2016 Ryder Cup

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41st Ryder Cup Matches
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DatesSeptember 30 – October 2, 2016
Venue Hazeltine National Golf Club
Location Chaska, Minnesota
Captains
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The 41st Ryder Cup Matches were held in the United States from September 30 to October 2, 2016, at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, a suburb southwest of Minneapolis. Europe entered the competition as the cup holders, having won in 2014 in Scotland for their third consecutive win.

Contents

The United States won for the first time since 2008 at Valhalla, and featured the most lopsided American victory since a 9-point win in 1981 at Walton Heath. As in 2008, the U.S. never trailed during the tournament. Ryan Moore defeated Lee Westwood by 1 hole to reclaim the Cup with three matches still in progress. Captain Davis Love III dedicated the win to Arnold Palmer, who had died five days before the competition at the age of 87 while awaiting heart surgery. A bag from Palmer's captaincy in 1975 at Laurel Valley was placed on the first tee during Friday's opening foursomes to honor "The King", and Team USA also swept the opening foursomes on Friday morning for the first time since 1975. Two days after the matches, the majority of Team USA attended Palmer's public memorial at Saint Vincent College in his hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and brought the trophy at the request of Palmer's daughter Amy. [1] Palmer had also had a video tribute at the opening ceremony and tributes in remarks from both captains (Love and Darren Clarke) and both honorary captains (Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin).

Format

The Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. The competition format is as follows:

On the first two days there are 4 foursome matches and 4 fourball matches with the home captain choosing which are played in the morning and which in the afternoon.

With a total of 28 points available, 141⁄2 points are required to win the Cup, and 14 points are required for the defending champion, Europe, to retain the Cup. All matches are played to a maximum of 18 holes according to the current format.

Course

Crowds gather around the 17th hole at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota during the 2016 Ryder Cup Hazeltine National Golf Club 17th Hole - Ryder Cup.jpg
Crowds gather around the 17th hole at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota during the 2016 Ryder Cup

The announcement that the PGA of America had selected Hazeltine as the venue for the 2016 Ryder Cup was made on April 22, 2002. [2]

The order of holes is different from that normally used for the course. The front nine are current holes 1–4 and 14–18 while the back nine are current holes 10–13 and 5–9. [3]

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Yards4424296332103526424021864753,7714526065182484484055721764323,8577,628
Par445345434364543445343672

Television

The 2016 Ryder Cup was televised in the United States by Golf Channel and NBC, which planned to provide 170 hours of coverage. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the event was broadcast by Sky Sports; the broadcaster re-branded its Sky Sports 4 channel as Sky Sports Ryder Cup for the week of the event, and planned to broadcast 240 hours of coverage. [4]

Task Force

Following the European victory in the 2014 Ryder Cup, the PGA of America created a "Ryder Cup Task Force". The Task Force consisted of three PGA officials and eight players with Ryder Cup experience. There were three previous Ryder Cup captains: Raymond Floyd, Tom Lehman and Davis Love III together with Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods. The Task Force considered a number of issues including the selection of the Ryder Cup captain and vice-captains and the team selection process. [5]

The conclusions of the Task Force were announced on February 24, 2015, with the announcement of a number of changes for the 2016 contest. Davis Love III was selected as the captain, while new criteria were specified for the selection of vice-captains. In addition a number of changes were made to the team selection process for 2016. The 11-man Task Force was disbanded after the announcement and replaced with a smaller 6-man "Ryder Cup Committee" which included Love, Mickelson and Woods. [6]

Team qualification and selection

United States

The United States qualification rules were announced by the Task Force on February 24, 2015. The majority of the team was selected from the Ryder Cup points list which was based on prize money won in important tournaments. Generally one point was awarded for every $1,000 earned. The team consisted of: [6]

There were a number of changes from 2014. The number of captain's picks was increased from three to four with the selections being made later than previously, especially moving the fourth and last pick to less than a week before the Ryder Cup, right after the completion of the Tour Championship. The qualifying events included both the 2015 World Golf Championships events and The Players Championship, on top of the four 2015 major championships as in previous years, but only included 2016 PGA Tour events actually played in 2016, thus excluded any other event played in 2015. The qualifying period was also extended because the Olympic Games had moved the timeslot for the 2016 PGA Championship which took place already at the end of July.

