How Europe’s Ryder Cup dominance of the USA continued while you were sleeping
Channel: Golden Video
Date: 2018-09-29

Team Europe is doing it what it does in Ryder Cups on European soil. They are exposing the American weaknesses, especially on a course that does not favor big hitters or imprecise ballstrikers. They are winning the two-man games they are supposed to win, especially in the alternate-shot Foursomes format that they’ve owned during this era of dominance.

Friday afternoon’s 4-0 sweep put so much pressure on Team USA for Saturday’s four-ball, the format they tend to perform better in recently. But instead of closing the gap, the losing streak continued. Europe picked up the first three points, running it to eight straight wins in the overall Cup. The margin went from two points to four points, with 16 matches left to go. The most points won in a Sunday comeback during singles is 8.5 points. Team USA has 4 now. So they need to go big in the more uncomfortable alternate-shot afternoon session or else this is going to be another embarrassing blowout in Europe.

On Saturday, the Euro legends and mainstays came through. Their best pairing, the one we expected to be lethal, kept playing like it. Europe is good, no doubt, but the USA again played poorly through three of the four matches and didn’t put up much a fight through the morning session. The start, as it was on Friday afternoon, was awful.