{"id":289450,"date":"2023-09-29T13:36:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=289450"},"modified":"2023-09-29T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T13:36:35","slug":"american-ryder-cup-fans-slam-pathetic-start-from-team-usa-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/golf\/american-ryder-cup-fans-slam-pathetic-start-from-team-usa-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"American Ryder Cup fans slam 'pathetic' start from Team USA in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"
American golf fans were left furious on Friday morning after waking up to find out Team USA had been swept 4-0 by Europe on the opening morning of the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n
Europe enjoyed a dominant first morning of the tournament, with each of their four pairings winning the foursomes, much to the dismay of the fans Stateside.<\/p>\n
Taking to Twitter after waking up, one American golf fan wrote on X: ‘Team USA s****ing the bed overseas again. What a pathetic showing,’ while another added: ‘You guys need to wake the hell up!’<\/p>\n
Another USA fan wrote that ‘not a single player showed up to play’, but added that it is ‘far from impossible’ for the team to turn it around.<\/p>\n
One Team USA supporter complained that he had woken up ‘four hours early to watch you play hungover’, before urging Sam Burns to cut his mullet off – because it is ‘obviously not working’, and telling the players to ‘get putting lessons’.<\/p>\n
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Tommy Fleetwood celebrates on a dominant morning for Team Europe at the Ryder Cup<\/p>\n
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Zach Johnson (right) – captain of the USA – looks dejected as he waits in the wings in Rome<\/p>\n
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American fans took to social media to share their dismay over Team USA’s early performance<\/p>\n
On the course at Marco Simone in Rome, the opening American pairing of Scottie Scheffler and Burns won just one hole of the 18, losing 4&3 to Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton.<\/p>\n
In the second group, Max Homa and Brian Harman went 2 Down through two holes, but brought it back level, before being blown away from the 5th hole to the 15th, also losing 4&3.<\/p>\n
The second two pairings – made up of Rickie Fowler and Collin Morikawa, and Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay – put up slightly more of a fight, but also couldn’t make it as a far as the 18th tee as they both lost 2&1.<\/p>\n
Heading into the afternoon sessions, it looked as though more of the same could have been on the way, with Europe taking early leads in all four of the groupings.\u00a0<\/p>\n