The leading 15 players (and including the last captain's pick who was in 20th place) in the final points list [7] were:

PositionNamePoints
1 Dustin Johnson 11975.111
2 Jordan Spieth 11400.143
3 Phil Mickelson 5919.636
4 Patrick Reed 5710.371
5 Jimmy Walker 5337.662
6 Brooks Koepka 4890.375
7 Brandt Snedeker 4432.539
8 Zach Johnson 4359.597
9 Bubba Watson 4210.011
10 J. B. Holmes 4179.466
11 Rickie Fowler 4079.528
12 Matt Kuchar 4035.220
13 Scott Piercy 3356.841
14 Bill Haas 3239.755
15 Jim Furyk 3032.852
...
20 Ryan Moore 2877.193

Players in qualifying places are shown in green. Captain's picks are shown in yellow.

Europe

The European team qualification rules were announced on May 26, 2015. The basic qualification rules were unchanged from those for the 2014 event. The team consisted of: [8] [9]

Only European members of the European Tour were eligible for the team and players could only earn points in the above two lists while they were a member of the European Tour. Paul Casey was not a member of the European Tour and was ineligible to earn points or be selected to the team. [10] Russell Knox was not yet a member of the European Tour when he won the 2015 WGC-HSBC Champions. Two weeks after that win, he took up membership in order to try to qualify for the Ryder Cup, [11] but the money and the approximately 90 OWGR points he had earned since the start of the qualification period [12] did not count toward his Ryder Cup point totals. If these OWGR points had counted, he would have qualified easily by finishing fourth on the world ranking list; instead, he finished in tenth place, 12.36 OWGR points from automatic qualification, and was not selected as a captain's pick. [13]

The leading players in the European Ryder Cup points lists were: [14]

Players in qualifying places (Q) are shown in green; captain's picks (P) are shown in yellow; those in italics (q) qualified through the other points list.

Sergio García and Justin Rose, who qualified through the World points list, finished in 17th and 26th place respectively on the European points list. [14]

Teams

Captains

Darren Clarke was named as the European captain on February 18, 2015. [15] He was selected by a five-man selection panel consisting of the last three Ryder Cup captains: Paul McGinley, José María Olazábal, Colin Montgomerie, another ex-Ryder Cup player David Howell and the European Tour chief executive George O'Grady. [16]

Davis Love III was named the United States captain on February 24, 2015. [17] He had previously captained the 2012 team.

Vice-captains

Each captain selects a number of vice-captains to assist him during the tournament.

Clarke selected Thomas Bjørn, Pádraig Harrington, and Paul Lawrie as European team vice-captains in May 2016. [18] He added Ian Poulter in June [19] and Sam Torrance in July. [20]

Tom Lehman was named as a United States vice-captain at the same press conference that Love was named as captain. [17] In November 2015 three more vice-captains were named: Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods. All three had been members of the American Task Force. [21] On September 27, 2016, Love selected Bubba Watson as the fifth vice-captain. [22]

Players

Flag of the United States.svg Team USA
NameAgePoints
rank		World
ranking		Previous
Ryder Cups		MatchesW–L–HWinning
percentage
Dustin Johnson 3212274–3–057.14
Jordan Spieth 2324142–1–162.50
Phil Mickelson 46315104116–19–646.34
Patrick Reed 2648143–0–187.50
Jimmy Walker 37516151–1–350.00
Brooks Koepka 266220Rookie
Brandt Snedeker 35723131–2–033.33
Zach Johnson 408284146–6–250.00
J. B. Holmes 341021132–0–183.33
Rickie Fowler 27119280–3–531.25
Matt Kuchar 3812173114–5–245.45
Ryan Moore 3320310Rookie

