who was working as mortgage loan officer four years ago<\/a>, also went to the final hole with Rose nailing a clutch birdie putt to seal a 1 up victory.<\/p>\nJon Rahm and Sepp Straka comfortably disposed of world No.1 Scottie Scheffler and US Open champion J.J. Spaun 3&2 to hand Europe their other point of the afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cIncredible day,\u201d Europe captain Luke Donald said. \u201cTo win this morning was huge for us. We all know how important it is to get off to a good start.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we knew how strong the US were in foursomes, so 3-1 was a great start.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to win those fist two especially, there was such good momentum and inspiration for our boys.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe guys grinded to win the session again this afternoon. That\u2019s another tick in our box and very happy with where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n
How on EARTH did Rahm salvage this shot? | 00:27<\/p>\n
Debutant Cameron Young and Justin Thomas thrashed Rasmus Hojgaard and Ludvig Aberg 6&5 to secure a handy point for the Americans if they are to mount a fightback in the coming days.<\/p>\n
US captain Keegan Bradley is certainly not giving up hope.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boys played really good this afternoon,\u201d Bradley said. \u201cEurope made a lot of putts. <\/p>\n
\u201cHappy with the way we\u2019re playing. Hopefully it turn into our putts are going in tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve only played 28 per cent of the points,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst quarter, we\u2019ve got three quarters to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sideshow of the opening day was the presence of US President Donald Trump, who arrived before the afternoon session.<\/p>\n
In morning foursomes (alternate shot) matches, the US won only four holes from the first three matches.<\/p>\n
Trump told reporters as he boarded a plane for New York that the US team wasn\u2019t doing well and, \u201cI said let\u2019s get on the plane. We have to fly and help them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just had the President fly over in Air Force One so I\u2019ve got a feeling things are going to turn here,\u201d US captain Keegan Bradley said. \u201cIt\u2019s not exactly what we wanted… but I\u2019ve got a lot of faith in our boys.\u201d <\/p>\n
Trump walked DeChambeau to the first tee, and played up to the crowd, but despite the heightened American nationalism he gavlinised, it was unable to turn the tide for the hosts.<\/p>\n
In foursomes, McIlroy and Fleetwood won four of the first six holes to cruise past Americans Collin Morikawa and Harris English 5&4. The \u201cFleetwood Mc\u201d Cup pairing improved their all-time Ryder Cup record together to 3-0.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been amazing,\u201d McIlroy said.<\/p>\n
McIlroy, who won the Masters in April to complete a career Grand Slam, won four holes on birdie putts from eight feet or less and blasted from the rough to inches from the sixth hole to set up a Fleetwood birdie.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne step at a time,\u201d Fleetwood said. \u201cWe\u2019ll go all together and see where we get.\u201d <\/p>\n
Europe\u2019s Matt Fitzpatrick and Ludvig Aberg also won four of the first six holes and never trailed in shocking Scheffler and Russell Henley 5&3.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hit a lot of nice shots and made it hard for them,\u201d Aberg said. Taking down the two highest-ranked US players was big for Europe. \u201cRuss and I did some good things. We just didn\u2019t hole enough putts early,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cWe had some chances. The putts just didn\u2019t fall.\u201d <\/p>\n
Spain\u2019s Jon Rahm and England\u2019s Tyrrell Hatton outfought DeChambeau and Thomas 4&3, the Americans winning only the first hole after DeChambeau almost drove the green on the dogleg par 4 as the European duo improved to 5-0 in Cup foursomes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were aware it was going to be a tough day,\u201d Rahm said. \u201cWe battled. We stayed in it. We started hitting putts and found our rhythm and were able to get it done again.\u201d \u201cWe dug in,\u201d Hatton said. \u201cThe atmosphere was pretty intense but good fun.\u201d <\/p>\n
Americans Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay never trailed in beating Europe\u2019s Robert MacIntyre and Viktor Hovland 2-up, taking the last two holes after a Europe rally.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a tough match,\u201d Cantlay said. \u201cNice to get the point on the board and the fans going.\u201d Trophy holders Europe seek the first road triumph by either side since their 2012 \u201cMiracle at Medinah\u201d while the Americans try to win back the Cup after losing two years ago in Rome.<\/p>\n
Enhanced security was in place for Trump\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n
When the main gates opened under pitch black skies at 5 am local time, hundreds of fans stampeded along a floodlight-illuminated path racing to the grandstand for a coveted spot at the opening spectacle.<\/p>\n
– \u2018Electric atmosphere\u2019 –<\/p>\n
The high-pressure crucible at the first tee featured 5,000 fans watching from the largest grandstand in Ryder Cup history.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn electric atmosphere like all first tees,\u201d Donald said. \u201cIt\u2019s intense and pure energy.\u201d <\/p>\n
The format features four morning foursomes matches and four afternoon four-ball matches on Friday and Saturday with 12 concluding Sunday singles matches.<\/p>\n
The Americans 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe dominated the opening day of the 45th Ryder Cup, winning both sessions to take a 5.5-2.5 lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[112054,112051,22878,112057,2095,112046,64,63,6933,112049,1208,2057,112047,112044,755,2328,6919,15813,51335,6937,112055,112045,1025,2041,2067,3583,112053,112050,6924,3576,756,112056,3595,2020,85,42347,112048,70783,112052,2614,10911],"class_list":["post-171836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-afternoon-four-ball","tag-afternoon-four-ball-matches","tag-air-force-one","tag-alternate-shot","tag-america","tag-american-carnage","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bryson-dechambeau","tag-electric-atmosphere","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-european-duo","tag-fans-watching","tag-golf","tag-italy","tag-justin-thomas","tag-keegan-bradley","tag-luke-donald","tag-matt-fitzpatrick","tag-morning-foursomes","tag-morning-foursomes-matches","tag-new-york","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-northern-europe","tag-opening-matches","tag-opening-spectacle","tag-robert-macintyre","tag-rome","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-singles-matches","tag-southern-europe","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-tommy-fleetwood","tag-tough-match","tag-trophy-holders","tag-trump-fails","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-world-number"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171836","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=171836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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