Surprise As Five Major Champs Overlooked For Opening Rome Ryder Cup Matches
It comes as a surprise that five major champions, two on the European Team and three on the USA side, have been overlooked for the opening series of matches in the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome.
European team captain Luke Donald has decided to leave out the pair of US Open champions in Justin Rose and Matt Fitzpatrick while his opponet in Zach Johnson has elected not to send out reigning US PGA Champion Brooks Koepka and also Justin Thomas and four-time major winning Jordan Spieth.
Instead Donald has gone ...
European Ryder Cup Juniors End 15-Year USA Domination With Stunning Rome Whitewash
Scotland’s ultra-talented Connor Graham won his Singles match to help deliver Europe a stunning victory and in the process help end a 15-year USA domination of the Junior Ryder Cup in Rome.
Graham, a member at both Crail Golfing Society and Blairgowrie clubs, defeated his American rival Jay Leng Jnr 1up with his birdie at the final hole handing Europe 14 1/2 points just minutes before Spain’s Andrea Revuelta sent her rival Ryleigh Knaub packing with a 8 & 6 drubbing to take Europe ...
Scheffler Jokes New Putting Coach Phill Kenyon Said It ‘Sucked’ He’d Won So Many Tournaments With The Way He Putted.
Scottie Scheffler was laughing and joking in saying that new putting coach Phil Kenyon could not believe he’d won so many events, including a Masters green jacket, with the manner the World No. 1 putted.
Scheffler picked this week’s Ryder Cup to go public with a new putting coach in England-born Kenyon.
No sooner had Scheffler arrived at this week’s host Marco Simone course and the six-time PGA Tour winner was seen working with Kenyon, and why wouldn’t he given the American’s ...
Head-Turning Sam Burns Admits It’s Been Nice To Play ‘With A Chip On His Shoulder’
Head-turning Sam Burns is among four rookies on Zach Johnson’s USA Ryder Cup team, and chosen by Johnson also as one of six ‘wildcard’ picks.
Burns, 27, earned his selection on the back of a strong PGA Tour season that included winning on the 2023 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and his fifth PGA Tour title in March.
The Louisanna golfer also knows how to win at team level being a member of last year’s victorious USA Presidents Cup side.
However, it is Burns’ Cam Smith-looking ...
Marco Simone: The Ryder Cup Players Reaction To The Ryder Cup Host Course
DP World Tour fans know much about this week’s host Marco Simone course with the Rome course having hosted the past three Italian Open Championships.
European Ryder Cup players – Nicolai Hogjaard (2021) and Bob MacIntyre (2022) – are past winners while their fellow Ryder Cup team-mates Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick were runners-up in those two years.
However for many of the players, including a good few on the European Team, this week will be the first taste of formal competition ...
Rose Suggests Europe Needs To Move Forward Choosing Not To Draw On LIV Rebels
Younger blood is seemingly better when it comes to Ryder Cup knowledge than the worth of tried-and-tested experience.
Justin Rose this week brings the weath of six prior European Ryder Cup appearances, having made his debut in 2008 at Valhallla in Kentucky.
Rose was then aged 28 and now 15-years older he boasts the European Team the experience of contesting 23 matches, winning 13, losing eight and halving two for 14 career points.
And with the affable Englishman remaining loyal to the European Tour ...
Spieth Plays Down Talk USA Has Not Won On European Soil In 30-Years
A 30-year victory drought in any sport is a long time but that’s the glaring fact facing the USA Ryder Cup side teeing-up this week in Rome.
It was 1993 when a Tom Watson led American team last won the Ryder Cup on European soil with their 15-13 triumph at The Belfry.
However, when this was put to the now five-time USA Ryder Cup star Jordan Spieth he was having none of it and with the Texan declaring such a statistic does not rattle the visiting American’s cage.
“We’ve been made ...
