{"id":166830,"date":"2025-09-28T22:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166830\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:18:06","slug":"ryder-cup-2025-europes-viktor-hovland-out-of-singles-match-v-harris-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166830\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup 2025: Europe&#8217;s Viktor Hovland out of singles match v Harris English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US captain Keegan Bradley put English&#8217;s name in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/articles\/cj6xd95ld24o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">envelope<\/a> in case of injury to a European player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the draw for the singles came out following play on Saturday, English and Hovland were paired in the 12th match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hovland&#8217;s issue flared up following his Saturday morning foursomes victory alongside Robert MacIntyre against Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scheduled to play with Matt Fitzpatrick in the afternoon fourballs, Hovland was replaced by Tyrrell Hatton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hovland, who said he has &#8220;had some issues with a neck injury on and off for the last two months&#8221;, had an MRI scan on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was really very stiff this morning and tried to go through his warm-up but just couldn&#8217;t play,&#8221; European captain Luke Donald told Sky Sports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s devastated. He&#8217;s gutted. He really wanted to represent Team Europe in the singles, so it is very, very unfortunate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is the third time the envelope rule has been used since it was introduced in 1979.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1991 American Steve Pate was injured in a car crash before the Ryder Cup started, and in 1993 Europe&#8217;s Sam Torrance could not play on the Sunday because of an infected toe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US captain Keegan Bradley put English&#8217;s name in the envelope in case of injury to a European player.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-166830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166830","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=166830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}