[Ryder Cup 2025 Live \u2014 Latest Scores, Schedule, News from Day 1 at Bethpage]<\/a><\/p>\nThe alternate-shot format that is used for two sessions and eight matches at the Ryder Cup seemingly befuddled Scheffler again, who along with partner Russell Henley took a beating from Europeans Ludvig \u00c5berg and Matt Fitzpatrick on Friday morning at Bethpage Black.<\/p>\n
Two years ago, Scheffler was on the losing end of a 9 and 7 thrashing along with Brooks Koepka to \u00c5berg and Viktor Hovland.<\/p>\n
Scheffler and Henley will at least get some time to recuperate, as they were dispatched after playing just 15 holes and ended up losing 5 and 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like Russ and I did some good things. We just didn\u2019t hole enough putts early,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cWe had some chances. I think the putts just didn\u2019t fall. But overall, the guys we played, they played a really good round, and go back out this afternoon and see what we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Scheffler, it was part of a somewhat alarming trend associated with the format that has now seen him go 1\u20136 foursomes across three Ryder Cups and two Presidents Cups.<\/p>\n
The only time he was on the winning end of a foursomes match was last year at Royal Montreal, where he and Henley prevailed together at the Presidents Cup.<\/p>\n
But he went 0\u20132 with Sam Burns at the 2022 Presidents Cup and 0\u20132 at the 2023 Ryder Cup, once with Burns and also with Koepka in a match that brought the world No. 1 to tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hurt a little bit because I didn\u2019t feel like I was as prepared as I could have been,\u201d Scheffler said two weeks ago at the Procore Championship, where he won for the sixth time this year. \u201cSo going into this Cup I\u2019ve put a lot of work into my game over the last couple years to get ready and to go play this event.\u201d<\/p>\n
To be fair, Henley had his struggles as well, and therein lies the challenge in foursomes, where the format means you can be exposed.<\/p>\n
Teeing off in the second group, Scheffler and Henley immediately lost to a birdie on the first hole, won the second with a birdie to get back to tied \u2026 and then didn\u2019t make another birdie until the 13th\u00a0hole. By then they were 4 down.<\/p>\n
Making matters worse, the lead group of Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas couldn\u2019t hold the early crowd buzz and birdie on the first hole. They didn\u2019t make another birdie until the 14th\u2014when they were 3 down and ended up losing 4&3.<\/p>\n
Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood built up a 5-up lead through 12 holes over Collin Morikawa and Harris English and ended up 5 and 4 winners.<\/p>\n
The only American hope was Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay, who held a 2-up lead through 12 holes.<\/p>\n
So a format that the home team has dominated in the last six Ryder Cups<\/a>\u2014the winning team won foursomes in each of the last five years\u2014saw the script flipped so far with four-ball to come in the afternoon.<\/p>\nMore Ryder Cup on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FARMINGDALE, N.Y. \u2014 Scottie Scheffler is the No. 1 player in the world, dominating the game for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-185235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}