What happened on Day 1 and what it means for the rest of the Ryder Cup

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- The opening time of the 45th Ryder Cup astatine Bethpage Black definite felt similar the 1 successful Rome 2 years ago.

The Europeans blitzed the Americans successful the archetypal 2 sessions astatine Marco Simone Golf & Country Club successful 2023, and they did it again Friday successful grabbing a 5.5-2.5 lead.

Riding the blistery hands of Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood, the Europeans are successful presumption to seizure the Ryder Cup for the 11th clip successful the past 15 matches -- and they'll beryllium looking to extremity the location team's five-match winning streak arsenic well.

The Europeans haven't won connected U.S. ungraded since their 14.5-13.5 triumph astatine Medinah Country Club successful Illinois successful 2012.

They request to instrumentality lone 8.5 of the last 20 points disposable implicit the adjacent 2 days to bash it again.

What stood retired connected Day 1?

Paolo Uggetti: Beyond the information that the champion players connected the American broadside struggled, the expected home-crowd vantage that Bethpage Black was expected to springiness the U.S. was not rather arsenic impactful arsenic expected.

Though astir of the archetypal tee grandstand was packed arsenic aboriginal arsenic 5:30 a.m. and the vigor for Bryson DeChambeau's opening tee changeable was present, it took until the day for the assemblage to amusement its teeth. By then, the Europeans were up 3-1 and riding momentum into the day league and they were capable to modulation from quiescent assurance into a benignant of occurrence of their ain each clip they made a important putt successful beforehand of them.

"It gets louder arsenic it goes," Luke Donald said. "You transverse the roadworthy and there's a batch of grandstands. There's a batch of hospitality. In the afternoon, possibly guys person had a mates much beverages. You know, it gets loud, and the guys handled it with implicit people and poise."

No 1 did that much than McIlroy, who made respective agelong putts successful his day four-ball lucifer against Patrick Cantlay and Sam Burns, yelling retired "Come on! Let's f---ing go!" aggregate times.

It feels similar McIlroy and the Europeans were not conscionable capable to mostly disregard the crowd's aggression but besides lucifer it erstwhile they needed to. According to Donald, that was portion of the program -- some to fto the sound bounce disconnected and not respond erstwhile they were taunted, but besides to usage that arsenic information to perform.

"It was truly unthinkable to spot the Europeans travel into a hostile situation and spell retired determination and execute the mode they did," Keegan Bradley said.

With the U.S. down by 3 points heading into Saturday, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot what benignant of assemblage we get tomorrow. If Europe erstwhile again dominates foursomes, the day could beryllium excessively precocious to crook astir the momentum successful favour of the U.S.

What needs to hap for U.S. to get backmost into it?

Mark Schlabach: The U.S. stars person to play similar stars, particularly three-time large title victor Scottie Scheffler. He hasn't won successful his past six Ryder Cup matches, going backmost to the Americans' 16 ½-11 ½ decision successful Italy 2 years ago. On Friday, helium became the archetypal satellite No. 1 golfer to suffer some matches connected the opening time with neither 1 getting to the 17th hole.

For immoderate reason, Scheffler, who won 13 times connected the PGA Tour the past 2 seasons, hasn't yet figured retired however to bash it successful the Ryder Cup. He's lone the 3rd satellite No. 1 golfer to suffer doubly connected the opening time -- Tiger Woods (1999 a...