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El resto de partidos fueron también muy igualados, con 5 victorias estadounidenses, otras 5 europeas y dos empates.

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Resultado final y celebración Europea

Tras tres días de batallas y algún que otro roce entre los equipos europeo y estadounidense, el resultado final fue una holgada victoria por 16.5 puntos a 11.5 puntos que hizo olvidar el mal trago que tuvo el equipo europeo en la edición celebrada en el año 2021 en Wisconsin.

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Como no podía ser de otra forma, el equipo europeo celebro por todo lo alto el campeonato, pero sin perder la vista en la próxima edición que se celebrara en estados unidos en el año 2025.

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Hasta entonces, deseando que llegue otra vez este gran torneo que hace que me guste el golf.

Un saludo

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Hello friends,

Although I'm a regular reader of the community, this is the first time I'm posting on #fulldeportes and I'm doing it for a special occasion that only happens every two years.

I am not a big golf fan, but when the end of September arrives every two years, golf is a sport that I love to watch because of the epic duels that take place on the green of a golf course between the best golfers of the old continent and the United States. It is called the Ryder Cup.

History of the Ryder Cup

This golf tournament has a long history dating back to 1927, when the United States and Great Britain teams met for the first time. For more than 40 years, the United States players dominated the tournament, with only one victory for the British team.

That is why, due to the constant humiliations, in 1973 the format was extended to include Irish players in the British team and in 1979, after the insistence of my compatriot Severiano Ballesteros, the team was extended to what is currently known as the European team, thus making the editions more closely contested and since then there has been a balance of power between the two teams, making the tournament even more relevant.

In fact, I would like to point out that in 1997, when the Ryder Cup was held in Spain and Severiano Ballesteros was the captain of the European team, I got hooked on following this tournament on television every two years.

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Current game format

Achieve 14 or 14.5 points

The tournament is divided into 3 days of competition where the objective of one of the teams is to reach 14.5 points (challenger team that did not win the last edition) and in the opposite team the objective is to reach 14 points (winning team of the previous edition).

In the case of this edition held in Rome on 29-30 September and 1 October, the challenger team was the European team after the heavy defeat suffered in Wisconsin in 2021 by 19-9.

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Day 1 morning: Foursomes

The first 4 points or golf matches are played as Foursomes.

Each golf match is made up of a pair of players from the European team and a pair of players from the American team, so that using only one ball per pair, each member of the pair hits the ball alternately until the goal of putting the ball in the hole is achieved.

The team that manages to sink the ball in the least number of shots on the same hole wins that hole.

For example, in this case the European team won 5 of the holes and the US team won only one hole. So it was not necessary to complete the full 18 holes of the golf course and only the first 15 holes had to be played for the European pair formed by J. Rahm and T. Hatton to win the match.

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In total 4 matches were played on the opening day in the morning and as you can see the result was very much in favour of the European team with 4 victories.

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Day 1 afternoon: Four-balls

The Four-balls format is played in the same way as the Foursomes format in pairs.

In this case, a pair from the European team plays against a pair from the American team, but in contrast to the Foursomes format, each player plays with his own ball.

In order to win a hole, the lowest number of strokes needed by a member of one of the pairs compared to the pair of the opposing team is counted.

As an example you can see that T. Hatton was the player who used the fewest strokes to complete hole 1, so the hole was won by the European team, as only J. Spieth completed the course of this hole for the American team with 4 strokes.

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Overall, of the four matches played on Friday, there were 3 ties and a victory for the European team. Thus, 2.5 points were awarded to the European team and one and a half points to the American team, as the draw of the match counts as half a point.

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Day 2 morning: Foursomes

The next day, Saturday 30th September, the pair battles in foursomes were resumed with three victories for the European team and one victory for the American team.

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But undoubtedly the news of the day was the overwhelming victory of the European pair formed by V. Hovland and L. Aberg over the American pair formed by the current number one of the ranking S. Scheffler and the winner of 5 major tournaments B. Koepka by nine holes. Koepka by nine holes and without the need to play the last 7 holes.

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Day 2 afternoon: Four-balls

Saturday afternoon with the 4 Four-balls matches was the moment of some recovery for the American team, as they managed to win 3 of the 4 matches played.

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These three victories were vital to give a special emotion to the Sunday matches, although the distance that the European team already had was considerably big as they only needed 4 points out of the 12 in dispute on Sunday in individual matches.

Day 3: Individual matches

Sunday's matches are all singles, where a member of the US team will face a member of the European team. The winner of the match will be the player who has won the most holes.

In total there are 12 matches between the 24 players of both teams.

The European team needed only 4 wins to win the Ryder Cup.

The first of the individual matches played was the most exciting and evenly matched of all in which the current world number one S. Scheffler and the Spanish J. Rahm, current world number three, faced each other. And I can tell you that many of the shots were impressive, such as this one by J. Rahm from a practically impracticable area.

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The rest of the matches were also very even, with 5 American victories, 5 European victories and two draws.

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Final result and European celebration

After three days of battles and some friction between the European and American teams, the final result was a comfortable victory by 16.5 points to 11.5 points, which made the European team forget the bad experience they had in the edition held in 2021 in Wisconsin.

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As it could not be otherwise, the European team celebrated the championship in style, but without losing sight of the next edition to be held in the United States in 2025.

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Until then, looking forward to another great tournament that makes me love golf.

Best regards.