Ryder Cup : Saturday morning foursome match results Europe 8.5 USA 3.5

  Ryder Cup  Saturday morning foursome matches: Leaderboard

Weather  7am  Mainly sunny 17* wind 3-12 km/h N  P.O.P 10%

            12.00   Mainly sunny 25* wind 8-12 km/h E  P.O.P 20%

             6.00   Mainly cloudy 23* wind 12-17 km/h  P.O.P 30%

Note : There is a lot of rain (60-90%) beginning at 11pm, continuing all night until 40% at 7am, soaking Bethpage Black prior to Sunday singles which begin at 12pm.

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Europe 8.5  USA 3.5

7.10 EDT  Matt Fitzpatrick/ Ludvig Aberg  vs Cameron Young / Bryson DeChambeau 4.5-2.5

7.26 EDT  Rory McIlroy / Tommy Fleetwood  3&2 vs  Harris English/ Collin Morikawa

7.42 EDT  Jon Rahm / Tyrrell Hatton  3&2 vs  Xander Schauffele/ Patrick Cantlay

7.58 EDT  Bob MacIntyre / Viktor Hovland 1up  vs Russell Henley / Scott Scheffler

Opinion 

With a fairly calm sunny Saturday ahead the weather will not be a factor. However the greens will have had 12 hours to dry out, therefore firm up. They were like dart boards on Friday, and with the cut down rough, the fierce Black course was being picked apart.

On paper the USA team have put out as strong a field as they have in these foursomes to try and even the score. On paper....

However the vaunted Scott Scheffler once again has lost both his matches, Justin Thomas was poor in his morning session, better in the afternoon. He will sit this morning with JJ Spaun, Sam Burns and Ben Griffin.

Cameron Young is a former champion on Bethpage, a local who teamed with Thomas in their one bright spot beating the young guns Aberg and Hojgaard 6&5. 

Match 4 with MacIntyre/ Hovland last to play against Scheffler and Henley is seen by the Americans as a sure fire win, you'd have to think it is the world's #1 chance to redeem himself after being a non factor on Friday.

However I will remind you this European pair gave Schauffele/Cantlay (who was USA best player all day)  an all square match until the par 3 17th when Bob hit his tee shot into the bunker and they failed to get up and down going 1 down. Also Viktor then hit his worst drive of the day 40 yards off line on the 18th, removing any chance to even the score.

My opinion is that if USA can't improve their score with the Europeans with this line up, they may never catch up as has been the case in 13 of the last 19 matches since 1985, 40 years ago.

I will post the afternoon four ball matches when the captains announce them later this morning.

Bryan Angus