Europe Complete Fairytal victory as a stunning American Fightback Falls Short

Members of the Victorious Europe team after they had retained the 2025 Ryder Cup on a nerve-screen last day in Bethpage Black. Image Courtesy Ryder Cup Europe/X.

A correspondent

Farmingdale, New York: Europe won the Ryder Cup away from home for the first time in 13 years after they survived a remarkable comeback from the United States on a dramatic Sunday in New York.

The visitors had started the day with a 11½-4½ lead on Bethpage, but were made to fight on a nerve screen afternoon before Shane Lowry retained the trophy and Tyrrell Hatton sealed a 15-13 victory.

Need with 10 points for the biggest comeback in the history of Ryder Cup, America won five of the top seven games and with the competitions along the order on a knife edge, also the destination of the cup.

But Ludvig Åberg defeated Patrick Cantlay 2 & 1 and Matt Fitzpatrick connected to Bryson Deschambeau to leave the stage clear for Lowry.

The Irishman had been two with four to play against Russell Henley, but a stunning approach to the 15th saw him know the last, knowing that a victory would retain the cup.

Henley found sand of the tee, but hit a wonderful recovery to ten feet to see Lowry in him on the same line.

The American let his efforts short and low -back from six feet before he started dancing over the green before he burst into tears.

Sealing victory

Hatton then brought a wonderful approach to his own closer to the last to bind with Collin Morikawa and sealed a fifth European victory over the US Spoil since 1979.

Robert Macintyre and Sam Burns shared a half in the anchor competition, but the rest of the games all went the way of the US.

Cameron Young defeated Justin Rose 1 Up, and Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler and Ben Griffin defeated Tommy Fleetwood, Rory Mcilroy and Rasmus Højgaard respectively through the same score, Xander Schauffele defeat Jon Rahm 4 & 3.

The victory makes Luke Donald only the second European captain after Tony Jacklin to win a Ryder Cup, both at home and away and makes the back-to-back victories after the 2023 victory at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club.

“It was the most stressful 12 hours in my life,” said Donald.

“Shout-out against the Americans, Keegan, his captain. I knew it would be difficult. I didn’t think they would be so heavy on Sunday, they fought so hard and all the respect for them.

“But this clearly means for me and the team. We came here that the task was very difficult.

Proud

“I could not be more proud of these guys and what they have experienced, how they came together, how they play for history, how they play for the people who came for them, and now there will be generations spoken as someone who goes into history.” Can’t be proud. “

The day started with the news that Viktor Hblemand could not play because of a neck injury, which means that the envelope rule would be invoked.

Harris English, against whom HOVOLAND was attracted to play in match 12, was the man in the American envelope, so his match with HOVOLAND was a half named and the singles started with the score on 12-5.

Bradley sent the local hero Young in the opening match and after he had received a delicious reception on the tee, he made a birdie despite a mediocre pitch and the US had drawn the first blood – a small step on a long journey, but one that brought the first huge cheers of the day.

Deschambeau had spoken in the structure of the possibility of driving the first and he came closest to doing it all week, but it was Fitzpatrick who made a birdie to go up, while Rose won the third with a birdie to wipe the early red from the board quickly.

And the fast start that the hosts sought so desperate were soon from the Europeans when Fleetwood won the second and fourth, Depchambeau Driedubb from the third and McIlroy made 18 feet on the second.

A young bogey then handed Rose the fifth and when Åberg was in second place, Europe stood in the top five games, with Fitzpatrick and Fleetwood up by two.

The crowd was modest, Donald’s big weapons shot and just over an hour after the singles session, Europe was in Dreamland.

Top shot

Thomas then perhaps produced the shot of the week when he extended the fairway at the sixth to trim the lead of Fleetwood and there was a red wave with Young and Scheffler who came back to bound and Schauffele who quickly moved 2 on Rahm.

But Fitzpatrick Birdied the fifth and sixth to move 4 up and tighta and Lowry both won the first to prevent early nerves from starting for European fans.

Young and Griffin both went up in their competitions and Henley went with Lowry, but tight and Fleetwood extended their instructions to 2 on the third and seventh respectively.

Fitzpatrick moved briefly 5 in the seventh, but Decchambeau won his first hole of the day on the next and the Americans continued to fight with Young and Griffin and went up 2 and spaun crop the gap against tightness.

