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The European duo and DeChambeau all play in the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League. Following the foursomes will be Americans Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley, the world number one and world number three respectively, against Sweden\u2019s Ludvig Aberg and England\u2019s Matt Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n
The third match sends second-ranked Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland and England\u2019s Tommy Fleetwood against Americans Harris English and Collin Morikawa.<\/p>\n
The last morning foursomes matchup sends Scotland\u2019s Robert MacIntyre and Norway\u2019s Viktor Hovland against Americans Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele.<\/p>\n
Fans have already been warned about tighter security measures and several restrictions because Trump will be at the course.<\/p>\n
Rain hampered the final practice session, soaking the course ahead the competition.<\/p>\n
The format includes four morning foursomes matches and four afternoon four-ball matches on Friday and Saturday with 12 concluding Sunday singles matches.<\/p>\n
The Americans will need 14.5 points to win the Cup. Europe, winners in 10 of the past 14 meetings, need only 14 of 28 points to retain the trophy.<\/p>\n
The US team leads the all-time rivalry 27-15 with two drawn, but Europe lead 12-9 with one drawn since their team was expanded beyond Britain and Ireland in 1979.<\/p>\n
DAY 1 PAIRINGS<\/p>\n
Match 1 (9:10pm): Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton vs. Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas<\/p>\n
Match 2 (9:26pm): Ludvig Aberg and Matt Fitzpatrick vs. Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley<\/p>\n
Match 3 (9:42pm): Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood vs. Collin Morikawa and Harris English<\/p>\n
Match 4 (9:58pm): Robert MacIntyre and Viktor Hovland vs. Xander Schauffle and Patrick Cantlay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas of the United States will meet Europe\u2019s Jon Rahm and Tyrell Hatton in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-169467","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\/169467","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=169467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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