Nine years, three defeats, two wipeouts and one absent superstar since the last time it belonged to the United States, the Ryder Cup changed hands Sunday at Valhalla Golf Club, where the routine cheer was just as unexpected as the outcome.

"Red, white, Boo!"

For sure, the homespun Boo Weekley inspired the U.S. team and its fans, but it still wasn't easy coming up with a blueprint for success that didn't include top-ranked Tiger Woods - who is recovering from season-ending knee surgery. Yet that is exactly how the underdog U.S. team played it, winning 16 ½-11 ½, with a trump of Europe's aces that most observers didn't expect.

Sergio Garcia of Spain, Lee Westwood of England and Padraig Harrington of Ireland didn't win a match in three days. When Anthony Kim, a 23-year-old Ryder Cup rookie, put a bruising, 5-and-4 defeat on Garcia in the first of the day's 12 singles matches, the Americans were off and running.

Jim Furyk's 2-and-1 victory over Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain in the eighth match secured the victory, giving the United States the 14 ½ points it needed, and it was over with four matches in progress.

And so, after standing in mute misery, watching back-to-back-to-back victory celebrations of group singing, flag waving and Guinness swilling by the European side, it was somebody else's turn to smile.

"I'm coming out of my skin right now, I'm so excited," said Kim, who was 2-1-1 and set the tone for the pressure-soaked last day with the way he handled Garcia. "We're feeling pretty proud of ourselves."

Paul Azinger, the first-time U.S. captain, led the celebratory parade in his red golf cart, speeding down a fairway past fans holding large flags.

U.S. players quickly joined the act around the clubhouse. Weekley removed his cap and bowed. Furyk fought back tears of joy. J.B. Holmes raised his arms to encourage fans to raise the roof. Phil Mickelson grinned, as usual. Hunter Mahan and Kenny Perry waved American flags from the clubhouse veranda.

Then the champagne came out, and its spray filled the air. Azinger emptied the contents of one bottle on Weekley's head.

On the raucous scale, this one bordered on subdued, but it was surely satisfying. The previous U.S. victory was in 1999 in Brookline, Mass.

Perhaps because that was so long ago, the U.S. team came up with a boisterous performance and won by its largest margin since 1981.

The point of the following is that: there has been a pattern to the transformation of countries into Islamic States and there are planners behind these takeovers even when the vast majority of both Muslims and non-Muslims are unaware of these activities.

Compare the following recipe with what has happened and is happening in Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Sudan, Indonesia, India-Pakistan-Kashmir, Britain, Algeria, and USA. The pattern of infiltration, peaceful co-existence, expansion, covert efforts to destabilize, demands for legal exemptions to practice Islam, overt efforts to destabilize, demands for a separate state, and civil war are as old as Islam.

What appears to be new (starting in the late 1800's, but really picking up steam around 1980) is the global support network for these efforts.

Recipe for creating an Islamic State

Apply this recipe as needed based on the current state of a country. In other words if the target country has already completed certain steps, then move on to the next. Be willing to adapt to the local conditions. One more bit of general advice is the following:

• The leaders (secular and religious) in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have spent time studying the ways of power and they know that religion and people are just tools.

• Their own struggles with the British and other foreign powers have taught them to work from inside.

"The cardinal aim of the Wahhabis, apart from their puritanical objectives, was the destruction of British power. They not only attacked the British openly as in the Frontier, but they also tried infiltrating secretly among the rank and file of the army in order to sow the seeds of disloyalty. In the course of time, the British realised what was going on and they decided that Wahhabi influence would be rooted out altogether.