Ladies and Gents,
We have our Friday matchups locked and loaded.
There has been plenty of assumption, speculation, guessing, whatever else have you about who will be playing together this weekend.
Whether you were certain about the Scottie/Henley or the Schauffele/Cantlay pairings or not, you would have had no clue who they’d be up against and what style of ball they’d be playing.
But did you guess the DeChambeau/JT pairing OUT THE GATE? Sure you did.
Well if you didn’t know, now you know.
2025 Ryder Cup Friday matches, tee times
MORNING FOURSOMES
Match 1, 7:10 a.m. ET:
Bryson DeChameau / Justin Thomas vs. Jon Rahm / Tyrrell Hatton
Match 2, 7:26 a.m. ET:
Scottie Scheffler / Russell Henley vs. Ludvig Aberg / Matt Fitzpatrick
Match 3, 7:42 a.m. ET:
Collin Morikawa / Harris English vs. Rory McIlroy / Tommy Fleetwood
Match 4, 7:58 a.m. ET:
Xander Schauffele / Patrick Cantlay vs. Robert MacIntyre / Viktor Hovland
AFTERNOON FOUR-BALL
Match 1, 12:25 p.m. ET: TBD
Match 2, 12:41 p.m. ET: TBD
Match 3, 12:57 p.m. ET: TBD
Match 4, 1:13 p.m. ET: TBD
Schedule copied from golf.com — love those guys.
Match 1
Looks like DeChambeau and JT get to tee it up first against Rahm and Hatton. Starting with a bang. Sure, any pairing would have been exciting, but this is just fireworks right out the gate.
Major personalities on display in pairing one.
Match 2
Pairing two feels heavily in favor of the Americans, though you never know what you’ll get out of Aberg and Fitz. Both are capable of elite play. There’s just something so STEADY about the Scheffler/Henley pairing.
I have immense confidence in that American group.
Match 3
Scottie Scheffler played the best golf of anyone this season, obviously. You could argue #2 and #3 were McIlroy and Fleetwood.
It’s almost as if Luke Donald assumed we’d load up on pairings one and two and decided, “surely if we slip these guys back here, they’ll get a point for us.”
Despite knowing what Morikawa and English can do out there, I would say this feels like a tough one for the Americans to pull off.
Match 4
Hard to decide how I think this will go. Schauffele was the world’s best outside of Scheffler just a year ago. Two Majors in 2024 is crazy.
Then again Hovland finished 2023 looking like the best in the world.
Bobby Mac’s probably played the best golf of any of these guys this year, and Cantlay showed us at the end of the year that he is definitely in form. Complete toss up on this one. It’ll be about who shows up.
Of course, they’re in the final morning pairing because we can’t have everyone waiting on Cantlay to finish his pre-shot routine each and every hole.
Alas
Pity the team who falls behind on day one. It seems the Ryder Cup provides an emotional battle as much as a physical golfer’s battle, even at Bethpage.
So playing from behind, though it’s certainly been done, is not something you want to be doing come late Saturday and on Sunday.
Grab your umbrella, it’s wet out there.
Cheers,
Luke ManganOn Golf