USA 5 Europe 12<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick is giving Bryson a complete rinsing. He\u2019s three up after just five holes and looking comfortable.<\/p>\n
JUSTIN THOMAS HAS HOLED OUT FROM THE FAIRWAY! Well that\u2019s got the crowd going! It\u2019s the only way he\u2019s going to beat Tommy Fleetwood, in fairness. Huge roar echoes around the grounds. <\/p>\n
AS Young v Rose (6)<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomas v Fleetwood 1Up (6)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 3UP (5)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Scheffler v McIlroy (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
Cantlay v Aberg 1Up (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
2UP Schauffele v Rahm (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
Spaun v Straka 1UP (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
Henley v Lowry<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
STATE OF PLAY ALERT!<\/b><\/p>\n
Eight matches on course.<\/p>\n
Europe up in four.<\/p>\n
USA up in one.<\/p>\n
Three all square.<\/p>\n
And another hole won by the US team – this time we see the rarest sight of this whole Ryder Cup week. Yes, it is our solemn duty to inform you that Justin Rose has missed a putt! And another! Scheffler has squared his match against Rory – a scruffy par from McIlroy who was off the back of the green. The Yanks needs way more of these but that\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n
AS Young v Rose (6)<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomas v Fleetwood 2Up (5)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 2UP (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Scheffler v McIlroy (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Cantlay v Aberg (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
2UP Schauffele v Rahm (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
Spaun v Straka 1UP (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
Henley v Lowry<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
Some red on the board at last – Jon Rahm has just had a scruffy three-putt on the first to hand the hole to Xander Schauffele. But Ludvig Aberg has just birdied the second to go ahead of Patrick Cantlay – that\u2019s a lead for Europe in the top five matches now. <\/p>\n
Young v Rose 1Up (5)<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomas v Fleetwood 2Up (5)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 2UP (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
Scheffler v McIlroy 1Up (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
Cantlay v Aberg 1Up (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
1UP Schauffele v Rahm (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
Spaun v Straka<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
Young and Rose are both making a bit of a mess of the fifth, with the referee getting called in to see if Rose is plugged in the grass by the bunker. He gets a drop and chips out to four feet, which he fginishes off for his par. Young is all over the place too and misses with a 15-footer. That\u2019s clumsy stuff. Europe are up in the top four matches now.<\/p>\n
Young v Rose 1Up (5)<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomas v Fleetwood 2Up (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 2UP (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
Scheffler v McIlroy 1Up (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Cantlay v Aberg (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
1UP Schauffele v Rahm (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
More good news for Europe in the second match. Fleetwood tidies up a routine birdie on the par-five fourth, while Thomas foosters about after a wild second shot and ultimately ends up with a par. Tommy goes two up. Dream start for Luke Donald\u2019s men.<\/p>\n
AS Young v Rose (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomas v Fleetwood 1Up (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 2UP (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
Scheffler v McIlroy 1Up (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Cantlay v Aberg (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
Schauffele v Rahm<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
First blood to Rory McIlroy! Scheffler was in torouble off the tee and scrapped his way up to the green but couldn\u2019t make par. McIlroy was far tidier, draining an 18-footer for birdie. Europe are up in three of the top four matches!<\/p>\n
AS Young v Rose (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomas v Fleetwood 1Up (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 2UP (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
Scheffler v McIlroy 1Up (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Cantlay v Aberg (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
And that\u2019s another bad miss from DeChambeau. He played a scorching iron into the short third but raced his putt a good seven feet past. Fitzpatrick was miles away in the bunker but got up and down. So now Bryson needs this nervy one for the tie – and he misses! That\u2019s a three-putt from 10 feet. Brutal. Fitzpatrick goes two up.<\/p>\n
AS Young v Rose (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomas v Fleetwood 1Up (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 2UP (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Scheffler v McIlroy (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
Cantlay v Aberg<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
Job number one for Team USA today was to get an early red wave going. But DeChambeau and Scheffler have both missed birdie putts on the first. It\u2019s been a real theme of the week – the American team haven\u2019t given their crowd anything to go on. Pitiful stuff really. With almost an hour gone, Europe are up in two and all-square in the other two. <\/p>\n
AS Young v Rose (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomas v Fleetwood 1Up (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 1UP (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Scheffler v McIlroy (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
Cantlay v Aberg<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
The top match is on the par-five fourth. Rose has just played a lovely chip from the rough to leave himself in gimme range for a birdie. Young has 20 feet for eagle to win the hole – and it just ducks right at the last second. Hole tied, match tied.<\/p>\n
AS Young v Rose (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomas v Fleetwood 1Up (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 1UP (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Scheffler v McIlroy (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
Cantlay v Aberg<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