Captain's picks are shown in yellow. Davis Love III announced three captain's picks at 11:00 EDT on September 12. Ryan Moore was announced as the final captain's pick during halftime of the Sunday night NFL game on September 25. The world rankings and records are at the start of the 2016 Ryder Cup. [23]

Flag of Europe.svg Team Europe
NameCountryAgePoints rank
(European)		Points rank
(World)		World
ranking		Previous
Ryder Cups		MatchesW–L–HWinning
percentage
Rory McIlroy Ulster Banner.svg  Northern Ireland 271233146–4–457.14
Danny Willett Flag of England.svg  England 2823100Rookie
Henrik Stenson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 403153115–4–254.55
Chris Wood Flag of England.svg  England 2847320Rookie
Sergio García Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 361741273218–9–564.06
Rafa Cabrera-Bello Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 3275300Rookie
Justin Rose Flag of England.svg  England 36266113149–3–271.43
Andy Sullivan Flag of England.svg  England 2958500Rookie
Matt Fitzpatrick Flag of England.svg  England 2269440Rookie
Lee Westwood Flag of England.svg  England 4315144694120–15–656.10
Martin Kaymer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 311113483104–3–355.00
Thomas Pieters Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 24911420Rookie

Darren Clarke announced the three captain's picks at 12.30 BST on August 30. Captain's picks are shown in yellow. The world rankings and records are at the start of the 2016 Ryder Cup. [24]

Friday's matches

The tournament began with the alternate shot foursomes in the morning followed by four fourball matches in the afternoon. [25] The pairings for the foursomes were announced on Thursday September 29. [26]

Morning foursomes

Team USA swept the morning foursomes. It was the first time since 1975 that they had swept the opening session and the first time since 1981 that they had swept any session. [27] [28] [29]

Flag of Europe.svg Results Flag of the United States.svg
Stenson/Rose Flag of the United States.svg 3 & 2 Spieth/Reed
McIlroy/Sullivan Flag of the United States.svg 1 up Mickelson/Fowler
García/Kaymer Flag of the United States.svg 4 & 2 Walker/Z. Johnson
Westwood/Pieters Flag of the United States.svg 5 & 4 D. Johnson/Kuchar
0Session4
0Overall4

Afternoon fourballs

Flag of Europe.svg Results Flag of the United States.svg
Rose/Stenson Flag of Europe.svg 5 & 4 Spieth/Reed
García/Cabrera-Bello Flag of Europe.svg 3 & 2 Holmes/Moore
Kaymer/Willett Flag of the United States.svg 5 & 4 Snedeker/Koepka
McIlroy/Pieters Flag of Europe.svg 3 & 2 D. Johnson/Kuchar
3Session1
3Overall5

Saturday's matches

Morning foursomes

Flag of Europe.svg Results Flag of the United States.svg
McIlroy/Pieters Flag of Europe.svg 4 & 2 Fowler/Mickelson
Stenson/Fitzpatrick Flag of the United States.svg 3 & 2 Snedeker/Koepka
Rose/Wood Flag of Europe.svg 1 up Walker/Z. Johnson
García/Cabrera-Bello halved Reed/Spieth
21⁄2Session11⁄2
51⁄2Overall61⁄2

Afternoon fourballs

Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth played together for the fourth time in the 2016 Ryder Cup and, having been paired together three times in 2014, became the first American pairing to play seven matches. By winning their match they also equaled the American record of 5 points set by Gardner Dickinson and Arnold Palmer in 1967 and 1971. [30] [31]

