McGinley: “USA Ryder Cup Side Under-Prepared, Look Rusty & Lacking Energy”.
The 2023 USA Ryder Cup side boast six major champions and an Olympic Gold medal winner but they left reeling after an historic nil and 4 opening series of matches drubbing at the hands of their European Team rivals.
Luke Donald’s men never allowed their six USA team rivals to get in front once on the host Marco Simone course.
And it was also history in the making with Europe winning all four foursome matches to become the first European team to achieve such a feat since 1979 when Europe replaced ...
European Ryder Cup Historic First – Winning All Four Opening Matches In Rome
Luke Donald’s European Team has produced an historic first by whitewashing the visiting Americans in winning all four opening foursome matches in the 44th hosting of the Ryder Cup.
Not since Europe first contested a Ryder Cup in 1979 has a European Team achieved such a feat.
Now they’ve done so and emphatic style in glorious morning conditions on the host Marco Simone course in Rome
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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 ...
