Tommy Fleetwood says a hurtful "hammering" at the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits motivated Team Europe to turn things around two years later.

Fleetwood was asked Wednesday at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y., if the Americans might have a similar chip on their shoulders following their 2023 loss in Rome.

"Yeah, I think absolutely," he said. "When you've lost a Ryder Cup -- like for us, 100 percent at Whistling Straits we took a -- there's no other way of putting it: We took a hammering. I think all of us that were on that team didn't feel like we did ourselves justice in the way that we played and we never really gave ourselves a chance. We were behind from the get-go there, and we lost that one."

Fleetwood said the Europeans' self-reflection and analysis began on the plane ride

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