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30th September 2018
09:02pm BST

Here is the full Q&A exchange from what turned out to be the final question, for Team USA, of a Ryder Cup they lost 17.5 to 10.5.
REPORTER: Patrick and/or Jordan. You guys had quite a bit of success in the past playing together. Just curious if either of you were surprised that you didn't play together this week, and did that topic ever come up? PATRICK REED: (Looking at Jordan; Jordan looking back at Patrick, both smiling). JORDAN SPIETH: No, we weren't... we were totally involved with every decision that was made. This was a... Jim allowed it to be a player-friendly environment, and we were involved and we thought that the teams that came out of our, you know, four-man squad, what do we call it, fire team... what is it, Tiger? We thought that we had two teams... too tired to talk, Tiger. We had two potentially fantastic teams, and we went out and -- we went out confidently and tried to play our best. JIM FURYK: If I may, we put all four of those players out together in practice for most of the week, I think two of the three days. They were always a grouping, and I talked about it in the press room after the first day of pairings; we felt like we've got two really good pairings. Jordan and Patrick have been great in the past. I felt like, you know, whether that's a point of contention or not, I felt like we had two great pairings out of it. So it was totally my decision and my call, and I think I had a few of you tell me that - I think someone used the word, it was a gutsy - they might have said something else, but a gutsy call or a gutsy play, but the one I thought it was the right thing to do. It was my call.Furyk taking one for Team USA. He got a few calls wrong in Paris but his final act as captain was a noble one.
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