Bloodbath continues as Europe dominates Team USA in second day of Ryder Cup

James O'Connell, New York Daily News on Sep 27, 2025

Published in Golf

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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Keegan Bradley stuck to his guns Saturday morning and now the Americans are in deep trouble at the Ryder Cup.

Team USA’s captain ran back two incredibly unsuccessful pairings in Saturday’s foursome (alternate shot) session.

Collin Morikawa and Harris English were dominated for a second straight day by Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood — 3 and 2, joining Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley — who fell to Robert MacIntyre and Viktor Hovland (1 up) — as the most disappointing groups of the first two days here at Bethpage Black on Long Island as the U.S. squad now trails Europe 8.5 to 3.5.

Bradley stated it was important to stick to this strategy despite how poorly it looked in Day 1.

“They beat us today, but you know, we’re really comfortable with our plan,” Bradley said after Friday’s disaster. “We’re really comfortable with those two players [Morikawa and English]. Excited who they are playing tomorrow.

“[Should] be an exciting match, and we’re sticking to our plan. We’re not going to panic. We’re not going to panic and make those sort of mistakes. We’re going to stick to what we know. We have a lot of confidence in them.”

The time to panic seems to be now.

The Europeans took three out of four matches Saturday morning. Jon Rahm put on a clinic alongside Tyrrell Hatton to defeat Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay.

The one point the U.S. team got on the board Saturday morning came from Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Young.

Noticeably absent from that description is Scheffler.

The world No. 1 has lost every single match thus far going 0-3-0 serving as easily the biggest shock of the tournament as he came into the Ryder Cup as the undisputed best player in golf. When you account for Scheffler’s record this weekend, the scoreboard makes a lot of sense.

With Europe 5.5 points away from retaining the cup, there appears to be no slowing them down.

McIlroy has lived up to the billing as the 2025 Masters champion has answered the call with every big shot, going 2-0-1 in his matches. However, the most successful of the Europeans has been Fleetwood and Jon Rahm. The pair are the only players to play in every session and win them all.

While there have been some standouts for Europe, simply put, they are pouring in all of the necessary putts while the Americans have been burning edges of the cup, unable to get anything to drop when they need it the most.

Now, in the afternoon session, it’s desperation mode for Bradley.

The Americans need to take three — at the minimum — of the four-ball sessions to go into Sunday’s single matches having any sort of prayer to avoid dropping a Ryder Cup on their home soil.

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