Farmingdale, NY – One thing we have learned from Friday morning’s European Ryder Cup?
The Ryder Cup is not broken.
It was a funny run for the half-yearly US-European connection. Not because one side continues to win – but because the At home Team does that, and in a convincing way. It has been five cups and a dozen year since the last victory of the visiting team. Heck, it has been five cups and a dozen years ago that it became closer than Five points down. This is how those cups have disappeared:
2014 (Scotland): 16.5-11.5, Europe
2016 (Minnesota): 17-11, USA
2018 (France): 17.5-10.5, Europe
2021 (Wisconsin): 19-9, USA
2023 (Italy): 16.5-11.5, Europe
Is this a problem? Is it real? I don’t think so. I think it is a fascinating trend, and the kind of things that makes a victory out of the way so much more impressive. It is proof of the power of Thuisveld and Thuisfanvoordeel, as well as a good dose of arbitrariness; Patrick Cantlay would remind you that we are looking at an interesting pattern, but caution that it is not really a sample. I will come to him there; I would love closer competitions, but this is not a real problem.
Yet we are in the Fix-it era of Sportmedia, where everything can be solved in a column, a podcast segment or a tap video, even if it is not broken in the beginning. So instead of driving on the ups and downs of the Ryder Cup, there have been calls to change its format, his rules, his administration – something To level the playing field. Captains and organizers have been undercommon About the subject.
So on Friday morning, when the road team hit the home team, it was an effective memory that we better leaned back and take everything. This is Golf. Everything is possible.
In the first game of the day, Bryson Decchambeau opened a star-spigot by pummeling driver over the Dogleg, directly to the Green, so that the upcoming fans stood in a roar and another when he made the putt for Birdie. But that was the first and last hole they won; Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton secured the game with a par at number 7, Birdied no. 8 and brought the game out of reach with Birdies on 12, 13 and 14 on their way to a 4-and-3 victory.
In the second game of the day, World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and World No. 3 Russell Henley opposite Ludvig Aberg and Matthew Fitzpatrick, he from the 1-7 Ryder-Cup record. But the last duo made eight Birdies in 15 holes to win 5 and 3, a shocking dribing of the Top -American duo.
In the third competition of the day, the Americans were surpassed on paper and personally surpassed; Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood won the 1st hole and never looked back, built a 4-up lead through six holes and hit the brakes of Collin Morikawa and Harris English, 5 and 4.
Through three games, nobody saw the 16th tee. It was a Beatdown of historical proportion – the most dominant start, by a few measures, in 74 years Ryder Cup competition. Via een andere lens was het ongekend: Europa had nooit de eerste drie wedstrijden van een Ryder-beker in de VS gewonnen en hoewel het plausibel is, zouden de VS zich van 3-1 naar beneden verzamelen, de tafel vrijdagmiddag gieten op zaterdag en kust naar de overwinning zondag, omdat Team Europe deed na het verliezen van de openingssessie met 3-1 in Frankrijk, wat veel meer waarschijnlijk is een streak-busting, verhalende winst-of een weg winst-of een weg winst-of A road profit or win a road.
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