"It's a cruel game. - Gary Alliss"
Lady luck failed to shine on the GB&I PGA Cup team as they lost their grip on the Llandudno Trophy.
They lost 13½-12½ to miss out on retaining the trophy by just half a point.
Gary Alliss's troops fell agonisingly short on the Oconee Course in Greensboro, Georgia.
PGA Cup veteran Paul Wesselingh, in his fifth appearance, was left to curse his luck after relinquishing a three-hole lead on the 16th to halve his match with Ryan Benzel.
"Obviously it's bitterly disappointing, I would have loved to have taken the trophy home but we gave it our best shot and it's a cruel game," said GB&I captain Alliss.
Enjoying a healthy slice of good fortune, the Benzel's tee shot on the 16th was destined for the water, but it bounced off a rock in the middle of the pond and bounced to safety. He then produced a stunning finish to halve the match and strip GB&I of the half point that would've kept the Llandudno on British soil.
America's women enjoyed better luck on their travels as they became only the second team in Solheim Cup history to retain the Cup on foreign soil. Following in the footsteps of their 1996 predecessors, Betsy King's team overcame an 8½-7½ deficit entering Sunday singles matches to win the 10th staging of the Solheim Cup 16-12.
"We really played our hearts out. I thought we had a lot of talent on the team," said King.
Serial Seniors Tour winner Carl Mason enjoyed September as he swelled his bank balance by some considerable margins.
He rewrote the record books at the start of the month as his win at the European Senior Masters saw him become the richest golfer in Seniors Tour history.
His victory at Woburn saw his total purse reach £1,033,321, surpassing Tommy Horton's record.
But the 54-year-old wasn't finished there. A mere week after winning at Woburn he stormed Stoke by Nayland to win the PGA Seniors Championship, by six shots from Italian legend Costantino Rocca and Frenchman Philippe Dugeny.
This made the bank manager's smile even broader as magical Mason took home the trophy and a cheque for £33,000.
Another player in the money was Lee Westwood whose winnings on the European Tour surpassed £10million, only the seventh player to do so.
Westwood joined Colin Montgomerie, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Padraig Harrington, Darren Clarke and Bernhard Langer in taking his earnings through the £10million barrier.
Welshman Stephen Dodd was at the double as he completed a clean sweep of Welsh titles, adding the RCW2010 Welsh National PGA Championship to Cardiff to his RCW2010 Welsh Open crown at Marriott St Pierre.
Despite two wins in a month Dodd has some way to go to catch the, no doubt soon to be, greatest golfer of them all Tiger Woods.
The American marched to another USPGA Tour title with victory at the BMW Championship in Illinois, to take him within two victories of Arnold Palmer's all time wins record.
A week later the deficit was cut to one as Woods shot the lowest score of his outstanding career to win the Tour Championship by eight strokes.
His ridiculously low scored of 23-under-par was two-strokes better than his previous best of 21-under which he shot seven years ago at the NEC Invitational.
It wasn't just personal records Woods was breaking, as his score smashed the USPGA Tour Championships' record low score to emphatically claim the FedEx Cup.
Closer to home Sean Mason clinched the West Region order of merit title with a slightly less emphatic score in the Hamptworth Bex Design and AEP PGA Championship.
The PGA were celebrating after their first branded golf academy in Asia, was voted the best new course in China.
Bayhood No 9, was given the award by best-selling magazine Golf Digest, which placed the Beijing course at the top of the pile.