• Each of the last five Ryder Cups, dating back to 2014 at Gleneagles, has been won by the home side. That matches the longest such streak of its kind. Each of the first five Ryder Cups, from 1927 through 1935, were won by the team protecting home soil.

• Europe has won on American soil three times in the last 30 years (1995 at Oak Hill CC, 2004 at Oakland Hills CC and 2012 at Medinah CC). The last time that the US won on European soil was in 1993 at The Belfry.

• Bethpage Black will be the seventh venue to host a US Open (2002, 2009), PGA Championship (2019) and a Ryder Cup. It joins Medinah CC, Pinehurst #2, Hazeltine National GC, Oak Hill CC, Oakland Hills CC and Scioto CC.

• Luke Donald is the first person, for either side, to serve as captain in consecutive Ryder Cups since Scotsman Bernard Gallacher did so for the European team in 1991, 1993 and 1995. No American has served as captain in each of back-to-back Ryder Cups since Ben Hogan in 1947 and 1949.

• Luke Donald will look to become just the second European captain to win back to back, joining Tony Jacklin (1985, 1987). The only American captains to win consecutive Ryder Cups are Walter Hagen (1935, 1937) and Ben Hogan (1947, 1949).

• Team Europe is the first team to return eleven players from the previous Ryder Cup. The only change for the team in 2025 compared to 2023 is Rasmus Højgaard, in place of his twin brother Nicolai. The previous record was ten returning players from the previous Ryder Cup, by Team Europe in 1973. (Note that only nine of the ten returning European players saw action in the 1973 Ryder Cup, as John Garner was held out by captain Bernard Hunt because of recent dubious form).

• This will be the second Ryder Cup held in the state of New York, which hosted the 1995 edition at Oak Hill CC in Rochester. The only other American states to have hosted multiple Ryder Cups are California (1955 at Thunderbird CC and 1959 at El Dorado CC), Massachusetts (1927 at Worcester Country Club and 1999 at The Country Club) and Ohio (1931 at Scioto CC and 1987 at Muirfield Village).

• Keegan Bradley won the Travelers Championship in June. He will be the first man since 1963, on either side, to win an official PGA Tour event and captain a Ryder Cup team in the same calendar year. Arnold Palmer, who was a playing captain for Team USA at Atlanta Athletic Club in 1963, won seven times that year prior to the Ryder Cup, including during the previous weekend at Whitemarsh Open Invitational in Pennsylvania.

• Keegan Bradley, who turned 39 in June, is the youngest Ryder Cup captain (for either side) since then-39-year-old Tony Jacklin led the European side in 1983. The last man to captain the American side prior to turning 40 was Arnold Palmer in 1963 (34 years old, playing captain).

• Keegan Bradley, currently #13 in the Official World Golf Rankings, is the first man ever to captain a Ryder Cup team while ranking inside the top 20. Prior to this year, the highest-ranking Ryder Cup captain (for either side) was Tom Watson, who was #27 at the time of the 1993 Ryder Cup.

• The last time the Ryder Cup was played on American soil, Team USA won 19-9 at Whistling Straits in 2021. It was the most points garnered by either side in a Ryder Cup under the current 28-point total format, which began in 1979.

• In recent years, the Ryder Cup has been a relatively lopsided affair. Each of the last five Ryder Cups have been decided by a margin of five or more points, including Team Europe’s 16.5 to 11.5 victory in Italy two years ago. Over the 13 Ryder Cups that immediately preceded this recent streak (1987 to 2012), only three were decided by five or more points.

• The prevailing belief seems to be that the Europeans dominate the foursomes format (alternate shot). The truth is that the home team has won the foursomes battle in each of the last nine Ryder Cups. Team Europe held the advantage in 2006 (3-1-4 in Ireland), 2010 (4-3-1 in Wales), 2014 (6-0-2 in Scotland), 2018 (6-2-0 in France) and 2023 (7-1-0) in Italy. Team USA held the advantage in 2008 (3-2-3 in Kentucky), 2012 (5-3-0 in Illinois), 2016 (5-2-1 in Minnesota) and 2021 (6-2-0 in Wisconsin).

Overall, since 2006, the home team has a record of 45-16-11 in foursomes: Team Europe is 26-7-7 at home; and Team USA is 19-9-4 at home over this time.

• Team Europe took seven out of a possible eight points in foursomes play in 2023. It was the most lopsided advantage for either team under that format in any Ryder Cup since 1975, when the Americans forged a 7-1-0 record in that alternate shot configuration.

• The Americans lost the cumulative four-ball battle in 2010 (2-4-2) but have not lost that battle in any Ryder Cup since then – not even in their lopsided (16.5 to 11.5) loss in 2023:

• The European side had a historic start to the 2023 Ryder Cup in Italy. They swept the opening (foursomes) sessions, 4-0-0, and did not lose a match in the four-ball session that followed (three ties and one victory). It was the first time in history that a team did not lose a single match over the first two sessions of a Ryder Cup.

