Editor’s Note: Over the past four decades, the Ryder Cup has grown into one of golf’s greatest spectacles – and moneymakers. With the 2025 matches between the United States and Europe set to tee off on the vaunted Black Course at New York’s Bethpage State Park next Friday, it’s worth recalling a man whose investment in the Ryder Cup – both emotional and financial – helped keep the event afloat in the years following World War II. It could be argued that Robert A. Hudson, an Oregon grocer, played as important a role in the biennial matches’ evolution as the legendary Seve Ballesteros. In that spirit, GGPBiz offers this profile of Hudson, first published by Global Golf Post+ in 2021. As much as anything else, Seve Ballesteros is celebrated as the man who rescued the Ryder Cup. It was his stellar play and cut-throat competitiveness that led Europe to multiple victories beginning in 1985 in an event that squads from Great Britain and Ireland had only managed to win three times over the previous 56 years. Ballesteros truly believed that he...