Keegan Bradley caught to his weapons Saturday morning and now the People are in serious trouble on the Ryder Cup.
Staff USA’s captain ran again two extremely unsuccessful pairings in Saturday’s foursome (alternate shot) session.
Collin Morikawa and Harris English have been dominated for a second straight day by Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood — 3 & 2, becoming a member of Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley — who fell to Robert MacIntyre and Viktor Hovland (1 up) — as probably the most disappointing teams of the primary two days right here at Bethpage Black on Lengthy Island because the U.S. squad now trails Europe 8.5 to three.5.
Bradley acknowledged it was essential to stay to this technique regardless of how poorly it regarded in Day 1.
“They beat us today, but you know, we’re really comfortable with our plan,” Bradley mentioned after Friday’s catastrophe. “We’re actually snug with these two gamers [Morikawa and English]. Excited who they’re taking part in tomorrow.
“[Should] be an exciting match, and we’re sticking to our plan. We’re not going to panic. We’re not going to panic and make those sort of mistakes. We’re going to stick to what we know. We have a lot of confidence in them.”
The time to panic appears to be now.
The Europeans took three out of 4 matches within the morning. Jon Rahm placed on an absolute clinic alongside Tyrrell Hatton to defeat Bradley’s profitable duo of Friday in Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay.
The one level the U.S. group received on the board Saturday morning got here from Bryson DeChambeau and New York native Cameron Younger. Younger and DeChambeau have arguably been America’s two finest gamers to date this weekend.
Noticeably absent from that description is Scheffler.
The world No. 1 has misplaced each single match so far going 0-3-0 serving as simply the most important shock of the event as he got here into the Ryder Cup because the undisputed finest participant in golf. While you account for Scheffler’s document this weekend, the scoreboard makes a variety of sense.
With Europe 5.5 factors away from retaining the cup, there seems to be no slowing them down.
McIlroy has lived as much as the billing because the 2025 Masters champion has answered the decision with each huge shot, going 2-0-1 in his matches. Nevertheless, probably the most profitable of the Europeans has been Fleetwood and Jon Rahm. The pair are the one gamers to play in each session and win all of them.
Whereas there have been some standouts for Europe, merely put, they’re pouring in the entire vital putts whereas the People have been burning edges of the cup, unable to get something to drop after they want it probably the most.
Now, within the afternoon session, it’s desperation mode for Bradley.
The People must take three — on the minimal — of the fourball classes to enter Sunday’s single matches having any form of prayer to keep away from dropping a Ryder Cup on their residence soil.
