Bryson-Thomas to lead off U.S. team at Ryder Cup

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Golf fans won't person to hold agelong to ticker Bryson DeChambeau astatine the 45th Ryder Cup astatine Bethpage Black connected Friday.

The two-time U.S. Open champion volition spouse with Justin Thomas successful the archetypal lucifer of foursomes (alternate shot) astatine 7:10 a.m. ET connected Friday. They'll look the European duo of Spain's Jon Rahm and England's Tyrrell Hatton.

"Besides the information that they're some phenomenal players, they some bring a spark to our team," U.S. squad skipper Keegan Bradley said of DeChambeau and Thomas. "Bryson has been an unthinkable teammate successful the locker room, and we truly privation him to pb our squad retired with Justin successful the archetypal match."

Hatton and Rahm went 2-0 successful foursomes successful the past Ryder Cup, which the Europeans won 16½-11½ astatine Marco Simone Golf & Country Club extracurricular Rome 2 years ago. Rahm is 4-0 successful foursomes successful 3 erstwhile appearances.

"We privation to commencement strong, obviously," European squad skipper Luke Donald said. "We cognize that successful lucifer play you've got to get disconnected to a bully start. These guys person had a batch of occurrence together. They cognize however to win. They're a beardown partnership; they get on well. We're precise blessed to nonstop them retired first."

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley volition instrumentality connected Europe's Ludvig Åberg and Matt Fitzpatrick successful the 2nd match. Scheffler, who has won 13 times connected the PGA Tour the past 2 seasons, volition effort to rebound from an 0-2-2 show successful Rome.

The 3rd U.S. squad is simply a spot of a astonishment with two-time large champion Collin Morikawa playing with Harris English, who is competing successful his 2nd Ryder Cup. They'll look Masters champion Rory McIlroy and Tour Championship victor Tommy Fleetwood, who person been 2 of Europe's champion performers successful caller Ryder Cups.

The past lucifer features Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele against Scotland's Robert MacIntyre and Norway's Viktor Hovland. Schauffele won 2 large championships successful 2024, but struggled this past play aft suffering a rib injury.

"We've had this lineup acceptable for a agelong time," Bradley said.

Two years ago, the Americans were swept successful foursomes to commencement the Ryder Cup, the archetypal clip a European squad led 4-0 aft the archetypal session. I...