'It was like a non-league team asking Man Utd for a match'

Six of nan 10 players successful that 1992 American squad would spell connected to beryllium inducted into nan World Golf Hall of Fame - Betsy King, Beth Daniel, Patty Sheehan, Pat Bradley, Juli Inkster and Meg Mallon. Their players boasted 21 awesome titles betwixt them, to conscionable 2 connected nan European broadside - Laura Davies and Liselotte Neumann.

The US were red-and-white-hot favourites.

But they mislaid skipper Kathy Whitworth, victor of an LPGA grounds 88 tournaments, who returned location connected nan time they arrived astatine Dalmahoy, pursuing nan decease of her mother.

Whitworth had been inspirational successful starring nan US squad to nan first triumph astatine Lake Nona, Florida successful 1990 by pairing "personalities alternatively than thing straight related to golf", according to Dottie Mochrie (formerly Pepper).

And past awesome victor Daniel stirred nan pot, while talking to a US play magazine. "You could put immoderate 1 of america connected nan European broadside and make it better, but nan only Europeans who could thief america are Laura Davies and Liselotte Neumann," she was reported arsenic saying.

Sporting history is littered pinch specified statements that only service to substance nan underdogs, and while Daniel disputes she made those comments, Walker recalls it differently: "She said it.

"And, of course, what she said was perfectly right, but erstwhile personification tells you you can’t do something, aliases that they’re amended than you, you deliberation 'I’ll show you'.

"It wasn’t bully for america to perceive and it made america want to hit them moreover more."

Daniel was made to chew complete her words connected nan first morning.

England’s Davies had won conscionable 1 of her 4 awesome titles by 1992, but was good connected her measurement to becoming 1 of nan champion successful nan world. She won each 3 of her matches astatine Dalmahoy, including nan opening foursomes wherever she teamed up pinch Alison Nicholas to hit Betsy King - and Daniel, of course.

Davies and Nicholas past defeated Sheehan and Inkster connected time 2 arsenic Europe opened a one-point lead to return into Sunday’s singles. Davies again led nan squad out, winning nan apical lucifer against Brandie Burton to group nan level arsenic Europe dominated nan last time 7-3 for nan unlikeliest 11½-6½ triumph.

"It was Laura’s champion capacity playing for Europe - she was unbeatable and conscionable brilliant, a earthy leader," remembers Walker.

The upwind besides played its part.

"It was October successful Scotland and horrendous," says Walker.

"It was wet, it rained, nan people was waterlogged and if it had been a regular tourney we wouldn’t person played.

"It was miserable, but we were utilized to those conditions. The Americans perfectly hated it. They didn’t really do horrendous conditions and that played into our favour."

In fact, it took until Loch Lomond successful 2000, again successful emblematic autumnal Scottish weather, for nan Europeans to triumph for a 2nd time.