Ryder Cup 2025: The European team has achieved early season success on the PGA Tour, but will the U.S. team have a home advantage over the U.S. team? |Golf News

Rory McIlroy has previously said winning the Ryder Cup on foreign land is “one of the biggest achievements on the golf course”, but is the setting of the home course less advantage over the U.S. in this year's game?

There are six months left until the US host, Bethpage Black, Europe Live in the sky SportsLuke Donald's side hopes to win the 2023 victory in its biennial match in 2012.

Traditionally, home advantage has been a key factor in determining the winner, with Europe having only won four games in Ryder Cup history, while the United States has lost seven consecutive times as a visiting team.

The hostile New York crowd will provide a daunting atmosphere for the European team this September, although Brandel Chamblee questioned how the United States will build Bethpage Black to favor home court.

“I think America has a hard time,” Chamblee Tell the Sky Sports Golf Podcast. “The United States has always had the advantage of hitting it for miles and everywhere, but being great iron man and scrambler, so they built a golf course at home this way.

“In the past few years, American players have become more in control. They are more like European players, so the same course will not be the advantage of the United States in the past.

“How will they set up a golf course?

“I'd love to know how they set up the golf course. I know that the national course, the national advantage in the Ryder Cup is huge, but there are a lot of Irish people around New York City, and it's going to be a spectacle.”

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What are the early advantages of the European team?

Two years ago, neither of the US's Ryder Cup won this season on the PGA Tour, and he won both of them despite Russell Henley being part of last year's Presidents Cup team – Harris English, who represented the US in the 2021 Ryder Cup.

Starting in 2023, the European-winning Ryder Cup team has achieved enough early season success. Rory McIlroy After winning his AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, he won the FedExcup rankings.

Sepp Straka,,,,, Radwig Oberg and Viktor Hovland All have won the PGA Tour in the past three months, and Tyrrell Hatton Following his outstanding performance until 2024, he won the DP World Tour hero Dubai Desert Classic in January.

Robert MacIntyre – Two championships in the 2024 PGA Tour – No. 11 in the game can't beat No. 11 in his last five games, with Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood Both are consistent throughout the season.

Two-time champion Jon Rahm He has also been impressed in four Liv Golf League matches this season since switching from the PGA Tour in early 2024 and must not surpass sixth in his four LIV Golf League matches.

“Every time Paul McGinley was on our scene, I tried to make him dizzy about his success in Europe,” Charblee added. “Paul plays the card on a card so close to his chest, and the Ryder Cup is everything to him.

“He’s like ‘You’re getting dizzy, stop it now, a long way!’, but you can’t help but look at the trends going on in Europe and think nothing is more exciting than that.”

Europe's hope increases the depth of the Ryder Cup

Thomas Detry His hopes for the Ryder Cup debut enhanced with a record seven-shot victory at the WM Phoenix Open Adrian Meronk By winning the LIV Golf Season Opener and Ryder Cup Stalwart Sergio Garcia On that tour he won the Hong Kong championship.

Laurie Canter After three of the first three of the four games of the DP World Tour, it entered the top 50 in the world, including winning in Bahrain, while compatriots Aaron Lai – Who won the Wyndham Championship last August – top 15 in four games in the PGA Tour this season.

Rasmus Hojgaard After the success of Amgen Irish Open last year, it is currently in an automatic qualification position, Niklas Norgaard and Matt Wallace – Both winners are in the top six in the DP World Tour in 2024.

Justin Rose He has already won two top 10s on the PGA Tour this season as he pursues the seventh game of Europe, and Donald has many other contenders looking to force himself into the Ryder Cup.

Team USA won a record 19-9 win at the last Ryder Cup on U.S. soil, though Horschel wasn't surprised how Europe rebounded.

“People start writing about Europe and say, 'Hey, look at this American team. They have 20 people who can make this team. They are all young. They're going to dominate the next decade' Tell the Sky Sports Golf Podcast.

“You can never figure them out… When they get together as a team, there's only a few things about Europe. Those are probably players with fewer players on paper, and they seem to improve their game.

“It was Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, the leader on that team, who was able to bring these guys and make them like Seve, who were like Seve, and they were like Seve, and they were like all of these guys when they started playing and won the Ryder Cup.”

“Electrical Atmosphere” in front of New York

Players still have enough time to secure their Ryder Cup titles, and in 2025, there are nearly five months left for all four Grand Slams, and Horschel is looking to provide the USA Team Team, hoping this year will be bigger than ever.

“This Ryder Cup will be different,” Horschel added. This will be different from any player who has ever seen or has seen a Ryder Cup – which will be very fanatical.

“It will be like the first time it went there in 2002 when the US opened in Bethpage Black. [Garcia] – The crowd will be a little bit like this.

“I’m not saying it’s right, I hope it’s a respected crowd – but they’ll be in Europe very early on! If the U.S. teams aren’t doing well, they’ll also play the U.S. teams because of bad golf. It’s going to be two-way.

“I think it will be one of the most electric Ryder Cups we’ve ever seen.”

Listen to the full Brandel Chamblee and Billy Horschel interviews of Jamie Weir’s latest weekly edition of Sky Sports Golf Podcast. Subscribe now on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or Spreaker, while the Vodcast version is on the Sky Sports Golf YouTube channel.

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