I’m One of the Reasons Why We Lost the Ryder Cup: Tiger Woods

I just didn’t perform at the level that I had been playing: Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods of the US attends the closing ceremony after Europe won the Ryder Cup on the final day of the 42nd Ryder Cup at Le Golf National in .

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A dejected Tiger Woods admitted to the fact that he "was a contributing factor" as to why US tamely surrendered to Team Europe, as he lost four of his matches at Le Golf National outside Paris in France.

I’m one of the contributing factors to why we lost the Cup, and it’s not a lot of fun. It’s frustrating because we came here (Ryder Cup), I thought we were all playing pretty well, and I just didn’t perform at the level that I had been playing, and just got behind early in the matches and never got back.

Tiger Woods

Woods suffered his second singles defeat in the match-play showdown with a 2 and 1 loss to Europe’s Jon Rahm, which led to the Europe’s triumph.

"It's disappointing because I went 0-4, and that's four points to the European team," said Woods.

The former world number one arrived at Paris after a magnificent comeback from injury with his first title since 2013 at the Tour Championship last week.

But in France, Woods had a poor outing as he lost a twice in the fourballs alongside Patrick Reed and once in the foursomes with Bryson DeChambeau - all defeats coming at the hands of Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari.

The 14-time major champion’s Ryder Cup record now stands at 13 wins, 21 losses and three halves.