Victoious GB & I captain Paul McGinley and Ryder Cup captain, Jose Maria Olazabal will sit down in coming weeks in the wash-up of McGinley’s team retaining the Vivendi Seve Trophy at Saint Nom-la-Breteche.

McGinley has been asked to submit a report to Olazabal following his team winning by three points and retain the prized trophy with a 15 1/2 to 12 1/2 point result over a spirited final day Jean Van de Velde’s Continental Europe team.

It was a subdued GB & I team celebration and so unlike what we saw two years agao in France and also in stark contrast to the scenses at Celtic Manor late last year when Europe won back the Ryder Cup.

The winning GB & I team with the trophy. (Photo - Jenny Matthews/www.golffile.ie)

No, the big concern particularly for Olazabal is to turn around a trend that has seen Europe win the Ryder Cup but in the process not come out in front in the Singles.

It happened also in France for a second straight Vivendi Seve Trophy with McGinley’s men comfortably in front heading to the last day but losing the Singles on route to victory.

Van del Velde’s team won the opening five Singles including collecting the prize scalps of World No. 2 Lee Westwood and Open Champion, Darren Clarke.

Westwood lost the first Singles match 2 & 1 to in-form Dane Thomas Bjorn.

Clarke struggled all week managing to earn McGinley just half-a-point from his first three matches and was playing so poorly he asked McGinley to stand down from the Saturday afternoon ‘Foursomes’

Clarke was never in front in his Singles encounter against Miguel Angel Jimenez and after both birdied the 15th, the Portrushman conceded to the Spaniard when he found a water hazard with his tee shot at the par three, 16th.

It tied the encounter 11 ½ points each and when Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts eagled 17 and then halved the last against David Horsey it was 12 points apiece.

It was Scottish rookie Scott Jamieson, with McGinley by his side for the last few holes, who helped turn the tide when he defeated Spaniard Pablo Larrazabal 1 up.

From there on GB & I were never headed winning another two matches and halving two to eventually win comfortably by three points.

It’s the sixth straight success for GB & I in the seven-event history of the tournament and McGinley’s second in a row as captain.

And McGinley’s men triumphed despite the absence of at least six top GB & I players, including the Irish trio of Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Padraig Harrington along with the England threesome of Luke Donald, Justin Rose and Paul Casey.

However McGinley’s delight was tempered ahead of preparing a report to Olazabal who is travelling later this week to Medinah.

“Of course, I take enormous pride in being the winning Vivendi Seve Trophy captain for a second time in a row,” said McGinley.

“But while we were highly experienced, highly motivated and highly focussed enough they came out and tore into us winning five-and-a-half of the first six points.

“We only just managed to get over the line.

“So at the end of the day we’ve lost the Singles. Monty went through the same thing at Celtic Manor and I lost the Singles the Seve Trophy last time.

“We managing to secure good leads but only managing to get over the line, and there is no point in ignoring because it’s fact and it’s happened three straight times, and four if you count Nick Faldo’s Valhalla side.

“So I have now been involved three times off the course with a team that has lost the Singles, so that’s cause for analysis.

“Jose Maria is heading to the States this week but when he comes back we will sit down and analyse it because he’s already asked me for a debrief and I will provide that.

“It’s his prerogative as Ryder Cup captain as he was overseeing everything. I will share everything I have learned this week with him.”

Olazbal’s journey to the States coincides with it being a year next weekend to the start of the 2012 Ryder Cup.