President Bush welcome Ryder Cup team at White House

ON Monday, President Goerge W Bush celebrated with the American golfers who reclaimed the Ryder Cup for the United States.

Bush held a private picture-taking session in the Oval Office with captain Paul Azinger and seven members of the 12-member Ryder Cup team.

The Americans led from start to the end of the game, winning golf’s pre-eminent event for the first time since 1999 with half their squad made up of Ryder Cup rookies.

Bush posed with Azinger,and assistant captain Raymond Floyd, and 2008 team members Stewart Cink, Chad Campbell, Ben Curtis, Hunter Mahan, Jim Furyk, J.B. Holmes and Boo Weekley. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, was also at the occasion

He told them he keenly followed “every minute” of their play.

“This was the icing on the cake for me and the players,” Azinger said in a statement afterward. “I said to the president how much I appreciated the joy that he and his staff had for us.”

The team gave the White House a personalized Ryder Cup golf bag, the same Sunday red golf shirt and sweater vest worn by the team and a Ryder Cup money clip.