However, the shift they needed still did not come, in which Rahm won the fifth and sixth to return to tied, Højgaard that cuts Griffin’s lead together, Hatton won the first and Lowry that went back.

Cantlay, Morikawa Thomas and Spaun then moved back to tied up against Åberg, Hatton. Fleetwood and Slea and respectively to leave it in seven games.

Things can turn on a cent on Ryder Cup Sunday and when Young 3 went up in match one, Morikawa and Scheffler both also came ahead and for what the first time felt the entire week, there was more red than blue on the board.

And the Golf continued with Thomas who won a third hole in a row to lead against Fleetwood, with nine out of 11 games or 1 up.

For the first time in the day, visitors may have felt twitchy, but McIlroy threw a long putt on the 11th, Højgaard moved with Griffin and Åberg again got his nose in front of Cantlay.

Momentum fluctuations

Macintyre also went 1 against Burns, but Griffin continued again and Scheffler and Henley brought their matches.

In the meantime, Rose played an incredible recovery from the side of a standard in the trees to six feet in the top match to win the 13th and then his tee shot at 12 feet on the next to cut the shortage to one.

Fleetwood Birdied de Par-Vijf 13th to come back, but Schauffele won the tenth, 11th and 12th and Spaun won the tenth to put two more flashes on the board.

Europe was still in pole position, but the Americans had the momentum and with the tight nature of the games the big comeback was still a possibility.

The match between Åberg and Cantlay had been a relatively quiet affair, but a bogey from the American on the 12th meant that he was following two.

Deschambeau cut the lead of Fitzpatrick with a Birdie on the 14th while the American momentum went on, with Burns tied up again with Macintyre, although Hatton prevented when he returned to Level with Morikawa.

The Rose Fightback continued with a stunning approach on the 16th to ensure that the game would rise the last, but it was a sea of ​​red elsewhere with a McIlroy -Bogey on the 14th moving Scheffler 1 up and Spaun doubled his advantage against sleek.

If Rose’s Vechtback was good, DeChambeau’s was on the spectacular when he made a fourth birdie in a row on the 15th to follow Fitzpatrick by one that had been down after seven five.

All four of the lower matches were tied, but Morikawa won the 11th and there was every chance that could come to a forgotten conclusion four hours earlier until the last games.

That probability became more real when Young won a 13-foot for Birdie Holed and his competition and the ecstatic reaction of the stand showed that the biggest comeback was really on.

The Red kept coming when Schauffele Vier went with four to play against Rahm and Henley ran ahead against Lowry, but a Hatton Birdie on the 12th got that match back to the same.

Fading hope

The pendulum in the top matches now all moved with the US when Fitzpatrick the 17th Bogey to go up the last tied up and Thomas Birdied the last from 12 feet to put another point on the board.

Schauffele closed his match with Rahm on the 15th to make the three fast points for the hosts, while Henley 2 moved against Lowry, Spaun went 3 against Straka and Burns took the lead against Macintyre to leave the game on a knife edge.

Europe stopped the bleeding when Åberg closed on the 17th and when Fitzpatrick and Dechambeau both Parred the 18th Parredden for a draw, they needed half a point to keep, but were not in one of the remaining matches.

Scheffler finally won a victory when he concluded a 1 -up victory on McIlroy and the top four games had all risen the last in one of the most dramatic Ryder Cup Sunday in memory.

Bradley’s Frontloading had seen his big weapons play their share and although the American dream was still alive, there was a lot of work to do after Lowry hit that stunner in the 15th to cut Henley’s lead to one.

Macintyre birddied the 13th to return to tied up and when Spaun closed his victory over the 17th, after he started watching the day watching a potential record victory, Europe now fought for half that would see them take the cup back over the Atlantic Ocean.

That looked less likely when Højgaard made a mess of the 15th to send Griffin 1 up and Hatton missed a good chance of winning the same hole.

But the tension was finally released on a nerve screen afternoon when the magical moment of Lowry sealed the retention, but the games were not over yet.

Macintyre dried the 15th to send Burns 1 up and Griffin closed Højgaard on the last before Hatton won the victory and Macintyre won the last one. (Courtness rydeercup.com))

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