HOME ADVANTAGE IN the Ryder Cup is like having serve in tennis. Hence why Rory McIlroy has called winning a Ryder Cup away from home the “hardest feat in golf.”The home side has control over course set-up, which is something the Europeans have maximised to their advantage. The notion that there are vast stylistic difference between the European and American players doesn’t stand up. The European players were also given VR headsets pre-loaded with personalised abuse, aimed to desensitise themselves in advance to whatever will be hurled their way at Bethpage. Like everything at the Ryder Cup, its genius or otherwise will only be judged after the result is known.