Field Level Media
27 Sep 2025, 22:10 GMT+10
(Photo credit: Brendan Mcdermid-Reuters via Imagn Images)
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton have put Team Europe on the verge of an increasingly rare achievement: a Ryder Cup win on the road.
Team Europe is a mere 5 1/2 points away from retaining the Ryder Cup and six points from winning it outright after once again thrashing the United States team in foursomes Saturday morning at Bethpage Black.
As defending champs, the Europeans need just 14 points to retain the Cup and 14 1/2 to win. They established an 8 1/2-3 1/2 lead after the third of five sessions, with afternoon fourball and Sunday's 12 singles matches still to come.
The home team has won each of the past five Ryder Cups, a run that began after Europe's come-from-behind upset in 2012, the 'Miracle at Medinah.'
Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley represented the final hope for American points, but Norway's Viktor Hovland and Scotland's Robert MacIntyre pulled out a 2-up victory. Scheffler, ranked No. 1 in the world, fell to 0-3-0 through three sessions.
After a slow start, Scheffler and Henley birdied the 11th and 13th holes to tie the match. Europe responded at the par-3 14th with Hovland's 5-foot birdie putt. The U.S. failed to win the par-3 17th despite Europe's tee shot landing 90 feet from the pin, and Scheffler's approach shot at No. 18 settled in a native area between bunkers, handing Europe the full point.
Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Young rolled to a 4-and-2 victory over Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick and Swede Ludvig Aberg for the first point of the morning. Young, a Ryder Cup rookie and native of nearby Scarborough, N.Y., is the only American player currently 2-0-0.
But the duos of McIlroy-Fleetwood and Rahm-Hatton improved to 4-0-0 in foursomes over the past two competitions.
McIlroy of Northern Ireland and Fleetwood of England defeated Collin Morikawa and Harris English for the second straight day, this time 3 and 2. The Europeans raced out to a 4-up lead through eight holes. After Morikawa and English took Nos. 14 and 15 to make the deficit more respectable, McIlroy stuck his approach at No. 16 to about 3 feet and Fleetwood's birdie tap slammed the door.
Spanish star Rahm and Englishman Hatton beat the most experienced American tandem, Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay, also 3 and 2. The match was all square before Rahm pitched in for birdie from an awkward lie while standing in a bunker at the par-3 eighth, and the U.S. never won another hole.
The Americans need to have a robust afternoon just to stay in contention. No team has overcome a Saturday deficit larger than 10-6 to win a Ryder Cup.
--Adam Zielonka, Field Level Media
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