Medinah was the name of the Country Club in the north-west of Chicago with the clubhouse with Byzantine-Arabesque features (kitsch to die for) which hosted the 39th most beautiful challenge in golf.
An edition that remains fresh in the memory of those who followed it on television.
Let's retrace those wonderful moments together: At the end of the day on Saturday we (Europeans) were behind by 6 points (10 to 4) before the last-gasp victories of Garcia and Donald over Woods and Stricker and McIlroy and Poulter over Dufner and Zach Johnson.
At 10 to 6 on Saturday night, Olazabal's team won eight of the final day's singles picking up a surprising overall win when Francesco Molinari drew with Tiger Woods in the 28th and final match.
“We felt we had a minimal chance and we made history,” said Ian Poulter, the European pillar, undefeated in all of his matches in Chicago.
A victory obtained with the colors of the deceased Seve Ballesteros and with his image embroidered on the shirt and on the bag of the protagonists.
Europe played with the same spirit as Seve, that of never giving up.
“Seve will always be there,” said Olazabal, who lost just two out of 15 games with Ballesteros as his partner in the 1980s and 1990s as he mourned his death the previous year.
“It's the first time Seve hasn't been here with us at the Ryder Cup. I have wonderful memories of the match with him. He was a very special man and is extremely close to my heart."
“He was a big factor for this event and last night, during a meeting, I think the guys understood that believing was the most important thing“.
Poulter's final five birdies to win Saturday's final Fourball game had fueled that belief, but to see a home team so strong, throw away their lead was beyond most people's expectations.
“The first two days nothing went right,” Olazabal said. “We struggled on the greens but this morning I saw a little change in that regard. We started to pocket a few putts, the Americans have just started making mistakes…”.
The first five singles all went to Europe. Luke Donald won against then Masters champion Bubba Watson, Paul Lawrie swept Brandt Snedeker and then Rory McIlroy dismissed the previously undefeated Keegan Bradley.
Northern Ireland was also the protagonist off the course. Rory's alarm clock, set on the wrong time zone, caused the then world number one to arrive so late that he had to be escorted by the police to make it to the Medinah one tee just in time!
Then the victories of Poulter and Rose over Webb Simpson and Phil Mickelson.
The answers of Dustin Johnson and Zach Johnson who brought the United States back in front 12 to 11.
Lee Westwood taking the match from Matt Kuchar and Sergio Garcia 1 UP on Jim Furyk …
But Europe needed one more point. Kaymer got it before admitting that he couldn't help but think back to Langer's ill-fated putt 19 years earlier.
“I thought about him, especially when I walked around the hole and read the putt at the other end.”
"I thought 'okay, it won't happen again, it won't happen again' and to be honest I never really thought about missing that putt."
“There was only one thing to do: post him.”
Martin Kaymer pocketed the putt that brought the trophy back to Europe.
Just him who had missed three of the four matches feeling in difficulty with his game would have guaranteed the team the draw it needed.
Will this year's Ryder live up to 2012's?
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