Flag of Europe.svg Results Flag of the United States.svg
McIlroy/Pieters Flag of Europe.svg 3 & 1 Koepka/D. Johnson
Willett/Westwood Flag of the United States.svg 1 up Holmes/Moore
Kaymer/García Flag of the United States.svg 2 & 1 Mickelson/Kuchar
Rose/Stenson Flag of the United States.svg 2 & 1 Reed/Spieth
1Session3
61⁄2Overall91⁄2

Sunday's singles matches

The deciding moment for the USA with reaching 141⁄2 points to clinch victory belonged to Ryan Moore who defeated Lee Westwood on the 18th green. [32] Thomas Pieters became the first European rookie to score 4 points, beating the previous record of 31⁄2 set by Paul Way in 1983 and by Sergio García and Paul Lawrie in 1999. [33] [34]

Flag of Europe.svg Results Flag of the United States.svg Timetable
Rory McIlroy Flag of the United States.svg 1 up Patrick Reed 2nd: 71⁄2–101⁄2
Henrik Stenson Flag of Europe.svg 3 & 2 Jordan Spieth 1st: 71⁄2–91⁄2
Thomas Pieters Flag of Europe.svg 3 & 2 J. B. Holmes 3rd: 81⁄2–101⁄2
Justin Rose Flag of the United States.svg 1 up Rickie Fowler 5th: 91⁄2–111⁄2
Rafa Cabrera-Bello Flag of Europe.svg 3 & 2 Jimmy Walker 4th: 91⁄2–101⁄2
Sergio García halved Phil Mickelson 7th: 10–13
Lee Westwood Flag of the United States.svg 1 up Ryan Moore 9th: 10–15
Andy Sullivan Flag of the United States.svg 3 & 1 Brandt Snedeker 8th: 10–14
Chris Wood Flag of the United States.svg 1 up Dustin Johnson 11th: 10–17
Danny Willett Flag of the United States.svg 5 & 4 Brooks Koepka 6th: 91⁄2–121⁄2
Martin Kaymer Flag of Europe.svg 1 up Matt Kuchar 12th: 11–17
Matt Fitzpatrick Flag of the United States.svg 4 & 3 Zach Johnson 10th: 10–16
41⁄2Session71⁄2
11Overall17

Individual player records

Each entry refers to the win–loss–half record of the player.

United States

PlayerPointsMatchesOverallSinglesFoursomesFourballs
Rickie Fowler 232–1–01–0–01–1–00–0–0
J. B. Holmes 131–2–00–1–00–0–01–1–0
Dustin Johnson 242–2–01–0–01–0–00–2–0
Zach Johnson 232–1–01–0–01–1–00–0–0
Brooks Koepka 343–1–01–0–01–0–01–1–0
Matt Kuchar 242–2–00–1–01–0–01–1–0
Phil Mickelson 2.542–1–10–0–11–1–01–0–0
Ryan Moore 232–1–01–0–00–0–01–1–0
Patrick Reed 3.553–1–11–0–01–0–11–1–0
Brandt Snedeker 333–0–01–0–01–0–01–0–0
Jordan Spieth 2.552–2–10–1–01–0–11–1–0
Jimmy Walker 131–2–00–1–01–1–00–0–0

Europe

PlayerPointsMatchesOverallSinglesFoursomesFourballs
Rafa Cabrera-Bello 2.532–0–11–0–00–0–11–0–0
Matt Fitzpatrick 020–2–00–1–00–1–00–0–0
Sergio García 251–2–20–0–10–1–11–1–0
Martin Kaymer 141–3–01–0–00–1–00–2–0
Rory McIlroy 353–2–00–1–01–1–02–0–0
Thomas Pieters 454–1–01–0–01–1–02–0–0
Justin Rose 252–3–00–1–01–1–01–1–0
Henrik Stenson 252–3–01–0–00–2–01–1–0
Andy Sullivan 020–2–00–1–00–1–00–0–0
Lee Westwood 030–3–00–1–00–1–00–1–0
Danny Willett 030–3–00–1–00–0–00–2–0
Chris Wood 121–1–00–1–01–0–00–0–0

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