The USA continued to flop on the 2025 Ryder Cup on Saturday, once more falling quick in opposition to a dominant displaying from Europe. Europe is already as much as 11.5 factors via Saturday (to solely 4.5 for america), and desires simply 2.5 factors to retain the Ryder Cup and three factors on Sunday to win it outright.
Europe’s lead going into Sunday isn’t solely its largest lead coming into singles play in European crew historical past, however it is usually the biggest lead coming into singles play by any street crew within the historical past of the competitors.
Listed here are some takeaways from Saturday’s motion.
United States trotted out the identical dropping pairings from Friday
The day bought off to an ominous begin for america when captain Keegan Bradley determined to ship out the identical pairings from Friday that had been humiliated by Europe on the primary day of the competitors.
Essentially the most baffling of these choices was to once more ship out the pairing of Harris English and Collin Morikawa after they had been routed on Friday. They had been solely marginally higher on Saturday, however nonetheless not ok.
On the finish of the day, it nonetheless comes all the way down to gamers making good pictures, nevertheless it’s been a whole teamwide failure for america all weekend. From each the gamers and their captain.
Scottie Scheffler’s Ryder Cup struggles proceed
When he is on the PGA Tour, Scottie Scheffler is as dominant as any lively golfer. He’s the No. 1 participant on the earth and a continuing menace to win any event and any main, having already gained 4 of them (two Masters, one PGA Championship and one Open Championship) in his profession. However one thing occurs to him each two years within the Ryder Cup the place he simply … loses it. The place one thing doesn’t click on for him and all the things simply falls aside.
He made some historical past on Saturday, and it was not the kind of historical past any world-class golfer needs to be related to.
He turned the primary golfer within the historical past of the Ryder Cup to go 0-4-0 via the primary 4 rounds of the competitors, courting again to 1979 when it turned america vs. Europe.
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