Europe hold off US to win golf’s Ryder Cup 2025

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Published On 29 Sep 2025

What looked definite to beryllium a comfy Team Europe triumph unexpectedly turned into a thrilling Ryder Cup finale arsenic they withstood a ferocious situation from Team United States to seizure golf’s biggest squad prize successful a nail-biting 15-13 victory.

Europe, a close-knit squad that had done everything close for 2 days astatine Long Island’s Bethpage Black, needed 2 points from the 11 singles matches that were played connected Sunday to clasp the Ryder Cup, but the Americans made them sweat it retired until the bitter end.

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“It’s got to beryllium the astir stressful 12 hours of my life,” said Europe’s Luke Donald, the archetypal skipper to triumph back-to-back editions of the biennial lawsuit since Tony Jacklin successful the 1980s. “We knew they’d beryllium tough; we didn’t deliberation they’d beryllium this tough.”

It was not until the eighth lucifer of the time that Ireland’s Shane Lowry drained a 6-foot birdie astatine the past to necktie Russell Henley, getting Europe to 14 points connected the week and guaranteeing they would clasp the Ryder Cup they won 2 years agone successful Rome.

“I said to my caddie walking down 18, ‘I’ve got an accidental to bash the top happening I’ve ever done today,’ and I did it. And I’m precise arrogant of myself,” said Lowry.

Then it was Englishman Tyrrell Hatton, successful the penultimate match, who secured the outright triumph with a half-point from his conflict with Collin Morikawa that enactment Europe astatine the 14-1/2 points needed to triumph the Ryder Cup.

“It’s been 1 of the hardest days I’ve ever experienced connected a play course,” Hatton said aft the closest Ryder Cup since the “Miracle astatine Medinah” successful 2012, erstwhile Europe staged a singular final-day comeback.

“It was to beryllium expected, they’re astonishing players – selfishly, I was hoping it wouldn’t person to travel down to me.”

Europe person present won 11 of the past 15 Ryder Cups dating backmost to 1995, and their latest triumph marks the 5th clip they person won connected overseas soil.

Hostile conditions for visitors

The Americans, who adjacent had US President Donald Trump connected manus to connection enactment connected Friday, failed to enactment up a combat implicit the archetypal 2 days of the lawsuit portion rowdy location fans launched each mode of verbal maltreatment astatine the Europeans.

Despite the hostile conditions, Europe produced singular shot-making and clutch putting done the foursomes and fourball sessions, each portion displaying a level of camaraderie and strength the US broadside could lone imagination of.

There was small crushed to deliberation Europe were not headed for a speedy triumph connected Sunday, and Donald’s squad adjacent made a accelerated commencement to the singles league until things abruptly turned.

“The boys truly fought today. That was incredible. I didn’t expect thing different,” said US skipper Keegan Bradley.

“They showed the satellite contiguous that, really, thing is possible. That was a coin flip determination for a second. Never much arrogant of thing successful my life.”

‘A time excessively late’

Bradley sent Cameron Young and Justin Thomas retired successful the archetypal 2 matches, and some birdied the last spread to unafraid 1-up victories implicit Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood, respectively, to respire immoderate beingness into the Americans’ chances.

“That’s the momentum we’ve been looking for the full week. We conscionable made it a time excessively late,” said Thomas.

Xander Schauffele added different US constituent with a 4&3 triumph implicit Spaniard Jon Rahm earlier Swede Ludvig Aberg yet enactment immoderate bluish connected the committee with a 2&1 triumph implicit Patrick Cantlay that marked the lone singles lucifer won by Europe each day.

Moments later, Matt Fitzpatrick, who was 5-up aft 7 holes, settled for a half-point erstwhile helium halved his lucifer with Bryson DeChambeau, putting Europe fractional a constituent from retaining the cupful with six matches inactive connected the course.

But Europe were made to hold arsenic Scottie Scheffler took the adjacent constituent with a 1-up triumph implicit Rory McIlroy successful the first-ever Ryder Cup singles lucifer betwixt the apical 2 players successful the Official World Golf Ranking.

JJ Spaun past closed retired a 2&1 triumph implicit Austrian Sepp Straka to acceptable the signifier for Lowry, who birdied from 6 feet astatine the past to gain the half-point against Russell Henley.

Shortly after, it was Hatton who settled for a par connected the closing spread to halve the lucifer and footwear disconnected the celebrations. The last lucifer connected the docket was ruled a necktie earlier the day’s matches began, which resulted successful a half-point for each team, arsenic Europe’s Viktor Hovland withdrew earlier the clash with Harris English owed to injury.

For McIlroy, who was the people of overmuch of the verbal maltreatment each week, Europe’s triumph made bully connected the bold prediction aft the past Ryder Cup that they would triumph connected the roadworthy this year.

“It’s bully to beryllium right. I’m not close each the time,” said McIlroy. “I person implicit assurance successful this team.

“I deliberation we won successful Rome, and the wheels were acceptable successful question to effort to bash thing that had not been done successful implicit a decade.”