• The American side has seven players currently ranked among the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings. That is the second-highest number for either side since the inception of the OWGR in 1986. The Americans had eight such players in 2021, resulting in a 19-9 blow-out victory in Wisconsin.

• There will be just three players currently outside the top 25 in the Official World Golf Rankings competing in this year’s Ryder Cup, all on Team Europe: Matthew Fitzpatrick (#29), Rasmus Højgaard (#58) and Jon Rahm (#73). It will be the first time, since the inception of the rankings in 1986, that at least 22 players of the top 25 players in the world will be competing at a Ryder Cup. The previous record was 21, set in 2018.

• The average world rankings for Team USA and Team Europe this year are 11.2 and 23.7, respectively. Since the inception of the OWGR in 1986 and including 2025, Team USA has had a better average world ranking than the Europeans in 17 of 19 Ryder Cups. The exceptions were 2006 and 2008.

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2025 Ryder Cup

• The US team’s average age will be 31 years, 321 days on September 26, 2025; Team Europe will be 32 years, 199 days old. It is the second Ryder Cup in a row that both teams are under 33 years old on average. Prior to 2023, the last time both teams were under 33 years old on average was in 1979.

• The last time the Ryder Cup was played on American soil was four years ago, at Whistling Straits. At the time, Scottie Scheffler was a Ryder Cup rookie and had zero PGA Tour wins to his credit. He now has 19 official victories, including four major championships.

• The oldest player on the US side is Russel Henley (36 years, 169 days on Friday). The last time that every player on the American side was Henley’s age or younger was in 1937, when Ed Dudley was the team’s elder statesman at 36 years, 130 days old.

• It is the third Ryder Cup in a row in which no player on the American side is 40 years old or older (Brian Harman was the oldest American in 2023 (36) and Dustin Johnson was the oldest American in 2021 (37). From 1971 to 2018 – a span of 22 consecutive Ryder Cups – at least one American Ryder Cup participant was 40 years old or older.

Including Justin Rose this year (45 years old), each of the last twelve European Ryder Cup teams has had at least one player beyond his 40th birthday.

• Cameron Young is the youngest current Team USA member, at 28 years, 144 days old. The last time that Team USA did not have a player under the age of 28 on its team was in 2006, when then 30-year-old Vaughn Taylor was the youngest player on the team.

• The Americans have not lost the cumulative Four-ball sessions since 2010. They went 5-3-0 under that format in 2012, 4-2-2 in 2014 and 4-4-0 in both 2016 and 2018, 4-2-2 in 2021 and 3-2-3 in 2023.

• The US team will be fielding four Ryder Cup rookies this season (Spaun, Henley, Griffin, Young). Cumulatively, American Ryder Cup rookies have had a winning record in each of the last six Ryder Cups:

• Rasmus Hojgaard is the only Ryder Cup rookie on the European side. Over the last three Ryder Cups played on American soil, Team Europe rookies have a cumulative record of 9-20-3 (.328 win pct). European rookies went 1-8-2 at Whistling Straits in 2021.

• Tale of the Tape:

• Six of the twelve Americans have won at least one major championship (Scheffler, Schauffele, Spaun, Thomas, Morikawa, DeChambeau), while five of the European players have at least one major on his resume (McIlroy, Rahm, Rose, Fitzpatrick and Lowry). This will be the 44th consecutive Ryder Cup in which the US side has as many or more major winners at the time than the Europeans. The only exception was the inaugural event (1927), when the Americans had two such players (Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen) while Great Britain had three (George Duncan, Ted Ray and Arthur Havers).

• Five members of the American side and seven members of the European side competed at the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage. Here are their results:

• The Europeans won the opening session in 2023, four points to zero. That ended a drought of seven consecutive Ryder Cups in which Team Europe either trailed or were tied at the end of the first session. As you can see, that did not necessarily translate to victories for Team USA, having blown a first-session lead three times during this stretch (in bold).

Conversely, Team Europe has won each of the last four Ryder Cups in which they led at the end of the first session (2002, 2004, 2006 and 2023).

• Dating back to 1991, teams that earned at least three points (out of four) in the first session (Friday Morning) have a Ryder Cup record of 7-1. A team has earned at least three points in the opening session in each of the last four Ryder Cups.

• Six members of Team Europe have appeared in at least three prior Ryder Cups (McIlroy-7 prior appearances, Rose-6, Fleetwood-3, Hatton-3, Fitzpatrick-3 and Rahm-3). The only player on Team USA with at least three prior Ryder Cup appearances is Justin Thomas, who will be making his fourth Ryder Cup appearance this week.

• The last Ryder Cup in which no Team USA member had appeared in more than three previous Ryder Cups was in 1967.

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