The largest previous lead entering singles in the current format was 11-5 by the Americans in 2021 and Europe in 2004.<\/p>\n
Extra police were needed with the rowdy atmosphere and even US players tried to quiet the fans, but nothing could deny McIlroy, who joined England\u2019s Tommy Fleetwood in staying unbeaten.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need your superstars to perform at their highest,\u201d Europe captain Luke Donald said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd they certainly have showed that so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIlroy and Irish pal Shane Lowry beat Americans Cam Young and Justin Thomas 2-up in four-balls, calling the win \u201chugely satisfying\u201d and adding: \u201cI\u2019m drained, to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if the crowd went too far, McIlroy replied: \u201cWhen you play an away Ryder Cup, it\u2019s really challenging. It\u2019s not for me to say.<\/p>\n
\u201dPeople can be their own judge of whether they took it too far or not. I\u2019m just proud of us for being able to win today with what we had to go through.”<\/p>\n
Lowry, who took plenty of taunts of his own, had never faced anything like it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was intense. It was like something I\u2019ve never experienced,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this is what I live for. This is it. This is the reason I get up in the morning, for stuff like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tensions also boiled over elsewhere, as England\u2019s Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood beat Americans Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau 3&2 after a spat between Rose and DeChambeau\u2019s caddie Greg Bodine.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was ready to hit my putt. I didn\u2019t feel like that space was being honoured,\u201d Rose said. \u201cI may be made my feelings known. Asked him to move. Maybe not as politely as I could have done.<\/p>\n
\u201dFrom my point of view, it was something taken in a way that wasn\u2019t intended. I was trying to control my environment in that moment.\u201c<\/p>\n
Top-ranked Scheffler became the first American to start 0-4 in Cup play.<\/p>\n
Seeking the first road victory in the rivalry since their 2012 \u201cMiracle at Medinah\u201d, the Europeans unleashed clutch putting and impressive shot-making to frustrate the loud and rowdy American supporters.<\/p>\n
US Open winner J.J. Spaun birdied the last two holes to join Xander Schauffele in a four-ball win over Sepp Straka and Jon Rahm, who had been unbeaten this week and had not lost a Cup pairs match since 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are playing unbelievable golf,\u201d Schauffele said of Europe. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re making a lot of birdies and we\u2019re not. They\u2019re beating us flat out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tyrrell Hatton, a late replacement for injured Viktor Hovland, birdied the last hole to join Matt Fitzpatrick in a 1-up win over Americans Sam Burns and Patrick Cantlay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The largest previous lead entering singles in the current format was 11-5 by the Americans in 2021 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[806,1975,6632,38597,7022,41303,28491,41302,15441,10542,5972,32565,41309,2024,5904,71,18126,41306,41305,296,7240,2683,111,139,69,1523,39727,1974,41308,35917,41307,213,9939,199,7187,10115,210,41304,9938,102],"class_list":["post-47345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-as","tag-at","tag-battled","tag-bethpage","tag-black","tag-boil","tag-brink","tag-commanding","tag-crowd","tag-cup","tag-day","tag-display","tag-dominant","tag-europe","tag-final","tag-from","tag-golf","tag-grab","tag-insults","tag-into","tag-lead","tag-move","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-raucous","tag-record","tag-retaining","tag-ryder","tag-sevenpoint","tag-sports","tag-states","tag-take","tag-team","tag-tensions","tag-through","tag-torrent","tag-united","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}