Top storylines to watch at the 2025 Ryder Cup

The 2025 Ryder Cup volition tee disconnected Friday with the archetypal lucifer of the time going disconnected astatine 7:10 a.m. The parings for the archetypal 4 matches volition beryllium announced Thursday day by the 2 captains, Keegan Bradley (Team USA) and Luke Donald (Team Europe).

With the U.S. looking to regain the Cup successful beforehand of a location crowd, determination volition beryllium nary shortage of storylines to follow.

How volition Bethpage Black play? Which players are nether the astir pressure? Who volition extremity up hoisting the trophy Sunday? We asked our 2 reporters connected the crushed to interruption what they can't hold to spot and what they're expecting implicit the adjacent fewer days.

What are you astir looking guardant to seeing this week?

Mark Schlabach: Home people is simply a large vantage successful the Ryder Cup, which is wherefore the big squad has won the past 5 matches, and the crowds astatine Bethpage Black are going to beryllium wild. So overmuch truthful that the Europeans person been wearing virtual world headsets to hole them for the ribbing and insults they mightiness person from raucous New York sports fans.

"We are doing everything we tin to champion hole ourselves for what it is going to consciousness like," Rory McIlroy told reporters astatine the BMW PGA Championship this month. "But thing tin truly hole you until you're really successful that. You tin deterioration each the VR headsets you privation and bash each the antithetic things we've been trying to bash to get ourselves ready, but erstwhile the archetypal tee comes connected Friday, it's real, and we conscionable person to woody with whatever's given."

How rowdy volition New York fans get? Will immoderate of the jeering transverse the line? Can U.S. fans get nether the tegument of affectional golfers similar Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton? It's a shame longtime European Ryder Cuppers Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia aren't around, oregon things mightiness person gotten precise hot.

"If we're not playing good and you're talking trash astir us, we astir apt merit it," Justin Thomas said. "But if you commencement getting into the loved ones, that's I deliberation erstwhile everybody starts truly benignant of getting a small spot chippy.

"I spell backmost and forth. There's evidently ne'er successful immoderate athletics a clip to get idiosyncratic oregon disrespectful, but astatine the aforesaid clip it is the Ryder Cup, and it's a location crippled for a reason. There's been plentifulness of good, plentifulness of atrocious connected some ends, and you anticipation to springiness them crushed to cheer for the good."

If the U.S. squad gets disconnected to different dilatory start, Thomas wouldn't beryllium amazed if fans crook connected their own, either.

"I deliberation it's thing that volition beryllium unsocial astir New York, possibly versus different location Ryder Cups, if you will, is they expect america to play good and they privation america to play well, and if we don't, they're going to beryllium upset with america and disappointed with america and rightfully so," Thomas said. "They similar their championships. They privation to win. It's nary antithetic for the Ryder Cup. That's what we're going to effort to bash for them and springiness them a crushed to cheer adjacent more."

Paolo Uggetti: Rory vs. Bryson DeChambeau. The shot is not yet successful the aerial and the 2 of them person already done capable melodramatic array mounting arsenic it is. Not lone did they look disconnected astatine Augusta earlier this year, but everything they person said since has shed adjacent much airy connected the information that they don't peculiarly instrumentality kindly to 1 another.

"He wouldn't speech to me," DeChambeau said th...