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Ryder Cup Explained
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The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from the United States and Europe.
Golf Monthly's Dan Parker explains how it works.
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Team Europe and Team USA is one of golf's most entertaining and hotly
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contested events. It's also an event that differs significantly from the events
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you would have watched week in week out on the various tours so let's find out
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all about how it works. In total 28 matches are contested with each match
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being worth one point. For the outright win the magic number is 14.5. Should both
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sides accumulate 14 points the defending champions will retain the Ryder Cup so
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if a 14-4 draw happens this year Team USA will retain the trophy after winning at
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Whistling Straits in 2021. Winning a match gets a team one point while halving a
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match gets each team half a point. So there are 12 players on each team with
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eight taking part in each foursomes and four balls session while all 12 will
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battle it out on the final day in singles matches. The event takes place over three
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days Friday Saturday and Sunday with the first two days being split up into two
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sessions. Right let's take a deeper look at how each day works during the Ryder Cup.
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So Friday's action consists of four foursomes and four four ball matches. We'll
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come on to how these formats work shortly and the home captain gets to decide in
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which order these matches are played. For example in 2021 Team USA captain Steve
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Stricker decides to have the foursomes in the morning and the four balls in the
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afternoon. So then Saturday's action is exactly the same as Friday with four
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foursomes matches and four four ball matches played across two sessions. Finally
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Sunday sees all 12 players from each team play singles matches against one
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another with 12 points up for grabs on the final day. So let's take a look at those
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formats. Foursomes is an alternate shot format where teams in pairs take turns on
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each hole. So one player hits the tee shot the other will play the next shot from
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where that ball finishes and so on. This continues until the ball is holed out.
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It's a match play competition against the other team so whichever duo takes the
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fewest shots wins the hole. Players on each team will take turns to tee off so
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one will always tee off from the even numbered holes and the other will always
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tee off from the odd numbered holes and this is regardless of whoever hit the
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shot on the last hole. In four ball matches both players from each team play
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their own ball so there are four balls in play on every hole. The best score from each
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team counts in the match with the lowest score resulting on a win of the hole.
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And then finally Sunday singles matches are a straight shootout between two
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players with the best score winning the hole. It's worth noting that there are no
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playoffs in Ryder Cup golf and if a match is still all square or tied on the
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the 18th hole both teams receive half a point.
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