Well, that didn’t go as planned – for the home team at least.

While Bryson DeChambeau’s first-tee moon shot and subsequent birdie kicked off the 45th Ryder Cup with an American bang, Keegan Bradley’s U.S. side did little in following that up. DeChambeau and partner Justin Thomas would drop that leadoff foursomes match to Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, and the Americans would get dominated in each of the next two in what ended a convincing, 3-1 opening-session win for the Europeans on Friday morning at Bethpage Black.

“We were aware it was going to be a tough day,” Rahm said. “Two of their better favorites up there, two of the crowd favorites. We knew the crowd was going to be loud, and well, we are going to need our best. And even though we didn’t have our best start during the first seven

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