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European Ryder Cup Captain Luke Donald gave his team a surprise 1 up advantage while host USA team leader Bradley Keegan Bradley served-up an embarrassing opening ceremony blunder. The pre-Ryder Cup ceremony is all about introducing rival teams to the golfing public but then Donald used the occasion at Bethpage Park Black to have a dig at the American players’ receiving money to play at this year’s event in New York. In a first, each USA team player is controversially receiving $500,000 with ...

The last time the European Ryder Cup team competed on the USA they coped a golfing hammering along the shoreline at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.The United States, fielding its youngest team in its history, regained the Ryder Cup in 2021 with a record 19–9 victory. It was the largest margin of victory in a Ryder Cup since 1967. Continental Europe joined the Ryder Cup in 1979; this is Europe’s heaviest defeat in Ryder Cup history.  Combined with its 2016 win at Hazeltine, the United States ...

There is the real threat of turmoil on the opening day of on-course competition of the 2025 Ryder Cup. It’s nothing to with USA President Donald Trump’s expected appearance nor the actions of any of the thousands upon thousands of fans set to flock to the host Bethpage Park Black course. No it is the real of serious storms being predicted to lash the New Yor course. So much so, organisers have already reacted by rescheduling the opening ceremony of the Ryder Cup. FORECAST OF TURMOIL ...

The first official day of the 2025 Ryder Cup has got underway with both teams arriving at Bethpage Park Black ahead the on-course start to competition on Friday morning. And it could not have been a more pleasant encounter with both the reigning capgtain and his American team host each overflowing with praise for their rival. For Luke Donald’s defending European Team is has been a relaxing day on the pratice range and hjs men choosing not to take the host course. Donald and Bradley attended ...

An American has brilliantly taken delivery of the FedEx Open de la France trophy for a first time in 53-years but it has not been five-time major championship Brooks Koepka. No, it was Koepka’s compatriot in Michael Kim who birdied the 16th and 17th holes and then got up-and-down from a final hole greenside bunker to hole a testing 15-foot par putt and in the process end a seven-year winless drought with victory in the outskirts of Versailles. The 32-year-old had burst onto the pro scene in ...

It’ s been 11-years since American Brooks Koepka last won on the DP World Tour when he captured the Turkish Airlines Open in late 2014. It was a win for Koepka that led to him being named 2014 DP World Tour ‘Rookie of the Year’. The now 35-year-old, and winner since victory in Turkey of five major championship, now heads into a 99th Tour event looking to capture an eighth DP World Tour counting event, a second regular Tour title and second FedEx sponsored title after capturing ...

Next week’s 45th hosting of the Ryder Cup should promise to be a joyful occasion for the men’s professional game as a dozen of Europe’s best male golfers, and under the leadership of Luke Donald, face a dozen USA golfing rivals in seeking to celebrate becoming only the fifth European Team to win the coveted gold trophy on opposition US soil. Since Europe replaced GB & Ireland as the USA’s Ryder Cup opponent they’ve won the Ryder Cup on Stars and Stripes soil on just ...