{"id":155304,"date":"2025-09-19T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155304\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:12:09","slug":"ryder-cup-2025-the-recipe-for-what-justin-thomas-calls-the-biggest-golf-event-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155304\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup 2025: The recipe for what Justin Thomas calls the ‘biggest golf event ever’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take the loudest and rowdiest event in golf. Put it on a public golf course in New York notorious for its proud and raucous crowds. Now fill it with 50,000 flag-waving fans at Bethpage Black. It\u2019s a recipe that has made this Ryder Cup the most anticipated of them all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think hands down it\u2019ll be the biggest golf event ever,\u201d said Justin Thomas, the most experienced American on his team despite playing in only his fourth Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

If all that isn\u2019t enough, President Donald Trump wasn\u2019t about to miss out on the ultimate \u201cus versus them\u201d sporting event. He plans to be there for the opening session on Sept. 26 when the Americans try to win back the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

The passion is unlike any other golf tournament, all for a 17-inch gold trophy donated by an English seed merchant (Samuel Ryder) for a friendly golf competition between teams on both sides of the Atlantic in 1927. After nearly a century, it doesn\u2019t seem all that friendly at times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re a part of it, it really, it changes you forever, it really does,\u201d said U.S. captain Keegan Bradley, who has gone 11 years since he last was part of it.<\/p>\n

Bradley never unpacked his suitcase from his Ryder Cup debut in 2012. It\u2019s still in his garage at his Florida home. He has pledged not to open and remove whatever is in there \u2014 in whatever condition it\u2019s in \u2014 until he\u2019s part of a winning team.<\/p>\n

Bradley nearly took matters into his own hands, on the verge of becoming the first playing captain in the Ryder Cup since 1963 until he decided against it. All he wants is the trophy.<\/p>\n

Luke Donald returns as captain, trying to join Tony Jacklin as the only European skippers to win back-to-back and fully aware it might not be as easy as it looked in Rome. He returns the same 12 faces, one different player \u2014 Rasmus Hojgaard replaces his identical twin Nicolai.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though we have a lot of continuity, this is a different animal,\u201d Donald said. \u201cWe understand how difficult it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. team made sure to avoid the mistake from two years ago, when all but two of its players went a month before the Ryder Cup without playing. They practiced together and played together at the Procore Championship last week in California, and retreated to a mansion among the vineyards as their private hang.<\/p>\n

That got the attention of Justin Rose. He was doing a Q&A at his Rose Ladies Open in England earlier this month when he needled the Americans trying to bond as a team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think America have tried too hard to become a team, whereas Europe is a bit more natural and organic, and I think it comes from deeper roots in a way,\u201d Rose said.<\/p>\n

Europe had all but one of its 12 players at the BMW PGA Championship in England. They met one night and received virtual reality equipment that would allow them to experience some of the noise and heckling that might occur at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n

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Frequently asked questions about the Ryder Cup, which is being held this year at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve been talking about the Ryder Cup in Bethpage probably for 10 years, the anticipation of it, what it\u2019s going to be like, how intense it\u2019s going to be,\u201d Rose said. \u201cNew Yorkers are crazy, and I think they become sort of caricatures of themselves. I think they feel like they have to live up to that reputation. So, fully expect absolute chaos out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one reason winning a Ryder Cup on the road hasn\u2019t been easy the last decade.<\/p>\n

The Americans won on home soil four years ago with their biggest shellacking ever against Europe, 19-9 at Whistling Straits, which prompted Jordan Spieth to say, \u201cIf we play like we did this week, the score will look the same over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Europe won for the seventh straight time at home in 2023 by a five-point margin. That prompted Rory McIlroy to say winning a Ryder Cup away from home is the biggest accomplishment in golf.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do at Bethpage,\u201d McIlroy declared during the winner\u2019s news conference at Marco Simone.<\/p>\n

That will be determined over three days of nonstop action \u2014 four matches of foursomes and fourballs on Friday and Saturday, followed by 12 singles matches on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Europe needs only 14 points to retain the cup.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can watch all of the action and get all the updates for the 45th Ryder Cup matches at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got three days to see who\u2019s the better team, and it\u2019s going to be a good battle,\u201d said Scottie Scheffler, who turned that week of bonding into his sixth PGA Tour title this year.<\/p>\n

He knows about the emotions. Scheffler had tears in his eyes two years ago after he and Brooks Koepka were on the losing end of the shortest 18-hole match in Ryder Cup history. Viktor Hovland and Ludvig \u00c5berg needed only 11 holes to beat them in foursomes, 9 and 7.<\/p>\n

Emotions also spilled into the parking lot in Rome. Patrick Cantlay answered 20,000 hat-waving fans in Italy with birdies on the last three holes to win a fourballs match. McIlroy, on the losing end of that one, felt disrespected by caddie Joe LaCava and was seen shouting at Jim \u201cBones\u201d Mackay of NBC Sports while being restrained by Shane Lowry.<\/p>\n

Hard feelings have become part of the Ryder Cup in recent years, and the notorious Bethpage crowd could take that to a new level. At least Europe will have it share of fans, unlike the last time in the United States when travel restrictions from COVID-19 made it a one-sided gallery.<\/p>\n

But they are expecting the worst.<\/p>\n

Bethpage Black, along with its championship pedigree, belongs to the people. It is the first course owned by taxpayers to host a U.S. Open in 2002. New Yorkers sleep in their cars overnight in the parking lot to wait in line to play.<\/p>\n

It cost $70 to play the Black during the week for New York residents, double that for everyone else, though $140 is still a bargain for a course that has held two U.S. Opens, a PGA Championship and now the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

But there is a pride that comes through from outside the ropes as New Yorkers watch the world\u2019s best play their golf course, and they aren\u2019t shy about letting players know what they think. As Justin Leonard said ahead of the 2009 U.S. Open, \u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019ve got 50,000 owners out there, all wanting to see you play on their course.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s different for a Ryder Cup. It\u2019s not about who has the lowest score among 156 players like at a major. It\u2019s the Americans or Europeans.<\/p>\n

\u201cLong Island fans are the best. They are so passionate, and I\u2019m just glad I\u2019m on the team they\u2019re rooting for,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cBut they expect a lot from us, so we expect to give it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take the loudest and rowdiest event in golf. Put it on a public golf course in New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-155304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}