It was a profitable boys journey for the U.S. Ryder Cup staff.
Forward of the biennial competitors later this month, the U.S. Workforce traveled to Rome, Italy, on Friday evening for a 36-hole scouting journey of Marco Simone GC, this 12 months’s Ryder Cup venue.
The Europeans have extra expertise taking part in the course than their American counterparts, because the DP World Tour’s Italian Open has been performed there since 2021. No American on this 12 months’s Ryder Cup squad has performed it. Subsequently, U.S. Ryder Cup Captain Zach Johnson made certain to get his squad a take a look at the course earlier than the matches.
“That manner, we get our ft on the grounds, they get their ft on the grounds, expertise Marco Simone firsthand,” Johnson stated in Might on the PGA Championship. “Then once we depart and are available again residence for 2 weeks, they’ll have no less than, I feel, a fairly real looking expectation as to what’s required.”
Johnson additionally stated that the journey would function a bonding expertise and assist construct chemistry within the staff room.
Jordan Spieth, Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele have been the one U.S. gamers who didn’t make the journey. Johnson informed the Related Press they “have household issues that positively supersede what we’re doing.” Spieth’s spouse, Annie, is quickly anticipated to offer delivery to their second little one whereas Cantlay and Schauffele didn’t make the journey resulting from “prior household commitments,” the PGA of America’s Julius Mason informed the AP.
However for the 9 staff members who went on the staff expedition, it gave the impression to be an indelible expertise.
Here’s a assortment of social media posts from the U.S. Ryder Cup account that gave a peak into the U.S. Workforce’s weekend in Rome:
The European staff, in the meantime, will maintain its personal scouting journey of at Marco Simone on Monday.
