Ryder Cup: How to watch, TV schedule, streaming, preview, more

Golf followers, the wait is lastly over and it’s time to rejoice.

The Ryder Cup is right here because the People look to finish a 30-year drought and the Europeans look to take again the Ryder Cup after a disastrous 2021 loss.

Ryder Cup Data

The place: Marco Simone Golf & Nation Membership, Rome, Italy

When: Sept. Twenty ninth-Oct. 1, 2023

Defending Champ: Workforce USA (19-9 at Whistling Straits)

Ryder Cup Format

The forty fourth Ryder Cup will probably be performed throughout three days.

Each Friday and Saturday will function 4 foursome matches and 4 four-ball matches. Every match will function two People and two Europeans.

The Foursome matches will happen within the morning every day. They include a team-play state of affairs the place every participant alternates pictures. They may even alternate hitting tee pictures with one participant teeing off on all odd holes and the opposite on all even holes. The facet that wins probably the most holes wins the match and earns their workforce one level.

4-ball matches are a bit completely different. Underneath this format, every of the 4 gamers within the match will play their very own ball via the outlet. The most effective rating from all sides is in comparison with the opponents greatest rating, with the bottom rating successful the outlet.

As soon as once more, the facet that wins probably the most holes wins some extent for his or her workforce.

If the perimeters are tied after 18 holes, every workforce earns a half level.

On Sunday, all 12 gamers will play a singles match. An American will tackle one of many Europeans with one level up for grabs in every match.

It’s going to take 14.5 factors to win the Ryder Cup. If it finishes tied 14-14, Workforce USA retains the trophy as defending champions.

Ryder Cup Groups

Workforce USA

Management:

Captain: Zach Johnson

Vice Captain: Steve Stricker

Vice Captain: Davis Love III

Vice Captain: Jim Furyk

Vice Captain: Fred {Couples}

Vice Captain: Stewart Cink

Gamers:

Scottie Scheffler

Jordan Spieth

Justin Thomas

Brooks Koepka

Collin Morikawa

Xander Schauffele

Sam Burns (Rookie)

Patrick Cantlay

Wyndham Clark (Rookie)

Rickie Fowler

Brian Harman (Rookie)

Max Homa (Rookie)

Ryder Cup Data for Workforce USA

Workforce Europe:

Management:

Captain: Luke Donald

Vice Captain: Thomas Bjørn

Vice Captain: Nicolas Colsaerts

Vice Captain: Edoardo Molinari

Vice Captain: Francesco Molinari

Vice Captain: José María Olazábal

Gamers:

Brooks Koepka

Collin Morikawa

Xander Schauffele

Matt Fitzpatrick

Tommy Fleetwood

Tyrrell Hatton

Nicolai Højgaard (Rookie)

Viktor Hovland

Shane Lowry

Ludvig Aberg (Rookie)

Robert Macintyre (Rookie)

Sepp Straka (Rookie)

Ryder Cup Data for Workforce Europe

Tips on how to Watch the Ryder Cup

People can watch the Ryder Cup on NBC, USA, Golf Channel and Peacock starting on Wednesday. The Ryder Cup All-Star Match will air Wednesday on Peacock from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. EDT.

Thursday will function the Junior Ryder Cup on Golf Channel and on Peacock from 4:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. EDT. The opening ceremonies will probably be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT.

Right here is the complete schedule of play:

Friday, September 29: 1:30 a.m.- 12 p.m. EDT (USA/Peacock)

Saturday, September 30: 1:30 a.m.- 3 a.m. EDT (USA/Peacock) and three a.m.-12 p.m. ET (NBC/Peacock)

Sunday, September 24: 5:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. EDT (NBC/Peacock)

Tips on how to Stream the Ryder Cup

The Ryder Cup might be streamed on Peacock all through all three days of competitors, together with the Wednesday and Thursday occasions.

Stream the 2023 Ryder Cup right here.

Ryder Cup Preview/Historical past

The People want to win abroad for the primary time in 30 years. They’re additionally seeking to go back-to-back for the primary time since they gained in 1991 and 1993.

Workforce USA gained by 10 factors at Whistling Straits in 2021, which marks the biggest margin of victory within the fashionable period of the Ryder Cup.

The final time the occasion was on house soil for the Europeans in 2018, they gained 17.5 to 10.5 in France. That left a bitter style within the People’ mouths, prompting the 2021 demolition.

Proper now the People are available in as the favourite to win this yr’s Cup, however the gamers on Workforce Europe are robust. Main the pack are Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose, who each have ample quantities of expertise. In addition they have Tour Championship winner Viktor Hovland who has fully revamped his brief sport and may be the most popular participant on the planet.

Their total workforce performed within the BMW PGA Championship earlier this month and all 12 made the minimize.

5 of them completed inside the highest 10 at that occasion. This group is coming into kind on the proper time. Regardless of lacking the stalwarts of Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter, this Blue and Gold workforce has grit.

It’s a brand new technology of Europeans able to battle a particularly gifted American workforce. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth and extra are able to defend their Cup.

Some query Zach Johnson’s captain’s picks, however this group has rather a lot going for them on what will probably be a particularly robust check. This week will come right down to who putts higher as a result of the Europeans have made Marco Simone brutally robust.

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