{"id":166026,"date":"2025-09-24T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166026\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:58:07","slug":"ryder-cup-fleetwood-wary-of-hurt-u-s-team-after-rome-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup: Fleetwood wary of ‘hurt’ U.S. team after Rome loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tommy Fleetwood<\/a> is wary of the wounded Americans as Europe bid to defend the Ryder Cup they won emphatically two years ago.<\/p>\n

Europe thrashed the United States 16.5-11.5 in Rome in 2023 to bounce back from their own heavy loss in the previous encounter.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood was motivated by a desire to atone for Europe’s record 19-9 defeat at Whistling Straits in 2021 and he expects the U.S. attitude to be similar now the boot is on the other foot at Bethpage Black this week.<\/p>\n

“I think all of us that were on that team didn’t feel like we did ourselves justice in the way that we played and never really gave ourselves a chance. We were behind from the get-go,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think when you’ve lost one, yes, of course you have a chip on your shoulder. You have that feeling of hurt.<\/p>\n

“I think one of the most motivating things you can have is watching the other team celebrate when you’ve lost.<\/p>\n

Team Europe star Tommy Fleetwood said the hammering at Whistling Straits motivated him for the next Ryder Cup.\u00a0David Davies\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“It came to Rome and I guess it was a very new look of a team –, and a home crowd, home advantage, and we took that.<\/p>\n

The Englishman, playing in his fourth Ryder Cup, said: “At Whistling Straits, there’s no other way of putting it, we took a hammering.<\/p>\n

“Winning that one was really, really satisfying and of course the American team will have similar sorts of feelings.<\/p>\n

“They’ll have been hurt from last time and they’ll come here and want to win and be at home and win in front of their home crowd — and that’s just as it should be.”<\/p>\n

Fleetwood played a starring role on his Ryder Cup debut as Europe won in Paris in 2018 and was again outstanding in Rome, where he effectively played the match-winning shot.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old Merseysider is now one of the senior members of the side and boasts great form having won the big-money Tour Championship as he celebrated his first PGA Tour title last month.<\/p>\n

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Yet in terms of the team, he still considers himself some way below Rory McIlroy<\/a> — twice a foursomes partner in Rome — in the pecking in order.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood said: “Whoever gets to play with Rory this week — what a privilege. What an amazing thing to be able to do, to stand next to him on the golf course and play alongside him.<\/p>\n

“He’s one of, if not the, greatest players of our generation.<\/p>\n

“I like the energy he has, that he brings to your team, that he brings to the Ryder Cup. I think it’s amazing.<\/p>\n

“If I’m one of them that gets a chance to play with him, I would love that opportunity and whatever energy he decides to bring, I’ll be there to support him and be a good partner for him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood is wary of the wounded Americans as Europe bid to defend the Ryder Cup they won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-166026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}