FRIDAY FOURSOMES PAIRINGS AT BETHPAGE
The morning Foursomes underway with Europe’s Jon Rahm hitting the opening tee shot at Bethpage in New York (Photo: Ryder Cup)
The wait is over as today’s morning Foursomes pairings that will kick off the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in New York as Luke Donald and Keegan Bradley’s prepare to do were announced
FRIDAY MORNING FOURSOMES
Match 1 (12:10pm Irish time)
Bryson DeChambeau & Justin Thomas (USA) v Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton (EUR)
Match 2 (12:26pm Irish time)
Scottie Scheffler & Russell Henley (USA) vs. Ludvig Åberg and Matt Fitzpatrick (EUR)
Match 3 (12:42pm Irish time)
Collin Morikawa and Harrish English (USA) vs. Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood (EUR)
Match 4 (12:58 pm Irish time)
Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay (USA) v Robert MacIntyre and Viktor Hovland (EUR)
Match 1 (12:10pm Irish time)
Bryson DeChambeau & Justin Thomas (USA) v Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton (EUR)
Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas team up for the first time, two emotional centres of energy that will look to improve their collective Foursomes record of 2-5-0. Thomas brings the most experience on the U.S. Team with 13 total matches played.
The first of Team Europe’s Foursomes pairing is no surprise, following a 2-0-0 record in Foursomes together at the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome. It will be a third outing for the explosive Rahm-Hatton duo, who also earned a half point at Whistling Straits in Fourballs against DeChambeau and Scottie Scheffler.
Interestingly, this will be the fourth consecutive Ryder Cup where Thomas and Tyrrell Hatton meet in a Ryder Cup. So far that record leans in favour of Thomas, who beat Hatton and Paul Casey on the final hole at Le Golf National, triumphed 4&3 in singles at Whistling Straits, and tied his match alongside Jordan Spieth against Hatton and Viktor Hovland in Rome.
Rahm has also played against Thomas on two previous occasions, losing to the Thomas-Spieth team in Four-Balls in 2018, before beating the same pairing with Sergio Garcia in Foursomes two years later.
Match 2 (12:26pm Irish time)
Scottie Scheffler & Russell Henley (USA) v Ludvig Åberg and Matt Fitzpatrick (EUR)
There are hints of a Rome rematch in this one.
World No1 Scottie Scheffler pairs up with Ryder Cup rookie Russell Henley for the first time, with Scheffler looking for his first Foursomes victory in two Ryder Cup appearances. They team up against another new pairing in Ludvig Åberg and Matt Fitzpatrick., the first new pairing for Team Europe. Ludvig, who went 2-0-0 in foursomes with Viktor Hovland in Marco Simone - including a record-breaking 9&7 victory against Scheffler and Brooks Koepka during the Day 2 Foursomes, finds himself a new partner in Matt Fitzpatrick.
Both Fitzpatrick and Scheffler, who are meeting for the first time in a Ryder Cup, are each searching for their first Foursomes points for their respective teams.
Match 3 (12:42pm Irish time)
Collin Morikawa and Harrish English (USA) v Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood (EUR)
For the United States pairing of Morikawa and English, this will be the first time they’ve played together in a Ryder Cup.
Morikawa is playing in his third consecutive Ryder Cup and holds a 2-1-0 record in Foursomes. English, who played four years ago at Whistling Straits and notched 1 point, has not played a Foursomes match and will make his debut with Morikawa.
Following their 2-0-0 Foursomes record in Rome, Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood team up again as one of Europe’s two repeat Foursomes pairings for the opening session at Bethpage Black. While Tommy Fleetwood - who has a 4-0-0 career foursomes record - will face both players for the first time, McIlroy has played both Morikawa and English in previous Ryder Cups, each time in Four-Ball sessions.
Two years ago he and Matt Fitzpatrick beat Morikawa and Xander Schauffele 5&3, but in Whistling Straits he had a losing record against both, beaten alongside Shane Lowry 4&3 by English and Tony Finau on Day 1, and beaten alongside Ian Poulter 4&3 by Dustin Johnson and Morikawa on Day 2.
Match 4 (12:58 pm Irish time)
Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay (USA) v Robert MacIntyre and Viktor Hovland (EUR)
Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay return to pair up together in the anchor match for the United States. The duo has played four matches together: two at Whistling Straits in 2021 and two at Marco Simone, going 2-2-0 as partners.
On the European side, Robert MacIntyre was the most successful rookie in Rome and will tee up in Foursomes for the first time in his Ryder Cup career. He finds himself in a new partnership with Viktor Hovland, who was one half of the record-breaking Scandinavian foursomes record in Marco Simone with Ludvig Aberg. Of these four players, only Hovland and Cantlay have ever met each other in a previous Ryder Cup. Competing in the final Four-Ball match on Saturday at Le Golf National, the duo of Hovland and Fleetwood tied their match against Thomas and Cantlay.
During Foursomes matches, players on each team use a single golf ball and take alternate shots to complete the hole. Pairings and starting times for the Friday afternoon four-ball session will be announced shortly after the conclusion of the morning session.