The team-golf undefeated challenge

Win to Nil

Going 82-0 in a season is the basketball dream. This is its golf cousin: draft the ultimate XII from every Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup since 1991 — Europe, USA and the Internationals all in play — then play the Cup out and see if your dream team can win all 28 matches and go to nil.

01

The reel lands on one team from one Cup — say 2006 Europe. Draft anyone who played for them.

02

Twelve picks from twelve team-years. Every player is rated out of 100.

03

Your XII plays out all 28 matches. Win the lot and you've gone to nil.

Both sides on the board
Blind draft — hide ratings until the XII is set
One of each — a player can't be picked in more than one year (no two Tigers)
One re-spin — allow a single re-spin to redo a pick
The draft
Your XII
Pick 1/12 Re-spins 0
Spin the years

Your XII

Full time

How it played out

All 28 matches from this run — green won, red lost. Tap a tile to see the matchup.

Point won Point lost

Each rating out of 100 reflects how good a player was the season that Cup was played, so the same name is worth more in a year he was actually flying — Tiger in 2000 tops the scale at 100. The ratings are our own estimates of form, not official strokes-gained data: real strokes gained only goes back to 2004 (pre-2004 picks are flagged EST) and doesn't cover every tour, so treat them as a designed power level rather than a measured stat. Each match is then played out for real — which is why a clean 28–0 is so rare that, just like going 82-0 in the NBA, nobody has ever actually done it.