The game of Europe during the Ryder Cup session on Friday morning was not only impressive.
It was rare.
In the first game in Bethpage Black, Europe’s Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton Americans Bryson Depryson Depryson and Justin Thomas, 4 and 3, defeated Foursomes. Subsequently, Europeans Ludvig Åberg and Matt Fitzpatrick were at the top of the Scottie Scheffler of the United States and Russell Henley, 5 and 3. Then Europe’s Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood Collin Morikawa and Harris Engels of the US, 5 matches in the opening of the opening of the openings – and 4.
That had not been done for 74 years.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Ryder Cup from 1951 was the last time that a party in an opening session had won so much. Played in Pinehurst no. 2, the Americans’ Clayton Hafner and Jack Burke Jr. won 5 and 3; Sam Snead and Lloyd Mangrum won 5 and 4; And Ben Hogan and Jimmy Demaret also won 5 and 4.
Below are some other findings by Elias:
– The victories of Europe in the first three games had never happened in 22 previous Games of the Ryder Cup in the United States.
-Europa won at least three points in the opening session for the third time in the last 27 Ryder Cups and for the second straight Ryder Cup. Europe led 3.5-.5 in 2004; And it led 4-0 in 2023.
-The teams of Rahm and Hatton and McIlroy and Fleetwood are now 3-0-0 in Ryder Cup Foursomes matches.
– Scheffler has now left with at least four holes on his three career Ryder Cup Foursomes competitions.
– The number 1 player of the official World Golf Ranking has played 21 Ryder Cup Foursomes matches. The record? 10-10-1. The current world no. 1? Scheffler.
Another item. It is for both American and European fans.
Teams with 3-1 or worse after the opening session-de US followed this year with 3-1 Hebben gathered to win the Ryder Cup five times. Europe has done it three times (1957, 1985 and 2018) and the US twice (1949 and 1971).
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