He is the golfer who injured himself sleep walking at the Ryder Cup and could not play his singles match

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With the Ryder Cup now just one day away from starting, it seems like an ideal time to look back on one of the most bizarre incidents in the 98-year history of the competition.

Fans of professional golf have witnessed some truly peculiar, weird and wonderful incidents over the years.

And the Ryder Cup has provided the stage for many of the most bizarre incidents throughout the history of the game.

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This year’s clash at Bethpage Black promises to be one of the most exciting yet.

Both Ryder Cup captains oozed confidence during their speeches at the opening ceremony on Wednesday night.

And the competition will begin in earnest on Friday. Fans should expect plenty of twists and turns over the next few days, but something spectacularly crazy will have to take place in order to top what happened at the Ryder Cup 32 years ago.

The secret envelope Ryder Cup rule has only been used twice

Incredibly, only two players have had to forfeit playing their Ryder Cup singles matches in the history of the competition.

Ahead of the event, the two opposing team captains must put the name of one of their players inside an envelope – the designated ’12th man’ so to speak.

Should injury or illness strike and a player is forced to missed the singles, the player whose name is inside the envelope will be forced to sit out their match on Sunday, with both teams being awarded a half point.

That’s exactly what happened in 1991 at Kiawah Island when David Gilford had to sit out for the Europeans after Steve Pate was forced to miss Sunday’s action due to an injury that had progressively got worse following a car accident ahead of the Ryder Cup.

And exactly the same thing happened two years later, although the circumstances involved were much more bizarre.

The golfer who injured himself sleep walking at the Ryder Cup

At the 1993 Ryder Cup at the Belfry in England, Sam Torrance was one of Europe’s leading players.

However, disaster struck on the eve of the Sunday singles matches when the Scot suffered injuries to his stomach and toes. The cause of the damage sustained by Torrance? Sleepwalking into an artificial plant at his hotel.

Torrance had to forego playing his singles match at the Belfry as a result, with Lanny Wadkins missing out for the Americans.

The United States won the contest by a score of 15 points to 13 in the end, so Torrance’s bizarre injury and his subsequent absence from the singles matches didn’t actually influence the overall outcome.

Nonetheless, it was still a rotten bit of luck for the Scot and his team. The Ryder Cup never ceases to amaze.

However, Torrance’s battle with an artificial plant while asleep surely takes the biscuit as the most outlandish incident ever to have occurred in the history of the competition!