{"id":256771,"date":"2025-09-26T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256771\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:57:10","slug":"ryder-cup-friday-live-updates-leaderboard-europe-flexing-its-muscle-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256771\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup Friday live updates, leaderboard: Europe flexing its muscle early"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ryder Cup is finally here … and Europe has picked up right where they left off two years ago in Rome.<\/p>\n

After Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas won the very first hole, Europe dominated pretty much the rest of the foursomes, winning three matches going away to take the early 3-0 lead. Only Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele gave the USA a point.<\/p>\n

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After the morning play, Europe leads 3-1.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bethpage Black is hosting the Ryder Cup for the first time<\/a>, and ticket prices have been sky-high<\/a>. President Donald Trump<\/a> is on hand for the matches on Friday afternoon, too, which has led to an increase in security<\/a> at the classic Long Island course.<\/p>\n

[<\/strong>Watch Friday’s afternoon Ryder Cup matches on Peacock<\/strong><\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s everything you need to know to keep up with the action on Friday at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n

Friday pairings<\/p>\n

Foursomes (alternate shot)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jon Rahm\/Tyrrell Hatton (EUR) def. Bryson DeChambeau\/Justin Thomas (USA) 4&3
Ludvig \u00c5berg\/Matt Fitzpatrick (EUR) def. Scottie Scheffler\/Russell Henley (USA) 5&4
Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood (EUR) def. Collin Morikawa\/Harris English (USA) 5&3
Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay (USA) def. Robert MacIntyre and Viktor Hovland (EUR) 2 UP<\/p>\n

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Four-ball (best ball)<\/strong>
All times ET<\/p>\n

12:25 p.m. | Scottie Scheffler\/JJ Spaun (USA) vs. Jon Rahm\/Sepp Straka (EUR)
12:41 p.m. | Ben Griffin\/Bryson DeChambeau (USA) vs. Tommy Fleetwood\/Justin Rose (EUR)
12:57 p.m. | Cameron Young\/Justin Thomas (USA) vs. Ludvig \u00c5berg\/Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard (EUR)
1:13 p.m. | Sam Burns\/Patrick Cantlay (USA) vs. Rory McIlroy\/Shane Lowry (EUR)<\/p>\n

How to watch the Ryder Cup<\/p>\n

NBC has the rights to the Ryder Cup throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n

Friday, Sept. 26<\/strong>
USA Network | 7 a.m. \u2014 6 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Saturday, Sept. 27<\/strong>
NBC | 7 a.m. \u2014 6 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Sunday, Sept. 28<\/strong>
NBC | 12 p.m. \u2014 6 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Stick with Yahoo Sports for all of the latest updates from Friday’s matches at the Ryder Cup:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ryder Cup is finally here … and Europe has picked up right where they left off two…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":256772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[29108,10125,135094,440,1430,1504,1510,5005,8656,62,1506,67,132,68,10133],"class_list":{"0":"post-256771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bethpage-black","9":"tag-bryson-dechambeau","10":"tag-eur","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-justin-thomas","14":"tag-patrick-cantlay","15":"tag-president-donald-trump","16":"tag-ryder-cup","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tommy-fleetwood","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-xander-schauffele"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115272132121924731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}