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Europe strikes back in Ryder Cup and ties record for largest lead
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Europe swept the opening session of the Ryder Cup for the first time in its history, a beating so thorough that none of the foursomes matches reached the 18th hole. And then somehow it got even worse for the Americans. Right when...
Live updates | McIlroy says Europeans won't be complacent after their 'amazing' Day 1 at Ryder Cup
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Rory McIlroy says the Europeans will not be complacent after their “amazing” Day 1 at the Ryder Cup. McIlroy was the only player to win two points as Europe built a 6 1/2-1 1/2 lead. “The fact that the Americans didn’t win a...
The Ryder Cup is finally here. US skipper Zach Johnson says it's time to let the thoroughbreds loose
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Big winners two years ago in Wisconsin, the Americans know a Ryder Cup victory away from home has been out of reach for the last 30 years. Among the challenges is a pro-European crowd ready to cheer and jeer every miss. So it was no...
Rory McIlroy once called the Ryder Cup an exhibition. He knows better now
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Rory McIlroy was willing to read his words about the Ryder Cup before happily eating them. He qualified for his first team in 2010, when he was a 21-year-old known as “Boy Wonder” with curly locks that spilled out from under his cap and already...
McIlroy says LIV defectors miss Ryder Cup more than Team Europe misses them
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — LIV Golf defections have cut off European stalwarts from the Ryder Cup, some of them for the first time in three decades. Rory McIlroy said Wednesday they are missing the Ryder Cup more than Team Europe is missing them. Nowhere to be found at Marco...
Justin Thomas cares more about winning the Ryder Cup than whether he should be on the US team
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Justin Thomas is too occupied with helping the Americans end three decades of losing the Ryder Cup on European soil to worry about any criticism of him being part of that effort. U.S. captain Zach Johnson had no second thoughts about using one of...
No mixed emotions for Straka after choosing to play for Europe over the United States at Ryder Cup
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Sepp Straka has an American mother, went to an American university, lives in the United States and his undeniably American accent has a southern drawl. Yet there he was Tuesday, dressed in Europe’s white-yellow-and-blue uniform as he walked the...
Column: Ryder Cup is in America's head. But it's in Europe's blood
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — The Americans have won more majors. The Europeans have won more Ryder Cups. There's really no connection, except that it might explain why the Americans always seem to be the favorite on paper, and Team Europe has more often left the Ryder Cup with...
Americans' losing streak in Europe reaches the 30-year mark in the Ryder Cup
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — What must have seemed like a long time to the Americans back then surely doesn't now. They beat Europe on its home turf at The Belfry in 1993, winning the Ryder Cup back to back for the first time in a whopping 10 years. Turns out that wasn't the...
RYDER CUP '23: The reachable par-4 16th is the highlight on a course designed for drama
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Rory McIlroy’s chances of winning the Italian Open a year ago at the Marco Simone course that will host this week’s Ryder Cup vanished when his tee shot on the reachable par-4 16th splashed into the pond right of the green. That came two days...
