When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Sign up forfor news on the biggest players and tournaments Europe spanked the Yanks with an historic whitewash to turn the Ryder Cup upside down on Friday. Thomas Bjorn's men had been left stunned following a morning session of fourballs that left them trailing 3-1. Bjorn's decision to blood four rookies in the opening matches backfired as Team USA charged into a commanding lead. But come the end of a remarkable first day the visitors have been left seeing stars - after being taken to the cleaners in the afternoon foursomes.<doc-sep>You may think that the first few points out of a competition with 28 total points up for grabs do not matter much. That it’s just the first quarter of an NBA game. The teams are feeling each other out, trying to set a pace, and then really start to play in the second half as the minutes dwindle. The Ryder Cup, however, is often the opposite. Golf Channel has cited all week that the winners of 13 of the last 19 Ryder Cups took that first point. Not just the first session, but that very first point. The session of four matches is critical. Losing a session, especially right off the top, is demoralizing and deflating and just keeps making the margin for error smaller in a competition where there’s almost no margins between the very best in the world. So this first session matters more than you’d expect for the overall Cup and the pressure of that first session? It’s at its very highest. Players from all generations and of all accomplishment levels — Hall of Famers to one-time participants — will tell that there is nothing in golf like the pressure you feel on the first tee of the Ryder Cup. The time is now. Here’s why the USA will end its 25-year drought in Europe. It has been 25 years of Ryder Cup misery for American teams heading to away games in Europe. There have been Tiger failures, captain failures, old teams, bad teams, and horrible uniform choices. But this time around in Paris is different. Some have said they couldn’t feel their arms and legs and just subconsciously made a swing to get the ball off the tee. We saw Webb Simpson pop one up to start the Ryder Cup’s first match the last time it was in Europe in 2014. Playing for someone else — a team, a partner, a country — adds a level of suffocating pressure that’s beyond any putt at the Masters. This is what the Ryder Cup veterans tell you time and again. The lineup for the opening session, which will feature the four-ball format (also known as best ball), is loaded with rookies playing in their first Ryder Cup. So they will be thrown into the cauldron of that first tee scene, which is the biggest its ever been for this event with some 12,000 crowded around one tee box alone. There is a rookie in every single pairing that European captain Thomas Bjorn is sending out Friday morning. Alex Noren is the only rookie sitting out the first session and Bryson DeChambeau is the one rookie of the three American first-timers starting on the bench. Here’s your lineup for Friday morning four-ball — all times ET (Paris is six hours ahead) 2:10 a.m.: Brooks Koepka & Tony Finau (USA) vs. Justin Rose & Jon Rahm (EUR) 2:25 a.m.: Dustin Johnson & Rickie Fowler (USA) vs. Rory McIlroy & Thorbjorn Olesen (EUR) 2:40 a.m.: Jordan Spieth & Justin Thomas (USA) vs. Paul Casey & Tyrrell Hatton (EUR) 2:55 a.m.: Patrick Reed & Tiger Woods (USA) vs. Francesco Molinari & Tommy Fleetwood (EUR) It’s a fascinating play by Bjorn, who is keeping two of Europe’s emotional leaders and Ryder Cup legends, Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter, on the bench for the critical first session (more reactions to the first session lineup and what it might mean for the afternoon four-ball here). Golf Channel will have the full coverage of the opening day’s double session, going live at 2 a.m. ET on Friday morning. If you’re on the west coast, I think the play is to power through the evening with those first matches starting at 11 p.m. PST. Golf Channel, which falls under the NBC and Comcast umbrella, has become the traditional broadcaster of this thing. We’ll get the usual NBC suspects in Dan Hicks and Johnny Miller, but the Golf Channel side of things will probably feature a lot of Terry Gannon and Nick Faldo up in the booth. This broadcast is not as long as their British Open coverage, which runs some 14.5 hours from the very first tee shot around 1:30 a.m. ET. But it’s still a long ass day for any TV broadcast, going 11 hours across two sessions of matches. Here are your coverage options for the first day: Friday’s Day 1 coverage Television: 2 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET -- Golf Channel Streaming: 2 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET -- Golf Channel simulcast stream Other streaming options FuboTV from 2 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET Ryder Cup App’s “Ryder Cup Live” from 2 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET Radio: 2 a.m. until completion of play -- PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 93/208) Ryder Cup Apps will also have “Live Radio” feature during match play<doc-sep>
Team Europe and the USA go head-to-head in golf's most exciting contest - and you can hear it all live on talkSPORT 2 The Ryder Cup is undeniably one of the most thrilling and intense sporting competitions around. This year, Team Europe and the USA are all set to bring us three days of golfing agony and ecstasy from Le Golf National. Getty 3 Crowds are set to pack out the French greens How can I listen to the Ryder Cup on talkSPORT? We’ve got Ryder Cup fever here at talkSPORT HQ. To celebrate, we’ve coverage of ALL three days from Le Golf National, as Europe and the USA battle it out. Tune into talkSPORT 2 from 11:05am on Friday, Saturday 28 for live commentary from France. And as things hot up through the weekend, we’ll keep you updated with all the thrills and spills from out on the course. To access talkSPORT 2, use either your DAB radio, our mobile app or the web player. Getty 3 Jordan Spieth will be a key player for the USA What were the Ryder Cup singles results? Europe headed into Sunday’s action needing only four and a half points from a possible 12 to regain the Ryder Cup after an excellent Saturday. Here’s how it unfolded: Getty 3 Europe captain Thomas Bjorn is hoping to spring a surprise or two Sunday 30th September McIlroy lost to Thomas 1Up Casey drew with Koepka Halved Rose lost to Simpson 3&2 Rahm bt Woods 2&1 Fleetwood lost to Finau 6&4 Poulter bt Johnson 2Up Olesen bt Spieth 5&4 Garcia bt Fowler 2&1 Molinari bt Mickelson 4&2 Hatton lost to Reed 3&2 Stenson bt Watson 5&4 Noren bt Dechambeau 1Up Tune into talkSPORT2 from 10am every day of the Ryder Cup for live commentary from Le Golf National