Here's a fun fact to keep in mind during the several inevitable momentum shifts over the first two days of this week's Ryder Cup: Since the turn of the century, the team which won the Sunday singles session has also won the entire event on nine of the last 10 occasions.
The lone anomaly came in the weather-plagued 2010 edition, when Europe held a three-point lead entering the final day, then the U.S. took singles by a 7-5 margin yet still came up short.
Other than that, the overall singles winner has claimed the trophy in the last 10 Ryder Cups – and it usually hasn't been close in that final session, either.
In its six wins which have held true to this trend, Europe has often dominated singles, twice winning by five points (2006, 2012), three times by three (2002, 2004, 2018) and just once by a single point (2014). Meanwhile, the Americans' three wins have been bolstered by singles triumphs of four points (2021) and three (2008, 2016).