{"id":165269,"date":"2025-09-28T04:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165269\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T04:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:55:07","slug":"ryder-cup-why-europe-should-beat-united-states-at-bethpage-on-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165269\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup: Why Europe should beat United States at Bethpage on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The heavyweight match-up of the world numbers one and two stands out in a list that has sees Bradley go do what Spaun suggested and &#8220;go for broke&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scottie Scheffler is having a torrid Ryder Cup. He is the first player since England&#8217;s Peter Alliss in 1967 to lose a match in each of the first four sessions. And now he faces a fired-up Rory McIlroy, who has picked up 3\u00bd points from the same number of outings, despite being continually heckled by opposition fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top match sees New Yorker Young, the US team&#8217;s joint top scorer with two points, head out first in a ploy Bradley is surely using to whip up some early support and in the hope he can get some red on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he is facing Europe&#8217;s grinder. Justin Rose may have only played twice, but he has won both his fourball matches with Tommy Fleetwood and looked particularly sharp on Saturday, with a string of birdies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fleetwood, who also has a 100% record, from four matches, is out second against Justin Thomas &#8211; a man with a 100% record in singles, having won three out of three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas is followed by another of America&#8217;s showmen in DeChambeau, who has picked up one win from four matches. In what could be a fascinating match of contrasting playing styles, he will face Matt Fitzpatrick, who has picked up his first Ryder Cup points on US soil this week, with two victories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patrick Cantlay has played two, won two in previous singles matches and will take on a Ludvig Aberg who has not had the best of weeks with one win from three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The other standout match features Xander Schauffele and Jon Rahm. Schauffele is the only other US player to score two points, while Rahm has looked back to his best in picking up three points this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Europe have put the injured Viktor Hovland in the bottom match. Donald said he was going for a scan on neck issue and a decision on whether he would be fit to play would be made on Sunday. &#8220;He would love to play, and he&#8217;ll do everything he can to play,&#8221; added Donald. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If he is unfit to face Harris English, both sides will pick up half a point each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heavyweight match-up of the world numbers one and two stands out in a list that has sees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-165269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}