{"id":261142,"date":"2025-09-28T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261142\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:22:17","slug":"viktor-hovland-missing-ryder-cup-day-2-afternoon-session-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261142\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Hovland missing Ryder Cup Day 2 afternoon session with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Europe\u2019s Viktor Hovland is dealing with a neck injury and won\u2019t pair with Matt Fitzpatrick in the afternoon session, Ryder Cup officials announced Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrrell Hatton was tapped to take Hovland\u2019s place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The issue had been bothering him during the final few holes of his morning session, Cara Banks reported on the NBC broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe spoke to captain Luke Donald about it on the 18th green when they won their point this morning,\u201d she reported. \u201cThey decided he would get treatment, and if it was OK, he would go, and if not, Tyrrell Hatton knew there was a good chance he would go out.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.59006211;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37231660\" width=\"938\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250927_jhp_bc1_0340.jpg\" alt=\"Team Europe golfer Viktor Hovland reacts to a putt on the 14th hole on the penultimate day of competition for the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. \" class=\"wp-image-37231660\"  \/>Team Europe golfer Viktor Hovland reacts to a putt on the 14th hole on the penultimate day of competition for the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black.  Peter Casey-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyrrell was prepared, warming up on the driving range.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Europeans could make the change thanks to item 3.c of the Captains Agreement: \u201cIt is agreed that in the event of illness, injury or other emergency reason to a player selected to play in a match, he may be substituted by another member of the team previously not selected, prior to the commencement of this match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.45454545;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37231666\" width=\"858\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2237720106.jpg\" alt=\"Russell Henley of Team United States and Viktor Hovland of Team Europe shake hands after Hovland and Robert MacIntyre of Team Europe defeated Henley and Scottie Scheffler of Team United States 1UP during the Saturday morning foursomes matches of the 2025 Ryder Cup at Black Course at Bethpage State Park Golf Course on September 27, 2025 in Farmingdale, New York.\" class=\"wp-image-37231666\"  \/>Russell Henley of Team United States and Viktor Hovland of Team Europe shake hands after Hovland and Robert MacIntyre of Team Europe defeated Henley and Scottie Scheffler of Team United States 1UP during the Saturday morning foursomes matches of the 2025 Ryder Cup. Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hatton had played in the morning foursome session with Jon Rahm and helped topple Team USA\u2019s Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n<p>Hovland helped Robert MacIntyre beat Russell Hanley and Scottie Scheffler in the morning session. <\/p>\n<p>Hovland had called the moment \u201cso good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially after Rome, it kind of went as good as it could have gone for our team,\u201d he said after the match. \u201cBut we were very motivated to do the same over here. So far, we\u2019re doing the job, but there\u2019s still a long ways to go and we\u2019ve just got to keep our foot down and keep playing well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Europe\u2019s Viktor Hovland is dealing with a neck injury and won\u2019t pair with Matt Fitzpatrick in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":261143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,8656,62,67,132,68,33608],"class_list":{"0":"post-261142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-ryder-cup","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-viktor-hovland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115281668036739783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261142","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=261142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}