Ryder Cup Guide: Schedule, how to watch and betting favorites
FILE - United States Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson attends a press conference on the occasion of The Year to Go event in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Johnson will announce his six captain's picks after the Tour Championship. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Alessandra Tarantino]
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — What started a century ago as an exhibition is anything but that now. The Ryder Cup is golf’s biggest spectacle, a battle between Team USA and Team Europe. The only thing at stake are bragging rights and that 17-inch gold trophy. The matches start Friday at Marco Simone outside Rome. The burden falls to the Americans. They have gone 30 years since they last won the Ryder Cup on European soil. That was so long ago that 11 of the 24 players in the Ryder Cup were not even born when the Americans last won away from home.
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FILE - Luke Donald, of England, watches his shot into the ninth green during the first round of the Memorial golf tournament, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Dublin, Ohio. Donald on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023 announced his team for the Ryder Cup against the United States outside Rome later in the month, (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
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