Scheffler hits a Schefflerian approach to the first, just behind the pin, leaving him with eight feet for birdie. McIlroy backs off after a bit of chirping from the crowd before bumping one up to around 12 feet. Good chances for the two best players on the planet. Rory\u2019s putt never has the right line and misses on the right. Scheffler tickles one down the hill and it stays right. Hole tied.<\/p>\n
AS Young v Rose (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomas v Fleetwood 1Up (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 1UP (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Scheffler v McIlroy (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
Tommy Fleetwood is up and running. He swishes a delightful approach on the second hole, into 10 feet. He cans the putt and that\u2019s an early lead for him over Justin Thomas.<\/p>\n
AS Young v Rose (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Thomas v Fleetwood 1Up (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 1UP (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
Scheffler v McIlroy<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
Rory McIlroy is on the course. In different circumstances, playing Scottie Scheffler in the Sunday singles would be a heavyweight contest, freighted with all sorts of tension. Let\u2019s see how they fare when everyone assumes the overall result is a done deal. Both hit lovely drives off the first tee and have handy wedges to the green.<\/p>\n
Fitzpatrick isn\u2019t going to be intimidated by Bryson here. Sure enough, he hits his second shot on the first to eight feet. DeChambeau has no more than a little bump and run but leaves it around the same distance away. All down to the putting now. Bryson first up – and it slides by! Fitzpatrick steps up and buries his! Drive for show, putt for dough.<\/p>\n
1Up Young v Rose (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Thomas v Fleetwood (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 1UP (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
Up on the third, Rose and Young were both in the hay on the right. After chipping out to around six feet, Young hit a sloppy putt, whereas Rose was as nails as he\u2019s been all week. Rose\u2019s hole, match tied.<\/p>\n
AS Young v Rose (3)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Thomas v Fleetwood (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 1UP (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
Scheffler v McIlroy<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
Haha. That is ludicrous from Bryson DeChambeau on the first. He\u2019s spanked his drive just short of the green, the closest anyone has got to landing it on the first all week. He walks off the green waving his driver in the air. Great theatre. Matt Fitzpatrick is in the right rough. That\u2019s got the crowd going anyway.<\/p>\n
1Up Young v Rose (2)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Thomas v Fleetwood (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
DeChambeau v Fitzpatrick 1UP (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
Thomaa gives it a damn good go but that\u2019s a par. Now, can Fleetwood take advantage? Nope. Hole tied in four.<\/p>\n
1Up Young v Rose (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
AS Thomas v Fleetwood (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
USA 5 Europe 12<\/b><\/p>\n
In the second match, Fleetwood and Thomas have hit their drives down the first and they\u2019re both in Cameron Young country down the right. Fleetwood pings one in to 13 feet. Thomas has a bit of mud on the ball and comes up short, rolling back to about 25 feet. Advantage Europe.<\/p>\n
Which is what Young goes and does! Fantastic puttm tranking all the way. Now Rose needs to hole a 20-footer for a half – and he misses! Young moves to the second hole one up.<\/p>\n
1Up Young v Rose (1)<\/b><\/p>\n
Middling approaches from both players – Rose 20 feet past the hole, Young 25 short of it. Probably looking at two pars here unless someone holes a bomb.<\/p>\n
Rose finds the fairway, near the left edge of the dogleg. Young is a far bigger hitter and cuts the corner to land on the right fringe. He\u2019ll have th easier angle into the pin. We\u2019re underway!<\/p>\n
Young has been America\u2019s best player all week so it\u2019s no great surprise that he\u2019s going out first for them. Pretty damning indictment of the week his more experienced and celebrated teammates have had though – if things were going better for Team USA, Scottie Scheffler or Bryson DeChambeau would surely be leading them off.<\/p>\n
Okay, we\u2019re nearly there. Justin Rose and Cameron Young are heading for the first tee.<\/p>\n
Want to know how little tension there is in the final day? Sky are currently showing a pre-cooked item with the European team doing Who-has-the-worst-dress-sense-type interviews. There\u2019s 10 minutes to go until the balls are in the air! Everybody knows this is over before it\u2019s even started.<\/p>\n
From our man on the ground in New York…<\/p>\n
News from the course – Viktor Hovland is out<\/b><\/a>. That means Harris English will also sit out the singles. So now the score is 12-5. And Europe need two more points to retain the cup, 2.5 to win.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s where we are, then. We\u2019re looking at a record-breaking afternoon. Jamie Kennedy sums it up well.<\/p>\n History on the line today for Europe.<\/p>\n \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa 2.5 points to retain the Ryder Cup<\/p>\n \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa 6.5 points to win every session in a Ryder Cup for just the first time ever<\/p>\n \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa 7.5 points for the largest ever margin of victory for any European team<\/p>\n \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa 8.5 points for the most points won ever in\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/LqORPpGlzz<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jamie Kennedy (@jamierkennedy) September 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Interesting one here – Scottie Scheffler\u2019s caddie Ted Scott has just posted this on his Instagram. He and Francesco Molinari got into a small bit of a stramasch yesterday on the way to the 16th tee. Scott clearly doesn\u2019t want any spillover into today.<\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler\u2019s caddie, Ted Scott has posted a public apology to Francesco Molinari on his Instagram page. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come and there will be less hostilities at the Ryder Cup today \ud83e\udd1d pic.twitter.com\/xlUCfotTTr<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Flushing It (@flushingitgolf) September 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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