{"id":357208,"date":"2025-12-19T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357208\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:01:08","slug":"team-europe-win-bbc-sports-personality-team-of-the-year-2025-after-ryder-cup-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357208\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Europe win BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year 2025 after Ryder Cup victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Europe have been named the BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year 2025 after their thrilling victory at the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

Captain Luke Donald led the Europeans to a first win on American soil since 2012 with a 15-13 triumph in New York.<\/p>\n

Against a volatile home crowd at Bethpage Black, Europe claimed just their fifth victory in the USA since the tournament’s inception in 1927. <\/p>\n

The Europeans set the stage for one of the most dramatic days in Ryder Cup history by taking an 11\u00bd-4\u00bd lead into Sunday’s final day. <\/p>\n

It was the first time either side had held a seven-point lead before the final day, and Europe only needed three points to clinch victory. <\/p>\n

No side had ever come back from more than a four-point deficit to triumph, but the USA staged a superb fightback to claw themselves back into contention.<\/p>\n

However, Europe just managed to hold on to secure their first away win since the ‘Miracle at Medinah’ in 2012. <\/p>\n

“As a lot of other sports people in this room know, it’s an honour to be a part of these teams,” said Rory McIlroy as he collected the award for Team Europe alongside Tommy Fleetwood.<\/p>\n

McIlroy, who won BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2025<\/a>, added: “We’re up here as two of the 12 players. We also had the captain, vice captain and all of the backroom team – we could not have done what we did without all of them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Europe have been named the BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year 2025 after their thrilling victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-357208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357208","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=357208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}