After Day 1 concluded on Friday, the American fans were in disbelief. Rory McIlroy and his team took a commanding lead on American soil, something that hadn’t happened for Team Europe since 2012.
A 9-1-3 Ryder Cup record. Three major championships. A Vietnam War veteran. Yet Larry Nelson never got the call to captain America’s most prestigious golf team.
Keegan Bradley thought he had a foolproof plan! The Team U.S. captain was more determined than anyone in his squad to prove his doubters wrong. So when Rex Hoggard told him to bench Bryson DeChambeau for foursomes, he did the exact opposite.
Jake Knapp is no stranger to pressure on the golf course, but nothing could’ve prepared him for this. The PGA Tour golfer now finds himself facing a heartbreak no victory or trophy could ever soften.
U.S. captain Keegan Bradley defended his pairings picks and said he's not worried about Scottie Scheffler, who was winless in two matches Friday and will be in action again Saturday morning.
Day 1 at the Ryder Cup opened with fireworks, but not the kind the Team USA wanted. Fans barely had time to catch up from the losses of the first two matches in the morning before Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood set the course ablaze.
Can Scottie Scheffler and Team USA turn things around? What can we expect from Saturday morning's matches. We breakdown the first day and look ahead to Day 2.
Keegan Bradley said the United States team would not deviate from its plan and kept seven of its eight players from Friday's Ryder Cup foursomes session in the lineup for Saturday morning.
Team USA’s Ryder Cup hopes stumbled early as they fell behind Europe 4-2 on Friday, with their top player struggling under heavy expectations. Scottie Scheffler not only lost both his foursomes and fourballs matches but also set an unwanted Ryder Cup record.
Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm didn't lose a match in the first two sessions Friday, while Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau failed to earn a point, allowing the Europeans to take a 5 ½-2 ½ lead on the U.S.
You’d think competing for your country would inspire faster play, but Patrick Cantlay proved that old habits die hard at the 2025 Ryder Cup. The American golfer found himself under the microscope once again.
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Rory McIlroy stared down Patrick Cantlay through the home stretch and made sure a European advantage wouldn't be dented at the last moment.
If anything marred American fans’ first day at the Ryder Cup (beyond Team USA’s disastrous performance), it was the coverage of the event itself. The atmosphere was nonetheless charged, at times toeing the mark of what is acceptable.
The Ryder Cup competition offers fans an opportunity to get behind their nation’s golfers and offer their vocal support. It also gives those same fans an opportunity to get under the skin of their opponents.
The Ryder Cup defies logic. No prize money changes hands. World ranking points don't accumulate. Only national pride and crushing expectation weigh on 12 players who've built careers around individual mastery.
The 45th Ryder Cup teed off on Friday with the US team desperate to reclaim the crown from Europe. Fans were expecting plenty of drama, and there has been no disappointment so far, with United States fans engaged in an intense rules dispute over an alleged ball movement involving Jon Rahm just minutes into the morning foursomes.
There is no amount of pressure that should surprise Justin Thomas at this point of his professional golf career. He is a two-time major champion who was ranked No.
PGA Tour golfer Jake Knapp’s longtime girlfriend Makena White has died. On Friday, a message was shared on White’s Instagram account that was written by one of White’s friends.
The 45th Ryder Cup is being played from Sept. 26-28, and is taking place in Farmingdale, New York, at Bethpage Black. The event features two teams of 12, as the best golfers from the United States take on the 12 best from Europe.
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay prevented another Friday morning shutout at the Ryder Cup by winning their foursomes match 2 up over Scotland's Robert MacIntyre and Norway's Viktor Hovland.
Team USA figured it upgraded at captain after Zach Johnson's debacle at the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome, but Keegan Bradley isn't off to a great start himself at Bethpage Black.