Ryder Cup 2023: Will Team Europe get revenge?

Place

The Ryder Cup It will return to European soil in 2023. In 2021, Team USA won on familiar ground in Wisconsin. If they want to extend that title, they will have to do so at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Guidonia Montecelio near Rome.

It will be only the third time in the history of the Ryder Cup that the European edition of the prestigious golf tournament has been played in a country other than the British Isles. The European team won the tournament last year in Spain in 1997 and in France in 2018. So this is already the first favorable omen.

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Based on the past, Team USA is the clear favorite to win the trophy. In Wisconsin, Europe was defeated by the Americans 19-9. Americans have dominated the PGA Tour for years, having the most players in the top 50 and winning 19 of the last 27 majors.

Also at Online bookies Team USA is the favorite. Europe’s chances of winning are twice that of America’s. At the same time, none of this provides any guarantees for the United States. Europe has been the underdog in nearly every edition, although in recent years Team Europe has won more often than Team America.

Captain

The 44-year-old Englishman leads the Europe team Luke Donald. His election was not without struggle. Henrik Stenson was initially named captain of the European Ryder Cup team, but was sidelined after picking up the big money of the Saudi tour.

The Ryder Cup is certainly not unfamiliar territory for Donald. As a player, he won the Gold Cup four times with Team Europe. Donald’s career is one of many highlights anyway. He spent 56 weeks at the top of the world rankings and became the first player in history to hold the No. 1 ranking on both the European Tour and PGA Tour. “I am incredibly honored to be appointed European Ryder Cup captain,” Donald said at the time of his appointment in 2022. “It’s a true honor to lead your team of colleagues and be an ambassador for an entire continent.”

New competition

The captain immediately began setting up a new match: Hero Cup. In this match of the DB World Tour, Great Britain and Ireland take on the European landscape. “One of the first things I wanted to reintroduce as Ryder Cup captain was the match play team game,” Donald said during last weekend’s game in Abu Dhabi. won By Continental Europe team

Gamers

The Europe team will consist of twelve players as always. Three players automatically qualify for the European rankings and three for the World rankings. And then Captain Luke has Donald Six wild cards Available for distribution.

Currently, based on the rankings, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Victor Hovland, Alex Noran and Adrian Odegui have qualified for the Ryder Cup team. Other names widely mentioned as possible contenders for Team Europe include: Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrell Hutton, Robert MacIntyre, Adrian Meronc, Rasmus and Nicolai Hjækgaard, Guido Micliozzi, Thomas Peters, Seamus Power and Francesco Molinari.

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