Ryder Cup bombshell drops on ‘fractured’ Team USA as astonishing Patrick Cantlay claim emerges amid wreckage

A report has claimed beleaguered Team USA are a “fractured” amid their Ryder Cup pasting and one of their star men has reportedly spat the dummy out over pay.

Zach Johnson’s side have been ripped to shreds in Rome and face the very real prospect of needing a 4-0 win in the afternoon fourballs to have any shot of retaining their trophy on Sunday. And now a bombshell report has claimed Team USA is on the verge of combustion amid Europe’s exploits.

Sky Sports state Cantlay’s long-running ire over not being paid to compete has driven a wedge inside the away camp and he is understood not to be wearing the official Team USA cap in protest with suggestions he is sitting in a different part of the dressing room from his team-mates. Team USA – winless in Europe in 30 years – appear destined for another tanking on away turf after their dominant victory in Whistling Straits two years ago.

And Johnson’s list of woes appear to be multiplying amid the claims surrounding Cantlay and the reported unrest in the USA dressing room with Europe and Luke Donald aiming to crank up the pressure on Saturday afternoon.

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