The Ryder Cup is back for the first time in two years. America and Europe will be playing against each other in an international golf competition. It will begin on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, and it will continue to Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025 at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York. Historically, the Ryder Cup format is four players, two from each team playing against each other in a match play format. Under these rules, the home team chooses which format is played in the morning and the afternoon. This year, alternate shot will be in the mornings on Friday and Saturday, with fourball being in the afternoon and on Sunday, it is players going against each other in singles. The European team returns everyone’s last name from the last Ryder Cup in Rome, which they won handily. A golfer on the South golf team Ben Bieri ’27 had opinions on what was going to cause the result this year.
“Europe will have pretty much the same pairings and stuff, because they have pretty much all 11 guys they had last time out of the 12. And I think for the USA, they could do a lot of different pairings,” Bieri said.
Some of the names who are expected to shine this year are Scottie Scheffler and Ben Griffin from the U.S. side and Rory McLory and Jon Rahm from the European side. Scottie Scheffler has won six times on the PGA Tour, including two major championships, the OPEN championship and the PGA Championship. Griffin won twice on tour this year and was consistently in the top 10. On the European side, Rory McLory finally got over the hump and won the Masters; he also won the Players this year. Jon Rahm won the individual championship on LIV, the Saudi-backed golf league, and the Team Championship against American team member Bryson DeChambeau in a playoff. Another member of the South golf team, Will Bishop ’26, shared his thoughts on how having a career year will affect the Ryder Cup.
“I absolutely think that having your best year can equate to, you know, something great in a tournament like that,” Bishop said.
An away Ryder Cup team has only won twice since 1995, and one of those times was at Oakland Hills in 2004, which is in Bloomfield Hills. The European team came in as a massive underdog in 2004 and this year they will attempt to win as an away team for the first time since 2012, this time as the favorite. South Boys golf coach Bobby Mitchell shared his opinion on ho
w being an underdog can affect a competition.
“Now the roles are reversed. We’re not supposed to win, and whenever you’re not supposed to win, that is a huge advantage when you have talent and there’s certainly enough depth on the American team this year,” Mitchell said.
