{"id":90338,"date":"2025-09-28T07:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/90338\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:43:09","slug":"rory-mcilroy-set-for-scottie-scheffler-showdown-as-ryder-cup-singles-matches-are-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/90338\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy set for Scottie Scheffler showdown as Ryder Cup singles matches are revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world number one became the first player since 1967 to lose all four matches in the opening four sessions as Europe put themselves on the verge of a historic victory, leading 11.5-4.5 going into the final day.<\/p>\n

After opening day defeats in the fourballs and foursomes, Scheffler again returned empty-handed on Saturday with another double loss.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old, playing with Russell Henley, suffered a one-hole defeat to Robert MacIntyre and Viktor Hovland in the morning foursomes, to make it a 100 per cent loss record from his four outings in that format.<\/p>\n

Things got worse for him in the afternoon fourballs as he and partner Bryson DeChambeau were beaten 3&2 in a match that involved a bust-up between the players and caddies.<\/p>\n

Scheffler is the standout individual player in the United States team, having won five tournaments this year including the PGA Championship and the Open.<\/p>\n

It is a record that has put him clear of the field in a similar way to Woods during his pomp.<\/p>\n

While Woods dominated on an individual level he could not bring that to the Ryder Cup, especially in the two-player formats where he had a poor record of nine wins, 19 losses and one half.<\/p>\n

\"Scottie<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler of Team United States during the morning foursome<\/p>\n

And it seems the 29-year-old is having a similar problem, with just one win, six defeats and two halves.<\/p>\n

Before the tournament started Scheffler was asked whether he would be a difficult partner given his individual results.<\/p>\n

Asked if he had an aura like Woods, he said: \u201cNot really. I don\u2019t have much to elaborate on that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to think that I\u2019m not difficult to pair with people. I\u2019d like to think of myself as someone that\u2019s a nice guy and easy to get along with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had different partners over the years and have had some success. I would definitely not put myself in that category.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think some of the difficulty you had with playing with Tiger\u2026I mean, I don\u2019t even know what it could be. It could just be the aura that was Tiger Woods.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was some times there when he was doing nothing but winning golf tournaments and just beating the absolute crap out of people time and time again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Scheffler will look to claim his first point of this year\u2019s Ryder Cup as he faces a mouth-watering showdown with Rory McIlroy on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Tee times for the third day of 45th Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, New York, on Sunday, September 28:<\/p>\n

Singles (USA names first, all times BST):<\/p>\n

1702: Cameron Young v Justin Rose<\/p>\n

1713: Justin Thomas v Tommy Fleetwood<\/p>\n

1724: Bryson DeChambeau v Matt Fitzpatrick<\/p>\n

1735: Scottie Scheffler v Rory McIlroy<\/p>\n

1746: Patrick Cantlay v Ludvig Aberg<\/p>\n

1757: Xander Schauffele v Jon Rahm<\/p>\n

1808: JJ Spaun v Sepp Straka<\/p>\n

1819: Russell Henley v Shane Lowry<\/p>\n

1830: Ben Griffin v Rasmus Hojgaard<\/p>\n

1841: Collin Morikawa v Tyrrell Hatton<\/p>\n

1852: Sam Burns v Robert MacIntyre<\/p>\n

1903: Harris English v Viktor Hovland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world number one became the first player since 1967 to lose all four matches in the opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,5948,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-90338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-ryder-cup","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}