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NEWPORT, Wales -- The doors are closed to only the inner circle of Team USA -- players, their wives/significant others, caddies and officials. Twitter messages have been muted. A vow of secrecy taken.
What happens in the team room stays in the team room.
But if you listen closely from outside you might recognize the sounds of "Kumbaya."
"It's a good team so far," Ryder Cup rookie Dustin Johnson said. "Everybody's in good spirits. Everybody is hanging out. So we got a lot of energy in the room. It's coming from everybody."
For this week, the every-man-for-himself PGA Tour mantra has been replaced with a foxhole mentality. The Ryder Cup tees off Friday morning and united everyone must stand.
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When play begins at Celtic Manor, Phil Mickelson will become the second American player, following Billy Casper (1961-1975), to play in eight consecutive Ryder Cup matches. Jim Furyk will be teeing it up for the seventh time and Tiger Woods, absent two years ago because of injury, will make his sixth appearance.
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