Nick Faldo: ‘I would love to be able to play how I used to. It hurts, even now’ | Ewan Murray

Nick Faldo discusses Pádraig Harrington and Whistling Straits, his own Ryder Cup defeat as captain, Rory McIlroy and his game today

By widespread consensus, Pádraig Harrington has been spared vehement criticism despite captaining Europe to a record 19-9 defeat in the Ryder Cup. Many believe the Irishman has been afforded unduly generous coverage in the aftermath of a Whistling Straits mismatch.

It was not ever thus. Nick Faldo was berated before, during and after captaincy duties in 2008 as Europe were again easily defeated, this time by only 16½ to 11½, at Valhalla. There was undoubtedly overhang from a notoriously tricky relationship between Faldo and the press but the Englishman endured a brutal time.

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