Watson 4&2

It is watched by its most impassioned spectators and all 24 players on show in Perthshire were, undoubtedly, motivated to win the trophy.

But one side was far better prepared for the task and one team was melded into a single unit. That team was Europe.

Their dedicated area in the Gleneagles Hotel was decked out in the blue and yellow of the continental flag, right down to the tropical fish. They were blue or yellow, too.

Those fish did not help Justin Rose produce his talismanic contribution, but they served as a symbol of the captain's attention to detail.

"There's lots to digest about what Paul did very, very well," Ian Poulter told BBC Sport. "Tom Watson is way more accomplished as a player than what Paul McGinley is, so he couldn't go up against his record.

"But what he could do was try and out-think him. By doing his homework, by being respectful, by being unbelievably clever in the way that he went around getting all of his statistics to make sure he had the right players on the course at the right time, he did that.

"The master-plan for Paul was to make sure we would be holding the trophy at the end of the week. It wasn't about egos, playing certain players five times. This was about getting hold of that trophy."

McGinley was an outstanding captain, perhaps Europe's finest, and Poulter agreed the role was taken to a new level. He added: "Every player is so proud that they have put that trophy in his hands."