After losing his first match, the 41-year old was under pressure to prove himself against the fresh-faced Fred Couples in Sunday’s singles. O’Connor held his own and was all square on the 18th tee.

With Couples’ prodigious length leaving him just 9-iron to the green, the Irishman launched a a 2-iron from the fairway. The ball took a couple of bounces and came to rest 4ft from the cup. Couples would fail to make par and conceded the hole, handing O’Connor the vital point for Europe to retain the cup.

That 2-iron has gone down in history but how good was it? A Shot Quality score of 0 denotes the worst possible outcome, 100 represents the expected score of the average tour player, and 200 represents statistical perfection, such as a hole in one or holing out from long distance.